Festival, paul bogard presents his book the end of night searching for darkness in an age of artificial light. One of my most vivid memories is in the 1970s some friends of mine were camping in the meadow in the canadian rockies. We may back on air mattresses outside the tent. We had been forewarned that Something Big was coming. Taking in the spectacular Perseid Meteor Shower with no interference at all from city lights. We were dozens of miles from the nearest town and was a very big town. Needless to say the shower would have forfeited much of its luster if we had watched from the Vantage Point in the city or a suburb. The last words of the dying and so were supposed to have been more light. I am happy to say paul bogart is alive and well but his basic message is a variation on the great german poet outcry more Natural Light. To see what our love affair with artificial lighting causes us to miss, bogart has traveled all the around the world searching for a clean views of the heavens