The One Sky Project recognizes our world’s many cultures and communities with strong connections to the stars. Traditional knowledge and practice continue to inform the active exploration of our universe today and we honor those societies and Indigenous explorers who came first.  Our project seeks to build relationships within and between all people who share our One Sky.

Everyone sees something a little bit different but we all share One Sky.

These short films are:

• The Forge of Artemis (Greece)
• Thunderbird (Navajo land, USA)
• Jai Singh’s Dream (India)
• Celestial Canoe (Innu land, Canada)
• The Samurai and the Stars (Japan)
• Hawaiian Wayfinders (Hawai’i, USA)
• One Sky Epilogue

Worlds of Ice will be the prism to explore its optical and refractory magic and the sounding board to experience its crystalline sounds and music. Inspired by ice and cold, Worlds of Ice will, in turn, celebrate the warmth of human creativity.

Today we know of thousands of exoplanets — planets located outside our Solar System — that offer valuable information about our own planet, its origins and life on Earth.

We’re on the cusp of making some fascinating discoveries. But how will they change our lives?

Exploring everything from music to light, from the smallest particle to vast galaxies, Kyma is a voyage through the wavelength of life, a stunning and immersive show that combines the skills of artists, musicians and acrobats.

You’ll dive into the depths of seemingly bottomless canyons and brave the violent winds that sweep across the icy dunes. As you explore a world that humans may well visit within the next few decades, to your surprise you may well be surprised to find yourself hoping to discover traces of life there.

There they took no fewer than 179,000 images of the northern lights, in 360°. For many frigid nights, under clear skies far from any light pollution, the pair scanned the starry skies in search of these famous shimmering curtains of light. They bring you the northern lights in a way that makes you feel like you’re right there, in a captivating and exceptional immersive experience!

The planetarium team used new postproduction techniques to brighten up and sharpen the original images and make them even more realistic. From Montréal to Yellowknife, from outer space to the Earth’s core, you’ll see the northern lights like never before. Guided by an enthusiastic expert and accompanied by an electrifying score by DJ Champion, Aurōrae is a thrilling show.

They’ll see how accurate they were in mid-July, when the New Horizons probe, launched 9 years ago, comes to within 10,000 km of the dwarf planet. Pluto will reveal its secrets regarding its geological and morphological make-up, the geography of its surface and the composition of its atmosphere.

A team from the Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan went to Arizona last spring to visit the legendary Lowell Observatory and film some 360° immersive images of the historic telescope that discovered Pluto in 1930, along with some of the most beautiful skies visible from Earth.

Pluto: Chronicles of an Ex-Planet is an immersive experience telling the story of this intriguing dwarf planet that continues to fascinate us even today.

Tempo lets us to rediscover the cycles of the heavens, immersing us in a Universe evolving over time scales beyond imagining. After following the movement of the stars in the skies in real time, exploring the temporal cycles of the solar system and discovering atomic time, our perception of time on the scale of a human lifetime will never be quite the same!

“Tempo is the fruit of a fabulous convergence of cinema and astronomy. It is not fictional in any way – everything in it is both true and moving.” Philippe Baylaucq.

During the show, the immersive environment of the Chaos Theatre in the Planétarium Rio Tinto Alcan becomes a fantastic playground where philosophical, scientific and artistic concepts are skilfully explored in a kind of temporal vertigo.

Through a fascinating narrative, documented and punctuated with stunning artistic contributions, time becomes a unique poetic, visual and musical experience. With this new show, Alexandre Burton and Jimmy Lakatos invite reflection, provoke discussion and raise interesting questions about our relationship to time.

“An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase filled with perfumes, with sounds, with projects, with climates.” Proust, 1920.

The design was tailor made for the hundreds of slide projectors, the multitude of special effect projectors and the 60’s Zeiss projector of the former Montreal planetarium and its 21m dome.

By telling the story of the human adventure since the invention of the first telescope to bigger and bigger observation tools, “Telescope, Passport to the Stars” brings us on a cosmic trip to the edge of the Universe.