Washington DC 2021

Light

• Card Exchange
• The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas by They Might Be Giants (Or Glazer & Evans) ◦ A mostly accurate ode to the sun
• The Humans Are Dead by Flight of the Conchords
• Finding Beauty After Trauma by Rivka Fleischman
• Bold Orion by Leo Kretzner and Jon Bell ◦ A mythologically inspired ode to Orion the Hunter
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies

Twilight

• Sacrifice by Rivka Fleischman
• Hard Times Come Again No More by Stephen Foster ◦ An old song of sorrow, hope and compassion
• Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail

Darkness

• Beyond the Reach of God by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Raymond Arnold
• When I Die by Glen Raphael ◦ A light-hearted song about death
• Sacrifice by Rivka Fleischman
• Beneath Midwinter Midnight by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lament of winter, contrasting with repeated "we are not alone"s
• COVID: We Lost by Rivka Fleischman
• Minute of Silence

Dawn

• 500 Million, But Not a Single One More by Jai Dhyani
• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• What's Left to Save by Maia Werbos
• The End and The Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska; translated by Joanna Trzeciak
• Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips ◦ A surreal song of love and death
• Amy AKA Spent Gladiator 1 by The Mountain Goats