October 17 + 18, 2025 | 7-11 pm

Abner Clay Park | 200 W Clay Street, Richmond, VA 23220

1708 Gallery’s InLight, the annual public exhibition of contemporary art experienced at night, will shine a singular spotlight this fall on Super!Giant!Jump!Star!, the long-awaited grand premiere of artist George Ferrandi’s multidisciplinary project: Jump!Star. In a first for InLight, the 2025 edition will feature Jump!Star as the sole artistic focus—transforming Abner Clay Park into a dreamlike cosmos of light, sound, and ceremony.

Conceived to commemorate the eventual celestial shift from our current North Star to our next, Jump!Star is an ongoing, international collaboration inviting communities to invent the cultural traditions that future generations can use to ritualize saying goodbye to Polaris. Over the years, these collaborations have yielded original songs, dances, and giant illuminated paper sculptures representing the stars that will eventually take Polaris’s place in the night sky. All of these luminous sculptures and lush traditions will premiere at InLight this fall.

Jherek Bischoff’s original symphony composed for Jump!Star will be premiered by the Richmond Symphony on Friday. Jee Sim’s original North Star sound signatures will be performed live on Saturday as part of an experimental barn dance that will be open to everyone. Mirah and the Ebenezer Baptist Church gospel choir will be performing live on both evenings.

Join us October 17th and 18th as Richmond becomes a site of interstellar celebration.