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A New North Star?

March 14, 2019 | Ryan W. Gates

​As Jump!Star nears its signature event at Symphony in the Flint Hills in 2019, many people are stunned to learn that Polaris (our current North Star) will not be our North Star in about 1,000 years. How is this possible? What will be our new North Star? How do we celebrate this? These are some of the questions Jump!Star seeks to answer. During our recent Jump!Star event at The Volland Store, Jana Grcevich, astrophysicist and co-author of A Vacation Guide to the Solar System, spoke about the Earth's axial precession.

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#BlackoutICT

September 29, 2018 | Harvester Arts

​Recently the Chung Report and Janelle King of the Workroom teamed up for a new initiative called Blackout ICT. It is a call to action to turn Wichita pride into real action, and Harvester Arts is proud to fly the #BlackoutICT flag in our window.

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Introduction to Jump!Star: A talk by George Ferrandi at The Ulrich Museum of Art

February 5, 2018 | kate

George Ferrandi introduces JUMP!STAR at the Ulrich Museum of Art. JUMP!STAR is a social sculpture conceived and directed by George Ferrandi and presented by Harvester Arts, Symphony in the Flint Hills, and Chamber Music at The Barn. It’s a little-known fact that the North Star that was overhead when the pyramids were built is not the same star as our North Star now (Polaris). In about a thousand years, a completely different star will be our North Star. Because of a slight wobble in the Earth’s rotation, the pole star position is not fixed. Our “guiding light” changes. Isn’t this amazing?

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