AT KOLAJ FEST NEW ORLEANS 2025
Dinosaurs on the Moon: Stories from the World of Collage
Cafe Istanbul in the New Orleans Healing Center
2372 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70117 USA
Saturday, 28 June 2025
7-9PM
Tickets are $10 for the General Public. PURCHASE TICKETS
Free admission for registered attendees to Kolaj Fest New Orleans.
Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 25-29 June 2025. Visit the website to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.
“Dinosaurs on the Moon: Stories from the World of Collage” is an evening of storytelling, poetry, performance, comedy, and collage. Jordan Cerminara is working with other Kolaj Fest attendees to present a program that is part open mic, part evening of comedy.
“I love making people laugh as much as I love meticulously cutting out disparate images and rearranging them to make a visual goof,” wrote the event host, Beaverton, Oregon artist and stand-up comedian. Cerminara is a working entertainer at clubs and independent venues across North America. From one-liners to carefully crafted bits and full-blown stories, he brings a high-energy style to the stage with clever wordplay, a gamut of goofy voices, and the pipes of a karaoke legend. His debut comedy album, Cuttin It Up, released with Burn This Records, hit #1 on the Amazon and Apple iTunes comedy charts. Cerminara incorporates collage and his experience as a collage artist into his routine.
Some highlights of the evening include: Portland, Oregon collage artist and author of the memoir How I Learned to Snap Kirk Read will read a short story. Cincinnati, Ohio artist and writer Nandita Baxi Sheth will read a black out poem and conduct a polyphony of voices performing works made during the The Exquisite Vivarium workshop. Montreal, Quebec and New Orleans, Louisiana artist, writer, and culture worker Ric Kasini Kadour will perform his 2005 poem, “How to Price Your Art.” Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland illustrator, writer, visual artist, and integrative psychotherapist Anthony D Kelly will share one of his stories. Timeless, a narrative artist rooted in Bvlbancha: The Place of Many Tongues (New Orleans), will share a story that is a collage of history, poetry, and contemporary thought.
During the event, we will be screening contributions from Special Agent Collage Collective’s Mission 27: Locative Kolaj. Operated by Andrea Lewicki since 2021, Special Agent Collage Collective is an international collection of collage artists who complete special missions and share them on social media. “The compulsion to cut and paste is strong with us.” Andrea Lewicki will introduce the Collective and share one of her own stories.
Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, 25-29 June 2025. Visit the website to learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend.