Etix is the official ticketing partner of The Old Church. To avoid inflated prices and unauthorized resellers, please purchase tickets only through tocportland.org.Come celebrate a night of dark humor, irreverence, and an audacious exercise in optimism and creativity. Nostalgia Is So Yesterday is poetry, photos, music and short tales created by two elder guys with big mileage: Pulitzer Prize winner David Hume Kennerly and prolific author Charles Jennings. They haven’t seen it all, but they’ve seen enough. In Act I of Nostalgia, actors Bruce Burkhartsmeier, David Meyers, Vana O’Brien and Kathleen Worley bring Jennings’ quirky poems to life, as Kennerly’s whimsically matched photos are projected behind them. In Act II, Kennerly will show photographs from his life-long excellent adventure and tell you why he’s lucky to be alive to talk about it. His story could have been a short one, ending badly in the jungles of Vietnam or on the battlefields of Bangladesh. But Kennerly escaped unscathed, only to become President Gerald R. Ford’s White House photographer, about which he said, “At times covering Ford was more dangerous than being in combat, especially on the golf course.” Kennerly and Jennings will also (unless someone stops them) tell stories which speak to their battered optimism for America, despite everything. Louanne Moldovan directs this Cygnet production. Special limited editions of Kennerly prints, and copies of the Nostalgia Is So Yesterday book, will be signed and sold after the performance. Photos copyright David Hume Kennerly/The Center for Creative Photography/University of Arizona