Etix is the official ticketing partner of The Old Church. To avoid inflated prices and unauthorized resellers, please purchase tickets only through tocportland.org.“Nostalgia Is So Yesterday”. A night of theater with poetry, photography, humor, music and (horrors!) optimism from poet Charles Jennings & Pulitzer-winning Photographer David Hume Kennerly. Poems and photos converse as poet Charles Jennings, photographer David Hume Kennerly and four actors perform conventional wisdom regarded “elders” as grey and ghostly people on the margins of society. Today octogenarians are singing a different song. Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Jane Fonda and other high-profile 80-somethings are still performing and kicking ass. Come celebrate the “old and bold” renaissance in creativity. Nostalgia Is So Yesterday is a night of unapologetic poetry and stories from author Charles Jennings paired with pictures from Pulitzer Prize-winning native Oregon photographer David Hume Kennerly. In Act I, veteran Portland actors Bruce Burkhartsmeier, David Meyers, Vana O’Brien and Kathleen Worley bring Jennings’ poems to life, as Kennerly photos—one per poem—are projected behind them. Master violinist Nick Kennerly accompanies the words and pictures. In Act II, Kennerly shows photos from his long career, from covering wars to being President Gerald R. Ford’s White House photographer to emerging alive and well (with pictures to prove it) from last year’s political conventions. He and Jennings close the show together with optimistic words of elder wisdom for these perilous times. Get your tickets for this Cygnet production, directed by Louanne Moldovan. A special limited edition of Kennerly prints and Nostalgia Is So Yesterday, the book which includes all the poems and photographs from the show, will be sold after the performance. Photos copyright David Hume Kennerly/The Center for Creative Photography/University of Arizona