# Event Details - **Event Name**: Cutting (Up) with the Ancestors - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-05:00) - **Event Description**: Join S. Erin Batiste and Kolaj Institute for an imaging clinic and collage workshop to preserve and build our own personal, radical archivesAbout this EventDocumentation Clinic with Ric Kasini Kadour: Noon-2PM at Kolaj InstituteCollage Workshop with S. Erin Batiste: 2-4PM at Kolaj InstituteDo you have old photographs and letters from an aunty, parent or grandparent who has departed, now housed in boxes or forgotten albums? This workshop explores memory work and how we can use keepsakes to preserve and build our own personal, radical archives. We will discuss, learn, and play with how to honor and respectfully use the materials we’ve inherited and been left with to make powerful memorials and art works using photographs and documents from the past. Centering Black, Indigenous, and Queer communities whose lives and experiences are often excluded and erased from the archive at large, we invite you to join S. Erin, poet and artist-in-residence, bring your personal, family, and found artifacts, and together we will build out fuller memories, and make speculative histories or counterhistories for our ancestors and beloveds. With the generosity of Kolaj Institute, there will also be an imaging clinic onsite with appointments where participants will learn how to scan and digitally archive their items, and some printing will be available so that everyone can take home a new collage work that incorporates an archive. Come early to scan, stay to cut and play!ABOUT S. ERIN BATISTEBrooklyn-based interdisciplinary poet and artist S. Erin Batiste is Kolaj Institute's Solo Artist in Residence, 31 August-6 September 2026. During her Solo Residency, Batiste will continue work on her collage series, which reclaims and transforms archives and early 1900’s mugshot photographs of Black women and girls from the New Orleans Public Library Archive. She plans to visit The Historic New Orleans Collection and Tulane University Special Collections to learn more about Black life and living during Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South following the Civil War and the overwhelming and violent backlash after the abolition of slavery, and to research the Storyville red light district where many of the women attempted to claim themselves and agency, and make a way in the new United States.S. Erin Batiste's practice is rooted in accumulation and maximalism, and she is influenced by beauty, otherworlds, waymaking and migration, divination and astrology, Americana, archives, and what remains. Her work examines themes of freedom, the complexity of memory, what we consider history, and the ways we all inherit and collect possessions and stories. Providence (handmade art zine, four editions, 2024 and 2025), along with And The Glory Will Be Revealed (University of New Orleans Press, forthcoming, 2026) reclaim early 1900’s century mugshot photographs of Black women and girls from the New Orleans Public Library. The book itself is an intervention. Batiste is a 2026 Corsicana Writer in Residence and a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature. Batiste runs Revival Archival Cards, Collage & Salvage—a mobile arts studio in Brooklyn. www.sbatistewrites.comQuestions? Send an email to info@kolajinstitute.org.Note: This is an in-person event. It will neither be streamed nor recorded. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-orleans/cutting-up-with-the-ancestors/100001998991515434 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art, Workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: 18+ - Duration: 4 hours - Location: Kolaj Institute - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New Orleans - **state**: LA - **country**: United States - **location**: Kolaj Institute - **lat**: 29.96874 - **long**: -90.0522675 - **full address**: Kolaj Institute, 2374 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Cutting (Up) with the Ancestors - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/a5e9fb12ce98c46235e849bee701d47465ccd7074f60e8617b9cd7422862a261-rimg-w1200-h600-dc080808-gmir.jpg?v=1787781693 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Cutting (Up) with the Ancestors being held? - **A:** Cutting (Up) with the Ancestors takes place on Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Sat, 05 Sep, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Kolaj Institute, 2374 Saint Claude Avenue, New Orleans, United States. - **Q**: Is there an age restriction for Cutting (Up) with the Ancestors? - **A:** Cutting (Up) with the Ancestors is strictly for guests aged 18 and above. Valid government-issued photo ID is required for entry. Guests under 18 will not be admitted. The event will be presented in English. - **Q**: Who is organizing Cutting (Up) with the Ancestors? - **A:** Cutting (Up) with the Ancestors is organized by Kolaj Institute. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Cutting (Up) with the Ancestors is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in New Orleans, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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