World Collage Day is in May

World Collage Day – An International Celebration of Collage.

Hello world!

I’ve been busy with the DIY Postcard Swap these past days (all address lists sent out, see further down for details), but late Saturday on dad’s birthday (9th of May) I discovered on instagram there is something called World Collage Day – and I had to investigate a bit further.

I kept scrolling through the hashtag (#worldcollageday) and discovered a lot of wonderful collages there, even though most of them are not “my style” but rather carefully cut out people and things that makes new scenes (I’ve done collage like that too, but it’s not my thing really). When I googled “world collage day” I discovered more fun facts…

World Collage Day is the second Sunday in May

In 2018, a site called Kolaj Magazine initiated a special day for collage, calling it World Collage Day. They’re hoping to grow it into an international celebration of collage – the Second Saturday of May each year. They write:

We invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. We saw fifty events in twenty-five countries and thousands of posts on social media using the hashtag, #worldcollageday. The following year, the event continued to grow. The next World Collage Day is May 9th, 2021.

I’ve already added the day into my own google calendar (the second Sunday is still the 9th next year because this year is leap year), with a reminder, so I can do something collagy on that day next year to celebrate. Maybe we could do an event here on the blog or create something together? I hadn’t heard of this before, but it’s not too strange since this is just the third year of it ever occurring. Darn that I missed it, but also… It reminded me of how much I love collage. And I miss it.

In 2018 though, I was celebrating collage big time. I made 365 collages that year, and after a year like that it backfires a bit and I need a break. But that break is definitely over now. I’m adding collage bits into all my current journals, now I just need to make some more art-works as well, to get me going. I am thinking I need to get back to making a few new ones soon. But then, it’s so many things I want to do all the time…

It’s too late to wish you a happy World Collage Day, but I’m wondering did you know? Did you celebrate it in some way? And most important question: Why didn’t anyone tell me about it? LOL.

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