JCAST 2025

In difficult moments, we in the Jersey City creative reaffirm our values via our time-tested methods — jokes, riffs, culture-jamming and sly commentary, prankster interactions with the urban landscape, entreaties for mercy and strategies for de-escalation, the wadding of affection and genial self-deprecation stuffed in the barrels of any rifles pointed our way.

 

JCAST ’25 felt like an extension of the recent Jersey City Fridays event in which everybody, all over town, decided to bring a peace offering of painted blooms. Flowers are a hippie symbol, and we’re more than a bit of a hippie town — or at least our art scene is. We’re going to armor ourselves with our kindness, and hope it gets us by. We won’t meet ugly threats with ugly ripostes. We will remember that the abyss stares also into us.