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Yaz Lancaster

Yaz Lancaster (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist focused on relational aesthetics, collage, and liberatory politics. They love chess, horror movies, and trills.
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Denali Foxx and Angeria Paris VanMichaels will host Lakeside Pride Music Ensembles' Sweet Home Chicago

Lakeside Pride’s Sweet Home Chicago “Yassifies” Concert Band Music

In early spring of 2020, another new term was popularized via social media – “yassification.” By the...
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Yaz Lancaster
Alexa Dexa--Photo by Alexa Dexa

Alexa Dexa Dreams of Transformative and Accessible Spaces

An adventurous electroacoustic composer, facilitator of sound-based meditation, and radical queer dr...
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Yaz Lancaster
Jose Solís--Photo by Joseph Hernandez

5 Questions to Jose Solís (culture critic)

Jose Solís is a Honduran-born culture critic, writer, podcast creator, and mentor who has been satur...
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Yaz Lancaster
Norman W. Long BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN

BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN: Healing in Post-Industrial Communities

Sitting at the crossroads of the industrial and the natural, Norman W. Long’s BLACK BROWN GRAY...
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Yaz Lancaster
Sultana Isham--Photo by Nadia Sumac

5 Questions to Sultana Isham (composer, violinist, ethnomusicologist)

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, nearly 200 confederate monuments have been removed i...
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Yaz Lancaster
Clarice Assad--Photo by Marcelo Macaue

5 Questions to Clarice Assad (composer, performer)

Clarice Assad is a GRAMMY-nominated Brazilian-American composer, performer, and educator. Her prolif...
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Yaz Lancaster
They Will Take My Island--Photo by Ego Film Arts

They Will Take My Island: Collective Memory and Preservation

They Will Take My Island is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between Armenian-American composer Ma...
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Yaz Lancaster
Carla Canales Duende

Carla Canales Navigates Cultural In-Betweens in “Duende”

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month in October 2020, Mexican-American opera singer and arts ad...
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Yaz Lancaster
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