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🇵🇸 palestinian-american composer/vocalist/writer
🎓oberlin ‘26 -> con admissions staff
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Meet Max Lang ’26! Here, they tell us about their journey from Oberlin to the Colorado Rockies to Lincoln Center in NYC. ⛰️➡️🏙️ What are they up to now? Watch and find out!
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What a moving and powerful premiere for PROJECT ASSATA on Saturday 🌀🐚 We're so grateful to you all for attending and helping us raise over $300 for @redafrocubanatrans to support Black Trans Cubans on the ground! Thank you to comrade @devinmichaellowe for coming to speak about the amazing work RACT is doing in Cuba 🇨🇺 Receipt on last slide! Organizing our very first project as Bandung Duo+Collective has been a massive labor of REVOLUTIONARY love which included: • TWO 2️⃣ newly commissioned Pan-Africanist & revolutionary visual art pieces by @maiaaaiaaa and @marleyhoward • THREE 3️⃣ newly commissioned works for violin and viola by @sarahmaviolin, @carloswalkervla, and @layth.music based on themes of internationalism, Palestinian solidarity, and Assata's childhood • 🖼️ A contribution from @inknbio of a portrait of Assata • 💻 A live 90-minute virtual panel discussion/teach-in for about a dozen attendees about Assata's life, as well as the role of artists in the revolution and how Assata's political work guides our strategy ⭐️⭐️Our mission grounds our commissioned art within a broader context: we will be performing and showcasing these pieces in educational presentations for the youth, utilizing revolutionary art to inspire future generations 💞✊ Finally, thank you to @starrbarbk for hosting us in an aligned radical space and @juilliardschool for a generous grant to help make this all happen 💯 More videos and footage to come! Thank you all SO MUCH for your love and support!!
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👀‼️LAST CALL TO JOIN US TONITE @starrbarbk "One thing bout music, when it's real they get scared" 💯 📖 STUDY & LEARN FROM ASSATA SHAKUR'S TEACHINGS 💵 MATERIALLY $UPPORT BLACK TRANS FOLKS IN CUBA @redafrocubanatrans 🫀HEAR, SEE, & FEEL POLITICAL ART ➡️ Can't come? Dough nation handles on last slide ❤️ #revolution #assatashakur #nyc #brooklyn #panafrican
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The college era is officially over folks 🎓 As a high schooler all those years ago I could have never known how difficult, exhausting, and absolutely amazing college could be, but I wouldn’t trade my years at Oberlin for the world. I’m forever grateful for my family, friends, professors, and my church for supporting me over the past four years, but most of all I’m grateful to the Lord for sustaining me through all the highs and lows that college sent my way. So, what’s next for me? Well, coming up I am SO looking forward to working on staff this summer at the Adamant music school and marrying the love of my life this coming August and settling into the northeast Ohio area full-time, but after that, I’m not quite sure. But, what I do know is that I’m going to keep making music however I can and with whoever I can to help make my music career into a reality, and I’m so thrilled to be able to take you all on that journey with me as my career takes off in full swing 🎉 So goodbye @oberlincon; you were so good to me in so many ways… And @adamantmusicschool , I’ll see you soon 😎 #oberlinconservatory #classof2026
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🗓️NYC, MARK YOUR CALENDARS::: June 6, 5:30PM @starrbarbk 🌟 (21+) On 6/6, we present 6 new commissioned works of music and art in memory of Black revolutionary, Assata Shakur ✊ Join us for an evening of multidisciplinary revolutionary art grounded in a spirit of 3W solidarity 🌍🌏🔥 We're excited to partner with @redafrocubanatrans (RACT) to support direct aid, material resources, and gender affirming care to the Black Trans community living on the beautiful island of Cuba 🇨🇺 👉 The concert is free with a suggested d0n@tion of $10! 👉 100% of d0n@tions go straight to RACT ⭐️ Come experience beautiful art and support an incredible organization benefiting one of the most marginalised demographics of Cuba as the island battles U.S. sanctions and embargoes 🤝 Cuba has long stood by the side of African revolutionaries around the world. As we honor Assata's legacy, we must extend our hand in uplifting the nation which welcomed and protected her ❤️ Alongside the Bandung Duo (@sarahmaviolin and @carloswalkervla), we are excited to expand our collective and be joined by: OUR FEATURED ARTISTS 👇 Afro-Caribbean artist & singer-songwriter, @marleyhoward Chinese-Cuban & Muslim artist & organizer, @maiaaaiaaa Palestinian composer & researcher, @layth.music Black & Puerto Rican artist, @inknbio Ecuadorian singer @gab0.alej #nyc #assatashakur #cuba #blacklivesmatter #revolutionaryart
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🎙️ Discussing mutual solidarity between Black revolutionary Assata Shakur and P@lest1nians, and how we can channel our shared struggle into collective action through the arts, especially as a tool of organizing statehood 🇵🇸🤝 A clip with from our virtual panel earlier this month featuring six multidisciplinary 3W/BIPOC & artist-organizers who we have commissioned to create works of art reflecting on Assata's legacy ✊🎨 More videos of our panelists to come - but if you'd like to hear more from everyone, save the date and join us on June 6 @starrbarbk @ 5:30pm to see the world premieres and presentations of three new works for violin & viola as well as three works of visual art! 🗣️: @layth.music @sarahmaviolin @maiaaaiaaa #solidarity #palestine #gaza #socialism #assatashakur
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📣ANNOUNCING::: PROJECT ASSATA ❤️‍🔥 🧑‍💻 Visit tinyurl.com/projectassata or the l!nk in our b!0 to RSVP for this *VIRTUAL* discusson on MAY 16 @ 7PM featuring six incredible revolutionary artists, activists, & organizers: @marleyhoward @maiaaaiaaa @layth.music @sarahmaviolin @carloswalkervla 🫂 Bandung Duo & Collective is proud to present new commissions of multidisciplinary art and music inspired by the life & legacy of the late revolutionary Assata Shakur! 🎨🫟🎵 Each commissioned art responds to Assata's contributions to political resistance and organizing, as well as how her legacy continues to inspire our mission & ethos as 3W artists, activists, and organizers within our own communities. ✊ On this panel, we will discuss topics such as the role of the artist in the revolution, Shakur's legacy and political contributions, and how her work inspires our art for this project as well as our long-term work as revolutionary artists and organizers. SAVE THE DATE for the WORLD PREMIERES in Brooklyn, NYC 🫣⭐️ June 6, 2026 @starrbarbk, 5:30PM #revolutionaryart #leftist #nyc #newart #newmusic
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Love Letter, Poiesis Quartet University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music Chamber Music Cincinnati Performance by Poiesis Quartet Bolbol: āb garm o seylāb, Zola Saadi-Klein Circus of the Mind, Daniel Lasagna Forest of Taldeni, Maya Irizarry Lambright Commonplace Little Perils, Max Lang Order, Calvin Ray Shawler Lighting Design by: Jacob Kaplan Assistant Lighting Designer: Ryan Peerless Lighting Programmer: Lia Lubinsky
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bringing y’all to our cocktail tasting last week with @negronigirlie 🤭🍋‍🟩🥭🍃🤎 this one’s a little smoky, a little hazy, with a hint of lightness and brightness 😶‍🌫️✨ 🔊: commonplace little perils by @layth.music come hear @poiesisquartet and @layth.music perform commonplace little perils and taste it as a cocktail NEXT WEEK 💓 link in bio for tix!!!! and a little commotion for the lemongrass infused mezcal courtesy of @negronigirlie 🌱🌟
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03.11.26 💌 In a program note for our quartet's commission project, I wrote: "Art, as the natural evolution of imagination, is a responsibility of resistance." Building this project -- world premieres of new works by five young queer & trans composers of color -- was a reflection of this value we hold very dear to ourselves. 📝🎼 @whatsqualia347 @zola.saadiklein @insertcalvinihere @layth.music @mayajoselinamusic 🌬️ I'm moved to be in collaboration with fellow comrades & cultural workers who, despite the chaos and violence of the world, continue to inspire us all to believe in art as something bigger than a simplistic beauty. Our art, as a result of our lived realities and experiences, is both sobering and galvanizing, intimate and expansive. Grateful every day for this community 🫶 This project was supported from the ground up by community members & artists who, like us, believe in the arts as actionable hope, and an integral part of building a better world. All remaining donations for this project will be redirected to El Centro in Lorain County @oberlin_ecvi to support immigrant communities in NE Ohio. We encourage everyone to join us in supporting this amazing and crucial organization! ❤️ We are so looking forward to continuing to present "Love Letters" as a full program each work individually in concerts over the next season, and we cannot wait for everyone to hear what these revolutionary & innovative young composers have created 🌎 HEAR THEM IN APRIL: 4/24 Cincinnati, OH @uc_ccm *With lighting design 4/26 x2 concerts in NYC: @lyrical.libations and @gather_nyc 📸 Michael Frazier #newmusic #queer #bipoc #revolutionaryart #chambermusic string quartet
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MARCH 11 • WARNER HALL @oberlincon This commission project serves as an homage to our quartet's roots. It is a practice of reciprocity and gratitude to the diverse communities who shaped art & aesthetics at the school where we founded 💌 Join us for the world premieres of five new string quartets by QTPOC composers & @oberlincon students + alum ❣️ @mayajoselinamusic @layth.music @insertcalvinihere @zola.saadiklein @whatsqualia347 7pm: pre-concert talk with @sarahmaviolin + all five composers 7:30pm: concert #newmusic #stringquartet #contemporaryart #bipoc #queer
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Live from Stull, it's About Face 2026!!! Four creators from @oberlincon and @oberlincollege took part in a workshop facilitated by @goodhelpdanielle (@chamberqueer) and @niloufar.nourbakhsh (@connect.ifca) to reimagine the master class format. Borrowing from queer organizing practices and writing workshops, we built a collaborative, decentralized space to create and critique each other's work, collaboratively improving and growing as artists, participant and facilitator alike. Stay tuned for future editions of about face and congratulations to all the participants! Special thanks to @lunacompositionlab Christ Episcopal Church Oberlin and @piargno84 for their generous support.
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