https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=6637389&GUID=02FEC7FD-A4B2-4A92-8D92-105E34A8C102Legistar15https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=6637389&GUID=02FEC7FD-A4B2-4A92-8D92-105E34A8C10202FEC7FD-A4B2-4A92-8D92-105E34A8C102-2024-05-09-13-43-39Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION HONORING AVERY R. YOUNG FOR NATIONAL POERTRY MONTH WHERAS, Avery R. Young is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, recipient of the Leader for a New Chicago 2022 award, a Cave Canem fellow and co-director of The Floating Museum, and; WHERAS, Young’s poetry and prose have been featured in BreakBeat Poets, Teaching Black, Poetry Magazine and alongside images in photographer Cecil McDonald Jr’s, In The Company of Black, and; WHERAS, Young is the composer and librettist for a new commissioned work from The Lyrics Opera of Chicago titled Safronia, and; WHERAS, Young’s work in performance, visual text, and sound design has been featured in several exhibitions and theater festivals---notably The Hip Hop Theatre Festival, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and American Jazz Museum, and; WHERAS, Young is the featured vocalist on flutist Nicole Mitchell’s Mandorla Awakening (FPE Records). His theater credits include co-writing and co-producing the soundtrack for Lise Haller Baggeson’s Hatorgrade Retrograde: The Musical, scoring Thu, 09 May 2024 13:43:39 GMT