Music – Louisville

Scz (pronounced seize) is part of a North African and Jewish diaspora. They are a deejay, cultural producer, organizer and community educator, whose work focuses on using dance music and the amazing spaces it creates to get free. They believe that as queer, diasporic persons of color, cultural production is the space where we can resist the violence of marginalization and begin to not only imagine decolonial relationships but actively put them into practice. Scz is a co-founder of Rhythm Science Sounds an organization which uses event organizing, deejay and music production classes in the community as the foundations for building consciousness and practicing emancipatory politics. They are a lead organizer for the LouiEvolve Hip Hop and Arts Festival. As a deejay, SCZ practices sonic weaving to create audio narratives, focusing on the sonics of space, the way sound migrates, the distance between sounds, and how sound is coded and blended to communicate knowledge to bodies in space.  They have partnered with Sarabande Publishing, Louisville Youth Poets, Girls Rock Louisville, Women in Transition, Bluegrass Technical and Community College, University of Louisville SHADES, University of California Irvine, Louisville Urban League L.Y.R.I.C.S program, Trans Latinx justice workers, Kentucky Dream Coalition/Immigrants Fights For Rights and Equality, Kentucky Alliance against Racism and Political Repression, and Louisville Showing up for Racial Justice on topics of media literacy and justice, self care, cultural production, decolonization and cultural organizing. Profile image and artist flyer photo taken in front of Whitney Olsen (Bloom)'s instillation "thought blossoms"