BIYA BIYA
Yasmin "Yasi" Zacaria MikhaielBIYA BIYA serves up our latest cultural events, opportunities, and obsessions while dishing out the 101 on establishing your artistic practice.
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Backing Bucktown with BIYA BIYA bands this August
TAYF: Sahrit Saffron at the Color Club Ballroom. Photo: Jordan Esparza-Kelley
As tens of thousands gather in Grant Park this weekend for Lollapalooza, the alluring power of music and performance remains strong. Rain or shine, people show u...
National grant win invests in our future creativity
The Chicago SWANA Collective was founded by arts leaders of the Digital Development Project, BIYA BIYA Productions, and Backstitch Story Arts. Founders Suzi El Naggar, Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel, Alyssa Haddad-Chin, and Sami Ismat pictured lef...
Summer rhythms
In stereotypical eldest immigrant daughter fashion, I struggle to give myself permission to rest. Slowing down can feel tough in a world where productivity often equates self worth. I challenged myself to take an intentional pause, and know...
Honoring and celebrating our culture is urgent
TAYF: From Ash to Bloom at the Chop Shop October 2025 (Photo: Jordan Esparza-Kelley)
We can’t ignore it is a really horrendous time in the world, especially for the communities a lot of us are a part of as queers, people of color, and arti...
In the midst of revolution
BIYA BIYA student practicing Persian calligraphy of the word azadi (freedom).
Usually naming the heaviness helps alleviate it, but these days the overwhelm persists. I feel like a broken record and find myself frustrated by those expressin...
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Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel (she/they) is a Chicago-based cultural producer, dramaturg, and arts journalist. They founded BIYA BIYA Productions to platform and pay diasporic artists.
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