Club Lost: A Music. Dance. Poetry. Social Experience.
Event Details:
Date: August 28th, 2026
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
General Admission Tickets: $25
Senior/Military/Educator Tickets: $18
Student Tickets: $15
Parking: There is parking on both sides of the building and ample unmetered street parking.
All ages welcome; recommended for ages 13+. Guests 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Food and alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.
Presented by Lost in New Haven and 5015 Records with thanks to sponsors Shell & Bones Oyster Bar and Grill and Hull’s Art Supply + Framing.
About Club Lost
In the year of America’s 250th anniversary, Club Lost brings New Haven artists together for a one-night music, spoken-word, visual-art, and social experience exploring freedom, belonging, cultural memory, and the many histories that shape the American story.
Taking place at Lost in New Haven on Friday, August 28, 2026, just weeks after Independence Day observances, Club Lost extends the national conversation beyond the Fourth of July and into a late-summer evening of music, poetry, visual art, food, drinks, dancing, and museum exploration.
The evening is led by Ionne, a New Haven-based recording artist, producer, and live electronic performer whose original music has reached audiences around the world. His continuous DJ/live-song mashup set will weave original music into a deep, melodic, and progressive house journey. As part of the performance, Ionne will debut two new works, “250 Shades of Freedom” and “Children of Nations,” created in response to America’s 250th anniversary.
New Haven Poet Laureate and spoken word artist Yex will collaborate with Ionne on “250 Shades of Freedom,” adding a powerful layer of poetry, storytelling, and cultural reflection to the evening.
A curated visual-art exhibition featuring works by Johnny Komodo, Allyse Corbin, Laz, movement artist Kris St. Louis, and additional guest artists to be announced will extend the event’s themes throughout the museum, with works exploring New Haven and America as places shaped by many peoples, histories, memories, rituals, and dreams.
Part concert, part club night, part spoken-word experience, and part gallery event, Club Lost offers a museum experience audiences can move through, listen to, dance within, and interpret for themselves.
Additional collaborators and performance elements may be announced.
About the Artists
Ionne
Ionne is the performance alias of Dr. Maurice Lajuane Harris, a New Haven-based musician, producer, and creative visionary whose refined brand of electronica merges synth pop, dance, soul, and jazz with deeply human storytelling. In his hands, electronica is elevated to the level of serious music that espouses important messages, catches the ears and the feet, and finds its way into the heart and mind. A classical pianist and trumpeter by training, Ionne has worked with a range of major and independent labels and artists including EMI, Atlantic, and Universal, and has composed music for major television productions. Holding a PhD in Ethical and Creative Leadership, he integrates his philosophy into his work, believing in music and art as powerful tools for leading positive social change. Ionne is the Deputy Director of the Schwarzman Center at Yale University and a proud member of the Lost In New Haven Community Advisory Council. See https://ionne.com
Instagram: @ionnemusic
Facebook: @ionnemusic
Yex
Yexandra "Yex" Diaz is an award-winning poet, educator, and community leader who uses poetry and storytelling as tools for connection, healing, and cultural preservation. A two-time Connecticut Grand Slam Champion and New Haven Poet Laureate, she has performed on stages across the country, including the August Wilson Cultural Center and Woolsey Hall alongside the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. As the current Slam Master of Verbal Slap, she has helped lead Connecticut’s premier adult poetry team to two regional championship titles, earning a #1 national ranking.
Beyond the stage, Yex serves as Artistic Director of THE WORD, a literary arts organization dedicated to cultivating storytelling and creative expression. She is also an AIR Collaborative Facilitator with the Connecticut Office of the Arts, supporting communities in building sustainable creative economies. Her commitment to arts education has led her to serve as a visiting instructor at institutions including UConn and Trinity College.
Johnny Komodo
Jonathan “Johnny Komodo” Williams is a photographer and image-maker based in New York and New Jersey whose practice moves between the analog and the constructed, the personal and the ceremonial. Working across 120mm film, cyanotype, and digital processes, he builds visual worlds rooted in the belief that the idea and the making are inseparable. His still life collage work takes prayer as its organizing principle, treating the physical objects that accumulate across a life as devotional instruments, each one a vessel for desire, memory, and intention. The cyanotype process lends itself naturally to this inquiry, its slow exposure echoing the patience of ritual. Williams draws on pre-transatlantic West African spiritual traditions, domestic ritual, and the quiet gestures of everyday life to locate the metaphysical inside the familiar: a fishing line cast over still water, a candle lit in a votive rack, an object left behind by someone who has completed their time here.
www.johnnykomodo.com IG:@johnnykomodo
Allyse Corbin
Allyse Corbin (she/her) is a maker based in New Haven, CT. As an arts administrator, photographer, performer, and crafter, she loves surrounding herself with creative people. Allyse is currently interested in using upcycled materials that some people deem as trash as inspiration for art materials. tinyurl.com/akcphotos
Laz
Laz is an oil painter whose work defines an emerging style he calls surreal impressionism — a movement characterized by the depiction of fleeting moments in nature through dreamlike imagery. Often drawing inspiration from the landscapes of Southern New England, he examines the relationship between imagination, the natural world, and the liminal space between them.
Informed by his first-generation Haitian American upbringing, Laz views art as an act of vulnerability. His paintings give outward form to inward conviction, inviting viewers to reflect on their own experiences with honesty and wonder. As a Haitian American artist based in Connecticut, he is particularly interested in how personal history, environment, and imagination shape the evolving American experience. Through surreal impressionism, Laz explores beauty, hope, and redemption, offering glimpses of a future made possible through both remembrance and imagination. https://thelazrose.wixsite.com/mysite
Kris St. Louis
Kris St. Louis is a multidisciplinary performer, dancer, vocalist, and choreographer whose work spans theater, musical performance, and contemporary movement. Kris’s recent performance credits include Bacchae [or, Present Madness] at the Yale Cabaret, for colored girls in a Yale workshop reading, A Chorus Line with the Yale Dramat, and Mother Tongue, a Yale senior thesis production. With training in acting, voice, and dance, Kris has performed across modern, contemporary, experimental, tap, Fosse, Graham, Horton, jazz, ballet, hip hop, Kathak, and African dance forms. Kris is currently active with Yale Dance Lab Company and Yale Modern Dance Company, and brings a dynamic blend of theatricality, musicality, and movement to collaborative performance projects.
A special THANK YOU to our sponsors of this event.
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Hull’s Art Supply + Framing