An alternative to corporate music videos that mass-market young female musicians, Celebrations for Breaking Routine documents girl bands in Liverpool and Basel recording original songs commissioned by Lucas. This video is part of a larger project in which Lucas traveled to cities internationally recognized for their music scenes and invited young girl-led bands to write songs about the future. These community-based collaborations resulted in alternative visions of female empowerment and identity in a media-driven culture.

Writes Lucas: "Celebrations for Breaking Routine acknowledges Liverpool as a city in transition from industrial working class to international city of culture, and takes occasion to empower under-recognized voices within the greater Liverpool community while highlighting its thriving, diverse, historic and resilient music scene. The resulting songs — Like a Lady, Right to Speak, and Science and Nature — reflect concerns with the young women's environment and global politics as well as personal dreams and aspirations.

Each band's recording session is videotaped. Additional footage is recorded around a city's neighborhoods, landmarks, and places of transition. The edited videos lie between documentary and music video — a choice that I made to best reflect the project's concept and to give visual shape to each band's vision of future. Members of the band Venus wore personalized uniforms with strap-on satellite dishes for a shoot in a Liverpool café. This image carries a tone of seriousness and humor — as if the viewer is looking through a window into our certain future as telecommunication apologists with excitement and burden — while the song plays, "How can I be myself and get what I want from the future? It's already set out for me.'"