AquaMoon

AquaMoon upholds its motto, ‘Dismantling the Culture of
Silence’, by helping to bridge the gaps between the
streets, hip hop feminism, performance activism, and
academia.

AquaBeats and Moon Verses: Volume I is the team’s first
choreopoem.*

Aqua Beats and Moon Verses: Volume I premiered in
September 2004. Since its debut, AquaMoon has taken on
the role of director, added live music to the production,
modified the script to be appropriate for teenage girls,
created a two-womon show, and published Volume I, in
book form, with an accompanying cd. The team has also
transcended the page and stage by developing workshops,
implementing an educational component, and their visual
artwork has been displayed in a gallery exhibit, "Activism
through Poetry and Art."

AquaMoon has secured speaking engagements, and
performance/workshop opportunities with Little Black Pearl
Art and Design Center, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago
Public Libraries, Chicago State University, UNLV, Fort
Wayne Indiana’s Weisser Park Youth Center, Columbia
College, De Paul University, Queens College, National
Organization of Women, University of Chicago Charter
School, National Women’s Studies Association, Alternative
Inc’s Girl World, Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal
Africa, Englewood United Methodist Church, Uptown
Summer Festival, Illinois Humanities Council, Institute for
the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media
Young Women’s Action Team, African Festival of the Arts,
Expressions in the Dark, Women in the Arts Conference,
Women and Girls CAN, and the Hip Hop Convention among
others.

In 2004, Aqua Beats and Moon Verses: Volume I was also
the official production for the Take Back the Night Rally for
‘Vagina Monologues Chicago Southwest,’ and in 2005 it
was the featured production for the Office of Women’s
Affairs commemoration of Sexual Assault Awareness
Month, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The duo continues to ‘dismantle the culture of silence’
around youth and womyn entered issues with Volume II of
Aqua Beats and Moon Verses. Volume II ‘Brotha…Wassup
sun?’ premiered September 2006. Individually, Aqua and
Moon have also published books of poetry and prose:
butta to fly by camil.williams (Aqua) and Om: My Sistagyrl
Lotus by veronica precious bohanan (Moon).

*Choreopoems combine poetry, choreography, and music
into a stage production.