AquaMoon Workshops

Buttaflies, Lotuses and Self-Love…
Through the movement of words Buttaflies, Lotuses and Self-Love…is an
interactive workshop including performance, movement, voice, poetry and breath
to encourage self-love and creative expression. This is a mind, body and soul
experience that goes from transcending to transgressing race, class and the
sexual politics of teenage girls and womyn.  This workshop fosters a safe and
positive space for teenage girls to express themselves in a healthy manner
Participants will leave this workshop with self-love and creative expression tools
to be synergetic ‘whole beings’ that live race, class and gender in a healthy and
positive way on a daily basis.

BRAS: Blackness, Resistance, the Arts, and Sistas
BRAS: Blackness, Resistance, the Arts, and Sistas, is an interactive workshop
that delves into the documentation and archiving of memory in the creative arts
for girls and womyn. This workshop offers a multi-prong, grassroots and cyclical
approach of documenting the lived experiences of girls and womyn. This multi-
prong approach negates being ‘boxed in’ by embracing a cyclical/cipher mindset
of there being no monolithic experience or hierarchy in our lived and shared
experience of girlhood or womonhood. The act of documenting and archiving
these experiences is a means of building self-esteem and self-worth.  This
workshop includes the writing/editing process, submitting works and  getting
them published in journals/magazines, and self-publishing.

From the (B)lack (A)rts (M)ovement to Hip-Hop
From the (B)lack (A)rts (M)ovement to Hip-Hop weaves the past artistic
movement of the 70’s into the current artistic movement of hip-hop.  Workshop
includes lyric/arts dissection, critical analysis, the relationship between pop
culture and history, hip hop feminism/womanism, positive female body images
and the affirming power of storytelling.  

Choreopoem Writing and Performance
Using the choreopoem aesthetics of Ntozake Shange— dance, poetry and
music. Choreopoem Writing and Performance guides and supports participants
in writing and performing a choreopoem.

Poetry and Prose in Hip Hop Writing
Relationship between the lyrical element of hip hop and poetry

Let the Healing Begin with the Pen
Using the literary arts as a tool for cleansing and healing

Dismantling the Culture of Silence!
Using women-centered writing and performance as feminist activism

Literary and Performance Arts program
Learn basic theory and technique involving written and performance presentation