Current Events Listing

2008 "Sistas in the Arts!" Dates

AquaMoon 2008 Calendar
Performances and/or Workshops

March 8
Chicago Women's AIDS Project
Conference  

April 11-12
Race, Sex and Power Conference
(Chicago)

April 24-26
Univ of Alaska (Fairbank)

May 3-4
Ella's Daughters Conference
(Chicago)

June 19-22
National Women's Studies Association
(Cincinatti, Ohio)

July 31-August 3
Philadelphia Black Women's Arts Festival

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Past Events

September 3-4, 2005
African Festival
AquaMoon will be on panels and perform at the
Hip Hop Arena

July 23, 2005
Aqua Moon
performs @ 11:15AM
and
SpokenExistence
will have a table at the
2005 Uptown Summer Fest Hip-Hop arena
10AM - 5PM
Truman College
1145 W. Wilson

July 1-3, 2005
Aqua Moon will be at the National Organization
of Women Conference

we'll be co-presenters for the
Young Feminists and Popular Culture Campaigns
Workshop
Now Conference Link

June 18, 2005
The women of SpokenExistence, Inc. and the
cast of
Aqua Beats and Moon Verses will go on the
road to Fort Wayne Indiana

We'll perform and do a Q & A
at the Weisser Park Recreation Center's
Juneteenth Celebration
sponsored by the City of Fort Wayne

June 9-12, 2005
Aqua Moon will be at the National Women
Studies Association Conference
NSWA Conference Link

October 1 - 31,2005
AquaMoon
Chicago Artists' Month
Preview Exhibit
Urban Art Retreat
1957 S. Spaulding

October 21, 2005
Lehman College
Bronx, New York
Hip-Hop: From Local to Global Practice
Conference
AquaMoon will perform

November 5, 2005
AquaMoon
Full gallery exhibit opening
Urban Art Retreat
1957 S. Spaulding

November 12, 2005
Women in the Arts Conference
St. Louis
AquaMoon
will facilitate a
performance-lecture
"Dismantling the Culture of Silence:
Performance Activism"

December 17, 2005
AquaMoon
Activism through Art and Poetry
Exhibit Closing
Reception and Performance
Noon- View Exhibit
1PM- Performance
Urban Art Retreat
1957 S. Spaulding
(corner of 21st Street, two blocks west of Kedzie)

February 28, 2006
AquaMoon will perform
at
DePaul University,
Chicago

March 11, 2006
UnSilenced Woman Press
celebrates the release of
Om:My Sistagyrl Lotus
by 'Moon'
veronica precious bohanan

March 16, 25, 29, 2006
AquaMoon will perform at
* Logan Square Branch Library
* Blackstone Branch Library
* Budlong Branch Library
Chicago Public Libraries
Women's History Month

April 7, 2006
AquaMoon
at
Kuumba Lynx

April 22, 2006
AquaMoon
at
3rd Annual National Poetry Month Event
Mercury Cafe

April 28, 2006
Aqua Beats and Moon Verses
featured production of
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
at University of Illinois at Chicago
produced by: Student Outreach Services

May 13
Girl World Movement Conference
Senn High School

June 14-18, 2006
AquaMoon and the women of
SpokenExistence at the
National Women Studies Association
Conference
Oakland, California

July 19-23
AquaMoon at the
Hip Hop Political Convention Chicago

August 4
Ladies of Expression in the Dark
Springfield Illinois

August 26
ChicagoPoetry.com
Society of Professional Journalists Convention

September 1-2
SpokenExistence, Inc.
3rd Year Anniversary

September 22-24
Aqua Beats and Moon Verses
Volume II
Brotha...Wassup Sun?
Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield, 2nd floor

October 20, 2006
UnSilenced Woman Press
Celebrates the release of the
Aqua Beats and Moon Verses Volume I
Book & CD
Afrocentric Bookstore
4655 S. King Drive
7:30pm

December 2, 2006
YWAT and IL Public Square
Beyond Beats and Rhyme

January 5, 2007
NWSA WOCC
Stop Dreaming Conference
Pheasant Run

January 24, 2007
U of C Charter School

January 2007
YWAT
Love is Not Blind Conference

February 24, 2007
UnSilenced Woman Press
celebrates the release of
Butta to Fly:
a poetic compilation of art and sound
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