AquaMoon: "love does not hurt..."stage play and multimedia exhibit

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love does not hurt...
Event Type: 
Opening
Event Type: 
Exhibit
Friday, October 30, 2009 6:00pm
Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:00pm
Sunday, November 1, 2009 4:00pm

 

 In commemoration of

Domestic Violence Awareness and Let’s Talk Month.

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Artists Month event 

  love does not hurt…

no more violence—speaking healing and love into existence.  

Play and Multi-media art exhibit

Empowering—engaging—unapologetically speaking healing and love into existence. AquaMoon’s love does not hurt… is a synergetic, intergenerational and multimedia performance and exhibit that combines painting, drawing, collaging, photography, scrapbooking, poetry, movement and music into a stage production.  This production speaks out against violence against womyn, by speaking healing and love into existence. The “superwombon” status and blame are taken off of the shoulders of girls and womyn and replaced with self-care, affirmations and positive energy.  This mind, body and soul experience not only gives womyn images of empowered girlhood and womonhood, but also offers boys and men images that are not misogynistic or limits boyhood and manhood to power, control and aggression over girls and womyn. This experience offers balance, love, truth and an open line of communication among and between the sexes. love does not hurt…is a commemoration of Domestic Violence Awareness and Let’s Talk Month. After each performance there will be a community discussion and continued dialogue at http://intheroundsistacipher.blogspot.com/.

 

This will also be the chapbook release of FIRE's, the storyteller: accounts of living, processing, surviving and healing from Domestic Violence, edited by AquaMoon.

 

$20 tickets. Proceeds go towards AquaMoon’s girl and womyn-centered programming.  

Tickets can be reserved by calling 773.281.0824 or purchased online at  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/78290

Friday, October 30, 6pm reception, 7pm showtime  

Saturday, October 31, 7pm

Sunday, November 1, 4pm  

Written and directed by AquaMoon

Choreographed by AquaMoon and Ni'ja Whitson 

Visual art, photography, collage and scrapbooks by AquaMoon

Cast: Krishauna Anderson, Rebecca Cotter, Shanara Fornett, Carmen Jones, Tierra Winston, R. Kova Hayse, Boaz McGee, Michael Johnson, Chris Jones, Mike Smith and Kenton Williams  

$20 tickets Proceeds go towards AquaMoon’s girls and womyn-centered programming.  

Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield, #207
Chicago, IL 60657
Telephone: 773.281.0824

 

Contact Email: 
aquamoon@spokenexistence.com
URL: 
http://spokenexistence.com/aqua_moon.html
Presenter

AquaMoon

URL: 
http://spokenexistence.com/aqua_moon.html
Organization Main Email: 
aquamoon@spokenexistence.com
Contact Information: 

28 E. Jackson
10-S148
Chicago, Il 60604
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Organization Description: 

We are AquaMoon, the writing, performance and teaching artist team of camil.williams and veronica precious bohanan.  We bridge the gap between the streets, hip-hop feminism, performance activism and academia.  We are a voice for disenfranchised womyn and youth, until they are empowered to assert themselves and use their own voice.  We generate and disseminate new discourse and dialogue on girls, womyn and gender issues through creative expression.  As activist artists, we write, direct and produce engaging stage productions and multimedia art shows.  In addition, we work with education and community-based organizations to effect social change and justice that will result in greater equality, freedom, and fuller lives for girls, womyn and youth. We work around such issues as: reproductive justice, rape, domestic violence, fatherless/motherless daughters, children with substance abuse parents, girls/womyn being healthy sexual beings, mass media images, womyn in prison, the education system, and using the arts as a means of healing from trauma and building healthy self-esteem. Our interactive and thought-provoking workshops provide girls and womyn with a safe and empowering space to be unapologetically girl/womon.

Event Location
Venue: 
Links Hall
Contact Phone Number: 
773-281-0824
Address: 

3435 N. Sheffield, #207
Chicago, Il 60657
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Neighborhood: 
Wrigleyville

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