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| Mission We are AquaMoon, the writing, performance, and teaching-artist team of camil.williams and veronica precious bohanan, an entity of SpokenExistence, Inc. 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. We write, direct and produce engaging stage productions and multi-media art shows, as well as work with educational 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 space to be unapologetically girl/womon, and they empower all attendees. We've traveled the country and abroad doing our womyn-centered work at such places as: Discovery High School and Queens College of New York, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, University of Chicago and the Illinois Youth Detention Center. We've worked with such organizations as: Chicago Women's AIDS Project, National Women's Studies Association, Ella's Daughters, ARC 109 and Ellen Stone Bellic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media. Our stage productions include Aqua Beats and Moon Verses: Volume 1, Volume II: Brotha...Wassup Sun?, and ShowUp and SideKick Radio Show. Visit AquaMoon's '09 Calendar. and '07-08 Highlights. Aqua Beats and Moon Verses: Volume I BOOK & Cd Purchase |
| Writers and poets in the tradition of the griot, AquaMoon serves as a multimedia, grass-roots trumpet of empowerment. Their art is, in many ways, a contemporary manifestation of the Black Arts Movement.” —Chicago Sun-Times |