Bounce Back Generation is applying to create an artistic representation with youth who have grown up at San Francisco’s Potrero Terraces & Annex public housing to show how they’re feeling having their community change so drastically during the HOPE SF rebuild. We will provide classes, materials and guidance to help the explore feelings of belonging, isolation, change, trauma and resilience allowing them to create a shared creative expression of how they see their culture and whether they can save it from the many forces for change around them using song, meme, video, photo, and oral history. Our lead artist Liam Donaldson will combine the artworks to create a community multimedia project that would live online and a physical history book, or ebook, to be easily shared online or downloaded as a printed document.
Bounce Back Generation provides community learning, support spaces, and peer leadership to learn about and address the impacts of toxic stress and trauma on historically oppressed communities throughout the Bay Area and California. Our website bbgtv.org, and our YouTube channel @bbgtvorg, and local installations and viewings, display our artists’ videos, graphic designs, and podcast created “by the community, for the community”. Our Peer youth and adults are hired by BBG to to tell their own, and their community’s, stories about how racism, poverty, systemic inequities, immigration status, and generational trauma affect them. Their content provides videos, mini-documentaries, learning opportunities, presentations, and social media content to show how they are overcoming stigmas and stereotypes about mental health and self care. The artists use the BBG 6 Building Blocks for Resilience to show how we can bounce back, with awareness, self-care, and coping tools to create community resilience and “people, places, and practices” that support resilience into the next generations.

