Grantee Database
Boomshake Music
Grant Year
2017-18
Grant Program
Arts Education – Extension
Award Amount
$9,350.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Boomshake Music will offer workshops in multicultural street and popular drumming to students at two East Oakland elementary schools. Working with teaching artists from diverse backgrounds, students will learn traditional rhythms and develop their own creative voices through percussion, song, and storytelling. By performing at schools, festivals and social justice events, students will use music to reflect on and engage with their communities.
Organization Summary
BoomShake operates in 5 major program areas:
Education: we lead workshops for young children, families, youth and adults (primarily women, trans and gender non conforming people).
Performance: our performance core (made up of women/trans/gender non conforming people, primarily people of color, drawn from our community workshops) provides interactive drumming performances for Bay Area cultural and community events.
Activism Support: as Bay Area communities resist displacement, racism, and climate injustice, we lead drumming and chanting at protests and other events supporting empowerment and social justice.
Community Building: we host free events where people of all ages and backgrounds use music and movement to share their traditions and build community.
Stage Productions: we create and produce performances in which children, youth, adult students and professional performers use drumming, singing, movement, theater, and storytelling to express their communities’ struggles and victories.
Organization
Boomshake Music
Address
1815 33rd Ave
Oakland
94601
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(510) 502-5344
Congressional District
California Assembly district 18
State Assembly District
District 18
State Senate District
District 9
