Grantee Database

Boomshake Music

Grant Year

2022-23

Grant Program

Cultural Pathways

Award Amount

$30,000.00

Project Description

With support from the CAC, BoomShake Music will lead street drumming workshops and intergenerational, multicultural arts festivals in Oakland communities of color. Workshops and festivals will build on the creative legacy of Monica Hastings Smith and use her compositions to uplift communities on the front lines of social justice struggles.

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

Alameda

94601

Region

Bay Area – Other

Phone

(510) 502-5344

Congressional District

California Assembly district 18

State Assembly District

District 18

State Senate District

District 9

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