Grantee Database
Boomshake Music
Grant Year
2019-20
Grant Program
Artists in Communities
Award Amount
$8,310.00
Project Description
With support from CAC, BoomShake Music will engage artist Monica Hastings-Smith in a street drum and song residency to train community groups of working class people of color to explore, create & share song, rhythm and food. Through workshops, street actions & cultural gatherings, this residency will inspire and empower community members to use culturally relevant music and drumming as tools for creative expression, cultural survival and social change.
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
