Grantee Database

Boomshake Music

Grant Year

2019-20

Grant Program

Local Impact

Award Amount

$18,000.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, BoomShake Music will produce ‘Roasted Yam for the Ancestor’s Soul, a free participant-driven visual and musical-storytelling performance. BoomShake’s 2020 project year will explore the theme of food, as a pathway for tracing ancestral memory and cultural survival.

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

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