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What's going on BoomShake?

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Dear Community Member, As we gear up for the long fight ahead, as we try to build our calluses of love and justice, we want to share updates with you: photo by Sonjhai Meggette / Esoteric Images Seeking HOME! Please forgive our lack of communication about upcoming Women/Trans classes. As some of you know, we lost the space at Chapter 510 - and affordable places to host loud drum classes are not easy to come by in Oakland today. As an over-committed, two-person-run endeavor (and with the dismal state this world is currently in), it has been a challenge to work fast enough to find a home and get our spring programming up and running. We are working to build more sustainable organizational capacity so that this work can continue. We have a vision of finding a HOME. Not just a studio rental, but a permanent space that values and supports our work, and wants to form strong bonds with us: A space that is accessible to various communities and feels welcoming for fo