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The Bayview BOOM is an engineering 'school-of-the-streets'. Our mission is to nurture cognitive growth, promote physical activity, develop economic opportunities, and cultivate local roots culture, in a disadvantaged community.

THE BAYVIEW BOOM is now taking pre-orders for Tha Lil' Nug, a small but surprisingly bangin' 6-inch mid-woof. You plug your mp3 into it-- iPod, cell-phone, whatever. Stroll down the street with tha Lil' Nug bumpin' in one hand, or hang it from your bicycle handlebars and take your beats for a spin. We'll be ready to ship in time for the holidays, December 2012. 

Click here to order now!
 
Bayview Boomboxes are handmade by residents of a unique community in San Francisco, called Bayview Hunters Point, and coordinated by The Bayview BOOM, an innovating, non-profit community development project. 

THE PEOPLE in the Bayview Hunters Point community have been struggling for decades, affected by the US Navy's radioactive waste dump, crack-cocaine, gun violence, substandard housing, and liquor stores. They are struggling with unemployment, homelessness, lack of access to health care, tainted soil, violence, mental illness, drug-addiction, severe health problems(1), and lack of appreciation. 

BUT THERE IS INCREDIBLE POTENTIAL HERE. These humorous and intense folk represent a deep and soulful history. The young people are a precious creative resource, yet many lack the resources to be creative. The BOOM seeks to provide some of those resources. 
  • We deliver our activities in the heart of the most troubled neighborhoods, often in backyards. 
  • We provide mentoring in boombox electronics, bicycle repair, motorcycle repair, and more. Participants learn to use professional tools, techniques, and terminology. 
  • We create apprenticeships for at-risk young adults in local vehicle shops, art studios, and machine shops. 
  • Boombox sales teach entrepreneurship, and offer an opportunity to earn. 
Because music is a vital part of Bayview Hunters Point culture, our boombox-electronics projects are highly appealing to hard-to-reach youths. Building an exciting and complex project engenders pride, and sense of accomplishment. When it's an object the builder would love to own, such as a boombox, this invokes extreme enthusiasm!

When a person builds something powerful and beautiful with their hands, it makes them feel powerful and beautiful.

Mechanical and electronic assembly and repair involve constant problem-solving, troubleshooting, and improvising. This gives our participants a much-needed sense of control, and the confidence to solve other, personal, real-life problems. These are transferable thinking-skills that our communities need. Assembly and repair projects provide unemployed or out-of-school youths with a constructive, healthy alternative activity. 

The population of Bayview Hunters Point has a history of work in the trades. One unemployed young man from Double Rock describes his father as a busy electrical contractor during the 1980's. Those days are gone-- most local employers hire mostly non-residents. But the BOOM believes a revival of the trades may be the right prescription. 

Our model is to develop a high-quality, bumpin' music product, designed to consumer standards or better, that can be built at low cost by our trained crafts-people. Then, we'll implement a street-savvy marketing strategy to get this product into the eager hands of B-Boys and B-Girls everywhere (that’s Bicycle Boys and Bicycle Girls) 

Your pre-purchase will enable The BOOM to: 
  • put electronics skills into the hands of more participants
  • purchase capacitors, soldering irons, spray paint, and so on 
  • perfect our boombox design 
  • hire instructors 
  • grow our community bicycle repair facilities 
  • and host more motorcycle repair classes. 
 Click here to get your boombox!

Bayview resident Tank prepares to assemble an amplifier circuit
under BOOM tutoring.
To volunteer, donate, or partner with us, use our registration form below.

For anything else, click here to contact us.

Last year, the BOOM was proud to be awarded a $5,000 grant from the Black Rock Arts Foundation, non-profit entity of BURNING MAN, the world's greatest proponent of the Art Car/Art Bike phenomenon.

But we cannot continue our activities without pre-sales. Click here to order your boombox today!

We are fiscally sponsored by Empowerment Works, who has created economic development projects through arts and culture in Africa. 

The following individuals and organization have indicated their enthusiasm to assist or participate in the project:

  • Gina Fromer, Executive Director of the Bayview YMCA, endorses this project. 
  • Sister Stephanie Hughes, Lazarus House at Alice Griffith (Double Rock), is committed to promoting participation by her youths.
  • Margaret Bodkin, Director of The San Francisco Summer Learning Network have pledged to promote this project to their members.
  • Philip Bounds, Case Manager of Hunters Point Family, Safe Haven, is eager for his kids to participate.
  • Veronica Martinez, Planner and Policy Analyst for the City of San Francisco Department of Children, Youth, and Families.
  • Dr. Hollis Pierce, Educational Consultant, wants her church members to participate.
  • Rebecca Gallegos, Director of Development Bayview Opera House, is enthusiastic about the project.
  • Alpha Buie, Peninsula Omega Youth Club, which works with incarcerated women, is interested in involving the population she works with.
  • Hadley Robinson, freelance journalist, wants to make a documentary about this project, and film youths as they are building their art projects.
  • Shirley Chen and Gabriel Haas of the Portola Neighborhood -Steering Committee, have pledged to assist with outreach to the Portola community.
  • William Hammons, KPOO Radio, expressed his desire to interview me (parade founder) on-the-air.
  • Diane Gray, ED 100% College Prep, wants her group to do an art car.
  • Linda Camarena, Visual Arts Teacher at Malcolm X High School, wants to work with her students on this project.
  • Linda Berger of the Boys and Girls Club has pledged to help however she can.
  • Marlene Tran, Community Leader, and recent candidate for District 10 Supervisor, offered to help with community outreach.
  • Yvette Robles, Director of BMagic, is helping us reach community youth organizations.
  • District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen endorses this project. Contact

Notes

(1) Bayview-Hunters Point  residents suffer twice the average U.S. rate of asthma, cervical, and breast cancer, and have hospitalization rates that are three times the national rate for congestive heart failure, hypertension, and emphysema. Bayview-Hunters Point and the bordering neighborhood of Potrero Hill also have noticeably higher rates of bronchitis and other upper respiratory diseases in children. More info 1, more info 2.

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