Build DIY Speakers from Recycled Materials

Sat Dec 13 2025 at 10:00 am to 01:00 pm UTC-05:00

100 Terrace St | Boston

Boston Building Resources
Publisher/HostBoston Building Resources
Build DIY Speakers from Recycled Materials
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Participants will learn to make speaker cabinets from everyday objects to explore the variety of tones made by different materials.
About this Event

In this class we will:

  • Turn trash and scrap materials into speaker cabinets
  • Learn how to power audio components
  • Disassemble and tinker with old speakers
  • Explore materials around the shop (or bring found materials to try out)
  • Each make a speaker to take home

This class is open to all ages and skill levels.

Nelly Kate (s/h) is a studio artist with an expanded practice in sound, expressing its material power through tones, tapes, water, wood, metal, and fiber. Over the past decade, Nelly has experienced fluctuations between late-deafness and hearing. This informs her creative research and practice in slowness, the awkwardness of inclusion, collaboration, and repetition.
Her work takes the form of installation, performance, and print. She creates spaces for public imagination and healing, often working with trash, reclaimed, and repurposed materials.
Nelly Kate holds an MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BA in English from James Madison University. She is currently a creative director at MIT Spatial Sound Lab, working across the unceded lands of Massachusett, Pawtucket, and Wampanoag nations.

This program is presented in partnership with the Boston Public Art Triennial.

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If you are a BBR Co-op Member, use the promotion code COOPMEMBER to receive a discount.

If you are a BBR Plus Member (income-qualified), use the promotion code PLUSMEMBER to receive a discount. Learn more about Plus membership. If the discounted price presents a financial hardship, please email [email protected]. Limited scholarship funds are available for further discounts for Plus members.

Photo/Video Consent and General Release

By registering for this class, I hereby authorize Boston Building Resources to use pictures of me (or my child/ward) taken in a photograph, digital image, videotape, motion picture, and/or testimonial (written words). The undersigned hereby releases Boston Building Resources, its agents or employees, as well as any and all users and exhibitors of said pictures, from any and all claims, demands, accountings, and causes for which the aforesaid videotape, testimonial, motion picture, digital image, or photograph likeness may be used pursuant to this Consent and General Release. It is also my understanding that I will receive no compensation for my likeness or testimonial. If I opt out, I will inform staff at the registration desk before class stating that I do not want to be in photos.


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

100 Terrace St, 100 Terrace Street, Boston, United States

Tickets

USD 39.19

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