Bringing together young people, artists & campaigners to develop creative responses to social injustice.
What we do
Using a model of personal transformation and structural change, to challenge established imbalanced power bases and re-imagine new infrastructures in opposition to capitalism and colonialism.
We build holistic decolonial educational programmes and creative campaigns to foster a catalytic and self-determined community of creative organisers/leaders embedded in and led by the grassroots. Together we work towards and cultivate transformative justice, systemic change and community accountability.
We work collectively to centre the leadership and solutions of the marginalised, to uplift and politicise the role that young people of colour have, to prefigure the world we would like to live in: diverse, just, sustainable, community-led and resilient.
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This theory of change was written as a collective effort with the core team, our long-term collaborators and Shake! participants.

Voices That Shake!
Anthology of creative movements
‘These pages are full of ideas from free thinkers, rebels, dissidents, and creative non-conformists. They remind us that there are alternatives, and we should not fear the future, if we take part in it.’
—BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
‘An incredible timely read, re-membering, re-affirming poetry (art) as a manifesto; a methodology; a way of knowing/doing/being.’
—DOROTHEA SMARTT FRSL
‘One of those remarkable books which is both incendiary and healing’
—AMRIT WILSON
Latest


Research Report
Shake! the System Research Report: A Decade of Shaping Change 2010-2020
A 120-page full colour youth-led research into the impacts of Shake! on young people.