Today, after 15 years, we say goodbye to Voices That Shake!. We began as an organisation running radical youth courses. While our courses and events evolved from their initial inception, they never deviated from our praxis and principles.
We’ve been honoured to have been a space for young people to find their voice; and to later support facilitators and youth workers to continue this work. Voices that Shake! means bringing people together to develop creative responses to injustice. We remain proud of our choice to commit to a chosen ending, on our terms, and in our way, knowing that this work will still continue.
Our legacy exists in the connections made, organisations and collectives created, resources developed and shared as a result of Shake!. Voices That Shake! as an entity may cease to exist, but we live on in every person that has encountered Shake! in the past decade and a half.
So what happens now? We’ve uploaded the Supernova short film on our Youtube to explain more about the ending of Shake! and our history – do check it out. Our social media and Youtube channels will still be visible for people to view, as will our website for the next three years. However, our platforms will no longer be active, and we will no longer be sending/receiving DMs, tags, posts etc. Our website now contains a downloadable version of our Anthology in addition to our Guidebook and Research Report. We’ve also left some final media recommendations from the Shake! Team on our website – a snippet of some of the stuff we’ve shared with each other over the last few years of the Legacy phase. If you want to enhance our legacy, (continue to) use and refer to our materials – share them with people and in spaces that you think might benefit.
We want to express a gargantuan amount of gratitude to all of our staff and contractors, past and present, organisations and collectives we’ve worked with, everyone who has attended, participated and helped shape a Shake! event, bought our books, downloaded our resources, read our pieces on our website, and engaged with us on social media. Collectively, together, we will still be dismantling, visioning, re-building and cultivating a future praxis and embodiment of transformative justice and systemic change. Today, forever and always.
Love from The Voices That Shake! team
