Shake is coming to an end

For 14 years, we have been shaking it up. Supporting Global Majority youth to take up space, unapologetically; creating spaces of healing, art, care and radical political education. We want to keep the pressure for change authentically youth-led. So, in 2025, we have...

Youth work backstories, reimagining safeguarding and embodiment

In June, we had the pleasure of coming together for the second rendition of our Safe Yeah? course that we ran in April. Even though we had run the same workshops two months beforehand, we know that each course is different and special.  We started the Saturday with...

Safe Yeah? Reflections from our recent course

On Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th April we were delighted to run our first edition of “Safe Yeah?”, a free weekend course on radical youth work for People of the Global Majority. Shake!’s history originated with running courses for young people, and it felt like...

A World Without Racism Book with a chapter from us!

We are so delighted to announce that we will have a chapter on ‘Creative and Embodied Approaches to Antiracism’ in Joshua Virasami’s new book ‘A World Without Racism: Building Antiracist Futures’, published by Pluto Press. This book will...

Safe yeah? – Radical Youth Work in a hostile environment

Dates: Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th April 2024 Location: Holloway Road, London, N7 6PA What does it mean to be a Global Majority* youth worker today?  For many of us, it often means being caught between what’s in the best interest of the communities we not only...
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