Exploring the State of Violence – by Zena Edwards

The new Shake! Course is nearly here! Monday 16th February, we begin unpacking one of the most contentious subjects our species confronts: Violence. We will be exploring what makes violence, physical and ideological, a seemingly imherent part of modern day life.As a...

Reflections on Shake! by Orla Price

2014 was a great year for Shake!. We had two of the largest intensive course groups so far, and got to meet some pretty amazing people, including the talented artist, writer, and editor Orla Price.Orla was no stranger to the idea of art as a powerful tool for social...

Shake! Artist/Activist Training Day #2

2014 is coming to an end, and we’ve got one final exciting Shake! event for you all before we welcome the new year: our youth-led training day!Our second Youth-Led Continued Professional Development (CPD) training day, taking place on December 14th, will be an...

Climate change: who should we trust?

By Orla PriceOn 30 September this year the Free Word Centre held a discussion on the topic ‘Trust and the environment’. The discussion centred on what sources of information we could trust in the face of climate change, and how education, the media, politics and the...
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