#Shake2015: #FoodFight – Applications open
Our next shake! up >> 3rd-7th August 2015<< at Spotlight, Tower Hamlets. Applications now open for our FREE! 5 day course on Art/ Race/ Media/ Power for 16-25's. See below for more info & how to apply #FOODFIGHT 16-25? Angry about the injustice you see around you? Come shake tings...
Thoughts on #FoodFight – Shake! Summer Intensive 2015
When the team was asked (I volunteered) to write a blog about the war being waged on our food systems for the next Shake Intensive course ‘#FoodFight', I started to consider my own relationship with food, what I have personally seen with regard to changing attitudes and patterns of behaviour...
Art, Climate and Displacement: 3 Spoken Word Films by Selina Nwulu and Onysha D Collins
Writer and poet Selina Nwulu and filmmaker Onysha D Collins (both former Shake! participants now involved with Shake! as facilitators and mentors), have teamed up for a series of spoken word films produced by Platform. The three films ‘Before’, ‘Our Parents’ Children’, and ‘Home is a Hostile...
Home Cooking: Trauma Genes by Sammy Brough
Congratulations to Sammy for her commission to produce the latest Apples & Snakes Homecooking podcast. Sammy was inspired to create this project on the subject of Trauma Genes after studying and responding to Audre Lorde's poem "Litany for Survival" during our recent #StatesOfViolence 5-day...
Shake! featured in new book: Playing for Time: Making Art as if the World Mattered
Shake! has been featured alongside other arts/ activism projects in Lucy Neal's new book: Playing for Time: Making Art as if the World Mattered. We get a mention in the Activism chapter alongside UK Uncut, Fracking campaigns and others. Our couple of pages features poetry from Orla, quotes from...
Youth, Technology and Resistance: Tito interviews Paul Mason at Take Back Our World
There was a large Shake! presence at Take Back Our World last month, the relaunch of Global Justice Now (formerly the World Development Movement) and it was great to see so many Shake! family engaging and taking part at last weekends This Changes Everything event. One active participant at both...