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 change, and in fact when we met...
#Shake2015: #StatesOfViolence – Applications open MONDAY 9th JANUARY
Our next shake! up >> 16th-20th February << at the Stephen Lawrence Centre.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 ======================================= 16-25? Angry about the...
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 opportunity for the young...
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 public perceived threats to the...
Why Do They Judge Me? New Rebels Ditch Bingeing for Bingo
We know we are lucky to be working with Dershe and Patrice from NuWave Pictures, not only are they great film-makers and facilitators, they always prepared to tell and show new stories and non-mainstream narratives through their work. We are proud to see their latest short film for Channel 4 do...
Headspace – Shake #5 Poem – “Dear Beauty in the Rubble”
Headspace: when we think about how the amazing capabilities of the mind to imagine and agility of the brain to calculate, reason and deduce, we always imagine it to be an electrifying place to be. It should and always be.Shake's Headspace 2014 is about how we connect with these...