NEW NARRATIVES – Shake’s Social Policy Seminar
For four months, we at Shake! knocked about the idea of what the content for our “Social Policy seminar” should be. We rigorously discussed how it should function as a tool for change. It only came to light after two months that we had an issue with the title - social policy seminar....
Dangerous Times Festival! Sat 31st May
How to Build an Urban Youth Movement?Tuition fees, rising inequality, police harrassment, stigma and stereotyping - these are just come of the issues young people are facing in Britain today. Unite the Youth is a new group trying to build an urban youth movement to challenge this and fight for the...
We visited Shell on the 20th Anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s last arrest
Here's a great minute and a half video of the poetry intervention that made with people from Shake! and Platform - activism, education and the arts outside the Shell Shareholder meeting last week, as part of the #ActionSaroWiwa launch. Read more about what happened on the day...
Some useful tips for interacting with the unemployed
To all the employed people. Here are some useful tips for interacting with the unemployed: Do not remind them, their degree is useless (they've probably now figured this out) Do not ask them have they considered an internship? (If they could afford this and are young and lacking in experience they...
Event: New Narratives: Re-imagining the Story
Anyone who knows Shake! knows that we are about change: from the tiny moments of growth and self-transformation that we go through on every Shake! intensive, to the structural changes we aim to make in society. We don't go for traditional approaches to education, and we place a lot of emphasis on...
Self- Reparations: Art, Activism & Well-being
"Creativity is the immune system of the mind..." - John Holt, founder of Artists in Mind (AiM)Once again I was shaken by the Shakers!Feel very honoured to be one of the facilitators on this project as the generosity, trust, desire to learn, share, give and work together for change is genuine and...