Shakaring: Rep The Road
Rep The Road: Our series on repairing the routes and roads of colonial violence in our communities, building roads to representation beyond tokenism, and reppin' from the streets! An invitation for our next Shakaring - an intimate sharing space and community Scratch Night! ( only limited spaces...
Surviving the State
Introducing Surviving The State - a short film made by the young people at Shake!. This film explores the pressing issues of gentrification and youth violence/ deaths in a hope to expand narratives around these pressing issues and share how this is affecting black and brown youth. In their...
Gentrification: Where Are We Now?
Saturday 10th March A programme of film screenings of "Failed By The State - The Struggle in the Shadow of Grenfell" and "Surviving the State" and Q&A open discussion. Following on from the Voices that SHAKE! first film screening at "Healing The Cuts: Community Repairing thru Sharing",...
Healing The Cuts – Shakaring
On 01st February 2018, we piloted our new community showcase format - the Shakaring. The space is an interactive, intimate sharing space, where youth artists perform new works developed over two intensive courses #HealingTheCuts and #MovementMedicine. Featuring poetry, film, song &...
Reading Group – All About Love: New Visions
Welcome to our new community knowledge-building and conversation platform - the Shake Reading Group. The first piece of literature we read and discussed was bell hooks' All About Love: New Visions. In our first cozy Sunday session on 21st January 2018, we discussed our teachings from the book...
Reading Group – Swing Time
This month we read Swing Time by Zadie Smith. We used the novel and links to our own experiences to explore identity, race, class, culture, friendship, music, dance and representation in the arts. Want to join us next time? -Tell us (ziaeirose@gmail.com) so we can confirm your place...
Who’s Full?
Courtesy of Selina and Sai, tonight we interrogated our complex relationship with food through poetry, science and lived experience. Acclaimed writer, Spread The Word's former Young Poet Laureate for London and resident Shake!r Selina Nwulu showcased the result of her year-long...
Reading Group – ASSATA: An Autobiography
'I have seen the kind become the blind and the blind become the bind in one easy lesson. I have walked on cut glass. I have eaten cow and blunder bread and breathed the stench of indifference. I have been locked by the lawless. Handcuffed by the haters. Gagged by the greedy. And, if i know...
Grenfell Responses
Hi Shake! fam, Here are a couple of things we have seen recently that have pieced together many issues surrounding Grenfell that we thought we would share: Fighting Fire article - http://www.irr.org.uk/news/fighting-fire/ Colin Prescod and Daniel Renwick at the Institute of Race...