First Wave at ‘Shake the Dust’
First Wave at 'Shake the Dust'Last night's '100% Proof' event showcased the coach mentors for today's National Youth Poetry Slam final plus we also got to see an amazing performance by 'First Wave', a group from the Spoken Word and Hip Hop Learning Community course at University of Wisconsin,...
NEWS! Arts Council funds Shake’s major programme!
Great news at Shake! ACE funded the pilot, and have now come through for the major programmeWith the Arts Council coming up with a major grant of £57,000, we are 50% towards our funding target to roll Shake! out at two London centres over three years. We'll be working intensively with 150...
more great youth, arts and activism projects this summer
Organised by Apples and Snakes.SHAKE THE DUST - the National Youth Poetry Slam final, (featuring Yorkshire heat-winners coached by Shake's own poet-mentor extraordinaire Sai Murray), is happening Saturday 7th July, 2 - 5pm, in London's Southbank Centre, supported by some fantastic events in the...
Youth, arts, & activism events everywhere this summer
There are loads of interesting projects coming up so I thought I'd pull some of them together in a few blogs...It's still not too late to do this amazing project...'So We Stand' - the dynamic popular education collective - are organising a Summer School in Community Organising and Social Justice....
Zena Edwards in new video documentary on ‘riots’
Check out a taster of this critical new film coming out soon, this one featuring Zena Edwards.To follow what's happening with the film VoiceOver: Riots Reframed, go here.They write: ‘VoiceOver: Riots Reframed’ is an independent documentary aimed at countering mainstream discourse on last...
Soul-food – what I savoured from the Remembrance Service for Stephen Lawrence
I sat, moved, with 200 others in a church in central London yesterday. It was a service of remembrance for Stephen Lawrence, in the year two of his accused murderers were finally convicted, 19 years after his death. It made me think a lot about how we sustain ourselves in long struggles for...