Videos of Shake! at Rebellious Media Conference
Those good people at RMC have now put up a great compilation of videos from Shake's session "The Unheard: Youth, 'the riots' and the media" at the 2011 conference in London.Watch recordings from the session itself, plus interviews and poetry performed by Rotimi, Samia, Selina and Kadish...
Don’t throw activist histories away: The Huntley Conference on Arts & Activism, Culture & Resistance
El CrisisThere were over a 100 artists, activists, community workers, young people, archivists & conservators, educators, parents, grandparents, policymakers......taking part in talks, creative "Groundings" sessions, a parallel youth conference, music & poetry performances, from the...
Stephen Lawrence film: ‘Time for Justice’ screening, 10th March, 6.30 – 8.30pm, London
This looks like a very special night.A screening of the Panorama documentary and a chance to hear from Doreen Lawrence and others.Buy tickets here."In aid of The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Bafta and non-Bafta members are invited to a special screening on Saturday 10th March 2012 at 18:30...
‘Arts & Activism, Culture and Resistance’ event, 18th February, London
Just booked tickets to this event for young people, artists and activists at London Metropolitan Archives near Farringdon. LMA have a big collection on anti-racist struggle in London in their Black Caribbean Community Archives*.Looks really really interesting, with great artists running sessions...
Conviction of two of Stephen Lawrence’s murderers: a new chapter
4 days ago, after 18 years, Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty of killing student Stephen Lawrence in a racially motivated attack, while he waited with a friend at a bus stop in Eltham, London.Young women perform a piece for Stephen at Shake's event 'Britain on Trial',...
Solidarity and justice for Stephen
Doreen speaks at the Shake! Preview, Feb 2011'I can't tell you what art does or how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past has suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. I know too that the powerful...