Britain on Trial: Young People Speak Out: Full Programme details
The Carriageworks, Leeds, this Saturday 29th October, 11.30 - 7pmAnyone wanting to listen to young people and discuss with us how to take a stand and foster creative resistance to institutional racism – you should come to this. The re-trial for justice for Stephen Lawrence is beginning in...
The Unheard: more great feedback
Ro, Kadish, Selina on the panelThe emails are still coming in about Shake's event "The Unheard: Youth, the 'riots', and the media" at Rebellious Media Conference on 9th October."...I was over at the Rebellious Media Conference and caught the discussion on the London riots that you guys...
Nigeria Festival, and SLC in the news
The Nigeria Festival looks amazing, happening next week. Get over to The Albany, Deptford if you can...Check out the varied arts and culture programmeAnd it was great to see Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust featured in a whole page 'top story' in yesterday's Daily Mirror, promoting the...
Praises for Shake event at Rebellious Media Conference
Well, we seemed to have totally hit the spot on Sunday with our session "The Unheard: Youth, the 'riots' and the media" at Rebellious Media Conference.+ here's one of many praising tweets, and an extract from same person on a blog review of the conference:@RUDY2HATS Best workshop of the RMC, many...
Mainstream Media Coverage of UK “Riots” compared to War Reporting: John Pilger & Greg Philo at the Rebellious Media Conference
We had an amazing and inspiring experience at the Rebellious Media Conference this weekend and a full house and lively discussion for our session on Unheard Voices: Youth,‘The Riots' and the Media. A proper write up and review of that event and more links soon but for now here is the discussion on...
Come to “Britain on Trial”, Saturday 29th October, Leeds
Enough is enoughBack in June, Platform, Leeds Young Authors and University of Leeds academics from the MA in Activism and Social Change put in an application to the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2011. Unlikely context for Shake you think?? Well, talking with Shake's Simon Murray who also...