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...
Shake! #StatesOfViolence: Healing the Cuts
FREE! 5 day course on Race/Art/Media/Power at Brady Arts Centre 21-25 August 2017 Angry about the injustice you see around you? Come shake tings up with performance poets, film-makers, musicians, artists & activists on a free 5 day course to creatively express frustrations & concerns about...
Grenfell Tower – website + further support
Please share far and wide and get the info to the ground: Some residents who have been given temporary accommodation are being told they are going been kicked out/moved out soon.( in days). Please pass on HJA Housing helpline – free housing advice for #GrenfellTowerFire survivors and residents in...
Skin Deep: POC Resistance – Stories of Climate Justice
#2DEGREESFESTIVAL Toynbee Studios 28 Commercial Street E1 6AB T 020 7650 2350 From India to the US via the UK, Skin Deep will look at how different communities continue to organise for climate justice, and what different methodologies and histories we can draw from in creating a broader...