Shake! Artist/Activist Training Day #2

2014 is coming to an end, and we’ve got one final exciting Shake! event for you all before we welcome the new year: our youth-led training day!Our second Youth-Led Continued Professional Development (CPD) training day, taking place on December 14th, will be an...

Why Do They Judge Me? New Rebels Ditch Bingeing for Bingo

We know we are lucky to be working with Dershe and Patrice from NuWave Pictures, not only are they great film-makers and facilitators, they always prepared to tell and show new stories and non-mainstream narratives through their work. We are proud to see their latest...

Farzana: ‘I am hopeful’

Feeling so moved by all the remarkable creative and critical young people I get to work with and learn from. Shake! last week, as per usual, blew me away. It’s always just too much! Today is also the last day of a summer program I have been coordinating with...

Shake! Update: Black Women Scientist Inspires Us!

We start all Shake! mornings with a few inspirations shared by participants. Today we had Anisa telling us about a space scientist that inspires her: Maggie Aderin-Pocock.Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist, mechanical engineer, and science communicator. Anisa tells us...

Dangerous Times Festival! Sat 31st May

How to Build an Urban Youth Movement?Tuition fees, rising inequality, police harrassment, stigma and stereotyping – these are just come of the issues young people are facing in Britain today. Unite the Youth is a new group trying to build an urban youth movement...

Some useful tips for interacting with the unemployed

To all the employed people. Here are some useful tips for interacting with the unemployed: Do not remind them, their degree is useless (they’ve probably now figured this out) Do not ask them have they considered an internship? (If they could afford this and are...
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