BRINGING TOGETHER YOUNG PEOPLE, ARTISTS & CAMPAIGNERS TO DEVELOP CREATIVE RESPONSES TO SOCIAL INJUSTICE.
What we do
We build holistic decolonial educational programmes and creative campaigns to foster a catalytic and self-determined community of creative organisers/leaders embedded in and led by the grassroots. Together we work towards and cultivate transformative justice, systemic change and community accountability.
We work collectively to centre the leadership and solutions of the marginalised, to uplift and politicise the role that young people of colour have, to prefigure the world we would like to live in: diverse, just, sustainable, community-led and resilient.
*This theory of change was written as a collective effort with the core team, our long-term collaborators and Shake! participants.*
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Shake! Supernova Showcase
The final showcase with performances from Shakers! over the years Time: 12pm-10pm Location: Rich Mix London About this event As we 'explode' and go away, we are leaving behind a beautiful, colourful nebula of hope. Join us in London to celebrate Shake!’s history and...
Shake is coming to an end
For 14 years, we have been shaking it up. Supporting Global Majority youth to take up space, unapologetically; creating spaces of healing, art, care and radical political education. We want to keep the pressure for change authentically youth-led. So, in 2025, we have...
Youth work backstories, reimagining safeguarding and embodiment
In June, we had the pleasure of coming together for the second rendition of our Safe Yeah? course that we ran in April. Even though we had run the same workshops two months beforehand, we know that each course is different and special. We started the Saturday with...
Safe Yeah? Reflections from our recent course
On Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th April we were delighted to run our first edition of “Safe Yeah?”, a free weekend course on radical youth work for People of the Global Majority. Shake!’s history originated with running courses for young people, and it felt like...
A World Without Racism Book with a chapter from us!
We are so delighted to announce that we will have a chapter on 'Creative and Embodied Approaches to Antiracism' in Joshua Virasami's new book 'A World Without Racism: Building Antiracist Futures', published by Pluto Press. This book will be released in July 2024 with...
Safe yeah? – Radical Youth Work in a hostile environment
Dates: Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th April 2024 Location: Holloway Road, London, N7 6PA What does it mean to be a Global Majority* youth worker today? For many of us, it often means being caught between what's in the best interest of the communities we not only work...
Hope for a more loving world
This Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking about how a hope for a more loving world sustains us in these testing times. This week, with scenes in Rafah and the continued attack on Palestine, it’s been hard to stay hopeful. Times have been hard and realistically, an end to it...
Tending the Fiyah and Building Caring Futures
This October, we had the pleasure of running two workshops where a radical approach to working with young people was central. Tending the Fiyah was a one day course supporting Shakers! from our ENRGY courses this year to run their own workshops for young people...
ENRGY RE-UP day two: Tai chi, radical counter responses and group poetry
In July 2023, we had the pleasure of running part 2 of our ENRGY course: ENRGY RE-UP. Our free weekend course on radical facilitation for young people and youth workers, offered a deeper dive into the principles of inclusive, radical justice-oriented practices of...
ENRGY RE-UP day one: Key pillars, relationships of safety and Kin Structures
In July 2023, we had the pleasure of running part 2 of our ENRGY course: ENRGY RE-UP. Our free weekend course on radical facilitation for young people and youth workers, offered a deeper dive into the principles of inclusive, radical justice-oriented practices of...
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