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SHAKE!
SHAKE! is a project that brings together young people, artists & campaigners to develop creative responses to social injustice. Inspired by the memories of Nigerian Writer and Activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and in celebration of the life of Stephen Lawrence SHAKE! participants engage in dynamic workshops (Poetry writing & performance, Film Making, DJ artwork) & follow-up mentoring to pursue creative campaigning & events production. SHAKE! was initiated by PLATFORM and is a collaboration between African Writers Abroad, Afrogroov, Liquorice Fish, Conversations: Verse in Dialog, Chocolate Films, Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. Funded by Arts Council England and London Development Agency.
At the end of the Remembering,Re-Imagining and Reparations week, the Young poets shared their work to rest of the group. here are three of them - Heritier, Orla and Zareen.
The multitalented Marcina Arnold is joining Shake! for the second time to collaborate with our poets, helping turn their work into beautiful and powerful musicalised pieces of spoken word or song.
As a contribution to our reflections on our current Shake! themes, “Remembering, Re-imagining, Reparations”, Marcina shared with us her poem Common Rumour, which was featured in her first album. Common Rumour speaks of the struggles of being of multi heritage and dealing with other people’s perceptions and projections. Marcina’s poem, enhanced by a mix of enchanting sounds from across the globe, proposes that we re-imagine multi heritage, eliminating prejudice and assumptions that define how we see each other.
“It was a common rumour, that being mixed would be confusing…”
These poems were written and performed by a dynamic and engaged collective of young people exploring Power, Representation and Race in a week long intensive of workshops in film and poetry. Check the Voices That Shake Blog - http://voicesthatshake.blogspot.co.uk/
Tracks: (so fresh they are untitled) Adam, Saif, Umaru, Katie, Kafalat, Annie and Simon
A podcast that has poetry readings and mini-lectures
Introduction by Esther Stanford-Xosei
Preliminary - Jane Trowell (11min 53)
Part 1 Race, Power Young People "Britain on Trial" "Thou Shalt Not Kill" Poetry - Selina Nwulu (15min 49)
"Fire" Poetry - Rotimi Skyers (20min 26)
"Letter from David" Poetry - Zodwa Nyoni (24mins 28)
Media and Representation Mini Lecture media representation, consummerism- Sai Murai (aka Simon Murray) (27mins 45)
Mini Lecture Young girls, body Image and media representation - Samia Aziz (35mins 45)
"Barbie Girl" Poetry - Paris Kaur(40mins 20)
The History of Displacement - Mini Lecture Displacement- Dr Carl Hylton(44Mins 40)
Mini Lecture Immigration, Asylum - Dr Stuart Hodkinson (50mins 58)
Mini Lecture Personal Testimony from Germain Naruhana, a successful asylum seeker speaks about his experience of escaping the Congo as an activist.
Interview with Sai Murai by Our Man Flint on Groovalicious show Peoples FM 104.5 FM, broadcast Thursday 20 October 2011. Discussing forthcoming event BRITAIN ON TRIAL: Young Voices Speak Out! + the book ABENG SOUNDINGS: A Timeline of Anti-Slavery Resistance. Email: platformshake@gmail.com for details
Interview with Sai Murai by Our Man Flint on Groovalicious show Peoples FM 104.5 FM, broadcast Thursday 20 October 2011. Discussing forthcoming event BRITAIN ON TRIAL: Young Voices Speak Out! https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=232473120135819
1-Day Creative Workshop and performance/ film screening
Leeds Young Authors// Shake! Young Voices in Arts, Media, Race & Power// University of Leeds MA in Activism & Social Change // Leeds Bi-Centenary Transformation Project
11.30 - 7pm Sat 29th October @ The Carriageworks, Leeds Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2011
As the re-trial for justice for Stephen Lawrence begins, we ask "where are we now" through a day of workshops and an evening performance to expose Britain's injustices.
Concerned about how young people are being treated? Get the feeling that justice is becoming more and more hard to find? That institutional racism is alive and kicking the next generation?
Deaths in police custody. Increased surveillance. Fortress Britain. Cuts in education. Protests, 'riots' and looting...
Young people from Leeds Young Authors and Shake! alongside community activists, academics, and artists ask what does the present and future hold?
Participate in the discussion. Take part in creative workshops to find another way. Celebrate the struggle against injustice with two landmark films.
Admission is FREE but email platformshake@gmail.com for a place
Britain on Trial: Saturday 29th October
11.30am Registration and LUNCH (free)
12.30 THE CHARGE, welcome by Esther Stanford-Xosei Mini-lectures by young people and activists/academics on
Racism, young people and the police Consumer Capitalism, advertising, and young people; Media portrayal of youth History of displacement; contemporary refugee/asylum seeker realities Followed by discussion
2.30pm BREAK & refreshments
3.00pm THE TESTIMONY Creative workshops based on morning's discussions i) Drama/Movement workshop with Khadijah Ibrahiim ii) Poetry/spoken work/creative writing workshop with Simon Murray iii) Subverting media images with Jane Trowell
4.30pm BREAK & refreshments
5.00pm - 7pm THE VERDICT - bringing it all together Share work done in creative workshops; spoken-word showcase and a rare chance to see short films 'Blood ah Go Run' (1982) commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the original Black Peoples Day of Action, and 'Step Forward Youth' (1977) with Leeds Black Film Club
http://britainontrial.wordpress.com/ http://voicesthatshake.blogspot.com/p/about.html http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/festival-events/2011sc/speak-out.aspx
A profound and visual poem that explores the themes of balance between ecological needs of a balanced earth and the wants of humankind.
Another bone rattling poem by one of our young writers at the Shake! project. A tribute to Stephen Lawrence.
A hard hitting poem by a young man who had never written poetry before but found his voice in less than a week!! Another piece that successfully communicates the waste of life to a race hate as Rotimi almost puts himself in the place of Stephen. He shows respect to UK Hip Hop Artist Sway too for his contribution of positivity to inspire the black youth, young boys just like Stephen.
Stephen Lawrence was waiting for a bus with a friend before his mudres came and took his life. K.K writes with the a simplistic style that penetrates and provokes thought. Her poetry resonates on many levels.
A collection of Poems written my the brave new voices. Thia Poem was written my Selina Nwulu as a tribute to the Life of Stephen Lawrence whose birthday in on 14th September.