EVENTS

Shake! Showcase no.6 - #ResistanceIsFertile

*** 26th January 2016 ***

Teaming up with the afro-funky family vibes of Numbi we'll be presenting poetic, filmic & musical responses to injustice (themed around #StatesOfViolence + #FoodFight) from the participants on our 2015 Shake! courses.


SPOKEN WORD + MUSIC + FILM PREMIERE + ZINES

 
 







































Full line-up to be posted here asap.

TICKETS: £5* via Rich Mix box office: 020 7613 7498
http://www.richmix.org.uk/

*concessions email: farzana at platformlondon.org

For more info:
email platformshake at gmail.com 020 7403 373


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#FOODFIGHT   
FREE! 5 day course on Art/ Race/ Media/ Power at Spotlight, Tower Hamlets 3-7 August 2015

16-25?
Angry about the injustice you see around you?
Come shake tings up with performance poets, film-makers, musicians & activists on a free 5 day course to creatively express frustrations & concerns about the world you live in.
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Art can be a powerful and transformative force for justice and change. Each day Shake! creative workshops will provide space to imagine what justice looks like, experiment with new ideas, learn new tools and fire up your imagination.

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#FOODFIGHT will be exploring the idea that Reistance is Fertile...

On the menu:

· Food and the History of Power- colonialism, consumerism,·gentrification, cultural appropriation
· Food & violence –body and trauma, GM giants & corporations and state violence
· Food & Oppression- racalized and gendered oppression through food systems
· Food and Healing Justice- radical health & self care, building resistance and resilience.

Read more: http://voicesthatshake.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/thoughts-on-food-fight-shake-summer.html

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Over the five days, the course will include:

>> interactive workshops, stimulating dialogue & skill-shares to creatively campaign for change with practising artists/activists/educators:

>> ZENA EDWARDS
>> SAI MURRAY
>> PAULA SERAFINI
>> NUWAVE PICTURES
>> JINAN GOLLEY
>> FARZANA KHAN
>> IAN SOLOMON KAWALL
>> MAIA KELLY
>> PLATFORM LONDON
>> MAY PROJECT GARDENS
>> IAN SOLOMON KAWALL
>>EMMA HUGHES
>> MICHELLE PATRICK (Earth Oracle)
(+ more to be announced!)

>> practical hands-on techniques in spoken word, online media, film/video and music technology to develop your ideas around injustice and power.

>> access to a/v equipment, workshop spaces, rehearsal room, and FOOOOOD! at the landmark multi-million pound creative youth space Spotlight in Tower Hamlets + day trip to the innovative hip hop flavoured community focused May Project Gardens.

>> opportunity to showcase your work and continued involvement in the Shake! network.
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Shake! welcomes and looks forward to applicants from all backgrounds. In our efforts to centre marginalised communities and create safe spaces, we will prioritise applications from people of colour, LGBTQI folk and residents of Tower Hamlets. Please state in your application if you want us to consider your application with this in mind.

** LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE (for 16-25 year olds) **

Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

To receive a short application & for more info, email: farzana@platformlondon.org
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http://voicesthatshake.blogspot.com/

Shake! is initiated and coordinated by Platform in association with:
Conversations Verse in Dialog // Liquorice Fish // Nu Wave Pictures // Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust // Spotlight //

Platform is a company limited by guarantee no. 2658515 and a registered charity no 1044485.


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#Shake2015: #StatesOfViolence - Applications open MONDAY 9th JANUARY

Our next shake! up >> 16th-20th February << at the Stephen Lawrence Centre.

Applications now open for our FREE! 5 day course on Art/ Race/ Media/ Power for 16-25's.
See below for more info & how to apply
 
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16-25?
Angry about the injustice you see around you?
Come shake tings up with performance poets, film-makers, musicians & activists on a free 5 day course to creatively express frustrations & concerns about the world you live in.

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** LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE (for 16-25 year olds) **

APPLICATIONS OPEN MONDAY 12TH JANUARY
Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

To receive a short application & for more info, email: farzana@platformlondon.org
Art can be a powerful non-violent force for change.

Each day Shake! creative workshops will provide space to imagine what justice looks like, experiment with new ideas, learn new tools and fire up your imagination.

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Over the five days, the course will include:

>> interactive workshops, stimulating dialogue & skill-shares to creatively campaign for change with practising artists/activists/educators:

>> ZENA EDWARDS
>> SAI MURRAY
>> PAULA SERAFINI
>> FARZANA KHAN
>> PLATFORM LONDON
>> ONYSHA D COLLINS
>> USAYD YOUNIS
>> MIKA MINIO-PALUELLO
>> ADAM ELLIOT COOPER tbc
>> MARCINA ARNOLD tbc
(+ more to be announced!)

>> practical hands-on techniques in spoken word, online media, film/video and music technology to develop your ideas around injustice and power.

>> access to a/v equipment, workshop spaces, rehearsal room, and refreshments at the landmark Stephen Lawrence Centre.

>> opportunity to showcase your work and continued involvement in the Shake! network.
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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 opportunity for the young participants from Shake! to offer training workshops to activists, artists and change-makers on issues they have identified as relevant and worth discussing based on their own expertise and experience. At Shake! we see this as an integral part of challenging power and privilege dynamics in the cultural, environmental and NGO sphere as well as an opportunity to promote real intergenerational dialogue. During this particular training, Shake! participants will offer the following workshops:

1.  Police Brutality and State Violence

2.  Re-evaluating Your 'Self'

3.  Youth, Technology and Social Media

Facilitators for the day include: Annie Rockson, Christianah Babajide and Maaike Boumans.

Workshops will be followed by an afternoon session in which we will discuss how to implement new ideas discussed in previous workshops into our work and daily practices in a strategic and mindful way.

Venue: Platform, 7 Horselydown Lane. Tower Bridge, London SE1 2LN
Time: 10:30 am- 4:00 pm.
We will be sharing breakfast from 10:30 onwards, and have a prompt 11:00am start.
Entrance is free and lunch will be provided.
Since our office is small in capacity please RSVP your space by writing to us at platformshake@gmail.com

We really hope that you can join us and contribute to what is looking to be a day full of engaging workshops and conversations!

Facebook event here.

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Event: Shake Showcase no.5 - #Headspace

Following an intense Shake! summer course at Bernie Grant Arts Centre.  We are back! This time we explored issues of well-being, activism, power & privilege, and mental health and so much more Our next showcase might just be our best one yet! Hosted by afropunk collective Numbi Arts, the event will take place at
Rich Mix
Oct 7^th 
Doors open at 6:30pm

We are lucky to have an explosive line-up of poets: Adaobi, Connie Iloghalu, Dami, Cizz Centrik, Haneen Hammou, Iqra Shazad, Tasmia Salim, Tito Mogaji-Williams, and Will Sayer. Also  are excited to welcome back returning Shakers Annie Rockson, Nathaniel Chapman, Holly , Lateef, Mujtaba Ahmed and Orla Price. As usual, they will be joined on stage by in-house talent Zena Edwards and Sai Murray.

We will be hosting the premier of the latest Shake film, a documentary about failing education in the UK. Our film crew includes Anisa Rashid, Ary Surendran, Carmen Hoang, Dhelia Snoussi, Ezhilojan Jeyakumar, Isla Munro, Olivia Kamara, Maria Kelly, Maria Gous, Amrin, Nadia Nafakh, Sonia Padia, Tilly Ottley-Matthew and Zaieda Coker. The film was co-produce by Nuwave Pictures’ Dershe Samaria and Patrice Etienne.

 Joining us will be musician and poet Marcina Arnold & shake!r Zareeen. Happy to have Dj Zhao in the mix, and the Numbi Family Drumdancesong Poetic Jam Session.

Tickets for the event are £5 and available via Rich Mix box office: 02076137498, Concessions are available just email farzana@platformlondon.org
http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/shake-showcase-headspace-hosted-by-numbi-arts/

See you there!


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Applications now open for our FREE! 5 day course on Art/ Race/ Media/ Power for 16-25's.
See below for more info & how to apply 

Art can be a powerful non-violent force for change.

Each day Shake! creative workshops will provide space to imagine what justice looks like, experiment with new ideas, learn new tools and fire up your imagination.

Over the five days, the course will include:

>> interactive workshops, stimulating dialogue & skill-shares to creatively campaign for change with practising artists/activists/educators:

>> ZENA EDWARDS
>> SAI MURRAY
>> FARZANA KHAN
>> PAULA SERAFINI
>> NU WAVE PICTURES
>> PLATFORM
>> MARCINA ARNOLD
>> JANE TROWELL (Platform & Body Politics)

(+ more to be announced!)

>> practical hands-on techniques in spoken word, online media, film/video and music technology to develop your ideas around injustice and power.

>> access to a/v equipment, workshop spaces, rehearsal room, and refreshments at the landmark Stephen Lawrence Centre.

>> opportunity to showcase your work and continued involvement in the Shake! network.

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** LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE (for 16-25 year olds) **

To receive a short application & for more info,
 email: platformshake@gmail.com or farzana@platformlondon.org
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http://voicesthatshake.blogspot.com/

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Shake! Showcase #4:

Thursday 26th June 6pm @ The Free Word Centre

An explosive showcase from the participants of the fourth Shake! course. Featuring freshly created poetic, filmic & musical responses to injustice from:

Online Ticketing for Remembering, Re-Imagining and Reparations powered by Eventbrite

For more info:
email: platformshake@gmail.com 020 7403 3738
box office: 020 7324 257
 

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Event: New Narratives: Re-imagining the Story

Anyone who knows Shake! knows that we are about change: from the tiny moments of growth and self-transformation that we go through on every Shake! intensive, to the structural changes we aim to make in society. We don't go for traditional approaches to education, and we place a lot of emphasis on dialogue and inter-generational learning.With this in mind, we invite you to our first ever New Narratives, an experimental social policy seminar that looks to re-imagine the needs of young people, and to refresh the structures in society that affect us.

Interactive youth led sessions and artistic exercises will provide a safe space for dialogue and an opportunity to develop strategies to incorporate into practice.
 
New Narratives #1 features sessions led by:

Orla Price - Well-Being and Mental Health
Nathaniel Chapman - Homelessness
Selina Nwulu - tbc

Date:  Saturday 31st of May
Time: 10:30 -5pm
Where: Platform Office, Tower Bridge
Refreshments and lunch included.
 
Here is the link to fb page -  please forward to like minded people.

Platform office has limited capacity, so first come first serve, please RSVP platformshake@gmail.com

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Applications open for #Shake2014 at Stephen the Lawrence Centre

Our next shake up >> 17th-21st February 2014 << at the Stephen Lawrence Centre Charitable Trust.

Applications now open for our FREE! 5 day course on Art/ Race/ Media/ Power for 16-25's.

See below for more info & how to apply 
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Art can be a powerful non-violent force for change.

Each day Shake! creative workshops will provide space to imagine what justice looks like, experiment with new ideas, learn new tools and fire up your imagination.

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Over the five days, the course will include:

>> interactive workshops, stimulating dialogue & skill-shares to creatively campaign for change with practising artists/activists/educators: 

>> ZENA EDWARDS
>> SAI MURRAY
>> FARZANA KHAN
>> NU WAVE PICTURES
>> PLATFORM
>> MARCINA ARNOLD
>> ESTHER STANFORD-XOESI
>> PAULA SERAFINI
(+ more to be announced!)

>> practical hands-on techniques in spoken word, online media, film/video and music technology to develop your ideas around injustice and power.

>> access to a/v equipment, workshop spaces, rehearsal room, and refreshments at the landmark Stephen Lawrence Centre.

>> opportunity to showcase your work and continued involvement in the Shake! network.

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** LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE (for 16-25 year olds) **

To receive a short application & for more info, email: platformshake@gmail.com or rachel.wicks@stephenlawrence.org.uk

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  Showcase#3: Propaganda! Perception! & Power! @Free Word Centre, 29th October, 6-9pm

Shake! Showcase#3: Propaganda! Perception! & Power!  is the explosive showcase from the participants of the third Shake! course. Featuring freshly created poetic, filmic and musical responses to injustice, the showcase will present an original and inspiring mix of political creativity. So get on down to the Free Word Centre  in Farringdon on Tuesday 29th October, 6-9pm and join us for what promises to be an electric event. Check out this trailer of the film made by the Shake! participate during the Shake! course in August at the BGAC. The full film will be premiered at the showcase.

Get your tickets here: 

(The event is free for students and unwaged)

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Shake! Arts >> Media >> Race >> Power 

Monday 5^th – Friday 9^th August 2013

FREE 5-day course for 16-25 year old's

Over the five days, the course will include:

>> interactive workshops, stimulating dialogue & skill-shares with practicing artists/activists/educators ZENA EDWARDS, SAI MURRAY, ED LEWIS, FARZANA KHAN, MARCINA ARNOLD, HI8US SOUTH to creatively campaign for change.
>> practical hands-on techniques in spoken word, online media, film/video and music technology to develop your ideas around injustice and power.
>> access to a/v equipment, workshop spaces and refreshments at the landmark Bernie Grants Art Centre Tottenham.
>> opportunity to showcase your work and continued involvement in the Shake! network.
** LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE (for 16-25 year olds) **
To receive a short application form and for more information please contact:
Email: farzana@platformlondon.org Tel: 07926 688 064
** Deadline for applications: Monday 22^nd  July 2013 **

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Showcase Voice! Verse! & Power!  is the explosive showcase from the participants of the second Shake! course. Featuring freshly created poetic, filmic and musical responses to injustice, the showcase will present an original and inspiring mix of political creativity. The event is FREE, but with limited capacity, it is important to get your tickets early! So get on down to The Albany in Deptford on June 23^rd and join us for what promises to be an electric event.

Get your tickets here: http://shakeshowcase2.eventbrite.co.uk/

See you there! 

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   Shake! Arts >> Media >> Race >> Power 

- Monday 18th- Friday 22nd Feb 2013

FREE 5-day course for 16-25 year old's

Over the five days, the course will include:

>> interactive workshops, stimulating dialogue & skill-shares with practicing artists/activists/educators ZENA EDWARDS, SAI MURRAY, ED LEWIS, FARZANA KHAN, ERIC SOUL, HI8US SOUTH to creatively campaign for change.

>> practical hands-on techniques in spoken word, online media, film/video and music technology to develop your ideas around injustice and power.

>> access to a/v equipment, workshop spaces and refreshments at the landmark Stephen Lawrence Centre.

>> opportunity to showcase your work and continued involvement in the Shake! network.

** LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE (for 16-25 year olds) **

To receive a short application form and for more information please contact:
Email: farzana@platformlondon.org Tel: 07926 688 064
Email: taz@stephenlawrence.org.uk Tel: 0208 100 2800

** Deadline for applications: FRIDAY 1ST FEBRUARY 2013 **

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Britain On Trial - Young Voices Speak Out!

- Saturday 29th October 11.30am-7pm

Young people from Leeds Young Authors and Shake! alongside community activists, academics,
and artists ask what does the present and future hold?

As the re-trial for justice for Stephen Lawrence begins, join us in asking "where are we now" through a day of discussion, creative workshops and film to expose Britain's injustices.

Hosted by Leeds Young Authors, Leeds University academics, and London's Shake! Young Voices in Arts, Media, Race and Power, with Leeds Bi-Centenary Transformation Project and Leeds Black Film Club.

Chaired by Esther Stanford-Xosei of Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE)

Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2011

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Unheard Voices: Youth, ‘The Riots’ and the Media

Shake! @ The Rebellious Media Conference - Sunday 9th October 2011

A panel of diverse, politically-engaged young people (16-25-years-old) discuss their views on how the media operated in and after the recent ‘riots’. Key questions will include how young people have made sense of the rebellion, young people’s relationship with media coverage and, in particular, how young people want to combat media prejudice and its ideological motivations.

With Sai Murray, Ed Lewis, Samia Aziz, Rotimi Skyers, Kadish Morris, Kavi Hewavitarne, Selina Nwulu and Zena Edwards.

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SHAKE! Preview @ The Albany
- Saturday 26th Feb 2011

SHAKE! participants from the 5-day course which took place at Stephen Lawrence Centre in August 2010, will be getting together & sharing our work-in-progress to an audience of friends, family, and anyone else who is interested in engaging with issues of social injustice & the arts, media, race & power.
Also hear from artist-facilitators Zena Edwards, Sai Murai (African Writers Abroad), DJ Eric Soul (Afrogroov) and Ana Tovey (Chocolate Films).

Red Room at the Albany, Deptford 6.30 - 10pm

http://www.thealbany.org.uk
FREE but you must book places platformshake@gmail.com

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SHAKE! PILOT COURSE
@ The Stephen Lawrence Centre, August 2010

FREE Five Day course mixing art, awareness and activism - Monday 16 August – Friday 20th August 2010, 10am – 4pm (with gig on Friday night).

Fed up with the injustices you see around you?

Then bring your ideas to life & stir things up as a performance poet, DJ & video-maker!

Come and work with live poets Zena Edwards (Verse in Dialog), Sai Murai (Liquorice Fish), DJ Eric Soul (AFROGROOV), and film maker Ana Tovey (Chocolate Films), brought together by campaigning group PLATFORM for a unique summer course that combines music, art, politics and human rights.

Each day, creative workshops will provide space to imagine what justice looks like, experiment with new ideas, learn new tools and to fire up your imagination. You will come away ready to put tools into action and to get yourselves seen and heard in a compelling way.

The course includes:

1. Workshops to share and develop your ideas with professional artists in small groups.
2. Training and skills in music, video, performance, media and new media.
3. Access to an a/v suite, tech rooms and workshop spaces at the Stephen Lawrence Centre.
4. Refreshments. 

SHAKE! is a PLATFORM project funded by Arts Council England in partnership with the following organisations:
African Writers Abroad, AFROGROOV, Chocolate Films, ©ViD:Verse in Dialog, Liquorice Fish, London Development Agency, Remember Saro-Wiwa, Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust.