#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 understanding of climate change in it’s […]
Category archives: Poetry
Anni & Annie at #ResistanceIsFertile
Happy National Poetry Day peoples! We have a wealth of poetry created since our genesis in 2010 and biiig plans to publish, record and podcast more. In the meantime check our archive of poetry-related content on this link and enjoy these performances from Anni and Annie recorded at our last showcase #ResistanceisFertile hosted by Numbi […]
Shake! at Afrikans on Film Festival
I got goosebumps doing this duet with Luwi earlier this year at the 6th Shake! Showcase at Rich Mix: #ResistanceIsFertile. Lil Sis went in <3 Looking forward to doing it again with Adinkra Arts Collective Afrikans on Film Festival Saturday 10th Sept at Bussey Building, Peckham. Check this link for more details about the film […]
Black Words Matter
Today, we’ll be sharing our films, poems, and other alternative media at #BlackWordsMatter Rich Mix London: a conversation about media justice – poetry – film – performance. How do Black words matter? To whom should they matter? And aren’t words only part of the story? And what about the power to have those words heard […]
A Reminder for Our Liberal Selves
by Sai Murray A Reminder for Our Liberal Selves: Black people are systematically destroyed by the media and the marketers as well as by police bullets. Black voices are destroyed by well-meaning White voices We do know… it’s Christmas We know what time it is We have known the time, calculated the time lived in […]
Qawwali Flamenco Brexit Beat
In a taxi with desi immigrant uncle, jammin to some spanish/urdu qawwali flamenco from my phone. He invites me to listen to music to remove some of the rage & sadness from my face. ‘Abba listen to music it will make u happy’. I mention how I hope it doesn’t rain, he tells me that […]
Art, Climate and Displacement: 3 Spoken Word Films by Selina Nwulu and Onysha D Collins
Writer and poet Selina Nwulu and filmmaker Onysha D Collins (both former Shake! participants now involved with Shake! as facilitators and mentors), have teamed up for a series of spoken word films produced by Platform. The three films ‘Before’, ‘Our Parents’ Children’, and ‘Home is a Hostile Lover’ are part of a commission from metaceptive […]
Home Cooking: Trauma Genes by Sammy Brough
Congratulations to Sammy for her commission to produce the latest Apples & Snakes Homecooking podcast. Sammy was inspired to create this project on the subject of Trauma Genes after studying and responding to Audre Lorde’s poem “Litany for Survival” during our recent #StatesOfViolence 5-day intensive arts/activism course at the Stephen Lawrence Centre. This spoken word […]
Climate change: who should we trust?
By Orla PriceOn 30 September this year the Free Word Centre held a discussion on the topic ‘Trust and the environment’. The discussion centred on what sources of information we could trust in the face of climate change, and how education, the media, politics and the public perceived threats to the environment. What I found […]
Headspace – Shake #5 Poem – “Dear Beauty in the Rubble”
Headspace: when we think about how the amazing capabilities of the mind to imagine and agility of the brain to calculate, reason and deduce, we always imagine it to be an electrifying place to be. It should and always be. Shake’s Headspace 2014 is about how we connect with these abilities, how we learn and […]