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Voices that Shake now online
15th October, 2010
Over 5-days in August 2010 a group of young people gathered at the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford to develop creative responses to stories of social injustice and the struggles against them. Inspired by the memories of Nigerian Writers and Activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and in celebration of the life of Stephen Lawrence, the young people took part in workshops in spoken word, djing, and filmmaking, learning how to put these art forms to use for creative campaigning and getting their voice heard about the issues that concern them.
This was all part of 'Shake! Arts, Media, Race & Power', a summer school devised and coordinated by PLATFORM with artists DJ Eric Soul (Afrogroov), Zena Edwards & Simon Murray (African Writers Abroad) and Ana Tovey (Chocolate Films).
The week was a huge success and some powerful work came out of it. The filmmaking group spent the week document the creative activity going on around the Stephen Lawrence Centre, and collaborated with the young people in the spoken word and djing group to produce a documentary combining all of the art forms and showing the passion and dedication of this group of young people to bring about change.
The finished film is now online.
Read more about the Shake! project and meet the Shakers and hear what they are up to now on the Voices that Shake blog.
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