commissions
Shareefa Energy has been commissioned by various creative orgs and campaign groups to use her poetry to advocate for marginalised people and to gather support for various grassroots campaigns. She has also been featured on the Spoke World app word with a hip- hop jungle inspired meditation and on the Dead Man’s Phone game app, also featured on Netflix.
Commission by BBC The One Show for the Grenfell one year anniversary. Shareefa wrote this poem to detail her communities fight for justice. She directed the video and distributed lines of her poem to be recited by the local community impacted.
Written and performed for Apples and Snakes for National Poetry Day's 2020 theme 'Vision', a film combining poetry, sign-supported English, street art & dance. This video was used as a prompt to encourage children in schools to write poetry for National Poetry Day.
Beyond Visible Noise' was produced as part of Experimental Words (https://experimentalwords.com/). A collaborative project with space scientist Martin Archer’s research with sounds in space.
Commission by the President of the Chartered Institute of Housing to campaign for why more ethnic minorities should be on housing boards. Poem scripted and directed by Shareefa Energy, filmed by Rainbow Collective.
Commission for marketing brand Kantar Talks to demand mindfulness from brands in 2020, addressing the impact of the murder of George Floyd and for brands to reflect on their responsibility.
Commission for Level Up UK campaign to demand pregnant women to stop being sent to UK prisons. Shareefa collated research from midwives and academics on cases of baby deaths in custody in England and turned it into spoken word poetry from the perspective of a barrister advocating for pregnant mothers. Shareefa also directed the film. This poem was used to raise awareness on the severity of multiple cases and gather signatures to collectively demand change.