Workshops
Shareefa Energy facilitates poetry, spoken word and creative writing workshops in schools, youth clubs, PRU's and organisations with young people and adults seeking asylum, in prisons and immigration detention centres, with vulnerable women who have experienced domestic violence and the criminal justice system, with victims of state violence. She has facilitated workshops with children, young people and adults locally and internationally. Alongside facilitating hundreds of workshops, she has also facilitated workshops for Apples and Snakes, Impressionable Minds, Eastside and The Samosa project. She has worked with university students and lecturers to encourage creative writing and covered various topics from decolonisation to mental health and improving self esteem. She was also the London youth and community coordinator on stop and search and facilitates workshops for young people to know their rights when stopped and searched by the police and how people can be proactive bystanders when witnessing police violence.
Shareefa has worked on various projects with all ages in the education system. All workshops are bespoke designed sensitive to participants needs, catered for adults and young people. Workshop fees vary according to booking and project requirements.
Project facilitated in collaboration with Rainbow Collective to support young girls self esteem and explore violence against women and girls at Sir George Monoux College.
Hear Her Project Film with Advance charity, creative writing & poetry with women released from prison and experienced DV. Supported their self esteem and self-confidence using spoken word. They performed at a stakeholder event alongside Shareefa
“Shareefa acted as a lead artist facilitator on The WOW Foundation’s WOWsers: Creative Careers project in 2022-23, funded by Lambeth Elevate and in partnership with Brixton Youth Theatre. Shareefa was the perfect artist to collaborate with on this programme. Through inspiring readings, engaging workshops and incredible 1-2-1 sessions Shareefa supported the young people to create spoken word pieces completely unique to them which they both recorded in a studio towards films they created, as well as performed live at the Southbank Centre as part of WOW London 2023.
Shareefa expertly navigates the individual needs of young people, whilst nurturing a continued sense of community between them. The work she helped them to produce is staggeringly brilliant, and Shareefa supported the young people to overcome multiple barriers to get to a point of success. She is a supremely talented, caring, inspiring and reliable practitioner, I would work with Shareefa again in a heartbeat. ”
