*spark! - Sarah Kay performs part 1

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  • @RoadcasterSA
    @RoadcasterSA 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've lived in Cape Town my whole life and have recently discovered Sarah Kay's works of poetry. To stumble on this and hear her tell a tale that is so insightful of the history of our beautiful and troubled city is a real treat. The moment she started singing Shosholoza, my ears were perked. She did not dissapoint and it made this Capetonian very happy. Thanks for helping keep the memory of District 6 alive, Sarah Kay.

  • @yihu123
    @yihu123 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Saying she inspires me is saying very little!
    after listening to six or seven of her poems
    my essay grades in english got up 10 points.
    Its not about what she says or how she says it
    its the way she looks at it!
    I love her speech and it comes natural, I observed it and not copy cat it but made it my own, and gave my own personal speech a little twist
    and people noticed it!
    Thank you Sarah Kay for making me look forward to what may come across my life
    even if its very little

  • @thingsTheater
    @thingsTheater 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Even though this doesn't have the drums for dramatic effect, this is my favorite delivery of hers for this poem. It's not as rushed and she doesn't seem nervous anymore. It's so beautiful.

  • @makaylawheeler3553
    @makaylawheeler3553 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am not easily brought to tears. However Sarah Kay has achieved that with a story of fifty pigeons. I'm merely 13 but have been so heavily influenced by her poetry. Thank you

  • @SiriuslyPotty
    @SiriuslyPotty 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Not even phantoms will haunt this ghost town because even their ghostly figures are not white enough".
    5 years of history lessons never impacted me as much as that one line.

  • @cc_m5477
    @cc_m5477 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely perfect! Sarah Kay is one of my favorite spoken word poets and this poem was beautiful! Love you!

  • @nomusamsiza1357
    @nomusamsiza1357 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This poem us based on a book titled District Six. It's a book about South African history, apartheid and the group settlements act. If you've read the book, the poem makes more sense.

  • @TeaGreenz
    @TeaGreenz 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I always have to hear her poems two or three times before i start to understand them.

  • @nakaimhlanga
    @nakaimhlanga 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm from Zimbabwe. This is amazing

  • @Luisa_Ribeiro
    @Luisa_Ribeiro 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Always put on your ear phones and close your eyes before listening to her poems.

  • @xxkEtchUpxx1
    @xxkEtchUpxx1 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    brings tears to my eyes... so touching

  • @2006kcl
    @2006kcl 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    "not even phantoms will haunt this ghost town"... beautiful!

  • @huzandam
    @huzandam 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sarah Kay is just awesome

  • @Brittanity
    @Brittanity 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    her voice is beautiful, and the poem would be different if we chose to close our eyes, but I understand that she writes with performance specific in mind, so perhaps remember to experience it again, while watching her.

  • @kristas.358
    @kristas.358 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She is strikingly brilliant!

  • @PoetryETrain
    @PoetryETrain 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, these parts have been added to our playlists..

  • @rajeshvaidya2427
    @rajeshvaidya2427 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Incredibly powerful...loved it!

  • @chuthithuytrang5704
    @chuthithuytrang5704 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anyone knows where I can get the full lyrics of this beautiful poem?

  • @achevigny
    @achevigny 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Magnifique!!
    La puissance des mots.

  • @35gelac
    @35gelac 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shosholoza is a Ndebele folk song that originated in Zimbabwe but was popularized in South Africa. The song is a traditional South African Folk song that was sung by Ndebele all-male migrant workers that were working in the South African mines in a call and response style. The song is so popular in South African culture that it is often referred to as South Africa's second national anthem.

  • @Medusa63
    @Medusa63 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All I can say is...beautiful!

  • @mahbrocigarettes
    @mahbrocigarettes 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    i wrote a poem: SARAH KAY. she probably has eaten cereal before. SPECIAL KAY. SHE PRETTY NEAT. this one time, i had a dream that i found a stick, sarah kay is really intelligent. i like listening to her talk. it makes boring people at work seem unbearable.
    -frum, chris

  • @xtremeracer4lyf
    @xtremeracer4lyf 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    simply amazing, well said and well spoken.

  • @3damnthis
    @3damnthis 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    She made me cry!

  • @Diana-gt1rv
    @Diana-gt1rv 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I agree, just beautiful 😊

  • @relk123x
    @relk123x 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wow at first i had no idea what this was about but then its like really gd and.. i dunno how to put it but its really gd!

  • @mantombimnculwane1527
    @mantombimnculwane1527 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    uhm...Zimbabwe is not in South Africa...beautiful piece though

    • @chelsymaumbe4554
      @chelsymaumbe4554 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The origins of the song come from Zimbabwe. When it was sung by the Nguni people and the Ndebele men who traveled across from Old Rhodesia to South Africa to work in the mines. Newer translations have replaced the word Zimbabwe and put in its Place South Africa. It’s a song with a mix of Zulu and Ndebele, both ethnics closely related,

  • @Flictrinity
    @Flictrinity 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why Zimbabwe at the end of Shosholoza? South Africa and Zimbabwe are two different countries. Just asking....

  • @blacklotus13
    @blacklotus13 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @JackCarver10 you are not stupid, you're just looking from a completely wrong angle. don't try digging for content, rather consider it an artistic approach to spoken word. that's what poetry is about - combining words to a beautiful picture that touches and inspires. she is a master, if you don't believe me, watch the poem she perform at TED

  • @makaveliq3
    @makaveliq3 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Guys her poem is about racial oppression of blacks. She's abstracting her main characters struggles of being oppressed and having to move. She relates it to the pigeons he keeps. He lets them free, and feels sad when the don't return. He finds them somewhere else, because they (like him) don't have a home. She is relating two abstracts and making the one abstract aware of the connection. It's not that hard. Think.

  • @vietnguru2008
    @vietnguru2008 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    love it! love it! powerful!

  • @Changeneverchanges1
    @Changeneverchanges1 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow That is really touching!!!

  • @JaizAmazing
    @JaizAmazing 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    shes amazing... wow! glade i subbed

  • @178D
    @178D 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love you I love you I love you 10000 ❤

  • @JackCarver10
    @JackCarver10 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @blacklotus13 Alright, thanks for the advice.

  • @brissy724
    @brissy724 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel like this is more of a history lesson than a poem

  • @NoelieTREX
    @NoelieTREX 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    beautiful. just beautiful.

  • @bquiles90
    @bquiles90 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    so powerfull. Love

  • @duncanauk1
    @duncanauk1 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @JackCarver10 Poetry is like art , some like it some dont.

  • @PaulFrank_paz
    @PaulFrank_paz 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bravo!

  • @forwordcollection
    @forwordcollection 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "not even phantoms will haunt this ghost town because even their floating figures are not 'white' enough" *snaps snaps snaps*

  • @alexllamasares8218
    @alexllamasares8218 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you WIKI.

  • @JackCarver10
    @JackCarver10 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @duncanauk1 I watched all the TED performances of her now, I must say: I like it. :D

  • @lawron2
    @lawron2 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    amazing spirit

  • @takioyagin7945
    @takioyagin7945 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    😍😍😍😍

  • @staind687
    @staind687 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    very talented

  • @lesiba5382
    @lesiba5382 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    District 6!

  • @Medusa63
    @Medusa63 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    You may only be 13, but I sense an "old soul" and a beautiful one at that just by your choice of words :)

  • @GBthe1AndOnlyMuchLuv
    @GBthe1AndOnlyMuchLuv 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow!

  • @creamedcookielove
    @creamedcookielove 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Notice in all her poetry videos she's always wearings those 2 rings

  • @Amiinah1
    @Amiinah1 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOWWOWOWOW

  • @dianneoberry8110
    @dianneoberry8110 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    does anyone think of the Hunger Games when you hear this?

  • @sierraaawrr
    @sierraaawrr 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    SHOSHOOLOOOZAAAA!~

  • @shyamalganguly3598
    @shyamalganguly3598 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The liberated pigeons probably got their homes where they should belong and their feathers, the broken cages, and shattered glasses are replicas of the captive pains that they once had to remind all not to be tortured to be free to look back what it was like!!

  • @POTOskaterJMchic
    @POTOskaterJMchic 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    District 6...District 12...haha Panem anyone??

  • @Kenshinsm
    @Kenshinsm 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    i don't get it. lol jk love you Sarah Kay

  • @Jacknava2001
    @Jacknava2001 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    she makes poetry hot, her beauty distracts me from what shes saying lol

  • @rethabilemonaheng4826
    @rethabilemonaheng4826 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am a fan. But can you please get the words right to Shosholaza....and why change the lyrics from South Africa to Zimbabwe.... I didnt get it. I am South African and haave never heard it sung with 'Zimbabwe'. And the Cape Mayas...try get the pronunciation right..please.
    Great poetry!

  • @princekotchere
    @princekotchere 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @johnnyex . Spoken word is not written poetry. At least not by definition.

  • @addisonscout
    @addisonscout 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    the fuck is gd?

  • @JackCarver10
    @JackCarver10 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Her body signs are so awfully distracting...
    And in the end it felt like she said absolutely nothing the whole time.
    Am I just stupid?

  • @rethabilemonaheng4826
    @rethabilemonaheng4826 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am a fan. But can you please get the words right to Shosholaza....and why change the lyrics from South Africa to Zimbabwe.... I didnt get it. I am South African and haave never heard it sung with 'Zimbabwe'. And the Cape Mayas...try get the pronunciation right..please.
    Great poetry!

    • @rainstorm1809
      @rainstorm1809 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Rethabile Monaheng according to Wikipedia, (which is not the most reliable source), the Shosholoza originated in Zimbabwe and was brought to South Africa by men who travelled there to work in the mines. Since she has such strong themes in this poem about returning home, that might be why she used Zimbabwe instead of South Africa, but it also seems like there are multiple versions / translations of the original song.