Act 2, Scene 1 (the balcony scene) of Romeo and Juliet by the Royal Shakespeare Company. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHoaPLO6Zd8” Continue reading The Royal Shakespeare Company, “Romeo and Juliet” Scene
Hamilton cast performance at the 2016 Tonys. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=639vfDnhOVw” Continue reading Hamilton Cast 2016 Tony Performance
From Ted Talks: “Jamila Lyiscott is a ‘tri-tongued orator,’ and this powerful spoken-word essay celebrates — and challenges — the three distinct flavors of English she speaks with her friends, in the classroom and with her parents. As she explores the complicated history and present-day identity that each language represents, she unpacks what it means to be ‘articulate.’ If you want to use this video … Continue reading Jamila Lyiscott: 3 Ways To Speak English
Amiri Baraka reads “Black Art.” This performance was released on the album “Sonny’s Time Now,” featuring jazz performers Sonny Murray, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Henry Grimes, and Louis Worrell. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh2P-tlEH_w” Continue reading Baraka, Amiri, “Black Art” (1967)
Adrienne Rich reading “What Kinds of Times Are These” at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks:“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQapdNY-F4″ Continue reading Rich, Adrienne, “What Kinds of Times Are These”
Adrienne Rich reads her 1983 poem “North American Time” in Madison WI in 1997. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi_N3UPAD5E” Continue reading Rich, Adrienne, “North American Time”
Audio recording of Edna St. Vincent Millay reading “Love is Not All” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgDAOG8W6c” Continue reading Millay, Edna St. Vincent, “Love is Not All”
Audio recording of Edna St. Vincent Millay reading “Recuerdo” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYQkEkB_fhk” Continue reading Millay, Edna St. Vincent, “Recuerdo”
Interview with Angelou on Bill Moyers’s Moyers & Company entitled “Facing Evil.” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvcTjTejZ4” Continue reading Angelou, Maya, and Bill Moyers, “Facing Evil”
