Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
USA
Mayda del Valle, a poet whose work has helped to raise the bar in poetry circles all over the world, performs her piece "a faith like yours" at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word.
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
Writer Ayelet Waldman and her Pulitzer Prize-winning husband Michael Chabon share their White House Talk at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA Hawaii
Poet, activist, and scholar Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio recites a poem about remembering her cultural roots by honoring her family and recalling their Hawaiian names. The last part of the poem is spoken in Hawaiian.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Brave New Voices slam champion Joshua Bennett performs “Tamaraʼs Opus” at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Writer and star of the Broadway musical In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda performs "The Hamilton Mixtape" at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word. Accompanied by Alex Lacamoire.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Australia
Theater director Simon Stone deconstructs some of the common visual and audio tricks of modern theater, utilizing a cast of first-time volunteer actors recruited in the days prior to TEDxSydney 2011 and rehearsed just once.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA Northeast
WBER is a radio station in Rochester, New York, in the Northeastern part of the United States. Anyone in the Rochester area can be a DJ on the station, if they are willing to put the time in.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA Northeast
When a non-commercial radio station needs gear, and it doesn’t have money in the budget, it must turn to the audience and ask for help. When Tim Beideck heard that WBER’s transmitter urgently needed replacing, he decided to turn the premiere of Drivers Wanted into a fundraiser for the station.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Luckily, the fundraiser was a big success, and the movie got a lot of great press. Thousands of dollars were raised; WBER got the transmitter and the gear it needed.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Dana: Six funny ways you know you're in the U.S. that I noticed while back over there this past January.
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
Not only nature friends will enjoy this beautiful film. Here is the trailer for African Cats.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom
GreenpeaceVideo: In Sydney, between drought and dust storms, the effects of climate change are becoming more visible than ever.
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
We meet a young woman, Caralie, on the street. She takes us to her apartment building. She checks her mail-box. She invites us inside and up the stairs to her third-floor apartment.
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
Caralie takes us into her kitchen. Here she talks about fruits, vegetables and preparing soup. She also shows us some important appliances in her kitchen.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
Enjoy clips from the most popular musicals in London's world-famous West End. Les Misérables is the longest-running musical in this top ten group, and of all time, in the West End.
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