"Tell Them" by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner at Southbank Centre for London 2012 Poetry Parnassus

Kathy just delivered an amazing poem at UN Climate Justice Convention in front of over a hundred heads of states. • Marshallese poet Kathy...
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a poet from Marshall Islands. I ran into this young talented artist via our London assistant Linda Kwon, who saw Kathy perform at a Poetry Parnassus event and was deeply moved by her poems. Linda insisted that I work with Kathy and make a video or two while I was in London. So we did two. This is the first one.
For more information on Kathy, please go to jkijiner.wordpr...
This piece "Tell Them" focuses on climate change, a pressing threat for many low lying Pacific Island nations, including her own.
Our second collaboration piece HISTORY PROJECT is here:
• "History Project" by K...
Filmed by Masahiro Sugano
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