Stage Your Voice participant
Hacer
"We have to make something of it together here in the neighborhood."
- Hacer
Why vandalize your own neighborhood?
We have to make something of it together here in the neighborhoodBefore the pitch round of Stage Your Voice, I knew immediately that I want to mean something for my neighborhood, Transvaal. It is a typical disadvantaged neighborhood and there are a lot of problems, and this has to change. What strikes you most when you walk through the neighborhood is all the dirt on the streets. Plastic bags, drinking cartons, cans, but also bulky garbage and other garbage. There are also always a lot of loitering youth who make junk, shout, in summary have little respect for people or their environment. I always walk around it with a big bow, it never feels completely safe.
A few months ago Transvaal was in the news with the curfew riots. I heard it happening outside and saw on my phone what was going on. That makes me really sad and angry, but most of all I don't understand it. Why would you do that, vandalize your own neighborhood, your own neighborhood.
Sweet music, loud message
My target group is not necessarily only boys and girls in Transvaal. Litter, for example, is a problem throughout the Netherlands. I want to get people thinking about that, the environment we live in, we create ourselves. We have to make something of it together. I cannot solve this on my own, I need everyone for this.
I don't know much about classical music. Never really listened to it. Other than that I listen to everything, in all kinds of languages. At home everyone listens to their own music, only my mother sometimes puts on something, Kurdish music. I think with my spoken word quiet music works very well. At audition, I picked a random song with piano and violin from YouTube that appealed to me. The sweetness contrasts nicely with the hard things I'm going to say.
Follow Hacer's way to the podium
Hacer (17) has lived all her life in Transvaal, a Hague neighborhood with its challenges. She gets angry about the amount of dirt on the streets, the feeling of insecurity and the lack of respect for each other. With her spoken word, she wants to open the eyes of young people and their parents.
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