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Healthcare is a notoriously difficult industry to be creative in – but if game changers and mavericks like Shane Koyczan and Ilya Naishuller, worked within the constraints of their industries, would we have the brilliant work they’ve delivered to us today?

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdut2LPNCNI

Watch: http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2664897081

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It’s almost show time! Q’s new fulltime host Shadrach Kabango, better known as Shad, will take to the stage at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio on Monday, April 20. In a two-hour special recorded before a sold-out theatre, Shad will unveil several changes we’ve been working on behind the scenes. 

The show will be live streamed from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET at CBC.ca/q. It will air on CBC Radio One at 10 a.m. (10:30 NT)…

Lyrics by Shane Koyczan 
Music by Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long 
Music produced by Corwin Fox and Shane Koyczan 

Directed by Johnny Jansen and Amazing Factory Productions 
Animated by Johnny Jansen 
Edited by Johnny Jansen 
Art by Gareth Gaudin and Janine Johnston 

Special thanks to, 
Comox Valley All Sorts Choir 
Desmog Canada: http://desmog.ca/ 
David Suzuki Foundation & The Blue Dot Tour – JOIN THE MOVEMENT

YouTube: https://youtu.be/An4a-_NjilY

Today, the internationally renowned spoken word artist, poet and author Shane Koyczan shares a new video for "Heaven, Or Whatever". Directed by Stuart Gillies, the video features CR Avery, Dexter Ver Der Schyff, Melissa Illing, RC Weslowski, Ruth Mason-Paull and more and is from the recently released album Silence Is A Song I Know All The Words To. 

“As a kid I was a terrible Catholic… as an adult I’m an okay atheist. I’ve seen religion do good. I’ve known people who were able to turn their entire lives…

A Really Awesome Guy Got Tired Of Being Bullied By Trolls. So He Made This. Well Played. 

Kids who are bullying victims are more than twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts and more than two and a half times as likely to attempt suicide as kids who aren’t. Suicide is the third-biggest killer of young people in the United States. Girls are at higher risk. 

Check it out on Upworthy, HERE

September 10th, 2013 Shane spoke in Stockholm, Sweden at <strong>Bonnier GRID</strong>. He gave a talk based on The Story of Now. In this talk he dives into his childhood and his first crush and where that has brought him now.

Shane’s appearance on the Fanny Kiefer Show on Shaw TV April 12th...

YouTube: https://youtu.be/vtCG0zMZfNA

“By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it’s like to be young and… different. “To This Day", his spoken-word poem about bullying, captivated millions as a viral video (created, crowd-source style, by 80 animators). Here, he gives a glorious, live reprise with backstory and violin accompaniment by Hannah Epperson.”

Watch: TED Talk 

Interactive: transcript 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa1iS1MqUy4 

“My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways. Schools and families are in desperate need of proper tools to confront this problem. This piece is a starting point.” 

–Shane Koyczan

Dozens of collaborators from around the world helped to bring this piece to life. Help this message have a far reaching and long lasting effect in confronting bullying – please share generously.

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Shane performs a touching piece for the Gift of Time Gala, an event in support of Canucks Place Children’s Hospice. 

Our Gift of Time Gala is the signature fundraising event for Canuck Place Children’s Hospice. The Hospice relies on the funds raised during this evening to continue to provide children with life threatening illnesses and their families throughout British Columbia with the highest standard of pediatric palliative care. The 8th annual Gift of Time Gala will be held October 27, 2012.

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