Shane Koyczan: To This Day…For the Bullied and Beautiful

This is a stunning, beautiful, love-filled, upsetting, funny, inspiring and wonderful talk. I urge you to watch and be inspired!

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.

TED TV

I also highly recommend checking out his website: http://www.shanekoyczan.com/

And watching this wonderful video for his poem Instructions For A Bad Day:

“WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT FOR YOUR INEVITABLE BAD DAY. A COMPILATION OF WORLDWIDE YOUTUBE CONTENT, THE CROWD-SOURCED DOCUMENTARY “LIFE IN A DAY” BY KEVIN MACDONALD, AND LOCAL FOOTAGE BY JON GOODGION. AUDIO IS THE SPOKEN WORD POEM “INSTRUCTIONS FOR A BAD DAY” BY SHANE KOYCZAN”

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http://www.ted.com/talks/shane_koyczan_to_this_day_for_the_bullied_and_beautiful?language=en

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