Shane Koyczan has become a spoken word superstar by giving a powerful voice to the underdogs: the loners, the losers, the kids who grow up believing they don't measure up somehow
Date/Time: Apr 7 2018, 5:30 pm to 6:52 pm
Vancouver, Vancity Theatre | Event calendarCost: $13.00
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Internationally acclaimed spoken word artist Shane Koyczan gives a poignant and powerful voice to the inaudible and the imperceptible: the bullied, the awkward, the visibly different. In her entrancing and engrossing documentary, Melanie Wood reveals a conflicted man; a bashful alchemist who creates explosive rhetorical fireworks from the stuff of daily life.
Working with Shane’s longtime friend and collaborator filmmaker Stuart Gillies, Wood brings us an intimate and honest portrait of the man who rocked the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics with the mind-blowing poem "We Are More (Define Canada)." With lucid candour, Yellowknife-born, Penticton-based Koyczan allows us to join him on a deeply personal and momentous journey to finally meet his long-estranged father. The result is his most important and most difficult poem yet; an ode to the parent he never, and yet always, had. The best indicator that we’re dealing with someone extraordinary is that the more intimate his words are, the more universal the truths they expose become…
"Candid and compelling." Globe and Mail
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/223342829
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