Shane Koyczan, Derrick C. Brown

Name: Shane Koyczan, Derrick C. Brown
Start: 2024-10-26T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 2262 Winnebago St, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53704

Schedule

Sat Oct 26 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

2262 Winnebago St, Madison, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53704 | Madison, WI

Doors 7PM / Show 8PM
Seated Show
$25ADV / $30DOS

Internationally recognized author and spoken word artist Shane Koyczan has emerged as a creator of poetry that dares to belong to the people and speak directly to them in their own voice. In 2013, he collaborated with animators to make the anti-bullying viral video “To This Day” which has had over 13 million views, and he performed a customized version “For the Bullied and the Beautiful” to acclaim at the 2013 International TED Conference in Long Beach, California. Shane shapes his words and delivers in multi mediums from authored, video, spoken word, operatic, and musically performed.

Derrick C. Brown is a poet, novelist, comedian, and storyteller. In 2023, Paste Magazine named his Comedy and Poetry Record 'Album of the Year.' He is the winner of the Texas Book of The Year award for Poetry. The New York Times calls his work “…a rekindling of faith in the weird, hilarious, shocking, beautiful power of words.”
He is a former paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne. He is the owner and president of Write Bloody Publishing, which Forbes and Filter Magazine called “…one of the best independent poetry presses in the country.” He is the author of ten books of poetry and four children’s books. He lives in Los Angeles.