This is how we change the world – one individual at a time. Poetry, storytelling, music, art, literature and theatre all generate a shift within the soul so that every time someone new picks up a pen a tiny revolution occurs – this shift is as ground breaking as any great declaration signed by the leaders of the world..
Sophie McKeand is a self-employed poet and educator from Y Gogledd Cymru whose work explores Community Artistry: engaging with The Arts to build stronger communities. She is the Young People’s Laureate for Wales 2016-2018. She won the Out Spoken Innovation in Poetry Award in 2015 and will be the Poet in Residence at Focus Wales Festival in 2016.
Sophie regularly facilitates workshops for organisations such as Literature Wales, Arts Council Wales, Age Cymru and Barnardos with a focus on working with marginalised groups in society.
“Sophie writes poems in which strange, old, true things are forced into contact with the present. They twist and turn and you never get quite what you expect from them, which is what gives them their power… some of the most interesting poems I’ve read in a long while. Genuinely original.” – Paul Kingsnorth [ Ссылка ]
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
