Brett Kissel, Alexandre Trudeau, Tyler Shaw, Kerry Kennedy and More Join WE Day Atlantic Canada to Celebrate Youth Taking Action on Local and Global Social Issues
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Brett Kissel, Alexandre Trudeau, Tyler Shaw, Kerry Kennedy and more Join WE Day Atlantic Canada to Celebrate Youth Taking Action on Local and Global Social Issues - Follow #WEday on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram - - WE Day Atlantic Canada streams live at 9:30 a.m. AST on November 30 on WE.org/watchweday - - WE Day is free to thousands of students thanks to partners led by National Co-Title Sponsors RBC and TELUS - Halifax (November 30, 2017) – Today, WE Day, an international series of stadium-sized life-changing events, brings together world-renowned speakers and performers including Kerry Kennedy, Brett Kissel, Tyler Shaw, Matthew Santoro, Tyler Simmonds, Carol Todd, Alexandre Trudeau, Val Weisler, Sarah Wells, Spencer West and more. This start-studded lineup is co-hosted by E!/Much Host, Tyrone Edwards and CTV Etalk reporter and Much Host, Liz Trinnear, and youth co-hosts Hannah Alper and Tai Young. Alongside international activist and WE co-founder, Craig Kielburger, the cast of returning WE Day favourites and new faces join 8,000 students and educators at the Scotiabank Centre to celebrate the contributions of young people to our world. Together with partners led by National Co-Title Sponsors RBC and TELUS, WE Day Atlantic Canada will host over 300 schools from across the region and thousands more youth across the country watching live online at WE.org/watchweday. With celebrity speakers, renowned performers, and global thought leaders, WE Day Atlantic Canada celebrates the remarkable stories of people creating change. “I’ve had the chance to be a part of WE Days across the country and I’m constantly inspired by the energy, spark and passion every student brings with them,” said Brett Kissel, award-winning country music artist. “The young people here at WE Day Atlantic Canada are an unstoppable community of leaders who have shown us that anything is possible when you work together. I can’t wait to be a part of a day celebrating all of their hard work.” Speakers and performers at WE Day Atlantic Canada will energize the crowd through a day full of powerful speeches, inspirational moments and empowering performances. A few must-see highlights include: Platinum selling recording artist and actor, Tyler Shaw, lights up the WE Day stage with a performance of his hit songs ‘Cautious’ and ‘Wicked’ Filmmaker, journalist and author, Alexandre Trudeau, speaks to the audience about the importance of kindness and compassion for your fellow human President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Kerry Kennedy, inspires the crowd with a message of unity and the power of coming together to make a difference in the world Award-winning country music artist, Brett Kissel, performs ‘We Were That Song’ and closes the show with ‘Airwaves’ and ‘Started With A Song’ More than a one-day event, WE Day is connected to the free, yearlong educational program WE Schools. Providing schools and community groups with curriculum, educational resources and action campaigns, the program is designed to enhance a school’s existing social initiatives or spark new ones. WE Schools encourages students to further their curricular learning and develop life skills for success beyond the classroom. In the 2016/2017 school year, schools and groups across Atlantic Canada strengthened their communities through WE Schools, volunteering more than 182,000 hours and raising over $960,000 in support of more than 440 local and global causes including hunger, poverty, the environment and bullying. “We’re honoured to celebrate with young change-makers from Generation WE, who have earned their way to WE Day by taking action on local and global issues,” said Craig Kielburger, co-founder of WE. “Today, WE Day Atlantic Canada will unite hard-working students and educators as they experience a day of inspiration, while celebrating their incredible achievements in service.” WE Day is supported in Atlantic Canada by Co-Chairs Roger Howard, Regional President, Atlantic Provinces, RBC; Ken Power, Regional Vice President, Atlantic Canada, TELUS; Doug Reid, FCPA, FCA, Atlantic Managing Partner, KPMG; and Patron Family Sean and Crystal Murray, Advocate Printing and Publishing and Advocate Media. About WE WE Day is part of WE – a family of organizations making doing good, doable. WE is made up of WE Charity, empowering domestic and international change, ME to WE, a social enterprise that creates socially conscious products and experiences to help support the charity, and WE Day, filling stadiums around the world with the greatest celebration of social good. WE enables youth and families to better the world – supporting 7,200+ local and global causes by volunteering millions of hours of service, shopping daily with an impact, and raising millions of dollars that directly benefit their local communities and the world. Globally, WE’s teams in Asia, Africa, and Latin America have provided more than 1 million people with clean water, built 1,000 schools and schoolrooms overseas, and empowered more than 200,000 children with access to education. WE was founded more than 20 years ago by social entrepreneurs, brothers Craig and Marc Kielburger. Join the movement today at WE.org. Stay connected on the latest news and updates on WE Day: #WEday | @WEmovement | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Media Centre About RBC http://www.rbc.com/futurelaunch About TELUS www.telus.com/community -30- For more information of WE Day or to request an interview, please contact: Sarah Evans Associate Director, Public Relations, WE Day 1-647-462-0654 [email protected] Janet Briscoe Manager, Public Relations, WE Day 1-647-269-3118 [email protected] .