TEDxSydney 2010 happened at CarriageWorks on Saturday 22 May and featured a selection of Australia's leading visionaries and storytellers showcasing their Ideas Worth Spreading LIVE to a group of thinkers ... as well as ONLINE to the world at large. Here are some of the videos. We are uploading more talks as they become ready. Please keep checking back for more!
In this video Robert Scoble of Scobleizer blog fame is taken by TED’s June Cohen on a nice inside tour of the the offices in New York. The 40 minute video includes a nice mention for TEDxSydney by TEDx suprema Lara Stein at around 4mins in. Lara had just returned from her visit to these shores, so we were fortunately fresh in her memory.
Maybe you attended TEDxSydney as part of the live Bay 17 audience; maybe you took part in The Forum; maybe you watched the livestream at home. Whatever … we’d love to know what you thought of TEDxSydney 2010. Please use the comments feature attached to this post to tell us something of your experience. It will help us understand what you care about (*and what you don’t particularly care about). Cheers.
TEDxSydney 2010 is a wrap … and what a day it was. A bunch of images are up on flickr and you can check them out for yourself below or HERE. Also, view the archival #tedxsydney twitter stream HERE. We’ll be editing everything over the coming week or two and presenting them here at TEDxSydney.com. Set out below is an edited selection from our flickr account. Cheers.
TEDxSydney happens TODAY. Check out this great image of the TEDx logo made up from the faces of TEDxSydney 2010 Participants. Pat Clair is working with us on some cool elements for The Forum. Come back here just before 9:00AM AEST to view the whole day LIVE. We’ll be streaming continuously from 9AM until after 6PM. You’ll witness the entire day. The 4 x 90 minute sessions along with everything that goes on in the breaks during The Forum.
Today is rehearsal day, and there’ll be lots happening at CarriageWorks. The big day is tomorrow! Be sure to come to CarriageWorks if you’d like to be part of the audience in the Forum. Or return to this page from 8:45AM AEST tomorrow morning for the LIVE webstream. We’ll be streaming all day, thanks to MOB our Technology Partners, the ABC, Haycom and our Streaming Partners Viocorp & Akamai. See you back here!
Words Worth Hearing
The TEDxSydney program continues to grow …
TEDxSydney is very pleased to announce that dynamic local poetry organisation The Red Room will co-ordinate an engaging series of poetry readings for the TEDxSydney Forum.
The Forum will feature four very different Australian poets brought together by Red Room Artistic Director Johanna Featherstone.
Jill Jones, Lionel Fogarty, Lisa Gorton and Benezra will each present an original poem, as well as discussing their work with Forum host Craig Reucassel.
The Forum program is public, open and free; so join us at CarriageWorks on 22 May from 9am.
More info about the Forum poets and the Red Room:
Jill Jones’ most recent book is Dark Bright Doors (Wakefield Press, 2010). She won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize in 2003 and the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. In 2009 she co-edited with Michael Farrell, an anthology, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets (Puncher and Wattmann). She lives in Adelaide.
Lisa Gorton lives in Melbourne. Her first poetry collection, Press Release, was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award and the Mary Gilmore Award, and won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry. Lisa completed a doctorate at Oxford University on John Donne’s poetry and prose, winning the John Donne Society Award for Best Publication in Donne Studies. She received the inaugural Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. Her novel for children, Cloudland, was one of The Age 2009 books of the year.
Lionel Fogarty is Murri man and a leading spokesman for Indigenous rights in Australia, particularly deaths in custody following the death of his brother, Daniel Yock, at the hands of police in 1993. His poetry expresses the need for innovation and urgency. In doing so, it is sometimes surreal, sometimes confronting and includes large amounts of Bandjalang dialect and vernacular.
Benezra is a prolific poet and songwriter, and has recently released the vinyl Purple Rouge with his band The Broadside Push. He has performed around Australia, including at the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Festival and a solo show at the MCA.
The Red Room Company
Poetry is alchemy; it transforms us. The Red Room Company reconnects groups and individuals to the play and rhythm of language, creating projects that explore all dimensions of the articulated self, the material world and the written word. We reawaken imaginations and invite established and emerging poets, and new audiences to collaborate with us on this adventure.
Here’s what’s happening:
+ Applicant invitations are out: some for theatre seats, but most for participation in The Foyer Show aka “TEDxtra”
+ Performance components are coming together … thanks to Anton Monsted. Some announcements coming soon.
+ Another big sponsorship to be announced this week. Very appropriate. Stay tuned.
+ Dinosaur Designs have also signed on as a sponsor. Nice one. Speakers will be happy. Hint, Hint.
+ And we have a digital printing partner. Welcome Digitalpress … and thanks Theo!
+ Still looking for sponsors for lunch and the two conversation breaks. Big exposure for not big money. Let us know!
+ Our Executive Producer Janne Ryan is working closely with our speakers … thinking & refining.
+ Julian Morrow is working tirelessly to make sure that the Foyer Show is even more fun than the inside event.
+ Met with the ABC on Friday to talk about the shoot. Enthusiasm + Professionalism = Good Things For Us!
Only 26 Days to Go. Yikes!
Not surprisingly, we’ve been inundated with applications for TEDxSydney 2010. Anyone at all can come along to TEDxSydney on Saturday 22 May to take part in a Foyer Show thaty is turning out to be huge. However, due to space constraints, a relatively small number of people will be able to participate as a member of the LIVE Bay 17 audience. Applications closed on 13 April and we’ve been going through them ever since. We have received many times more applications that we have available seats. Hence the delay. We should be able to get the first wave of allocations out by Friday … and we’ll notify the waiting list at that time as well. Thanks for your patience.
Today we announced our speakers for 2010. See HERE. Still a few surprises to come. Stay tuned!
Finally! Thanks (ultimately) to our Technology Partners at MOB and with lots of help from Amy here at General Thinking, we have today launched our open application process for TEDxSydney 2010. Anyone at all can come along to TEDxSydney on Saturday 22 May. In collaboration with CarriageWorks and The Chaser’s Julian Morrow, we are planning a live event in the foyer. It should be a lot of fun. However, due to space constraints, a relatively small number of people will be able to participate as a member of the LIVE Bay 17 audience. You would apply to be included within that group HERE. Applications close at Midnight AEST on Monday 12 April.
