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!
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.
