What is TEDx

What is TEDx?
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxYouth@SOTA, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxYouth@SOTA event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

Find out more about the TEDx program at https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/tedx-program 

 

About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world’s leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.

The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self- organized TED-style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

Follow TED on Twitter at http://twitter.com/TEDTalks, or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TED.

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Event Details

 

DATE  20th August 2016

TIME  9:30am to 12:00pm

VENUE  School of The Arts, Singapore – Level 9 Orchestral Rehearsal Studio

ADDRESS  1 Zubir Said Drive, 227968

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Event Theme

“…and beyond.” is specifically stylised with an ellipsis before the phrase ‘and beyond’. In doing so, the theme of the event is an unfinished sentence, that over the course of the talk, the speakers and audience will able to answer in a myriad of different ways. In particular, the focus on the idea of going ‘beyond’ lends itself to our aim of delving deeper into existing ideas, perhaps to reframe our perspectives, seek connections beyond what already exists, or cast our eyes towards the future of a practice.

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Our Speakers

Talk 1 : Inch Chua & Hyder Albar

Singaporean singer-songwriter and musician Inch Chua has performed in various local and overseas music festivals and events. In recent years, she has published a collection of her writings, sketches and paintings in her book “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”. She has also released well-received EPs such as The Bedroom, Wallflower and Bumfuzzle. Her latest album, “Letters to Ubin”, was inspired by and written during her 4-month stay in Pulau Ubin in 2015. Inch is also the co-founder and COO of Invasion Singapore, a social enterprise dedicated to cultivating our local music scene.

Hyder Albar is currently the CEO of Invasion Singapore. Hyder was a drummer in an alternative rock band West Grand Boulevard, and his passion for music fueled his interest in building up a sustainable music culture in Singapore. Therefore, together with Inch Chua, he founded Invasion Singapore. One of Invasion Singapore’s efforts is the *SCAPE Invasion Tour, which aims to bring youths in Singapore closer to the local music scene and encourage them to continue supporting and discovering home grown talents.

 

Talk 2 : Prachi Saini

Prachi Saini started Je T’aime Perfumery with the vision of bringing the mysterious art of perfume design to a wider audience. Prior to following her passion in designing signature scents, she worked in the architecture and infrastructure construction industries in the USA and India. Now based in Singapore, she works together with her team to host fragrance workshops and parties where consumers can discover and create their own signature scents. Aside from leading these intimate workshop sessions, Prachi also works closely with consumers to design their signature fragrances in order for them to achieve their smell of success.

 

Talk 3 : Shannon Lee

Ask Shannon “What is your passion?” and she will give an answer you would hardly expect. Through her 6 years at National Junior College, she was actively involved in a myriad of activities and spearheaded initiatives across different fields; it could be tricky to pinpoint exactly what her passion was. Shannon did her first science research project at age 14 after wondering if the household detergent her aunts introduced promoted instead of inhibit bacterial growth. As her curiosity piqued, she did a project every subsequent year, working with natto beans, silver nanoparticles and neurons. At 17, she took the bold step of experimenting with eggplants and batteries, an idea still foreign to most then. With faith, perseverance and good mentorship, she eventually published a paper in the Royal Society of Chemistry and became the first Singaporean to be awarded the second highest honor at the 2014 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), dubbed the Youth Olympics of Science Research.

 

Talk 4 : Shubigi Rao

Artist and writer Shubigi Rao’s interests range from archaeology, neuroscience, language, libraries and books, cultural histories, contemporary art theory, and unfashionable branches of knowledge, to natural history and the environment. Her immersive and tongue-in- cheek books, artworks and installations employ puns (textual and visual) and wordplay, from creating archaeological archives of garbage, writing How To manuals for building a nation and a culture from scratch, discovering and diagnosing peculiar forms of urban malaise where digital dandruff and pixel dust accumulate like lint and cloud the contemporary brain, building immortal jellyfish, to a pseudo-museum environment in which issues ranging from the nature of collecting, the mechanisms of knowledge accumulation and storage, to destruction and cultural genocide are referenced. Since 2013 she has been travelling and filming libraries, archives, and public and private collections, globally for “Pulp: A Short Biography of the Banished Book” a ten-year film and visual art project about the history of book destruction. She is also writing a series of books on the subject, with the first volume of five released in January this year.