Rev. Patrick Miller: Boxing, Religion and How They Can Define Who We Are
Reverend Patrick Miller’s hobby is boxing. He shares his perspective on the narratives that shape who we become, and the benefits of better understanding those influences. The principles which make the private and the social versions of ourselves work together to define who we are.
Sue Austin: Deep Sea Diving in a Wheelchair
When Sue Austin got a power chair 16 years ago, she felt a tremendous sense of freedom, yet others looked at her as though she had lost something. In her art, she aims to convey the spirit of wonder she feels wheeling through the world. Her talk includes thrilling footage of an underwater wheelchair that […]
Afra Raymond: The Three Sides of Corruption
Afra Raymond is an anti-corruption activist/blogger whose work has focused on the collapse and bailout of the Caribbean’s largest conglomerate CL Financial and corruption in the property/construction arenas. ABOUT TEDx TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, ‘ideas worth spreading’. The programme is designed to give communities, organisations and individuals the opportunity to […]
Nikki Gemmell: A Letter to my God Daughter
Nikki Gemmell is an Australian author, best known for anonymously writing the best-selling erotic novel ‘The Bride Stripped Bare’ often described as the the Australian version of the infamous E.L.James ’50 Shades of Grey’. ABOUT TEDx TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, ‘ideas worth spreading’. The programme is designed to give communities, […]
Karen Thompson Walker: The Connect between Fear and the Imagination.
Imagine you’re a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose? In telling the story of the whale ship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker shows how fear propels imagination.
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