Lemn Sissay: A Child of the State
Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many parentless children feel compelled to hide their pasts? Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay tells his own moving story.
Douglas Crabb: Reconstructing Trust
The theme of these talks was a ‘A Life Worth Living’ and former inmate Doug Crabb speaks about the struggle to regain trust in today’s society. Inside and outside ‘the walls’, speakers came with different perspectives on incarceration and reintegration.
Eddie Obeng: Smart Failure for a Fast-changing World
The world is changing much more rapidly than most people realise, says business educator Eddie Obeng and creative output cannot keep up. In this spirited talk, he highlights three important changes we should understand for better productivity, and calls for a stronger culture of ‘smart failure’.
Scilla Elworthy: Dare to Question why we are so afraid of getting Older
Scilla Elworthy says that invisibility is one of the key things about getting older, because all our emphasis now is on looking younger. It’s what we put our passion into, what we spend our money on. Everyday Western media bombards us with encouragements to make ourselves look young because ‘you’re worth it!”. Scilla wonders if […]
Ryan Merkley: Online video, Annotated, Remixed and Popped
Videos on the web should work like the web itself: be dynamic, full of links, maps and information that can be edited and updated live, says Mozilla Foundation Chief Operating Officer Ryan Merkley.
