Theme: When Worlds Collide

TEDxBrixton 2014 was held on Saturday 11th October 2014 at the Evelyn Grace Academy in South London.

The theme was: 'When Worlds Collide'.

Approximately 500 people came along, and numerous others watched the Livestream online. The day was jam packed with talented speakers and entertainers. And, so far, the feedback has been incredible.

There are full reviews of both the morning and the afternoon on our website.

If you would like further information, or fancy being involved in future TEDxBrixton events, drop us a line at info@tedxbrixton.com.

Evelyn Grace Academy
255 Shakespeare Road
Brixton
London, London, City of, SE24 0QN
United Kingdom

School Ground Sounds

School Ground Sounds works with secondary schools in London to provide additional music opportunities and mentoring. Using high-quality studios, we record and develop young musicians, offering a powerful online platform to showcase their work and kick-start their musical journeys. Recent research shows that music education is suffering. This is partly down to shortage in funding and resources but we believe there is also a disconnect between students’ experience of formal music education and the way they engage with music in their every day lives. Music-making has been linked to benefits in many areas of school life, from academic achievement to improved personal and social development, yet far too many young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are unable to fulfil their musical talent, unnecessarily restricting their life chances. We are here to change that.

Alex Lambert

Alex has spent 17 years in digital creative industries creating high profile experiences using emerging technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality and holographic displays. He also regularly contributes to trend forecast reports and presents at universities.

Binki Taylor

Binki Taylor is a mum, Brixton business owner who has an MA in Coach Mentoring from Oxford Brookes University, which she gained as a very mature student. She is also the Chair of the Brixton Pound and an active member of the community. She was part of the We Love Brixton movement that brought the community together in the devastating aftermath of the riots in August 2011.

Charlotte Knowles

Charlotte is the founder of Shoots & Leaves Films, a digital media company focused on using storytelling to create positive social impact. Charlotte has over 14 years of professional experience working in film, television and theatre in the UK, France, Brazil, Italy and China. She has produced work for the BBC, ITN, Fabrica (Italy) and ARTE (France) and her video, film and photography work has been featured by national press and international media festivals. Charlotte co-created the Film School in a Box course taught through the Independent Film Trust (IFT) and has managed a wide range of courses on behalf of the IFT, which have given groups of people marginalised from society the opportunity to re-engage with education and their communities by producing films that communicate their unique outlook on life.

Cloudia Vardon

Cloudia Vardon is a designer and visual merchandiser. A true Afropolitan, Cloudia’s Ghanaian, Lebanese and English heritage have woven themselves deep into her work and allows her to bring a fresh and unique perspective to her design. Cloudia has synaesthesia – a neurological condition which produces a criss-crossing of the senses.

Helen Wright

Helen Wright and Hugh Lewis are filmmakers and directors of the Brixton based non-profit, Global People Project. With backgrounds in TV and advertising, they formed a network of over seventy producers worldwide and have, to date, filmed tens of thousands of answers in thirty five different languages. Follow them on Twitter @global_people

Hugh Lewis

Inua Ellams

Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright & performer, a graphic artist & designer. He is a Complete Works poet alumni, a playwright-in-residence at Soho Theatre, resident at the Southbank Centre’s Poetry Library, and graphic designer at White Space Creative Agency. He facilitates workshops in creative writing where he explores recurring themes in his work – Identity, Displacement and Destiny – in accessible, enjoyable ways for participants of all ages and backgrounds.

Inua Ellams

Born in Nigeria, Inua Ellams is a poet, playwright & performer, a graphic artist & designer. He is a Complete Works poet alumni, a playwright-in-residence at Soho Theatre, resident at the Southbank Centre’s Poetry Library, and graphic designer at White Space Creative Agency. He facilitates workshops in creative writing where he explores recurring themes in his work – Identity, Displacement and Destiny – in accessible, enjoyable ways for participants of all ages and backgrounds. He has been commissioned by the Tate Modern, Louis Vuitton, Chris Ofili, National Theatre, BBC Radio & Television, Battersea Arts Centre and Soho Theatre. His first two books of poetry ‘Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales’ and ‘Candy Coated Unicorn and Converse’ are available Flipped Eye, and several plays including lack T-shirt Collection and Knight Watch are available from Oberon. In 2005, he founded the Midnight Run, a cross art form nocturnal urban movement to reconnect inner city lives with inner city spaces.

Isabelle O'Carroll

Isabelle O’Carroll is a London-born fashion and lifestyle writer; she writes for BuzzFeed, The Pool, The Debrief, her work has also appeared on guardian.com and in Grazia. As well as writing, Isabelle consults for fashion brands; the Telegraph called her “one of Britain’s best fashion bloggers” and Vogue have featured her on the Online Fashion 100. She has also spoken at Southbank’s Women of the World festival this year. Follow her on Twitter: @IsabelleOC

Kate Faragher

Kate Faragher's portfolio career includes work for the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, followed by a career in acting. When she became a trainer in 1996, she realised how many things inter-correlated and discovered that collaboration isn’t team work, rather it is a group of individuals creating a network of excellence together.

Lara Lee

A poet, singer and songwriter, Lara lee blends onomatopoeic phasing, musical accents and lyrics steeped in honesty, passion and experience, to replicate the beats of historical storytellers. Lara, nicknamed Flo, was a finalist on BBC's The Voice in 2015 and has also performed on BBC Radio, Channel 4 among others. Lara was chosen as a youth ambassador for the UK, Shadowing the then US Secretary of State, Colin Powell. She’s also a part-time youth worker for a music charity, working with disadvantaged kids.

Lata Govada

Lata Govada is a Research Associate in Computational and Systems Medicine, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. She works in Professor Naomi Chayen’s group, a pioneer in designing and developing methodology for producing high quality protein crystals of medical and industrial interest. As a member of Prof Chayen’s team, Lata has been actively involved in the development of unique methods adopted by laboratories worldwide. Lata conducts and chairs crystallisation sessions at international conferences and courses. She has co‐authored publications in scientific journals and books. Her significant awards include best speaker at the Alternate Muscle Club, Oxford University, best crystallization technique, Rapid advances in Macromolecular Crystallisation, France and Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship, Gordon Conference, USA.

Pete Bearder

Pete Bearder (aka Pete the Temp) is a passionate spoken word educator, poet, musician and loop pedal artist. His work has been featured on BBC Newsnight, Radio 4 and the World Service. In 2009 he became the Hammer & Tongue National Poetry Slam Champion and in 2013, he became one of the first full time spoken word educators in a UK school. He has toured Europe with his work and now lives in Berlin as street entertainer.

Rebecca Trevalyan

Rebecca is co-founder and director of Library of Things – a friendly place where people come to borrow useful items, and learn how to use them. Fed up of spending money on things like tools and kitchen appliances that she only used once, Rebecca set up the Library of Things with friends, they have raised £15,000 via a Kickstarter campaign, and talked to groups around the globe who want to start similar sharing initiatives. Rebecca holds an MA in Leadership for Sustainable Development, and a BA in Modern Languages. Follow her on Twitter: @RTrevalyan

Robyn Parker

Designer Robyn Parker has a real fascination with seeing the world from different perspectives. She’s pretty curious too, and loves nothing more than hearing people’s stories. It’s a combination of these two elements that led Robyn to create the psychedelic digital collage ’The Chronicles of Brixton’. Robyn’s passionate about social equality, and will be using her digital Chronicles collages to highlight social issues around the world. Follow her on Twitter: @savefromafire

Roi Cohen Kadosh

Sabah Choudrey

Sabah is a UK-based Pakistani trans activist with a passion for his communities. He co-founded Trans Pride Brighton in 2012: the first trans march and celebration in the UK, and started online social and support spaces for queer, trans, and intersex people of colour in Brighton (QTIPOC Brighton), and for LGBT and queer desi people in London and the South East (desiQ). Follow him twitter.com/SabahChoudrey

Sabah Choudry

Sam Hall

DJ Goldierocks, aka Sam Hall, is an international DJ and broadcaster with a celebrity following that includes Madonna, Giorgio Armani, Richard Branson and Jade Jagger. Her weekly global radio show ‘The Selector‘ goes out to 44 countries with more than 4.3 million listeners. Sam also often visits countries in conflict to work with young people, community projects and refugees, and launch The Selector.

Steadman Scott

Steadman Scott was born in Jamaica in 1956. At 10 years old, he moved to the UK, settling in Brixton where he has lived for 49 years. Faced with the harsh realities of life in Brixton in the 1960s and 1970s, Steadman got caught up in criminality which culminated in a six year jail sentence. He emerged from prison determined to give the young people of Brixton opportunities he didn't have. In 1997 he set up sporting academy Afewee along with Tony Goldring, Afewee’s record is remarkable. Dozens of Afewee old boys and girls play football professionally worldwide and five current UK Premiership players are Afewee alumni, including Nathaniel Clyne who plays in the England national team.