Jamal Sterret will give a performance on a spiritual rendition of life from birth to adulthood. Centred around the idea of discovering the truth, the music score tells the struggles of allowing the voice of your heart to guide you through life. The dance narrative speaks of coming into the world as pure light untouched by reality. As we lead int...
Stuart Feather was a GLF activist and took part in the first public demonstration of homosexuals in the UK in 1970. His political autobiography was published in 2016. Feather was also a member 1977 - 1993 of the gay theatre group Bloolips, winners of a New York OBIE award in 1981.
The "E" word needs rebranding! With global challenges looming on the horizon in renewable energy, an aging population pyramid, and increasing demands on the earth's resources, the stakes are higher than ever to churn out quality engineering graduates. While this may be the case, more than half of Canadian Grade 9 & 10 students have an outdat...
In this money thirsty world, we often see that the people forget their moral values and obligations, but is it correct to give you passion a worth and then sell it, guitarist Kraven Strafile takes us to a journey to depict the diminishing force of passion and throw light on why passion cannot be sold.
Within the start-up sector, there is a history of negligence towards people with disabilities. Grace Stratton, born with spastic diplegia cerebral palsy, has experienced the lack of accessibility in start-ups firsthand, and is now working to change the sector's attitude. In this talk, Grace argues that fostering universal accessibility can major...
Stratis Camatsos, an olive oil producer, trader, and social entrepreneur, talks about his trip to entrepreneurship and how he combined his grandfather's legacy and knowledge with his vision to change the world. He wants to give back to society and the environment by finding unique partnerships and collaborations to not only aid to plant trees in...
Sunny Strat is an extremely talented guitarist and musician who has composed many of his own pieces and also covers some of the greatest guitarists with utmost grace and precision.
Most of us have given our time or money to some cause in our lifetime, but very few of us have training in how to give. In the ten years that Alison Stuart spent traveling to Kenya, some unsettling questions arose about the consequences of westerners' idea of philanthropy. Questions such as: Who really benefits - the giver or the receiver? and, ...
How do you feel about games? How should you feel? This talk presents a manifesto for the power of games to go beyond entertainment, and why we all need to think differently about games, gamers and screen time.
Phil Stuart is the founder of BAFTA-winning games studio PRELOADED, a different kind of games studio focussed on using play to solve rea...
Germans can’t trust what the Japanese tell them, the Japanese don’t trust Americans who say anything to anyone, and Americans think the Finns are lying because they sat in silence way too long before responding.
When it comes to communicating with people from other cultures, the first step to building trust is knowing how to decipher the truth...
Stuart is a fourth year Quest undergraduate student from St. Paul, Minnesota studying stress-related disease and philosophy of mind. His studies led him to question what motivates human beings, possible answers to the mind body problem, and the necessary conditions for human experience. The question of whether or not we are free willed and what ...
Arran knows, first-hand, the positive change that spaced learning and repetitive testing can have on knowledge acquisition, academic achievement and long-term memory recall. With a passion to help others, she embarked on a 3-year research project that actively improved the grades of its participants. In this talk, she discusses her research on e...
Stuart Firestein, PhD is a Neuroscientist and Professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, in his talks he shares how across history and until today failure has been an integral part of successful achievements and describes failure as a path into the unimaginable.
Filmed at #TEDxSanFrancisco #DareToKnow on October 3rd, 2019, at the...
Is mega-hydro development causing more problems than it solves? Hayley Stuart traveled the world's rivers by kayak, and brings home a first-hand look at the issues surrounding humanity's attempt to subjugate our biggest rivers.
Seeing a reflection of yourself on stage can be a powerful moment, as Julie Stroud explains. Her experience watching the Broadway show "Dear Evan Hansen" opened up a well of compassion, not only for the characters, but also for herself. She encourages her audience to engage with theater in a more active way, and use theater to illuminate the par...
Busyness is fashionable, we wear busy like a badge of honour.
It means we’re needed, valuable and productive. This attachment to busy has become a marker of our self-worth and we cling to it.
High achievers have this drive to do more or better, the need to prove ourselves. What ever we achieve, it’s never quite enough. We are smashing g...
Food waste and food system industries, government’s environmental politics, climate change, pollution: these are only a few of the several cores of Tristram Stuart’s speech. The UK born author explains his point of view about critical environmental troubles, fighting which he’s currently engaged in first person as activist and philanthropist.
Continually extracting fossil carbon and bio-carbon, to dump combustion products into the atmosphere no longer balances. Protecting the atmosphere is nobody’s business, but everybody’s responsibility. Renewable electricity is not enough. It is also necessary to re-capture already-emitted carbon. Certificates of Storage can achieve this and creat...
Classical music changed Lerisa’s life. When she feels self-conscious, she finds strength in her music. When she feels lost, she finds purpose in her music. And when she feels voiceless...she finds that voice in being classically unashamed.
The issue of carnivorous ethics in modern society is not one without potential solutions. In contrasting the inefficiency of the meat industry to renewable farming techniques, is there a way to continue eating meat without damaging your carbon footprint?
My talk promotes life, liberty, and the pursuit of self-care. Many people have trepidation about saying “no” because they fear rejection from the person making the request. “No” is not a dirty word, so use it! 1) I want them to feel empowered when they choose to say “”no.” 2) Feel enlightened about expressing their authentic self. 3) Liberated.
Tom Stratton shares how Autism and Prosopagnosia (face blindness) made him a social outcast growing up, but how he ultimately used his unique worldview to successfully build strong friendships. With support from family, aides and other advisors, he learned he could use certain hallmarks of Autism to flip it from a weakness into a strength. Strat...
Dr. Thornton Streeter, D.Sc. is faculty head of the Zoroastrian College section of human biofield Research. He is now the official representative of the UN NGO; consequently his training programs are recognized in 190 countries. Dr. Streeter is Director of The Centre for Biofield Sciences, UK and India. (www.biofieldviewer.com, www.biofieldscien...
In this beautifully philosophical talk, Dr. Stuart Patterson takes us on a journey to uncover the power of books for deep self-discovery. In his own words, "Reading is our access to the glorious record of human wondering, the fruits of others’ labors in the fields of the self."