Kalamata
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Theme: First Step

This event occurred on
June 27, 2015
9:00pm - 11:00pm EEST
(UTC +3hrs)
kalamata, Messinia
Greece

The TEDxKalamata 2015 theme is about the unique moment before someone takes a transformative, very first step. The moment when one’s heart stops beating, all fear is let go, thoughts and feelings find stillness and a big leap forward it taken which profoundly changes everything.

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

aristodimou
kalamata, Messinia, 24100
Greece
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Speakers

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Andreja Pejic

Pejić was first discovered as a teen and has since become an inspiration to the international fashion industry and transgender community. She was the first model to make a successful career in both women’s wear and men’s wear and to be featured on both boards of her modeling agency. Today, she’s exclusively represented by The Society Management’s women’s board. Pejić was discovered 2007 while working at McDonalds and rose to fame after her 2010 Paris Vogue feature styled by Carine Roitfeld, where Pejić was dressed in women’s wear and photographed by Mert & Marcus. Pejić went on to walk in top runway shows such as Galliano, Marc Jacobs, Raf Simons, Paul Smith, and Jean Paul Gaultier where she opened the show in woman’s Haute Couture and closed the show in a men’s suit. After thatshe became known as one of Gaultier’s muses, and was highlighted in his print ads and walked as the mariée in his women’s wear Haute Couture Spring 2011 show.

Inna Shevchenko

Inna Shevchenko is the leader of International women’s movement FEMEN, the worldwide known movement of topless activists that stage their manifestations against patriarchy. Shevchenko is a high-profile activist and a campaigner. She was born in Ukraine where she grew up and studied and worked in journalism. In 2011 she and 2 other FEMEN members have been brutally tortured in Belarus by KGB after FEMEN’s topless protest in support of political prisoners in Belarus, Minsk. After moving to France she initiated a transformation of Ukrainian FEMEN group into an International movement. Inna is curating the work of dozen of FEMEN branches from Paris where she established a training base for feminists activists. Shevchenko is an often speaker at international conferences and a contributor to international medias.In July 2013, Shevchenko was named as an inspiration for new Marianne for the national stamp of France and was included in the list of iconic women of the years by Madame Figaro.

Marietta Provopoulou

Marietta Provopoulou is the General Director of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Greece. She has been involved in various long-term and emergency projects including HIV/AIDS, cholera, nutrition, primary and secondary care in different settings – including war affected places (Kandahar, Deghabur in Somali land/Ethiopia), refugee camps (Chaman in Pakistan, Zhare Dascht in Afghanistan and Dolo Ado, Boqolmayo and Malkadida Camps in Ethiopia) and experience of a natural disaster (Pisco earthquake). She has had long-term experience with both directly managing and overseeing migrant/refugee projects in Greece, Turkey and Morocco.

Tim League

Tim League graduated from Rice University in 1992 with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Art/Art History. His first movie theater closed after a short run in 1995, he and his wife Karrie headed to Austin with 200 seats, a projector, screen, speakers and a passion to do it right the second time. They founded the Alamo Drafthouse in 1997, where as CEO League remains committed to providing creative programming and a zero tolerance policy for disruption during the theater experience. League also co-founded Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the United States, and launched Drafthouse Films, a distribution label committed to releasing provocative, visionary and unusual films from around the world. Past releases include critically-acclaimed comedies FOUR LIONS and KLOWN, the rediscovered classic WAKE IN FRIGHT, and the Oscar-nominated BULLHEAD and THE ACT OF KILLING.

Zineb El Rhazoui

Zineb El Rhazoui is a Moroccan-born French human rights activist and a columnist for the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo. She published several articles on religious minorities in the journal Le Journal Hebdomadaire, an independent publication banned by the Moroccan government in 2010. She co-founded the pro-democracy, pro-secularism movement MALI before joining Charlie Hebdo in 2011. After being arrested three times by the Moroccan government, El Rhazoui was eventually forced into exile in Slovenia. In 2013, she co-authored the comic book “The Life of Mohamed” with the slain Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier.

Organizing team

Spyros
Zervas

Geneva, Switzerland
Organizer

Panagiotis
Karampinis

Kalamata, Greece
Co-organizer
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    Marketing/Communications