Youth@Homer
x = independently organized TED event

Theme: Let's Play!

This event occurred on
July 26, 2012
Homer, Alaska
United States

TEDxYouth@Homer is an experience, music, art, laughter, ideas, innovations, solutions, a concert, a conversation, a chance to mingle with thinkers and doers, artistic expression, social spaces for exchanging ideas. We have had environmental leaders, community art creators, chefs, musicians, and native elders speak live at our previous events; Thought provoking and spiritually uplifting.
The theme this year centers on the idea of individuals coming together to promote an idea in the world and how humans/animals “play” together. Let's Play is an opportunity for youth, adults, and children alike to come together and experience fun, laughter, and diversity. We seek to engage the community in conversation about how they “play” together as a group, or individually.

Homer High School
600 East Fairview Avenue
Homer, Alaska, 99603
United States
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Speakers

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Amir Zoghi

Amir Zoghi is the “Intuitive Warrior” a leader in the area of self-awareness and human potential as well as Australian International Business Master who has been incredibly successful in business and happiness using Intuition and Authenticity. Amir is known for being one of the largest promoters and leaders in the personal growth industry directly promoting names such as Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, and Dr. John Demartini and left it to pursue his own personal Quest for Truth to live all that which these teachers taught, but from a space of authenticity, effortlessness, and flow through Intuition.

Susan Tweit

Award-winning writer and teacher Susan J. Tweit began her career as a field ecologist studying grizzly bears and wildfires before falling in love with the stories the data revealed. Her writing on the relationships at the heart of life on Earth has appeared in magazines and newspapers from Audubon and Popular Mechanics to the Los Angeles Times, and has been heard on public radio. Tweit's twelve books, including the memoir, Walking Nature Home, have won national and regional awards including ForeWord Book of the Year, the Colorado Book Award and the Colorado Author's League Award (twice). Her blog about learning how to live lovingly and playfully with her husband's brain cancer and after his death has attracted a wide and devoted audience. Her work has been hailed as "rich in the wisdom of one come face-to-face with the fragility, beauty and poetics of everyday life..."

Brave New Alaskan Voices

Brave New Alaskan Voices is entering into its second year. Last year we were the first Alaskan team to compete at the Brave New Voices International Youth Spoken Word festival. The mission of B N A V is to provide Alaskan youth with a safe space to explore themselves and discover their voices. We operate on the belief that Alaskan youth have the ability to speak for themselves if afforded the opportunity. Led by myself, Trey "freethought" Josey and co - coach Kima Hamilton we aim to take the voice of Alaska's Youth to the world. As currently constructed we represent a small swatch of Alaskan youth (anchorage / mat-su) we are working on expanding to the rest of the state. Juneau - Anchorage - Fairbanks - Mat-su - Homer - Seward are all hopeful locations for expansion. Keep an eye out for us. Yes, we are for real!

MC Lars

MC Lars wrote his first rap song when he was 16, a hip-hop take on William Shakespeare's Macbeth called "Rapbeth". He was delighted by his musical creation, but little did he know that later in his life he would build a career out of it. After graduating from Stanford University in 2005 with his BA in English, Lars toured extensively with his punk rock backing band and released four full-length albums, three EPs and one b-sides compilation. He has collaborated with "Weird Al" Yankovic, Ian MacKaye and KRS-One and has opened for hip-hop legends Nas and Snoop Dogg. He has been called a leader of the "nerdcore hip-hop" movement, and has received press from MTV, CNN, Rolling Stone and SPIN for his quirky, intelligent and independently produced "lit-hop" music. In addition to studio and video work, Lars has done hip-hop activism work for both the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the American Heart Association, and has given workshops at UCLA, USC, Stanford and high schools across the country. When he's not on tour, Lars lives in Los Angeles and does research on new media education at USC and recently gave a TEDx presentation on his work there as well. The song "Flow Like Poe" is from his "Edgar Allan Poe EP". He is honored to be in Homer, sharing his knowledge and love of hip-hop culture with the natives.

Eric Saperston

Eric Saperston: Eric Saperston is a critically acclaimed film director, producer and author, as well as an award-winning speaker and storyteller. Eric is the Chief Creative Officer of Live In Wonder, a global lifestyle company on the cutting edge of communication, film and interactive events designed to cause and create wonder in the world. A prolific speaker, Eric has inspired audiences including Harvard, MIT, UCLA, United Way, Nike, Million Dollar Round Table, Trader Joe's, General Mills, US Bank and Procter & Gamble, among many others. Eric has been a featured guest on The Today Show, CNN, CNN Headline News, PBS and has been written about in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Spin Magazine, Fast Company and National Geographic. Eric lives in a Swiss-Family-Robinson-Style tree house on a 13-Acre Organic Farm in Maui, Hawaii. He travels the globe inspiring the world to Live In Wonder.

Organizing team

Adi
Davis

Organizer

McKenzy
Haber

Co-organizer
  • Adi Davis
    Curator
  • McKenzy Haber
    Co-organizer