This is a repost. To view the original post follow this link. For TEDxPortofSpain, the period 2014/2015 was exceptionally generative and we honed our speaker selection process. Volunteer Gizelle Carr and the team developed a methodology for speaker selection. After meeting and sharing ideas and topics, they were then mapped into an infographic, to get a better understanding of the ecosystem of the topics. As it turned out, because so many…
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Arielle John is looking towards the West Indian future. As writer, arts educator and cultural researcher, she shifts often between Trinbago and its diaspora, attempting to discern her [generation’s] role in navigating a quick-shifting planet. Through poetry, performance and disability studies, She works to make sense of her postcolonial positioning, by attempting to translate how Caribbean people have adapted to and survived their subjection. A Callaloo Fellow, Goldsmiths Alumna and…
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We’ve carved out some time for you to have an up-close and personal interaction with a few of our past speakers ‘From the Circle’ during this year’s conference break. Nimah Muwakil-Zakuri: 2015 Speaker What is love? Our ideas and our definitions of love as human beings are as diverse as the colours of our skin. There is no doubt though, that this concept that seemingly eludes definition is one…
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