By Adrienne Boudreau:
TEDxBuffalo is getting ready to discuss “Ideas in Motion” later this year at the fourth annual TedxBuffalo and is accepting speaker submission pitch videos until Saturday, May 31.
TedxBuffalo is an independently licensed TEDx event to be held on Tuesday, October 14 which aims to spread a day’s worth of innovative ideas to an audience. A series of 18 minute lectures on a variety of topics are presented while following the national TED standards. TED is a nonprofit organization started 30 years ago in California devoted to ideas worth spreading that helps smaller groups and cities organize their own talks.
This year’s Buffalo event, held at Canisius College’s Montante Cultural Center, focuses on the theme of “Ideas in Motion” and aims to highlight people and ideas in the community who can get others empowered and moving. The committee is enthusiastic on Buffalo-orientated topics but lectures should also maintain a universal appeal for a global audience.
Those selected will work with a coach in the upcoming months to hone their lecture, watch TED and Tedx videos, attend table reads and participate in a full day dress rehearsal.
Previously successful TEDxBuffalo talks include:
· Why amateur astrophotographers can capture imagination better than the professionals.
· A story of what happened when kids got to build their own pop-up playground using real tools.
· How a South Buffalo program challenged the way we educate and integrate high school drop-outs.
· What artists and scientists can learn from working together (with examples).
For more information and guidelines on video pitch submissions, please visit www.tedxbuffalo.com/speak. The TEDxBuffalo team can assist those without access video recording equipment if e-mailed at indo@tedxbuffalo.com.
Speakers will be notified of their selection by Monday, June 30.