Featured Talk: Save What You Love by Jonathan Franzen
TEDxSantaCruz is excited to announce the release of local resident and renowned writer and essayist Jonathan Franzen’s TEDxSantaCruz 2019 talk about climate crisis and the urgent need for humanity to adapt to current realities of the Anthropocene, including the sixth mass extinction. Entitled Save What You Love, he invites us to acknowledge harsh facts of the climate crisis, and to work fiercely and urgently to preserve as much of the planet’s biodiversity even as efforts to mitigate the crisis continue.Featured Talk: “In the Dark” | August Lee Stevens & Angela Chambers
Angela Chambers and August Lee Stevens blend song & dance. August’s indie soul & folk music pairs with Angela’s interpretive dance. August, a musician & singer-songwriter, tells intimate stories through her indie soul and folk music. She recently released her debut EP, Better Places, with Women’s Audio Mission (WAM). Angela is a community leader and dance artist focusing on personal transformation & social activism at Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center & the Santa Cruz County Black Health Matters Initiative.
The Greeks had a word for it – thymos!
Health, Science,
The Thymus Thump introduces people to their thymus gland, the master organ of the immune system, and the solution to the mind/body problem, with a commentary on the Greek root--thymos--the middle region between reason and desire.
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TEDxSantaCruz:Activate Mar 8, 2014
Meaning and connection from the brink of chaos
Health, Psychology,
With an onslaught of technology and accelerating complexity, we're at risk of become dehumanized as our brains are torn between competing priorities: Data versus People. The solution is surprising and simple, and it starts with a tiny gift.
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TEDxSantaCruz:Activate Mar 8, 2014
Badass democracy – reclaiming the public commons
Activism, Community, Design,
With the lowest number of community gathering places of all first world nations, it's time for the USA to transform space into place. This talk will describe a grand but doable community-level strategy that is already underway across the American grid.
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Sustainable ocean management: Back to the future in Micronesia
Activism, Ocean Conservation,
NicoleCrane urges us to communicate with each other to see how together, we may collaborate to come up with ways to solve the problems that are harmful to our oceans and environment.
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Saving Endangered Languages Through Music
Music + language (songs) activate our brains, hearts and souls. By using songs, we can learn foreign languages and saved dying tongues.
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Science Not Fear: Drug Policy and Medical Research
Activism, Health, Psychology, Science,
Director for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelics Studies (MAPS) Virginia Wright makes the case for legislating drug policy based on science, rather than fear.
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The Dance Narrative Within
Arts, Dance,
Cat Willis of the Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center explores why activating the dance within each of us is a vital part of living. Followed by a dance performance from Micha Scott.
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TEDxSantaCruz:Activate Mar 8, 2014
Finding Your Aspiration by Losing Your Ambition
Health, Mental Health, Nature, Travel, Wellness,
Aliza Weller's work with high arctic Inuit communities and experience teaching Zen meditation and yoga to maximum security men's prison inmates has led her to question these values and to discover the power of replacing ambition with inner contentment and outer aspiration.
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TEDxSantaCruz:Activate Mar 8, 2014
The Kindness of Strangers
Activism, Community, Travel,
During a 1700-mile bicycle tour across Eastern Europe, Sophia VanKlootwyk-Forde experienced a series of incredible human interactions that forever changed how she relates to other people. This talk explores how trusting other people may be the key to addressing the global issues of our time.
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TEDxSantaCruz:Activate Mar 8, 2014