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: Thieves of Hope: Moving Past Your Worst Mistakes by Lara Love Hardin
Lara Love Hardin shares her story of redemption and brings to attention "Thieves of Hope."
Opening up the Museum
Art, Education,
Opening up museums to participatory culture to change the organization and the community. Giving people special tools to participate will encourage people to feel valued. Artifacts as social objects in museums.
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An Open Poetic Identity and the Evolution of Consciousness
Art, Education, Poetry,
Albert Flynn DeSilver encourages you to take on an open poetic identity. He shares how he took on an open identity.
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Log Local
Cutting down trees locally is important and has potential global significance. Its time we embrace the local supply of green renewable building materials to support our population growth.
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Love Forgives Everything
Entertainment,
John shares an experience from when he met a homeless veteran, how the love of his life died, and how he realized that we come into the world to make sense out of love and to find it in our lives.
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Does Privacy Matter?
Activism,
Is there an overlap of internet and privacy? Every private data point about you is collected and sold to advertisers. Craig shares privacy tools that protect your data and personal information and urges you to control your own privacy.
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Standing Still to Move Forward
Education, Health,
When Terri Schneider, a world class professional athlete, found out she had severely torn her achilles tendon, she was forced to slow down. She found herself at a crossroads and decided to open herself up to find value in a place opened her up.
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This Is Not A Poem/Your Body Is Not A Shark
Art,
Cid opens the audience to the rehearsal process, starts off describing a movement score. Shows a process that hopes to answer how movement, music and language are able to evoke a broken wholeness.
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Rippling Open
Education,
Whitney Smith shares an emotional and personal experience responsible for creating ripples in her life that ultimately allowed her to open herself up to heal, overcome grief, welcome a new baby, to work with others’ pain, and find forgiveness.
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Aerial Art
Art, Entertainment, Music,
Combining modern music production, evocative vocalism, and captivating aerial arts comes a cutting edge performance trio consisting of aerialist Allie cooper, music producer LoWGritt, and hip hop vocalist Sight.
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