Friday, February 17, 2012
Culture TEDx Nashville, Featuring Journalists, Filmmakers, Innovators (and a Former Eurythmic), Now on Sale
Posted by Jim Ridley on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:25 PM
If TEDxNashville — our local outpost of the West Coast TED confabs that have convened scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and other forward thinkers for free-form airing of ideas — continues to grow at its current pace, this may be the last year you're able to see it at TPAC's Polk Theatre. The third annual event, scheduled for Saturday, March 31, just went on sale, and Country Life advises not waiting to get tickets.
Scheduled guests include Dave Stewart, co-founder of the Eurythmics, solo artist and collaborator with everyone from Bono and Tom Petty to Katy Perry; Garbage Dreams documentarian Mai Iskander; energy/technology journalist and Power Trip author Amanda Little; astrophysicist Tom Weiler; uBeam CEO and founder Meredith Perry; veteran Advertising Age columnist and media trend-spotter Bob Garfield; and Music City Roots writer-producer Craig Havighurst — just to name a few.
Say, who would you like to see on this lineup? Or next year's?
Tickets online are $55.10, available here.
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A lot of folks who I respect have participated in these events, given talks, or just attended. And I get the idea behind TEDx, and it sounds noble and forward-thinking.
Yet there's a part of me that resists wanting to attend or participate. I guess it's the skeptic in me (which occupies about 85 percent of my being) that somehow feels like it's a racket to make money for someone, that it's a lot of smoke and mirrors, that it's a way for people to feel like they are making a difference, but that it's just for show, or a fad.
Here's the thing. I realize, first off, that I am experiencing contempt prior to investigation. And that more likely than not, I am probably wrong. So I guess I'm wondering two things:
One, does anyone share my feelings?
Two, for people who have been and found it to be a great experience, tell me why. I'm willing to have my mind changed.
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