Do you wish you could have more time for discussion with our speakers? Do you love to read? Than Readers’ Roundtable is for you! We are partnering with Catalina Gorla of Our Books to create a dynamic book club for the TEDxColumbus community.

Inspired by their respective TEDxColumbus talk, each session will be lead by a former TEDxColumbus speaker who chooses a book and facilities discussion.

Dr. Claudia Kirsch (2011 Speaker) will lead our inaugural event on Wednesday, March 7 from 6:30-8 p.m. at Columbus Metropolitan Library Main Branch. She will facilitate discussion on the book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck.

Kirsch said she chose the book because, “Although we often feel we are ‘doing things right’ or ‘doing the right thing,’ sometimes mentally taking a step back and viewing it with a different ‘mind set’ can drastically alter the outcome and literally and figuratively change the course of one’s life.”

Following March’s conversation with Kirsch, David Burns (2011 Speaker) will facilitate the April 11 session over the book The Big Short, by Michael Lewis.

He chose the book because, “The book deals with “value” – its conception, perception and disposition. Tying emotion with value creates a disconnection between reality and perception. If you lace greed on top of it, the disposition of value tends to injure those who paid the highest price (spiritually and emotionally) and can least afford it.”

Jason Barger (2010 Speaker) will host a discussion on the movie Finding Joe for the June 8 session.

He chose this documentary because, “I am fascinated and inspired by those who are able to share their gifts and passions in the world on a daily basis. American mythologist, Joseph Campbell, encouraged us all to “follow our bliss” and discover what is truly possible in our work and life. This documentary speaks about the journey we are all on everyday to shed the status quo and become the best versions of ourselves in the world. I hope you’ll join the discussion!”

Additional sessions are being scheduled and will be posted here. (Please watch email, facebook and twitter for updates)

To ensure quality conversation, sessions are limited to 20 people. This event is FREE. The cost, either $15 or $20, covers lunch or dinner, respectively.  All events are held at the Columbus Metropolitan Main Library.

Each session requires separate registration.

Click here to register for Claudia Kirsch’s March 7 roundtable dinner (6:30-8pm).

Click here to register for David Burns’ April 11 roundtable dinner (6:30-8pm).

Click here to register for Jason Barger’s June 8 roundtable lunch (11:30-1pm).

If you have any questions, contact Catalina Gorla.

TED Conference

Wednesday, February 28

Broadcast from Long Beach, CA

Viewing Location: TBD

TEDxChange

Thursday, April 5

hosted by Melinda French Gates

Broadcast from Berlin

Viewing Location: Resource Interactive

TEDGlobal

June

Broadcast from Edinburgh

Viewing Location: CCAD

TEDxWomen

Broadcast from New York

Date and Location TBD

This is not an officially licensed TEDx event, just a gathering put together by those who do organize TEDxColumbus.

Details:

MLK Day Viewing Event

Monday, January 16, 2012

Location:  Studio 35, 3055 Indianola

Time:  Set one:  2pm – 3:15pm,  Break: 3:15 – 3:45pm; Set two: 3:45pm – 5:00pm.  Conversation can take place until 6pm.

Admission: Free

Concessions:  Will be open. Pizza can be ordered. Beer, popcorn, candy for sale.

Registration: Not required. If you plan on bringing a big group of students, please let us know here so we can make sure to accomodate you.

Parking: Available on the Indianola until 4pm on both sides of the street. But at 4pm, parking is permitted on the east side of Indianola (read: you will be towed). Please plan accordingly.

Talks to be shown: (Listed as played on 1/16/12)

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

Derek Sivers: How to start a movement

Sheryl WuDunn: Our century’s greatest injustice

Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles”

Majora Carter: Greening the ghetto

Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to change the world

Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate

Karen Tse: How to stop torture

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

Natalie Warne: Being young and making an impact

Brene Brown: The Power of Vulernability 

Maryanna Klatt, Thresa Flores and Ann Fisher at TEDxColumbusWomen at the Columbus Foundation, December 1, 2011

Last week, nearly 60 women joined together at The Columbus Foundation to watch the livestream of TEDxWomen. In between the sets of capitvating talks being broadcast from New York and LA, we hosted two of our TEDxColumbus speakers, Maryanna Klatt and Theresa Flores, to present their TEDx talks again. After their presentations, they were joined by Ann Fisher, host of All Sides on WOSU (89.7 FM).

Ann was in the audience at TEDxColumbus at COSI on 11.11, and following Theresa’s talk, she introduced herself with an apology. At the Columbus Foundation a few weeks later, she shared what she said to Theresa that day, a survivor of human trafficking as a teenager.

“I told her I finally got it,” Fisher said. “When I was at the Dispatch a number of years ago, I wrote a story that was not completely representative of the true story. In part, I didn’t believe it, how could that really have happened to someone? But after hearing her TEDxColumbus talk, it finally crystalized for me. And I had to tell her I was sorry that I didn’t get it before. It was in large part because she’d worked so hard to build her story so that we could better understand and try to relate to what happened. And it worked. ”

We wanted to share this anecdote to share the power of a well-told story, especially one at a TEDx event where it can be watched over and over (via video). And how we found ourselves in the audience at TEDxWomenColumbus watching the two of them discuss the evolution of the story and learning from both sides.

Ann and Theresa were joined by Maryanna Klatt for a conversation after their talks, where they explored the power of the story – especially for women. And for Maryanna, a researcher in Mindfulness, how she focuses on the science to make her story credible with skeptics.

After hearing both Theresa and Maryanna’s talks again, I’m not sure who could be skeptical of either.

Our signature event, TEDxColumbus, featured 18 speakers and performers (above: Susan Willeke, Jamie Greene and Rose Smith) on stage at COSI on 11.11.11.  You can watch all of the speaker’s videos here, or get a glimpse of the full day from still images here.  They all celebrated a “Moment in Time,” and did so beautifully.

We had a record turnout of nearly 600 attendees, that’s double where we started two years ago when we hosted the first event at the Wexner center with 300 attendees.  Check out this dynamic gallery at COSI!

We were supported these amazing corporate and community partners: resource interactive, The Columbus Foundation, Barnes and Thornburg, The Limited Brands, Alliance Data, The Ohio State University, and GSW Worldwide. Support from WOSU, COSI and a host of other in-kind donations made the event possible.

We had a unique and very special partnership with LOTH/ STEELCASE / TURNSTONE to outfit the event gallery for our two days of events (see TEDxYouth below). The feedback on our event was so spectacular in part thanks to the great furniture and environment they helped to build for us. We were delighted they could carry through our dream!

The day before TEDxColumbus, we hosted TEDxYouth@Columbus also at COSI, where 18 speakers and performers also took the stage and inspired an audience of nearly 150 high schoolers. Curators Andy Aichele and Christian Long were aided by community volunteers who were also mentors in the afternoon, the day-long event turned out to be a needed and inspired addition to our TEDx line-up. And the kids had a blast, too.

After we cleaned up from TEDxColumbus and TEDxYouth@Columbus, on December 1, for the second year in a row, The Columbus Foundation hosted a livestream of TEDxWomen, a national TEDx event that was broadcast from LA and NY. Over 60 women joined us for the viewing and lots of great conversation between riveting talks. See an additional story here from our live speakers Maryanna Klatt and Theresa Flores who joined us with their TEDxColumbus talks at lunch.

And for us, we closed out the month with a webinar featuring our own InsideOut Project along side TEDx organizers from Aviero, Portgual, Manchester, NH and Athens, Greece. I have been hosting  some of these  webinars for two years now – bringing together knowledge and experience for TEDx organizers around the world. This one was pretty special as we had JR, the artist and recipient of the TED Prize and Amy Novogratz, join us to discuss InsideOut. The webinar will be linked here when it’s live.

All in all, the community has had an exhilarating month – thanks to everyone who’s helped to make these great moments possible!

From Base Art Co.

Event Branding, Print Graphics, Environmental Signage, Commemorative Poster, TShirt Design.

by Terry Rohrbach, Drue Dixon and Casey Carmell

www.baseartco.com

From Bonfire Red

TEDxColumbus.com redesign

By Joey Zornes and Chris Reinhardt

www.bonfirered.com

with support from www.bigevilbrain.com

From Shift Global

mobile site: m.tedxcolumbus.com

Team: Jason Dziak and Leah Henderson, Design
Sean Sefcick and Chris Flinders, Development
Julie Vujevich, Project Management

Bill Litfin, Partner

www.shiftglobal.com

From Spork Design

Speaker and Performer Portrait Illustrations

By Dominic LaRiccia and Drew Robinson

www.sporkdesign.com

From SpaceJunk Media

Speaker Introduction animations (left) and 11.11.11 Global Tribute Video. (below)

Team: Producer: David Ball
Creative Directors: Jeff Boddy & Mike Beaumont
Designers: Dan Wineland, Rich Seemueller
Motion Designer: Marco Cardenas
Editor: Mike Nelson
Music: The Saturday Giant

www.spacejunkmedia.com

TEDx 11.11.11 from Spacejunk on Vimeo.

From Time Tank Labs

Event Photography

By Meghan Kwast, Tammy Bornemisza and Molly McCafferty.

www.timetanklabs.com

Now applauding our creative on-site production partners:

COSI

Host Partner

Production Team: Sam Frost, Steve Whitt, Cari Palmer, David Kramer

Executive Team: David Chesebrough, Kim Kiehl, Deb Hackathorn, Abby Rosenberger, Jen Cassidy, Andy Aichele (also TEDxYouth Co-Coordinator) www.cosi.org

Steelcase, Loth and Turnstone

Environment and Furniture Partner

Jim Hackett and Jim Keane (Steelcase), Jeff Brock and Wendy Byrne (Loth), Sam Massie (Turnstone)

www.steelcase.com, www.lothexperts.com, www.myturnstone.com

WOSU and APEX Events

Videography, Viewing Pods and Lighting 

John Proseck (WOSU), David Simon (APEX)

www.wosu.org, www.apexeventpro.com

Thank you, everyone, for reading our live-blog of the TEDxColumbus conference. There were so many great ideas shared today.

The theme of the conference has been “a moment in time.” And this day has been a collection of really surprising moments: everything from exploding gas bubbles, jumping spiders, and great musical performances to stories of unseen tortures and illustrations of the fragility and importance of life.

The key is that all of these things, from the fun to the tragic, from practical ideas to more abstract ones, are the moments that make up the human experience. It’s been a joy to be able to share those moments and to take some time to write and think about them.

I hope everyone had as interesting an experience at TEDxColumbus as we, your faithful live-bloggers, did.

- Elisa and Stephen