An amazing, brave story of motherhood by Ginny Phang
...and continued here: This is the video clip Ginny screens at the end of her Talk
FYI, the TEDx Women speakers Ginny refers to at the beginning of her Talk are:
Esther Tan. member of the All Women's Mt Everest Team (To view her TEDx Talk, click here)
Kelley Cheng, "Be a design democrat!" (To view her TEDx Talk, click here)
(All these talks were filmed at TEDxSingaporeWomen in December 2010)
We love to share this Tale of Excitement and Danger with you:
The story of six young women who got together and climbed to the top of our world...
"There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, we will be unwilling to settle for less." ~Esther quotes Kurt Hahn, founder Outward Bound.
(filmed at TEDxSingapore Women, a satellite event of Global TEDWomen in December 2010)
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Ladies and Gents, we present with pleasure, the unique talents of ZsaZsa+Claire...
+ find out how Paul the octopus helped boost their popularity :)
klick here for more content and performances
and at Zsa+Claire's site www.screamquiet.com + their facebook fan site
EnJoY! All songs they sing are their original compositions. Do let them know your response to their music, in the comments field below...
We had our oldest- and youngest-ever speakers in November and December during our 7th and 8th idea events: TEDxYouthDay and TEDx Women.
More than a 100 years of age span them, yet their talks are remarkably similar. The simplicity and human-ness of their messages touched our hearts and many in the TED community.
We like to share their talks with you, especially during this time of year...(Please do feel free to write your response to their videos in the comments fields below)
Teresa Hsu, 113 years old -- Wisdom for All Ages.
What question do you have for Teresa? We are collecting questions from you, the TED Community, then Teresa will respond to your questions and we'll post them. Email your question to us now at ILoveTED@TEDxSingapore.sg
MIrella Ang, 6 years old -- A Lesson I Learned for my Life.
From all of us at TEDxSingapore, our warmest wishes to you and your loved ones for the season and for 2011 ahead.
~ for passion, for people, for purpose.
The TEDxSingapore Women poster-program was created from community responses to the question "What is your dream for the future of women in the world?"
TEDxSingapore Women held in the penthouse of the National Library over the stunning skyline of the city
Co-Curators of TEDxSingapore Women
Esther Tan from the All Women's Everest team
Visualisation of Dr Susan Lim's Talk on the hype and hope of stem cell research
Ginny Phang, a Doula, sharing stories about pleasurable childbirth
Iris Koh (far right) and her troope sang an orginal song "Walk in my shoes"
The community drew this art piece "Make Your Mark" and we all took a photo with it
MezzeFlame!
Trying out the light hoops!
A TEDx-er with her creative nametag, a hair piece shaped as a shark's fin
We also featured talks about design democracy, motherhood and adoption, benevolent architecture, sustaining a creative social enterprise for single mothers, and a TEDx Talk by our oldest speaker Teresa Hsu, who is over 100 years old. See fab fotos here
Milton Tan: How we humans fish, hunt and farm for ideas
TEDxYouthDay on Saturday 20 November featured our inaugural screening of this TEDx Talk by the late Dr. Milton Tan.
Milton was a huge TED fan and joined the TED community within hours of the launch of TEDx. Our first large-scale gathering of the TED Community in November 2009 happened because of his support. In August 2010, we invited Milton to give his first TEDx Talk at our 5th TEDx event called [ i ]. He was deeply passionate and dedicated: He delivered this Talk right after his medical treatment at hospital that same morning. Milton passed away on 8 November 2010. As tribute and thanks, on 20 November 2010, we dedicated our 7th idea event, global TEDxYouthDay to him.
We miss you. Your ideas will live on through your TEDx Talk and continue to spread to curious souls in the world. Thank you, Milton, for sharing your imagination with us, for giving us laughter, for opening wondrous windows in our minds and hearts...
About Milton...http://miltontan.wordpress.com
Wall conversations "What does it mean to be a YOUth?"
Launch "My Dreams of Future and my Wish for the World" via hundreds of paper aeroplanes
Youngest TEDx speaker 6 year old Mirella shares her story about her encounter with kindness
Visualisation of Samridhi's talk "Phenomenal woman"...
...and Post-it responses from the TED community
More photos below
We'd like to share the first ten TEDx Talks from TEDxSingapore with you, here's some:
Wizard of Wow PaulDUNN "Don't drown in the sea of sameness"
digital fairy-taler ColemanYEE "The Princess, The Witch and The Powerpoint" [WARNING: High entertaining, and you'll never look at another powerpoint in the same way again.]
For more, click on the titles below to watch:
photographer WengSanSIT "Big girl, you are beautiful"
social entrepreneur MasamiSATO "A habit worth spreading"
...plus 6 more TEDx Talks here
Then see the photos from these ideas events
Stay tuned for over half a dozen more Talks to come over the next few weeks.
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(Preface: TEDxSingapore's sixth idea event featuring live local speakers and music artistes and screening of TEDxChange was held in Microsoft auditorium, high above Singapore city with a grand view of F1 cars running around the Formula One Grand Prix track, and inspired this poem.)
O u r G r a n d e s t G r a n d P r i x
IT'S A TRULY EXCITING DAY,
extraordinary, in every way
The Formula One Grand Prix
right outside the window
of today’s TEDxChange event.
Outside, cars are racing fast.
Our world’s racing fast.
After all,
WE ARE THE HUMAN RACE.
Hungry for speed
Hungry to get ahead
Hungry to win!
____
Yes, everywhere too
there's millions and millions
of us hungry
...for just something to eat each day.
....for a cup of clean water to drink.
...for children not to die.
_____
So, let
us
pause.
Let us think:
"Who are we leaving behind in our human race?"
______
Outside, cars are racing,
F1 drivers changing gears.
Inside our heads, let us remember:
We are drivers of our future.
What gears shall we change?
What change shall we bring?
______
Outside, cars are racing.
Inside, our hearts are racing,
racing, racing
WITH EXCITEMENT
because there are people
all around us,
all around our planet,
with ideas in their heads
with passion in their hearts
for the future we will make!
It's our grandest Grand Prix.
TRULY EXCITING!
______________
(written by Dave Lim, Curator, TEDxSingapore during global TEDxChange week.)
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