[Hidden-tech] TEDxShelburneFalls 2012: A Taste of TEDx tickets now available for Nov. 3 conference

[Stacy Kontrabecki]

The TEDxShelburneFalls 2012: /A Taste of TEDx /conference is a suite of 
short, carefully prepared talks, demonstrations and performances on a 
wide range of subjects to foster learning, inspiration and wonder -- and 
to provoke conversations that matter. 10 amazing, local speaker over two 
90-minute daytime sessions deliver interesting presentations on a wide 
variety of subjects, each in 18 minutes or less.

Presenters volunteering their time to speak with us are listed at the 
end of this email.


Saturday November 3

Session One: 11:30 am -- 1:00 pm

Session Two: 3:00 pm -- 4:30 pm

100 tickets are available for the in-person presentation event at 
Memorial Hall in Shelburne Falls for $19.72/session.

The program will also be livestream simulcast in real-time into the 
Mohawk High School auditorium in Shelburne Falls. Attendance at the 
simulcast is FREE but requires pre-registration as only 100 tickets are 
available.

Since the conference will be livestreamed to the internet, people 
outside the region, and those who weren't able to secure tickets to 
either Mohawk or Memorial Hall, can "attend" the conference by logging 
in to the www.TEDxShelburneFalls.com website during program times.

Tickets are now available to purchase/reserve at 
www.TEDxShelburneFalls.com at the links at the bottom of the webpage. 
You can also obtain tickets by calling 800-838-3006, 24/7, and specify 
event code 275593 for the paid event at Memorial Hall and 279363 for the 
free event at Mohawk.

Act now as there are only 100 seats per venue and all are expected to 
sell out!

View this 1:15 animation to learn what Ted & TEDx is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybYI9VbtOvo&feature=related

View this 1-minute testimonial to learn what people are saying all over 
the world about TEDx.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjisSInTmYo&feature=related

Presenters:

  * Shalini Bahl <http://mindfuluniverse.com/>, from Hadley. Shalini is
    a consultant and researcher specializing in programs for mindfulness
    in business, social media, health care and academia
  * /John Bos <http://www.eventidesingers.com/>, of Shelburne. John is a
    hospice volunteer and founder of Eventide, which explores music,
    spirituality the life/death transition./
  * Dean Cycon <http://www.deansbeans.com/>, of Orange, owner of Dean's
    Beans Organic Coffee Company, a certified 100 percent organic, fair
    trade and kosher coffee roasting operation.
  * /Darby Dyar
    <https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/facultyprofiles/darby_dyar>, of
    South Hadley, is a professor of astronomy at Mount Holyoke College,
    and has ongoing funding from NASA's Mars Fundamental Research
    program to conduct research for the space agency's rovers, including
    Curiosity, which touched down on the Red Planet August 6./
  * David Shepherd <http://www.groupcreativityproject.com/> of
    Belchertown is considered the father of American improvisational
    theater, and is a groundbreaking producer, director, and actor.
  * /Keith Harmon Snow <http://www.consciousbeingalliance.com/>, of
    Williamsburg, is a former aerospace and defense professional who
    later worked as a genocide investigator for the United Nations, and
    is banned from speaking at Hampshire, Smith and Mount Holyoke colleges./
  * June Millington <http://www.ima.org/>, of Goshen, is, according to
    Guitar Magazine, one of the hottest female guitarists in the
    industry. She also is artistic director of the Institute for the
    Musical Arts in Goshen, a non-profit teaching, performing and
    recording facility dedicated to the support of women and girls in
    the music industry.
  * /Daniel Trenner <http://www.danieltrenner.com/> of Florence is one
    of tango's modern pioneers, and settled in the Pioneer Valley in
    2002, teaching at Smith, Amherst and Mount Holyoke colleges, and at
    the Performing Arts High School./
  * Jim Vieira <http://www.nwstonework.com/> of Ashfield is passionate
    about writing, researching, ancient stone work, spirituality and
    metaphysics. He's a stone mason and co-owner of North Wind Stonework
    in Ashfield, doing dry masonry in and around the Berkshire Highlands
    for 15 years.
  * /Zeek Wegscheider of Buckland is an 18-year-old poet and artist, and
    veteran of the Occupy Wall Street movement. He speaks on nurturing a
    deeper connection to both the physical and metaphysical worlds for
    greater personal and community effectiveness./
  * Rona Leventhal <http://www.ronatales.com/>, of Northampton, is the
    event's host, and a masterful storyteller with 22 years of national
    and international experience facilitating a joyful sense of
    community, creating teams and integrating the arts into school
    curricula.

-- 

Stacy Kontrabecki, Curator

TEDxShelburneFalls

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts USA

www.TEDxShelburneFalls.com <http://www.TEDxShelburneFalls.com>

+1 (413) 625-9203

+1 (413) 834-3423 mobile

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