Event Brochure #tedxportofspain2017 #inthearena Programme Registration: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Session 1 Session 2 Start time 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Start time: 2:40 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Live Performance: Live Performance 1: Chantal Esdelle (Pianist) and Ruth Osman (Singer) Deneka Thomas (Spoken Word Poet) Live Performance 2: • Nadia Huggins Kerina Brereton (Dancer) • Rahanna Juman • Rudylynn Roberts • Vanessa Stewart • Felicia Chang • Shamla Maharaj • Asiya Mohammed • Ingrid Lashley • Cleopatra Borel Lunch: 1:00 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. Open Mic From the Circle: 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. A moment with past conference speakers: After-party Venue: Big Black Box Nimah Muwakil-Zakuri (2015 Speaker) (33 Murray St. Woodbrook) - What is love? Doors open at 8:00 pm, Start at 9:00 pm Christopher Laird (2012 Speaker) - The Caribbean and the right to memory Featuring 2 Cents Movement, Dayo Bejide, DJ Rawkus, DJ Del, DJ Matthew Charles Alexander Girvan (2015 Speaker) - The science of science communication All attendees of the Conference enter free and how we get it wrong with TEDxPortofSpain wristband. 2 Welcome to the 2017 conference in the arena It is not the critic who counts; not the person who points out how the strong person stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if they fail, at least fails while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. ~Theodore Roosevelt 3 Congratulations to TEDxPortofSpain on their 7th year of creating a platform for ‘ideas worth spreading’. TEDxPortofSpain has been a massive 868Change was started because undertaking because it requires taking a TEDxPortofSpain needed a fiscal sponsor long term view on how to change a society. if was going to grow. Today we are evolving That change occurs one person at a time into a movement of social investment and as ideas spread, flowers bloom. social investors who are interested in Demming Communications’ involvement building the mechanism by which we the with TEDxPortofSpain is based on our people can build and develop the first belief that the more conversations we can and only people led social investment have about changing our reality, the greater organization on the island. We aim to be the chance of actually changing things. a bold group of citizens committed to Congratulations to TEDxPortofSpain on investing in high-impact projects that their 7th year of creating a platform for serve country and community needs. ‘ideas worth spreading’. When investors trust their money with us, they are investing in high-impact projects. We act as a strategic steward for citizens who would like to invest in our future. 4 Conversation Changer TEDx Port of Spain helps bring together experiences and insights, promoting enriched thinking. Scotiabank promotes thought leadership and the development of a strategic leadership mindset. Through synergistic partnerships such as these, we believe that possibilities are limitless. Similarly, the Scotiabank Insights, speaker series, was developed with a holistic approach in mind bringing to life that sense of deep understanding and awareness that the participant will have through the many areas of insightful discussions where our featured guests give the viewers an all access to their realities. We hope that you will feel inspired and motivated and change your reality. 5 #tedxportofspain2017 #inthearena Host Sabrina Celestin Sabrina Celestin has been in the business of Media and Communications for the past fourteen years. She received her formal education in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London and gained her practical experience working in Trinidad and the UK. She has shared her talents with top Media Houses, including CCN TV6 (One Caribbean Media), British Sky Broadcasting, and ESPN (Disney, UK), McCann Port- of-Spain among others. Sabrina’s passion for communications has driven her to ask questions of how we communicate with each other, verbally and nonverbally. When she is not devising and implementing communication strategies, Sabrina can be found on stage communicating as a jazz singer and actress. 6 #tedxportofspain2017 #inthearena Host Elizabeth Solomon Elizabeth Solomon describes herself as a Change Agent. She started her working life as a journalist and received seven awards in print, radio and television. Elizabeth was recruited to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo. Her work took her to some of the worst and most protracted conflicts in the world and she has focused on supporting local efforts to build resilient democratic national institutions in Kosovo, Bosnia, and Somalia. Her work on human rights and development saw her working in Guyana, Brazil and India. Elizabeth also holds degrees in journalism and in law. She spent several years in the Netherlands where she worked with academic institutions and has held positions at United Nations Headquarters. She is also a certified mediator and was a member of the UN mediation team in the negotiations between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Elizabeth left Cyprus to take up a post as the Peace and Development Adviser in Sierra Leone to support the transition from peacekeeping to a development mandate. With some twenty years experience in peacebuilding, Elizabeth decided to return home to Trinidad and Tobago. She is a member of the Mediation Board and the Executive Director of the Caribbean Centre for Human Rights on a voluntary basis. As her day job, Elizabeth is the Executive Director of the Dispute Resolution Centre, which serves the Caribbean. 7 3 Performances Performer Deneka Thomas Deneka Thomas is a 24-year-old Spoken Word Poet, Writer, Teaching Artist, Photographer and an aspiring author with an urgent voice that raises against gender inequality, advocacy for women, encourages self and body image appreciation and exhorts environmental awareness. Deneka is an Artist and Performer with the Spoken Word Based Company The 2 Cents Movement and a Teaching Artist with the Trinidad and Tobago extension of the Brooklyn Based Theatre company Girl Be Heard. She is a creator who is bent on questioning the norm and going beyond the status quo. Her writing is a happy marriage of campaigning for women’s rights and a pure fascination of the earth and its ecology. These combine to create her personal brand of ecofeminism. However, her work is a force that challenges and probes everything that concerns existing. She is a Verses Bocas Poetry Slam 2015 Finalist and a First Citizens National Poetry Slam Finalist 2016 and currently developing the manuscript for her first collection of poems. 9 #tedxportofspain2017 #inthearena Performer Chantal Esdelle Chantal Esdelle is a graduate of Since then Esdelle has used her Berklee College of Music, B.Mus classical training as a grade 8 voice and York University, MA. Since and piano Royal Schools student, her decision, at age eight, to her contemporary study at Berkelee become a musician Chantal has and her performance under local dedicated her life to creating and maestros such as Andre Tanker, performing Caribbean music. Her Clive Bradley, Earl Rodney, and journey began when, at age four, Fortunia Ruiz to; compose, perform she became a student of Louise and produce two albums for her McIntosh’s Pan Pipers Music jazz group Moyenne, compose the School. There she studied piano underscore for three films, perform and steel pan and began her voice at some of the Caribbean Region’s study. By age eighteen Esdelle had most noted Jazz Festivals, produce been awarded the French trophy a Caribbean jazz radio programme, for the most performing musician teach at two tertiary and one at the Trinidad and Tobago Music secondary school institution, festival after having; won the arrange for steelband ensembles. Steelband Pan is Beautiful Music Since 2014 Esdelle has been festival solo competition (1992), developing her company, the Ethnic won the piano 15 and under 19 Jazz Club’s “Jazz Studio” in Port- solo championship at the Trinidad of-Spain, a performance space and Tobago Music Festival, been for Caribbean Jazz musicians. To awarded the winner of the open date the space has hosted over soprano north class, served as twenty presentations and has been accompanist for the BAHS senior honoured with performances by choir and won a senior choir class Clive Zanda (Trinidad and Tobago), with Pan Pipers’ Senior Choir. Earl Rodney (Trinidad and Tobago), Emir Santa Cruz (Havana). 10 #tedxportofspain2017 #inthearena Performer Ruth Osman Trinidad-based Guyanese singer/songwriter and flautist, Ruth Osman, has been performing since childhood. Her passion for music has led to her appearance in a variety of events -from the church stage to national and international concerts. Over the past decade, she honed her skills in the jazz genre, performing primarily with the jazz trio Jacoustik and then with various musicians and bands. In 2013, she teamed up with producer Jason Dasent to record her debut album, Letting Go. In November 2016, Ruth worked with producer Keon Jeffrey of Klassic Music Ent. and a_phake of Future Crab Studios to produce her second album, Elemental. The album, dubbed ‘a 10-track gem’ by the Trinidad Guardian, includes collaborations with jazz guitarist Theron Shaw, singer/ songwriter Collis Duranty and saxophonist Courtney Fadlin. Armed with a BA in English Literature and a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts and Cultural Enterprise Management, Ruth has also developed a writing career as a speechwriter, freelance feature writer and poet.