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Important Update on TEDxPortsmouth
TEDxPortsmouth is pressing pause on its 2020 event, originally planned for September 25 at The Music Hall in Portsmouth due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Last year, as a true community-driven event, TEDxPortsmouth 2019 brought together 900 audience members, more than 200...
TEDxPortsmouth Update: COVID-19 Response
At its heart, TEDxPortsmouth is about stories — stories of lives lived, and lessons learned. Stories of technology and innovation, of personal connection and humanity. Stories of revelation and discovery, of hardship and of happiness. Told to us by our neighbors,...
Lights, Cameras, Storytelling!
Filmmaker Jay Childs Puts TEDxPortsmouth in Focus Telling the story of a storytelling event at a venue with a rich history of storytelling — that’s the challenge facing videographer/filmmaker Jay Childs as he prepares to shoot TEDxPortsmouth at The Music Hall this...
Find Inspiration, Spirit of Community at TEDxPortsmouth
This article appears in the August 2019 edition of Portsmouth Living magazine. Your guide to a very special local event — Friday, Sept. 13, at the historic Music Hall Storytelling is at the heart of TEDxPortsmouth. Also humanity. Arts and science. Curiosity and...
‘Zero-Waste Event’: Meet TEDxPortsmouth’s Sustainability Director
TEDxPortsmouth is proud to make this year’s event zero-waste. We could not achieve this goal without the amazing partnership with Keith Tharp from Sustainable Seacoast who has taken on the newly minted role of Sustainability Director for TEDxPortsmouth. We caught up...
The TEDxPortsmouth Theme for 2019:
Point of No Return What is a “point of no return?” How do we approach? Where is the threshold? When do we enter the maelstrom, the spinning fugue of what was and what will be? What becomes of us afterwards? Who are we? Who will we be? Are we always approaching the...
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A Brief History of TEDxPortsmouth [est. 2013]
Did you know that this year’s TEDxPortsmouth (Friday, Sept. 13, 2019) will be the seventh annual TEDx to be held in our fair city by the sea? And the second to be staged at the venerable and totally rockin’ Music Hall! But how did it all begin? TEDxPortsmouth actually...
Lessons from a TEDx Organizer: How to Nail Your Audition
TEDxPortsmouth 2019 is still six months away (September 13 at The Music Hall), but there is already a whirlwind of activity happening behind the scenes. The next milestone is speaker auditions — and the response from prospective TED talkers has been overwhelming. Past...
TEDxPortsmouth Returns to the Music Hall Stage this September
Come to be entertained, leave ready to change the world. September 13, 2019 (Yes, that’s Friday the 13th…) marks the return of TEDxPortsmouth to The Music Hall in downtown Portsmouth. So please mark your calendar with a big red X for this year’s local TEDx! What is...