The global TEDxWomen community
From the TEDxWomen blog:
It’s awe inspiring to think about all the women and men joining us all across the world for today’s TEDxWomen. There are over 100 events on every continent, in every time zone, enabling thousands of people to gather in community and experience the TED talks taking place in New York and Los Angeles, as well as their own local talks. We are amazed by the energy of all of our TEDx organizers and their dynamic, diverse communities.
Picture the women of TEDxNASAJSCWomen, gathered at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. They’ll be highlighting women speakers in the realms of engineering innovation, new scientific discoveries, and perspectives from space, including Julie Robinson, chief scientist for the ISS Program who will talk about experiments that can’t be done on earth including Dr. Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, the first Japanese female to the South Pole and discoverer of two new minerals!
Picture the women of TEDxBuslimWomen in Tripoli, Libya, which will actually take place tomorrow. They’ll hear from six local speakers on the theme of “be inspired.”
Picture the women of TEDxDirahWomen in Riyadh, 
Saudi Arabia, many of them students at King Saud University. Local speakers will include a library director, a researcher of biotechnology, and a writer on special education.
Picture the women of TEDxVasatanWomen in Stockholm, gathering in an old church that has been reshaped into a working office for Swedish entrepreneurs, and those of TEDxAmsterdamWomen, gathering at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
Picture the women of TEDxDaLuz in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the women of TEDxEwhaWomen in Seoul, South Korea.
Picture all of us, joining together to explore “ideas worth spreading” from some of the world’s most innovative, engaged, and charismatic leaders. It’s a genuinely global community and a groundbreaking moment. We’re so honored to be the catalyst for all of these conversations.
Reposted with permission. Originally posted to the TEDxWomen blog, written by Courtney Martin. »
TEDxVer-o-Peso team members stand on the street in Belem, Brazil.
A simple yet beautiful promo video from TEDxValedosVinehehos
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posted 07 October, 2011
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Re-usable Stage Design at TEDxVer-o-Peso
On August 27th, TEDxVer-o-Peso took place in the city of Belém, State of Pará, one of the 8 states that belongs to the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest.
For the stage design of TEDxVer-o-Peso, we invited a group of young, local artists responsible for Projeto Reconstruções (Reconstruction Project). The project aims to disseminate ecodesign, using material that would otherwise be discarded to make art.
The Projeto Reconstruções stage design received many compliments and the result was amazing. They transformed cardboard boxes in a great scene – the “stars” they created with the boxes talked perfectly with our design, representing very well the ancient art from Pará.
The cardboard boxes used for the stage background for TEDxVer-o-Peso were taken from another event, which had taken place earlier in 2011.
At the end of the event, the cardboard boxes were donated to a local association of collectors of recyclable material, the Associação de Catadores da Coleta Seletiva de Belém (ACCSB).
The fruits and vegetables we used on stage design – in a relation with the Ver-o-Peso Market, that inspired the name of our event and from where lots of fruits can be found - were donated to a child care center named Lar Cordeirinho de Deus, which houses children from other parts of the State of Pará who travel to the capital for cancer, heart and kidney treatment.
Written by Karina Miotto, TEDxVer-o-Peso Organizer
