TEDxAFS-Marianne Mitchell My Journey as an Abstract Artis
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Artist Marianne Mitchell will speak about why she is an abstract artist, what she is trying to communicate with her work, what she has learned from being a painter and teaching others, and how her experiences have led her to Integrative Thinking. Mitchell will show images of her work as well as work by her students. Marianne Mitchell received h... Read more
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- -: TEDxAFS-Marianne Mitchell My Journey as an Abstract Artis
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Artist Marianne Mitchell will speak about why she is an abstract artist, what she is trying to communicate with her work, what she has learned from being a painter and teaching others, and how her experiences have led her to Integrative Thinking. Mitchell will show images of her work as well as w...
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- -: TEDxAFS-Margaret Sayers Close Encounters with the Confederate Flag
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)This presentation weaves together four brief stories in which the flag plays a central role. The stories are told from the speaker's perspective as a "Southern white mother of two brown children." Margaret Sayers is a child and adolescent psychologist and an AFS parent. She regularly gives work...
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- -: TEDxAFS-Justin Solonynka Big Numbers
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)What makes a big number "big?" How can we better understand the barrage of statistics we get every day from the media? What does it mean that an event is probable or improbable? These are some of the questions Justin Solonynka will ponder in a presentation that features musings on probability as ...
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- -: TEDxAFS-Jon Watts Lets be a Body
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The majority of life on this planet consisted of single celled organisms. What did the moment look like when they first got together? Jon Watts (www.jonwatts.com) is a Quaker spoken poet and songwriter. His two Quaker albums, recorded when he was a student at Guilford College and later Pendle Hi...
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- -: TEDxAFS-Dave Fry The Philosophy of Folk Music
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Folksinger Dave Fry demonstrates how singing, sharing stories and dancing together promotes trust and a richer sense of our place in society. From kids' playground tunes to family favorites, to good ole Rock and Roll, Dave involves everyone in this rich experience. His music features both traditi...
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- -: TEDxAFS-Christy Green If Schools Looked More Like Google
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)What would happen to education if our schools looked a little more like Google? What if they espoused Google's principles; if they were information driven, connected, a platform for collaboration, with free (and nutritious) lunch, an 80/20 rule and a "Don't Be Evil" code of conduct? Christy Gre...
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- -: TEDx AFS-Catalina Rios Embracing and Accepting Change and Loss
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Change and loss are essential to the human experience yet our resistance to both can cause great suffering and pain. In her Ted Talk, Catalina Rios will share her journey through loss and address strategies for embracing and accepting change and loss as gifts and opportunities for growth and pers...
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- -: TEDxAFS-Bruce Schmit Something(s) serious . . . Something(s) fun
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Bruce Schmit will take us on an investigation of the connections/relationships between architecture and literature covering roughly 160 years from 1845 to 2005, from Transcendentalism to Errol Flynn (yes, the same one) to the 2002 Pritzker Prize and beyond and including the usual suspects of Emer...
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- -: TEDxAFS If Schools Looked More Like Google Christy Green
July 25, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)What would happen to education if our schools looked a little more like Google? What if they espoused Google's principles; if they were information driven, connected, a platform for collaboration, with free (and nutritious) lunch, an 80/20 rule and a "Don't Be Evil" code of conduct? Christy Gr...
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- -: TEDxAFS-Joel Price and Dov Campbell Remix Culture: Rising from the (m)ashes
September 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)From Shakespeare building on the work of Greek comedy to Muddy Waters reintroducing the music of black slaves to a new generation; literature, art and music has always been re-adapted, remixed and re-imagined. But copyright restrictions have made it increasingly difficult for today's artists to b...
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