TEDxWhitehorse

Next event: TEDxWhitehorse LIVE. Yukon College, Lecture Hall October 9, 2014. 6 - 9 pm. This independent TEDx event is operating under a license from TED. Learn more about TEDx Facebook Twitter

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Thanks to everyone who came out on a very cold Sunday afternoon for the TEDxWhitehorse Salon at Mt Lorne Community Centre. We watched some great talks from the recent TEDxBeaconStreet.

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Build Your Brain and Brawn at the TEDxWhitehorseSalon

When: Sunday, February 8, 2015 Time: 1:30-4:30 pm Location: Lorne Mountain Community Centre

Please come join us for an afternoon salon featuring TED talks at the Lorne Mountain Community Centre (km 1 Annie Lake Road). This event will feature the best talks from the most recent TEDxBeaconstreet in Boston, held in November 2014. Boston is home to big minds at some of the most prestigious intuitions of learning such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, MIT and the Berklee College of Music.

At this salon, we will watch a curated selection of recorded talks from Boston as well as have some informal discussions. 

In addition to feeding the brain with the TED talks and discussion, you are encouraged to flex your muscles! Bring your skates and skis, as Lorne Mountain has an Olympic size outdoor ice rink as well as tracked cross-country ski trails surrounding the community center.

While the TEDx event is free, we request if that you contribute $5 towards a day use fee if you plan to use the rink or trails. Coffee and snacks will be available for a nominal charge. 

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TEDxWhitehorse LIVE

On October 9, TEDxWhitehorse in partnership with the School of Continuing Education at Yukon College will host a special event called TEDxWhitehorse LIVE. 

Join us in the Yukon College lecture hall from 6 to 9 pm where we will play some of the best talks from TEDGlobal 2014 that will be taking place at the same time in Rio de Janeiro.

Admission will be by donation to the Whitehorse Food Bank. 

More details will be posted soon including the line up of talks. For now, pencil it in to your calendar!

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TEDxWhitehorse videos now online

You can view all of the great talks from the November 23 TEDxWhitehorse event on the TEDxTalks YouTube channel.

You can also view each talk on the speaker's profile page: http://www.tedxwhitehorse.com/speakers

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What did you think of the last TEDxWhitehorse event?

Please send your feedback here: http://www.tedxwhitehorse.com/feedback2

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What's Up Yukon article: TEDx comes to Whitehorse

Thanks to Glenda Koh and What's Up Yukon for the great article!

"It is often noted that Whitehorse is a place where people can reinvent themselves periodically without anyone blinking an eye. And in the midst of our current technological society that seems to undergo a complete overhaul every decade, it seems appropriate to take a day to ponder the theme of reinvention."

See more at: http://www.whatsupyukon.com/article-view.cfm?ArticleID=4740#sthash.VGCYAaol.dpuf

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Share the TEDxWhitehorse rack card

If you want to help us promote TEDxWhitehorse you can share the PDF of our rack card which is available here.

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Schedule for TEDxWhitehorse

10:00 Welcome ~ The Power of Reinvention - Lyn Hartley

10:10 Session One: Re-invention of self + family

Larry Gray - Choosing conscious elderhood.

Boyd Benjamin – Re-inventing your life path.

TED.com - Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20.

Chris Rider – Re-thinking the Internet and guiding youth in a connected world

Dr. Nicole Letourneau - Un-inventing the modern family.

11:15 Break

11:30 Session Two: Re-thinking: Technology + Science

Dr. Norman Fraser - Change the question, change the world.

Dr. JP Pinard– Imagine: A cold wind heating Yukon homes.

TED.com - John Bohannon: Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal.

Shawn Ryan – The second gold rush - a prospector’s perspective.

1:00 Lunch

2:00 Session Three: Re-design: Arts, Entertainment + Design

Ben Barrett-Forrest – The history of typography and why fonts matter (12 minutes)

TED.com - Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake

Jack Kobayashi – Re-inventing northern buildings and the space between them.

TED.com talk Amanda Palmer: reinventing the music business by letting people pay what they want.

3:00 Break

3:15 Session Four: Re-envisioning Society

Janet Clarke - Little Free Libraries: a community’s mini-agora

Chief Mathieya Alatini – Reinventing self government under modern treaties

TED.com - Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

Jane Koepke – Building a DestiNation, one trail at a time.

Diyet – Who Am I Kidding? I Was Born In A Tent

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Here is the speaker line-up for #TEDxWhitehorse on Nov 23

Jack Kobayashi: Architect, business owner Re-inventing northern buildings and the space between them

Dr. Norman Fraser: IT entrepreneur Change the question, change the world

Dr. Nicole Letourneau: Norlien/ACHF Chair in Parent-Infant Mental Health & RESOLVE Alberta Coordinator Rethinking the family

Jane Koepke: Trail coordinator Building a DestiNation, one trail at a time

Dr. JP Pinard: Energy consultant Imagine: A cold wind heating Yukon homes

Shawn Ryan: Prospector The second gold rush - a prospector’s perspective

Larry Gray: Instructor, Environmental Studies Choosing conscious elderhood

Diyet: Musician Who Am I Kidding? I Was Born In A Tent

Chief Mathieya Alatini: Chief of Kluane First Nation Reinventing self government under modern treaties

Ben Barrett-Forrest: Designer / Student The history of typography and why fonts matter

Chris Rider: Executive Director of BYTE Yukon Being a good online citizen

Janet Clarke: Librarian, Little Library owner Little Free Libraries: a community’s mini-agora

Boyd Benjamin: Musician The Flying Gwitch'in Fiddler

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Diyet: Who am I kidding? I was born in a tent

How does one become comfortable with who they truly are when they've lived so many roles and played so many characters? A humorous examination of Diyet through her many "Re-Inventions" on her journey to becoming the artist that she is today. My talk will examine how we can use "re-invention" to avoid living our dreams because we have to confront the things that we fear the most.

Bio: Born in a tent, raised in a cabin, classically trained in opera, songwriter, First Nation politician, administrator and now a touring musician. This sub-Arctic-Southern Tutchone-Japanese-Tlingit-Scottish-Yukoner is your typical Canadian (the result of a long cold winter)!  Diyet’ music is like her life, a mix of this and that but deeply rooted in the values of a traditional northern life. When You Were King, Diyet’s sophomore album is a moody contemplation of time and place, individual and society. With melodies that stick and bold instrumentation; it makes you want to sing out loud yet at the same time turn inwards and reflect.  When You Were King has message, meaning and like Diyet has healthy dose of cheekiness. In concert, Diyet engages audiences in an intimate and uplifting experience as she invites them into a soundscape of rhythm, melody and storytelling. Her warm and resonant voice conveys the emotion and passion of the happy and heartbreaking things that happen in her world. At the end of the day Diyet is an optimist and her music leaves listeners with a sense of hope and possibility.

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Boyd Benjamin: The Flying Gwitch'in Fiddler

Bio: Boyd Benjamin came to his instrument naturally, as fiddling runs deep in his family. After discovering the fiddle at the age of 14, Boyd has never looked back as he honed both his fiddling skills and obtained both his pilot and helicopter licenses. He pursued these life dreams achieving a special youth award at the 2008 national aboriginal achievement awards. He went on to play at the 2010 Vancouver Cultural Olympiad and he and fellow player Kevin Barr continue to be in high demand playing festivals and performances all over the north.

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Shawn Ryan: The second gold rush - A prospector’s perspective

In a few short years the Yukon went from less than $7 million in mineral exploration in 2002 to more than $300 million in 2011. The 2010/11 season saw over 120 junior mining companies come up to the Yukon and stake over 200,000 claims, a true staking rush that Canada hasn't seen since the discovery of diamonds in the NWT 20 years earlier. How did modern technology and the pursuit of an idea help a “traditional prospector” in Dawson City spark this second gold rush in the Yukon?

Bio: Shawn grew up in Timmins Ontario and began his career in exploration in the early 80’s working with Kidd Creek Mine’s geophysics team. He worked in the exploration industry for the next 8 years. Shawn moved to the Yukon in 1990 to collect wild mushroom and settle in Dawson City. In 1996 he decided to try his luck as a Prospector. He focused his prospecting in the Dawson District looking for the sources of all the alluvial gold. His research led to perfecting soil sampling techniques that led him to mapping out many new gold discoveries. He has been honoured with the Yukon Chamber of Mines Prospector of the Year in 1998 for the Horn, a high grade gold skarn discovery in the Tombstone Mountains north of Dawson City, and jointly with his wife, Cathy Wood, with RyanWood Exploration in 2009 for initiating what is now called “The Yukon Second Gold Rush”. Shawn received the Spud Huestis Award for excellence in prospecting and mineral exploration from AME BC in 2010 for the White Gold Discovery. In 2011 Shawn was also honoured with the Bill Dennis, Prospector of the Year Award by the PDAC for prospecting success with a Canadian discovery on the White and Coffee Projects.

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Chris Rider: Guiding youth in a connected world

What does it mean to grow up in a world of 24 hour connectivity? How is the internet changing childhood? What is "digital citizenship" and what's the deal with "cyber bullying"? This talk by BYTE's Executive Director, Chris Rider, will explore these questions and some of the answers may surprise you!

Bio: Chris Rider is the Executive Director of Whitehorse based youth charity, BYTE. An Australian native, he has a Masters Degree in Commerce (International Business) from Swinburne University in Melbourne and has worked in non-profit management since 2008. Chris has a passion for the environment and developing equity. He feels incredibly privileged to work for such an amazing organization.

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Larry Gray: Choosing conscious elderhood

How does one become an elder? Is it just a case of getting old and automatically acquiring wisdom? Or is there something that we have to consciously do – an inner journey to take? Before our communities can connect with the wisdom, guidance and experience of our elders, is it possible that perhaps elders first have to reconnect with themselves?

Bio: Larry Gray was a forester and wildlife biologist for many years. His work as a biologist has taken him across the Arctic, from Ellesmere Island to Wood Buffalo National Park, from Baffin Island to the Yukon and Alaska. He has had many close encounters with northern wildlife, including polar bears, caribou, wolves, muskox, and wood bison. In order to understand the changes he saw in Arctic land and seascapes, he turned his attention to the study of the human animal and the field of ecopsychology. Ecopsychology strives to integrate ecological principles and insights gleaned from the natural world with psychological wisdom into a unified field of study. Through his research in ecopsychology, he found a profound new vision of growing older, a vision grounded in our relationship with Nature. The process is called “Conscious Eldering”. From this perspective, the senior years become prime opportunity for inner growth and deep fulfilment – for growing into the true elderhood – the pinnacle of the life journey. Through this deep inner work, the conscious elder emerges as a powerful force and change agent in society.

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Dr. JP Pinard: Imagine - A cold wind heating Yukon homes

Dr. JP Pinard is a professional engineer and a community wind and renewable energy researcher, consultant, advisor, and advocate. JP grew up in the northern mining town of Val-d’Or, Quebec and his ancestors came from France in 1647. He received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Waterloo and wandered into Whitehorse the following year in 1992. His calling to renewable energy came in 1996 and returned to university to pursue a master’s degree and then a PhD on the wind climate of the mountainous Yukon. He has assessed the wind energy potential in many communities of northern Canada. JP’s primary focus is to help build a renewable energy future for the Yukon and Canada’s remote communities.

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Jane Koepke: Building a DestiNation, One Trail at a Time

Jane Koepke is a lifelong Yukoner and principal of a small consultancy that provides a range of services in the fields of parks, recreation, tourism, and community development. Jane’s work seeks out connections between citizen engagement, health and wellness, and environmental and economic sustainability. Her experiences planning and developing trails in Whitehorse and Carcross have helped shape her belief that the interface between built and natural environments is a rich source of such connections. Jane has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and is currently working on a Masters of Science in Parks, Recreation and Tourism at the University of Illinois. She is also a Candidate member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. Jane lives in Whitehorse with her husband and two children.

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Janet Clarke: Little Free Libraries - a community’s mini-agora

Bio: I grew up in North Vancouver and my very first job when I was 14 years old was putting books away at the Capilano Library in Edgemont Village. Libraries were a good fit for me so after finishing an Arts degree at UBC, I went to the library school at the University of Western Ontario. When I graduated in 1992, I moved to Whitehorse and I have worked in a variety of libraries since then. In 2004, I returned to UBC and got a teaching degree. My current job is as the teacher-librarian at Vanier Secondary School where I get to put books in young people’s hands every single day. Libraries and reading are passions of mine. I think that the next best thing to reading a book myself is finding a book to satisfy someone else’s need to read. I joined Andrew Carnegie as a library builder in September 2012 when I put a Little Free Library on my front lawn. Almost immediately, I became famous…at least in my corner of Riverdale. My little library has brought many people and books together. My husband Nils and two sons Max and Angus live with me at the house with the LFL.