The fifth annual TEDxWyandotte event is planned March 8.
The event is from 6:30 to 9 p.m. March 8 at the Kansas City Kansas Community College Performing Arts Center, 7250 State Ave.
TedxWyandotte features opportunities for networking as well as seven presenters speaking to the theme “Dream Big: The Lost Art of Dreaming.”
“We are very thrilled this is our fifth year bringing outstanding speakers with great thought provoking ideas worth sharing,” said Dr. Marisa Gray, TEDxWyandotte committee organizer.
“TEDxWyandotte is all about networking and sharing innovative thoughts and ideas,” she said. “We anticipate filling the performing arts center with people excited to network and share their ideas with others. This year, we have added a new element for the evening. In support of our local small businesses, three food trucks will be on site during intermission. They include French Crepes KC, KCQ BBQ and Humdinger Food Truck. There is no better way to spend an evening, stimulating ideas, networking, music and great food.”
Two of the event’s six presenters include:
• Nathaniel Horowitz, ESL instructor at Kansas City Kansas Community College – Adult and Continuing Education. He will be speaking on “Dreaming of Health.” Born and raised in Michigan, Horowitz has taught English as a Foreign Language on three continents to students from 60 countries. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Oberlin College and a Master of Arts degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts – Boston. In the 1990s, he studied with a practitioner of traditional Amazonian medicine and spent 14 months in the rainforest, learning and healing and writing about the experience. He moved to Vienna, Austria, in 2001, and back to the United States in 2017.
• L. Carol Scott, Ph.D. She will be speaking on “Never Lost Forever.” She discovered the power of a Big Dream during recovery from childhood sexual assault, which had left her with few tools for healthy adult relationships. A career in early childhood development intersected with this personal experience, creating new insights for recovery. Scott’s developmental lens shares tools that enable more trusting, less-conflicted and more joy-filled relationships and interactions, at home and at work. For individuals in any stage of transformational journey, seeing life from the kaleidoscope perspective of early childhood allows you to take your relationships and your life to the next level and leave the struggle behind.
Additional presenters will be announced in coming weeks.
For more information or to register for TedxWyandotte, visit www.tedxwyandotte.org. Select the “2018 Tickets Available Now” button. The cost of the event is $20 or $15 for groups of 10 or more. Admission is free for students that register and present a valid student ID. The ticket includes admittance to the event and a t-shirt.
About TED: TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading,” usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or fewer) delivered by today’s leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED’s annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and made available, free on TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.