![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Wagamese, One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet Cultivating a Garden of Ideas. the truth of our interrelationship with each other, our connectedness, our family tie, is that story is our most powerful commonality. We feel very honoured to be part of how the TEDx program is helping organizers like us to bring the energy of amazing ideas to our local cities, and allowing us to showcase the many ideas that are hidden in our own back yard. Big or small, new or old, every one of those teams is doing an inspiring job of finding voices that matter to our time and place in history, and being creative in how they engage their participants. Along with others in our city and across the globe, we were given the amazing latitude by TEDx to explore and multiply, and we now number in the thousands of organizing teams internationally. When we were granted our first licence in 2009, and planned our first event for April 2010, the number of global TEDx licencees was in the hundreds and collectively we were very much an experiment for the TED organization. To us, it has always marked the treasured spot where idea explorers gather. To TEDx, it means "an independently organized event". We're often asked what the "X" in TEDx is supposed to stand for. It has been an amazing ten years (now more than eleven, with our COVID years of deferral) for TEDxCalgary as an organizing team.
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