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Two days of TEDx Bristol
For Somalia-born speaker Nura Aabe, the chance to appear at TEDx Bristol was too good to turn down.
“From hiding, from being stigmatised, from being traumatised, finally I was in a position to share my story with the world,” she told Bristol24/7 the day after her talk, taking a moment out from promoting her charity Autism Independence.
Close to Aabe’s charity stand outside The Lantern at the Colston Hall, We The Curious creative director Anna Starkey was posing for photographs after her talk that morning about the culture of curiosity.
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Remembering her talk, Starkey said: “It was so lovely to see people smiling up at me. It meant a lot. It was an amazing space for sharing thoughts, but the best thing about TEDx Bristol is everyone else.”
Wearing lanyards around their neck, the delegates over the two-day event were able to experience far more than just the talks in the main hall, with more talks about the subjects covered taking place in The Lantern, a pop-up bookshop from Rise in the foyer and even massages.
There was plenty for the TEDx audience to do between speakers in the main hall
“Poo!” shouted the audience sat in the balcony of the Colston Hall at the end of Natalie Fee’s talk soon before lunch on Friday.
Not because it was bad. Far from it; the Bristol environmental campaigner’s talk had been a moving and inspiring look at how she had devoted the last three and a half years of her life to combatting plastic pollution.
The shouting from the left side, right side and balcony of the hall was the City to Sea founder’s way of reminding everyone in the audience that only three things should go down the toilet (one of which she even had on stage with her): pee, poo and paper.
Among the many other highlights over the two days, Starkey’s We The Curious colleague Antonia Forster spoke about polyamory in animals, Knowle West Media Centre‘s Mena Fombo spoke about the objectification of black women and Clayton Planter spoke about transferring the skills learned on the streets to the boardroom.
All the talks had the theme of ‘dare to disrupt’, with every one soon able to be viewed online at www.tedxbristol.com.
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