TEDxEastEnd Blog
Behind The Scenes with Paula Falck (Food Experiences)
Behind The Scenes with Paula Falck (Food Experiences) Food, glorious food! Yes we’ve been stuffed over the festive season, but great food makes for even greater experiences. At TEDxEastEnd this year, we have a culinary display to tempt and tangle those taste buds. I...
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Diana Nammi
Diana Nammi Nearly a year back, Diana Nammi, Founder and Executive Director at the Iranian & Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) gave a talk at TEDxEastEnd significantly increasing awareness of her charity - which supports women and girls from Middle...
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Infecta
Infecta Like most of us at TEDxEastEnd, you may have been moved by Infecta’s musical performance last year. Revealing his soul through outstanding words and melody, Infecta calls music ‘his saviour’. Catching up with him recently gave us the opportunity for a sneak...
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Servane Mouazan
Servane Mouazan Since founding award-winning business Ogunte in 2001, Servane Mouazan has been restless in her quest to giving women social innovators a voice and a learning platform. Her 2012 talk entitled ‘the future belongs to smart connectors’ was an inspiration...
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Roy Ballentine
Roy Ballentine Back in 2012, Roy Ballentine captivated our TedxEastEnd audience with a talk entitled ‘What is your passport?’ We caught up with this Irish-born restaurateur extraordinaire a few weeks ago as part of our ‘Where are they now?’ blog series on past and...
read moreThe Importance of Collective Action | Tatiana Garavito | TEDxEastEndSalon Free Movement
This talk explores the idea of collective consciousness and why we must all be active and involved in creating social change. Tatiana explores her own journey, the social movements that have inspired her and how we can all...
read moreThe Great Passport Giveaway | Kiri Kankhwende | TEDxEastEndSalon Free Movement
Kiri shares her own journey of becoming a UK citizen and how she was motivated to speak out against rising xenophobic attitudes and rhetoric in the press and politics.
read moreImmigration is not a four letter word | Alex Andreou | TEDxEastEndSalon Free Movement
Alex Andreou left a promising career - much to the chagrin of his mother - in law and market investigation to train as an actor at London's Poor School at the tender age of 38. Since then he has played, mostly unpleasant people on...
read moreThe Human Cost of Borders | Colin Yeo | TEDxEastEndSalon Free Movement
Colin is a barrister, blogger and campaigner at Garden Court Chambers in London. He edits the Free Movement immigration and asylum law blog, which he founded in 2007. Colin specialises in immigration and asylum law representing...
read moreTEDxEastEnd 2011 – Helen Bamber – Borders of the mind
Helen Bamber OBE has worked tirelessly in the human rights field for over 60 years helping thousands of survivors of human rights violations worldwide. She began working with survivors in the former concentration camp,...
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