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<\/a>In addition to the main events at the McPherson Playhouse and City Hall, a multitude of food trucks will be at this year\u2019s event, as well as a surprise event taking place in Centennial Square (\u201cYou\u2019ll be able to hear it from Esquimalt,\u201d teases Wilks).<\/p>\n
True to its theme, Wilks hopes that this year\u2019s event will leave participators with the desire to make an impact themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is the point of all this? What does it mean? This year we wanted to make sure the ideas being presented are less abstract, less about the change you wish to see in the world but more about the practice, something you could get involved in if you wanted to,\u201d says Wilks. \u201cA lot of people attend just to passively observe, and that\u2019s cool, but if you wanted to get involved it\u2019s there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even if those attending TEDxVictoria aren\u2019t intending to get involved, the purpose of the event is also for people to make an impact in their own lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lasting impacts are the conversations, the connections you make with others while you\u2019re there,\u201d says Wilks. \u201cThe only time a doctor and a scientist see each other is when the scientist is sick. But that\u2019s the miraculous part of the TED platform\u0143you\u2019ve got the doctor and the scientist in the same room, along with the engineer, the businessman, the community leader, the politician, and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n
One aspiring young scientist is speaking at this year\u2019s event. Nathan Kuehne, a Grade 12 student at Glenlyon Norfolk school, received a gold medal at the Canada-Wide Science Fair for his work developing a home diagnostic tool for PKU (phenylketonuria). He hopes to use his innovations to impact people\u2019s lives in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n
\u201cHealth sciences can have a wider scope than people first believe,\u201d says Kuehne. \u201cWhen I do disease detection and management, not only does it affect those with the disease, but their families and children and the support networks around them as well. My ultimate goal is for this detection process to be in the homes of PKU patients all around the world. It might not happen soon, or at all, but my goal is to make that impact on patients real at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kuehne is excited to inspire people at this year\u2019s TEDxVictoria event, as he believes that is the TED platform\u2019s primary purpose.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a base level people should be entertained, but the nature of TED is to inspire people. It\u2019s rare for a high-school student to be involved in the things I am. I know that \u2018It\u2019s never too late to start\u2019 is a cliche, but you can impact people in ways you might not realize and without much prior knowledge. It\u2019s not hard to make an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another speaker at this year\u2019s event is Nicole Sorochan, the driving force behind Amplify Her.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cAmplify Her<\/i> is first and foremost a documentary film that focuses on women in the electronic music industry,\u201d says Sorochan, \u201cbut the whole thing is a feature film, six-part graphic novel, and a six-part motion comic series that features 19 women. My presentation is about my own personal transformation working on the project. This project was really challenging for me because I would have to interview women and deal with some things I had kept buried and hidden.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sorochan will use her experiences working on Amplify Her<\/i> as the heart of her presentation. She hopes to use this experience to impact people in the same way it has impacted her.<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of my message is that a lot of the traits we view as weak, maybe it\u2019s time to unlock that and unleash it. Sometimes our biggest wounds are ultimately our greatest gifts. Impact, for me, is about reaching out. It\u2019s about change.\u201d<\/p>\n
TEDxVictoria is shaping up to be an impactful one. While it is slated to be the largest Victoria event yet, Wilks warns that this may be the last.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has been a volunteer effort for five years, and many thousands of hours have been put into this event. We\u2019re getting to the point now where our team could use a break. We love it, but we could use a vacation, and that will probably happen after this one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Impact. That\u2019s the theme of this year\u2019s TEDxVictoria event. Featuring an array of speakers from all walks of life, TEDxVictoria is the largest TED event on Vancouver Island, and this year\u2019s conference is shaping up to be the biggest, and most impactful, TEDxVictoria yet. Camosun (and Nexus) alumnus Dylan Wilks is the creative and licensing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-18-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11371,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369\/revisions\/11371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}