Theme: Re:Set

Our 6th TEDxyouth@manchester is designed for an audience of post 16 students and has a stunning programme of speakers performers. Our students will host the event and provide talks and performances to complement our guest speakers.
Our theme of Re:Set will challenge thinking and perceptions and ask our audience to reflect on their view of the world.

The Fallibroome Academy
The Fallibroome Academy
Priory Lane
Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK104AF
United Kingdom

Buffalo Brothers

Newly born of Manchester’s creative melting pot, Buffalo Brothers have earned a reputation in their local stomping grounds for energetically executing explosive live sets of breathtakingly raw funk creations. On a tireless mission to reach the ears and the souls of the global groove herd, the band have written and recorded their blistering debut album ‘Fresh From The Horn’. Buffalo Brothers are stamping their hooves and finding their stride, and a funk stampede is fast approaching.

LIYSF Reflections

James Chasty, Sam Thomas, Ellie Payne, and Ellie Delight from The Fallibroome Academy were delegates at the London International Youth Science Forum.

South Africa Reflections

Charlotte Hammer, Naomi Kershaw, Corinne Salt, and Charlotte White travelled to South Africa to visit partner schools.

Alastair Campbell

Alastair Campbell is a writer, communicator and strategist best known for his role as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications and strategy. He has written eleven books including six volumes of diaries, three novels, a personal memoir on depression and the pursuit of happiness, and most recently ‘Winners and How They Succeed’, a best-selling analysis of what it takes to win in politics, business and sport. In recent years he has become increasingly involved with mental health charities and causes and in 2009 he received the Mind Champion of the Year award in recognition of his work to break down the stigma around mental illness.

Alice Bows-Larkin

Alice is a Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy and Director of Tyndall Manchester, as part of the internationally renowned, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Her work on international transport, energy systems and carbon budgets has had a significant impact on topical debates and policy development, including shaping the UK’s Climate Change Act and the inclusion of aviation within the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme.

Georgia Parkes-Russell

Georgia is a student at The Winsford Academy.

Jodie Buckland

Jodie is studying at The Fallibroome Academy and attending the Junior Royal Northern College of Music.

Katrine Marçal

Katrine Marçal is the author of 'Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?’ a book which discusses the politics and economics of how dinner arrives on your plate. She writes a weekly column on politics and economics for Aftonbladet, Scandinavia's largest daily newspaper. She lives in London.

Matt Dickinson

As a student of Archaeology at Durham University film maker Matt Dickinson spent many months roaming the wild corners of Africa and Europe searching for evidence of our Stone Age ancestors. He also has an interest in extreme mountaineering and has filmed extensively (including on the summit of Everest) for National Geographic TV, The Discovery Channel and the BBC. Recently Matt has been writing fiction for a new generation of adventurous readers; his award winning books 'Mortal Chaos' and 'The Everest Files’ have been enthusiastically received by reviewers and readers alike.

Rory Walker

Rory is a student at The Fallibroome Academy.

Sophie Coulombeau

Dr. Sophie Coulombeau is a lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, where she works on personal naming and identity in the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. She is also a novelist, and published her first novel Rites (winner of the Arts Council England Next Great Novelist Award) in 2012. She was a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker 2014-2015, and has produced films, radio and journalism for the BBC, the Guardian and the Independent.