Theme: The Village

TEDxMinneapolisSalon Winter 2016: The Village is taking place on Monday, February 29th, 2016 at Bauhaus Brew Labs at 1315 Tyler Street NE in northeast Minneapolis. The Village is dedicated to bringing together our educators, parents, school administrators, EdTech community, teachers, and other contributors of our education community. Bringing up the future generation requires a Village, and this event will feature amazing pre-recorded TEDTalks, a discussion of the TEDEd platform, and an opportunity to engage the local education community to discuss what is working, what we need, and where we go from here.

Bauhaus Brew labs
1315 Tyler St NE
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, 55413
United States

Roe Family Singers Band

The Roe Family Singers are a good-time hillbilly band that blends characteristic old-time sound with rock and roll urgency and influence. Led by wife and husband Kim Roe (Best Female Vocalist, City Pages/Village Voice) and Quillan Roe (Accident Clearinghouse), the band features banjo, autoharp, guitar, fiddle, musical saw, bass, and jug. The band was formally recognized among the region’s finest performing musicians by the McKnight Foundation and is a two-time winner of the title “World’s Best” at the nation’s largest and longest-running jug band battle.

Bertrand Weber

Bertrand Weber was born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland. At the age of 15 his family moved to the United States where his long career in restaurants began, starting in his father’s restaurant. He spent the next several decades climbing the culinary ladder in establishments along the East Coast from Back-of-House, to Maitre’d, until finally landing in Minneapolis as the Food and Beverage Director at the famous Whitney Hotel. From there, he continued his journey, not in traditional hospitality, but instead at Minneapolis Public Schools, where he is determined to transform what K-12 students in Minnesota eat at school. He is rebuilding schools’ kitchens, menus and ultimately changing what our kids love to eat.

Carol Ford

Carol Ford, with her late husband Chuck Waibel, built the Deep Winter Greenhouse in 2004. Ever since, scientists, gardeners, farmers, architects, and engineers have come together to marvel at this new model’s possibilities of sustainable deep winter farming. Recently, she has gained significant traction through additional funding, the University of Minnesota Extension, conferences, and the newly established Deep Winters Producers Association, all of which are dedicated to building the next DIY movement that could change the future of our food system and Minnesota’s place in it. Learn how to build your own by reading her recently published work, The Northlands Winter Greenhouse Manual.

Eric Sannerud

Eric is a fourth-generation back-to-the-land farmer. A University of Minnesota grad, he is breaking new ground to keep his family farm in business. Eric Grows hops, and his crop is selling to top breweries in the cities from Fulton Beer, Day Block Brewing and more. With “dirt in his blood”, he became well acquainted with significant issue in the food system’s future: our farmers are aging. Ever since, he has worked to find ways to resolve this problem: he co-founded the Sandbox Center for Regenerative Entrepreneurship, an incubator and learning space for young farmers and food entrepreneurs, helped found Urban Oasis in St. Paul, holds a leadership role in the MInnesota Young Food Professionals group, and mentors students at the University of Minnesota. This year Eric wasr awarded 2016 40 Under 40 from Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal.

Pakou Hang

Pakou grew up pickling cucumbers and growing and selling vegetables at local farmers markets. She has over 20 years experience with farming and vegetable production, is a former member of the St. Paul Farmers Market Board of Directors, and participated in the 2011 The White House Project’s Plate to Politics Summit in Wisconsin. Pakou is devoted to telling the important story of Hmong farmers, unveiling issues of access, equity, and inclusion in our food infrastructure. In her work, she focuses on how to create a new food system that equalizes farmers and consumers, as well as developing a long-term strategy for land stewardship, food production, and farmers’ wealth.