Theme: Creating our Future

Inspired by the phenomenal success of the first TEDxBrayfordPool event we want to give voice to incredible young people from Lincoln and beyond. TEDxYouth@BrayfordPool is organised by young people, for young people with the support of the TEDxBrayfordPool team in the spirit of “Ideas Worth Spreading”.

TEDxYouth@BrayfordPool will be the first publicly accessible TEDx event in Lincoln specifically delivered by young people for young people aged between 16-26 years and will take place on Saturday 4 November at the University of Lincoln. Tickets are available from Lincoln Performing Arts Centre.

2017 is a historically significant year for the city of Lincoln as it marks the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest, the companion document to the Magna Carta; one of the only remaining copies of which is housed in Lincoln Castle. As we look to the past, and the freedoms these historic documents set in motion, TEDxYouth@BrayfordPool focuses on "Creating Our Future".

Our goal is to push boundaries, stimulate discussion and catalyse change by offering a platform to showcase the things that really matter to young people. Our stage will become a place for pioneers, free thinkers and doers to share their ideas and knowledge with a global audience

Stephen Langton Building
University of Lincoln
Brayford Pool
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1RD
United Kingdom

Chloe Zuccaro

Care Worker

Chloe works in the health and social care sector primarily focusing on areas of addiction and offending. Her drive for working in this sector grew from her personal experiences and voluntary roles at youth, mental health and drug services. She continues to volunteer while working, with the intent of encouraging and inspiring youngsters to overcome barriers to success while faced with issues surrounding substance misuse and addiction.

Dan Boyden

Director, The Change Collective

Dan is a theatre practitioner and arts consultant who has spent the last 15 years passing through different airports on his way to meeting interesting people. Born in Bristol and now living in London, Dan designs and delivers creative projects, often with marginalised groups and communities, in the U.K and Internationally. He’s lived and worked in Brazil, New York, Bosnia, India and for 11 months with a small dog called Nigel, in Zambia. Dan is a Winston Churchill Fellow and Director of The Change Collective, an organisation that unites a group of arts practitioners from different disciplines, in an experiment to find out more about how change happens through the arts.

Edd Arnold

Dancer

Edd is a freelance dance artist, currently working with Balletboyz based in London. Edd was born in Bristol, where he began dancing through B-Boying at the age of 13 years old, under the guidance of Champloo Dance Company. In 2011 Edd began his training at Swindon Dance before joining Rambert School from 2014-2017, where he graduated with a First Class Honours Degree. In 2012 – 2014 Edd joined the National Youth Dance Company, working with Jasmin Vardimon and Akram Khan. Alongside a performing career, Edd is very passionate about choreographing dance for theatre and film, as well as teaching dance in a variety of contexts.

Hannah Mason

Dancer

Hannah is currently in her 3rd year at London Contemporary Dance School and an apprentice for Jane Hackett Projects. Within the years of her vocational training, she has performed under Robert Cohan (Elixir Festival 2017, Sadlers Wells), Pascal Merighi from Pina Bausch company and has been exploring her own artistry with multiple collaborators including those within Siobhan Davies’ Next Choreography programme. Prior to this she was a member of the National Youth Dance Company 2015/16 with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as Artistic Director. Curiosity to explore creativity within the physical language of Contemporary dance came after 9 years training as an Artistic Gymnast.

Kian Hearnshaw

Student

As a hopeful law student currently studying economics, government and politics, and history at A-level Kian has begun his journey to understanding the nature of democracy; and as the former Member of Youth Parliament for Lincolnshire he can begin to understand how 'people power' is to an extent in jeopardy in the UK. Kian is also the current Youth Executive Member for a political party as well as a pro-active youth rights campaigner, he will be standing for Lincoln City Council in May and attempting to succeed in his A-levels! The entire nature of TEDx inspired Kian to get involved with the bigger picture and look into a concept that affects the entire of society: Democracy.

Lewis Smith

Student Teacher

Lewis is a graduate in Education Studies with Special Educational Needs & Inclusion, from Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln. Following the completion of his degree, he is now conducting a Schools Direct Placement at a Special Needs school in Lincolnshire – working towards his formal teaching qualification. With an underlying passion for Special Educational Needs, as well as challenging conventional norms, Lewis consistently seeks to challenge expectations and traditions within the education system - and redefine the way we look at the purpose of education within the 21st Century.

Liam O'Dell

Student & Radio Presenter

Liam is a deaf campaigner, blogger and video maker from Bedfordshire studying for a degree in journalism at the University of Lincoln. Since 2012, Liam has been writing about music, politics and disability on his blog, The Life of a Thinker, and has recently returned to making deaf awareness videos on YouTube. His latest project has been the launch of his own podcast, which sees him discuss the biggest disability news with special guests. Aside from studying and writing, Liam currently hosts a Saturday morning show on Lincoln's community radio station and hopes to enter the radio news industry when he graduates next year.

Mercy Ngulube

Social Activist

Mercy is a courageous social activist who has used her own experience of growing up with HIV to drive her commitment and pursuit of equality for young people living with HIV. She is the former Chair of the Children's HIV Association's Youth Committee and used the role to mobilise campaigns on behalf of young people living with HIV. Mercy is praised for having represented CHIVA and the wider community of young people living with HIV with professionalism, realism, humour, passion and intelligence. In 2017, Mercy was awarded an inaugural Diana Legacy Award from Princes William and Harry. Mercy is currently doing her undergraduate studies, in English and is passionate about words, their impact on the world and using them to drive forward social change.

Remi Graves

Poet & Drummer

Remi is a London based poet and drummer. A Barbican Young Poet, her work which centres on themes of identity, un-belonging and our relationship to nature, can be found in publications such as Skin Deep, Orlando Zine and NON Quarterly. Her past projects include a residency at Crodyon Library with Spine Festival and she most recently held the role of Digital Poet in Residence with 1215.today and The Poetry School. Remi is a 2017 National Poetry Day Ambassador. She is also one half of Gertrude and Jemima, a poetry and music duo with South African poet and performer Toni Stuart, who presented their improv piece What The Trees Know at Southbank's Africa Utopia festival.

Saffron Jackson

Student

Saffron is currently in her last year of sixth form in Sleaford. She’s hoping to study history at university because she’s fascinated by how humanity shapes the world we live in. As an only child living very rurally she’s spent a lot of my time thinking and observing. She’d love to travel and meet different people and hopes to be able to have a positive impact on others’ lives. In her spare time Saffron really enjoy art and live music, and generally getting involved. In part because she loves seeing others with the confidence to be themselves in front of an audience, and pursuing what they care about most. Saffron applied to take part in this event as much to listen to others as to share her own ideas.

Zach Jones

Artist & Polymath

Zach is an experimental artist who tries to push the boundaries of everything he works on. He'll turn his hand to anything, but his main passions are philosophy, writing music and engaging with new people and cultures. After graduating from university just over a year ago Zach is hoping to be the change that he wants to see in the world. By motivating others to be the best that they can be, and reforming himself to be better every day, he hopes that we can all create a brighter future together.