PRESS RELEASE

October 10, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Cosette Ratliff, Supervising Librarian, 510-747-7716

TED^xAlamedaWomen full day simulcast

TED^xAlamedaWomen is pleased to provide a free one-day live simulcast of the TEDWomen conference on Thursday, October 27, 2016. The simulcast will be held at the Alameda Free Library, 1550 Oak St., from 8am to 8pm. Participants may come for as much or as little as your personal time allows.

Time is personal. We all have the same amount of time, 24 hours a day, and yet most of us feel we never have enough. Even with today’s latest inventions, technology, and science, we can’t make time or stop time — or can we?

Come explore time zones, time travel, time outs and time together. We will explore the conventions and challenges of time.

We will ask the hard questions. Because isn't it about time:

·         To find long-term solutions to climate change, poverty, immigration, violence, race, gender and economic inequities?

·         To lead for different outcomes?

·         To challenge our "time-saving" technologies?

·         To pay full attention and be fully present for ourselves as well as others?

More information about the different sessions will be made available as the schedule solidifies. Please watch the library website, www.alamedafree.org, for updates. All sessions are open and free to the public. Pre-registration is not required, however we will cap attendance at 100.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)

About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 30 years ago, TED has grown to support its mission with multiple initiatives. The two annual TED Conferences invite the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes or less. Many of these talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Sal Khan and Daniel Kahneman.

The annual TED Conference takes place each spring in Vancouver, British Columbia. TED's media initiatives include TED.com, where new TED Talks are posted daily; the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as translations from volunteers worldwide; the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self-organized TED-style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world-changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

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