TEDxAsheville announces line-up for speakers

Jason Sandford

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TEDxAsheville, set for Sunday, has sold out. But you can still see it. It’s a five-hour event, so if you’re interested in the speaker line-up, here it is, in order of appearance. There are a couple of intermissions and some entertainment built in along the way:

TEDxAsheville 2010 program:

Session 1

Breah Livolsi Parker “Drawing on the Spirit Within”

Eustace Conway “Traditional Lifestyles of the 21st Century”

Jeff Schmitt “My Adventures on the Road to Wellness”

Angela Shelton “Squish–The Heart of the Matter”

Session 2

Doc Hendley “Hell or High Water”

Laurey Masterton “Bees, Bikes and Cooking for Survival”

TEDTalk video: The LXD: “In the Internet Age, Dance Evolves”

James Nave “The Imaginative Storm Into the Creative Form”

Session 3

River Guerguerian, Chris Rosser, John Vorus and Kat Williams “Ancient Technologies”

TEDTalk video: Adora Svitak: “What Adults Can Learn From Kids”

John Miles “Doing Business ‘The Kind Way'”

Billy Jonas The Art of War: A Neo-Tribal Operetta in Three Parts”

A TEDx weekend: There are actually two TEDx events happening the last weekend in August. TEDxAsheville and TEDxNextGeneration Asheville, a new event spotlighting the wisdom and accomplishments of local youth. Learn more about TEDxNextGenerationAsheville here.