Before, in between and after our live TEDx talk sessions, we are offering you something a little bit different from previous events.
TEDxLondonWomen community building: Creating your career community
During The Warm Up (10:30-12:00), learn how to build your career community during a network session with a difference.
In a squiggly career your career community is a critical part of how we learn, borrow brilliance and explore future possibilities. Defining networking as people helping people, Amazing If believe the best relationships are based on a giving mindset.
In this networking session, Sarah will support you to assess the strength of your network and how to fill the gaps you’ve got. You’ll have a chance to consider what you’d like to give and gain as part of your career community and the different roles you can play in a network.
Sarah Ellis is the co-founder of Amazing If, an award-winning company with a mission to make squiggly careers better for everyone. Together with Helen Tupper, they are the authors of two Sunday Times bestsellers, The Squiggly Career and You Coach You. Their TEDx talk, The best career path isn’t always a straight line, has been watched by almost 2 million people and their weekly Squiggly Careers podcast has more than 4 million downloads.
TEDxLondonWomen workshop: Bystander intervention workshop
During The Break (13:30-15:00), you have two exciting options to choose from a workshop or a walking tour! First up, our TEDxLondonWomen themed workshop.
Do you know what to do if you or someone nearby is stopped and searched by the police? In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn your rights around stop search, what the difference between stop and search and stop and account is, and how to be a good ally to communities impacted by institutionally racist stop and search. Help keep your communities safe and become a proactive bystander. Together we can work collectively to reduce harm when rights are abused by British police.
Shareefa Energy is a poet, performer, writer, activist, educator, creative campaigner, creative workshop facilitator. She is originally from Highfields, Leicester and the author of poetry collection Galaxy Walk. Her poetry is honest and consistent against injustice, endorsed by Benjamin Zephaniah. She was awarded with the UK Entertainment Best Poet 2017 Award, a nominee for the Muslim Women Arts & Entertainment Awards 2021 and for the Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre 2019 award by the Arts Council and the CKI Martial Arts Academy Poetry and Literature 2023 award.
Her poetry has featured on BBC The One Show, Channel 4 and ITV. She has facilitated creative writing, poetry, storytelling and performance workshops internationally, from Palestine to Sierra Leone with schools, universities, academics, in immigration detention centres, with survivors of domestic violence and with those impacted by state violence. She was the youth and community coordinator on stop and search for London. She worked for the United Families & Friends Campaign, supporting bereaved families of people murdered by British police and died in custody. She worked with Level Up producing the Miscarriages of Justice poem to campaign and raise awareness on pregnant women enduring child loss in UK prisons.
Shareefa’s colleagues are Janey Starling and Seyi Falodun-Liburd, feminist organisers, TEDxLondon speakers and co-directors of Level Up, a UK feminist organisation campaigning for gender justice. Watch their TEDxLondon talk, How collective care can change society, now.
Walking Tours
Second up during The Break (13:30-15:00), you can get to know the local area, Hackney, a bit better through one of two walking tours. You can choose between:
🧑🎤 Rebels & Radicals Walk
Join Simon Cole from Hackney Tours for a 40 minute guided walk ‘back in time’ that will join the dots between the rebels, radicals, and revolutionaries of Hackney’s past and East London’s changemakers of today. Discover a rich tradition of thinkers and doers challenging the status quo, and leave inspired to follow in the footsteps of these storytelling giants.
🏛️ Hackney Town Hall Tour
Hackney Town Hall is one of London’s finest examples of civic art deco architecture. Originally designed by Lanchester & Lodge and opened in 1937, today the Grade II Listed building is still central to community life. Join Hackney Councillor Christopher Kennedy for a 30 minute guided tour and learn all about the Town Hall!
Each tour will last around 30-40 minutes. Hackney Town Hall is fully accessible with lifts to all floors and a DDA compliant ramp at the front of the Town Hall. The Radical Walking Tour is all flat on ground and pavements.
Beyond Borders workshop: Master your media, master your mind
Post Show (16:30-17:30), the festival experience continues with our Beyond Borders themed workshop.
Mental clarity, emotional resilience and unbreakable focus are the ultimate edge for peak performance. But there’s an invisible force that silently works against you every single day, draining your energy and stealing your focus – your media diet.
Join Jodie Jackson, previous TEDxLondon speaker and founder of the News Literacy Lab, to explore the connection between your media diet, mental health, and peak performance. She’ll help give you the “mental edge” needed to thrive in an age of information overload.
Jodie Jackson is a TEDxLondon speaker, bestselling author, and founder of the News Literacy Lab, on a mission to transform our media diet into a source of mental well-being and peak performance. After experiencing firsthand how consuming a flood of negative news affected her own wellbeing, Jodie dedicated her career to uncovering the powerful connection between media and mental health. Her books, You Are What You Read: Why Changing Your Media Diet Can Change the World and the children’s title Little Ruffle and the World Beyond, have empowered readers worldwide to rethink the impact of their daily media habits. Watch her TEDxLondon talk, Beyond fake news: how to heal a broken worldview, now.
Happening throughout the day
There are some popular activities coming back this year: our Speaker Cafe and Bookstall.
TEDxLondon Speaker Cafe
Connect with our speakers and ask your burning questions at the Speaker Cafe. After each session, this is a space to chat with the speakers you’ve seen on our stage and discuss their talks in more depth.
Bookstall
For the bookworms, we are thrilled to welcome back Housmans to run our bookstall. Stocking best sellers, titles by our current and past speakers and fantastic new reads, you’ll be spoilt for choice.
Housmans is a worker-run, radical bookshop in the heart of London, established in 1945 and based in Kings Cross since 1959. We specialise in books, magazines, and periodicals on topics like feminism, pacifism, Black politics, LGBTQIA+ politics, environmental justice and anarchism. We also stock fiction, graphic novels, poetry, children’s books and more, and host events and book groups throughout the year.
