Our community stands on the crux between the book-smart and street-smart, the medical prodigies and the boundary-pushing creatives. Richmond, once the capital of the Confederacy, is the now most liberal city in the state. A melting pot of ideas and stories. Our tattoos are plenty, our bikes are everywhere, and there’s always a festival going on. We may seem scary but that 300-pound bearded gentleman is an amateur opera singer and gives the warmest hugs ever. We never take no for an answer.
Virginia Commonwealth University is at the center of this maelstrom of a mixup. We embody the future and study the past. We cause noise complaints and shush others during finals. TEDxVCU is meant to epitomize the spirit of VCU, the contrasts and shades of personalities of the varied people that inhabit our university. We aim to inspire through sharing innovative ideas with the entire community.
TEDxVCU serves as a platform for going beyond boundaries. We go to class within walls, bolstered by our own borders between each other. The loneliness of focus begs for interruption, for fresh and new ideas, new horizons of creativity. TEDxVCU seeks to cause a collision of the old and new, bad and good, big and small, in order to reflect upon our communal identity and instill new connection from within and without.
To juxtapose is to compare and contrast, to stare long and hard and to glance at in passing. For TEDxVCU this year we want to illustrate the differences and similarities in our community and how we can heal the rifts that break us apart and celebrate the ideas that bring us together. Join us on February 6, 2016 at the Academic Learning Commons.
1000 Floyd Avenue
Room 1107
Richmond, Virginia, 23284
United States
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