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Weekend Planner: November 19–20, 2011

In this Weekend Planner: breast cancer awareness inspires a film festival, check out a diverse wealth of worldly music, a Swedish Christmas celebration returns, doggies get into the holiday spirit with Winter Woofstock, build your own photography mobile app, watch an improv comedy competition, kids design a city for mice, a TED conference returns to Ryerson, and the Santa Claus Parade is coming to town.

HEALTH/FILM: It’s a shame that much of the Facebook generation’s exposure to breast cancer awareness will be through annoying “My bra is X-colour” status-update memes. Aiming to rectify that, and to share some actual information on a subject that’s as important as ever, is the fourth annual Breast Fest—the world’s first breast cancer film festival. [...]

TEDx Toronto Now Underway

The annual ideas conference is streaming live, and there are some promising speakers on this year's slate.

Watch live streaming video from tedx at livestream.com Getting underway right now: the TEDx Toronto conference. Inspired by the TED conference, which brings an eclectic collection of thinkers together to discuss their work in ways that are accessible to a general audience, TEDx Toronto is independently organized but working in the same vein. They are [...]

A Mixed Bag at ideacity

Photographer Rick Smolan with Natasha Pruss. Last week 600 people attended the 2011 edition of ideacity in the hopes of being inspired. Fifty speakers were each given 20 minutes to share ideas on topics ranging from geneticists’ attempts to increase lifespans to how the development of projectile weapons kick-started human civilization. Some brought new insights, [...]

TEDxTO takes Toronto by Twitter

Illustration by Brian McLachlan/Torontoist. A carefully curated collection of young, hip, and technologically inclined Torontonians gathered yesterday at the Glenn Gould Studio for TEDxTO, our local, indie satellite version of the wildly popular TED talks. TED started twenty-five years ago as a four day conference and has since blossomed into an international live and online [...]

The Day TEDxTO Took Over

d’bi young What is TEDxTO? TEDxTO is what happens when you pack the Theatre Passe Muraille from wall to wall with a hand-selected group of Toronto’s most eager social media types, ply them with free quinoa salad and chocolate truffles, and then give them a packed day full of presentations from noted local artists, performers, [...]

TEDxTO Announces Speakers, Dashes Your Hopes of Attending

Michael Dougherty speaks at TEDxSF, in San Francisco. Photo by Adrianne Koteen. TEDxTO, the independently organized TED conference focussed on “What’s Next,” which we previewed in July, has spent the better part of today periodically announcing their thirteen speakers and those speakers’ topics for their September 10 event via—like you couldn’t guess—Twitter. And while it’s [...]

TED Comes to Toronto*

Well, kind of. TED, the Long Beach–based ideas conference organized around brilliant speeches from great thinkers—a conference which has become only more famous by regularly releasing those speeches in full online—recently unveiled plans to have independently organized TED events around the world under the banner of TEDx. (The photos throughout this article are by Rodrigo [...]