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TEDxHeritageGreen (TEDxHG) has reinvented how a TEDx organization can make a difference, even in a world where traditional in-person events haven’t been recommended. We’re not just an annual conference in Greenville, SC. In 2020, we launched an ongoing, status-quo-nudging, multi-experience online initiative for intimate and worthwhile learning, insight, and conversation. Our offerings have been a season of community experiments that will culminate in our 2021 flagship conference—a multi-session virtual experience on April 23, 25, and 27.
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Keep scrolling to learn more about TEDxHG:
🔶Events & Gatherings
🔶Ways to Get Involved
🔶FAQs

Events & Gatherings

Do you enjoy learning and idea-focused conversation? Do you value constructive dialogue with people outside your own bubble, making new connections and friendships with those who are very different from you? Is it hard to imagine something better than an unexpected epiphany? Join us, whether you live on Upstate SC or on the other side of the globe!

▶️▶️ UPCOMING EVENTS

TEDxHeritageGreen 2021 Conference
Virtual • 1-3:30pm (EDT/UTC-4) April 23, 25, 27
Our flagship event will be organized into three virtual sessions held on three separate days. Ten unique speakers and twenty-three local artists will present eight eye-opening talks and six original video works. Audience experience and interaction is key to our mission, so get ready for some small-group fun as well! At the end of each session will be a “Truth and Dare” finale to encourage real-world action. Then 3:30-4pm, you're invited to an afterparty!
🔆Register to attend: Zoom
🔆Best way to stay in the loop: Facebook | Email

TED Circles
Virtual • Dates+times announced periodically
These small, intimate (and free) Zoom conversations are enlightening and satisfying on so many levels, digging into relevant topics like racism, climate change, bridging divides, unconscious bias, leadership, and truth. A TED initiative that's been around since September 2019, TED Circles are flexible, easy, and well suited as virtual gatherings — small, intimate groups around the world get together to discuss ideas around a monthly theme. Each TEDxHG TED Circle is unique and highlights different content.
🔆Best way to stay in the loop: Facebook

▶️▶️ PAST EVENTS

TEDxHeritageGreenWomen
Virtual • November 20, 2020
A uniquely bold experience! With the theme “WWE! Women, Wine, Empowerment,” this gathering screened brand new videos from TED Women 2020 and featured a surprise conversation LIVE with real-life superhero Thunder Rosa. Our online community—in South Carolina and beyond—shared, had fun, and engaged in meaningful, actionable conversations. Designed for a diverse audience interested in and motivated by ideas and conversation surrounding women's issues, this event embraced people of all gender identities.
🔆Recaps here: Facebook
🔆Our partners, whose generous support enabled us to host this event at no charge:
…. Think Up Consulting
…. Evolving Diversity Podcast
…. EK Media Broadcast Network
…. Zoom
…. New Mind Health and Care

Open Mic
Virtual • October 13, 2020
We hosted a Virtual Open Mic on October 13, 2020. This free gathering allowed our virtual community to share their own ideas and talents—each via a 3.5-minute video—with a welcoming, diverse audience while engaging in conversation with fellow attendees about the topics presented.
🔆Our partners, whose generous support enabled us to host this event at no charge:
…. Think Up Consulting
…. EK Media Broadcast Network
…. Zoom

Ways to Get Involved

Join a TEDxHG community group
Little to no free time, but you love what we're about? Super easy ways to earn exclusive, early sneak peeks and other surprises while supporting TEDxHG include joining our...
🔶Founding Family. Sign up for our email list during our inaugural year. That's all you have to do!
🔶Tribe of Champions. Engage with one of our soon-to-be-launched groups on Facebook or LinkedIn. Sign up for our email list to make sure you’re notified when the groups are born.

Share your expertise
Contribute to our mission and the richness of our community on a short-term or ancillary basis, without the ongoing obligations of full-fledged volunteer team membership. If interested, please email hello@tedxheritagegreen.com. Roles may include…
🔶Team adviser
🔶TED Circle host
🔶Open mic participant 💬
🔶Guest curator, facilitator, experience designer
🔶Something we haven’t invented yet—hit us up with ideas

💬An effective way to introduce yourself to our curation team if you’d like to present during our flagship conference in April.

Join our volunteer team
Dive into a fun, innovative, and rewarding volunteer gig. Opportunities exist in lots of areas—reach out to hello@tedxheritagegreen.com if you’re intrigued! Possibilities include…
🔶PR + marketing
🔶Social media + community building
🔶Virtual event experience + production
🔶Squarespace design + maintenance
🔶Partnership solicitation + coordination
🔶Content research + curation
🔶Something we haven’t invented yet—hit us up with ideas

Explore partnership options
Support and help sustain the TEDxHeritageGreen mission. Details about our partnership program are coming soon. In the meantime, please email hello@tedxheritagegreen.com if you’re intrigued!

FAQs

What is TED and TEDx?
TED is a global nonprofit organization devoted to ideas worth spreading. It began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost almost any topic you can imagine. TEDx is a licensing program in which live TED-like presentations are shared with local communities around the world. Each TEDx organization is unique, developing and executing their events independently.

Can you tell me more about TEDxHeritageGreen?
TEDxHG derives its name and spirit from a long-established public resource in the heart of Greenville, SC. Heritage Green is a cultural campus that provides a vibrant place of discovery, inspiration, creativity, and entertainment for Greenville County residents and visitors of all ages and walks of life. We've got a keen eye on that TEDx spirit that you know and love, providing a platform for varied topics and voices within many disciplines, free of commercial, religious, and political agendas.

In addition to delivering impactful ideas within a TED-like formula, TEDxHG is also driven to...
🔶support messages with impactful experiences and engagement,
🔶attract untapped audiences,
🔶spur respectful, open conversation among individuals who may not normally interact, and
🔶provide avenues for individual or collective action.

Why did you start a second TEDx organization in Greenville?
It didn't begin as a TEDx effort. It was born out of an informal chat about how to spark epiphanies in individuals and aid understanding, empathy, and engagement among diverse groups of people—especially those who rarely, if ever, come together as equals in a psychologically safe, open environment. As supporters and former leaders of TEDxGreenville, Lisa (licensee/organizer) and Caroline (co-organizer) saw an alignment with TED and TEDx ideals, so it was a natural fit to land on bold, experimental event design as a way to influence insight and growth. We favored a status-quo-busting, direct, assertive-yet-respectful—and inevitably uncomfortable—approach.

The edgy vision didn't feel exactly right for the esteemed TEDx platform already existing in our fair city... but what if TEDxGreenville had an incorrigible little sister?

Cities all over the globe have more than one TEDx organization, working in concert to elevate and widen the movement in their regions. We look forward to this collaboration in Greenville!

What's the connection with Heritage Green?
During early explorations, we chatted with The Children's Museum of the Upstate (TCMU) about holding our in-person event at their location on the Heritage Green cultural campus. As a well-known public place of discovery, inspiration, creativity, and entertainment, Heritage Green would be a fitting inspiration for our organization's name.

TED approved our license in February, just before COVID-19 became very, very real in the USA. We pivoted into virtual spaces, but as we emerge into the “real world” again, we’ll explore future partnerships with Heritage Green entities.

How did you do TEDx in the middle of a pandemic?
We got creative! 2020 was a time of reinvention for all of us, and TEDx-ers around the world began innovating like crazy. Over the course of our license period, which extends through April 2021, TEDxHeritageGreen has focused on multiple virtual, pandemic-safe experiences that will culminate in a spring splash event featuring our official TEDx Talks.

In 2020, we hosted over 15 virtual TED Circles, an open mic event, and TEDxHeritageGreenWomen. We’re heartened to see that our mission is resonating with so many!

May I apply to be a speaker?
We do not have an application procedure. Since Greenville is lucky to have an established nomination and vetting process via our friends at TEDxGreenville, we encourage you to submit information there. TEDxHeritageGreen's approach is to identify themes, issues, and topics of broad value to our community, and then find presenters who are uniquely qualified to weigh in.

May I suggest an issue or topic for TEDxHeritageGreen to address?
Yes, please! Email hello@tedxheritagegreen.com with the word SUGGESTION in the subject line. Share any details that may clarify your topic suggestion—your thought process, examples, and links, for example.

May I apply to be a performer?
We launched the experimental TEDxHeritageGreen 2021 Artists Project in which artists collaborated to create performance videos for our flagship conference. We may do this again… stay tuned.

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