REIMAGINE
Thursday, January 18th 7-9pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Address: 8616 National Blvd, Culver City, California 90232
With the start of the new year, let’s freshen our minds by re-examining the continuously evolving world in which we live. We will have 4-5 fascinating speakers share their viewpoints inspired by the theme “Re-Imagine.”
The speakers will talk about new ways of thinking, new perspectives, and new technologies that are needed to redefine our relationship with society to create a better world. The talks will challenge us to ask the question, how can we break away from conventional norms and re-imagine the relationship with ourselves and the world around us?
We are completely SOLD OUT for our upcoming TEDx Culver City show, but you still can watch it in real time.
SPEAKERS
Arthur Samuel Joseph
Arthur Samuel Joseph M.A., is the founder and chairman of the Vocal Awareness Institute, and is acknowledged as one of the world's leading communication strategists and authorities on the power of the human voice. He is well known as a teacher/mentor who has made it his life goal to Change the World through Voice.
With over five decades of teaching experience worldwide, Mr. Joseph is recognized for training world famous actors, singers, national and international political leaders, broadcasting and entertainment professionals, motivational speakers, among many other individuals. Mr. Joseph has also trained professional athletes in broadcasting and for important speeches at events such as the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony. He trains fortune 500 CEO's, and thought leaders like Tony Robbins, as well as those for whom English is a second language (ESL), including actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As a formal faculty member at the University of Southern California, Mr. Joseph has made guest appearances at Yale, George Washington, New York University, and many other highly recognized institutions to teach and speak about his life’s work.
Dr. Sabine Huemer
Dr. Sabine Huemer is a cognitive neuroscientist and neuroblogger with a special interest in brains that work outside the neurological norm. She teaches in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Whittier College in Whittier, California, and conducts research on autism, dyslexia, and other learning differences. Her work has been published in international science journals and presented at neuroscience and autism conferences on three continents. Sabine leads autism and neurodiversity workshops for a variety of audiences including professionals, teachers, parents, and support groups. She recently created a Neurodiversity and Neurotechnology Learning Community to explore neurotechnology for individuals who want to live up to their full neurocognitive potential.
Ivan Cash
Ivan Cash is an award-winning interactive artist and film director who believes in the power of human connection.
His conceptually-driven, genre-bending media projects spark meaningful conversation and impact culture, having been featured in The New York Times, CNN, TIME, The Guardian, Fast Company, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic, and received multiple Vimeo Staff Picks and Webby Honorees.
He has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 artist, an Art Directors Club Young Gun, and a Print New Visual Artist.
His work is in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and has exhibited internationally, from the Brooklyn Museum to the Australian Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences.
He is founder of Cash Studios——a creative studio specializing in a diverse range of projects celebrating human connection.
He believes talking to strangers can change the world, but nothing would make him happier than if you closed your eyes for 20 seconds and just listened to your breath.
Josephine Lee
Josephine Lee is an industry leading entrepreneur and an award winning international speaker.
She graduated from the University of Southern California in 2010 with a degree in Communication and joined Toastmasters in 2011 to continue her education. In 2016, she rose above 35,000 contestants to win 3rd place in the World Championship of Public Speaking. This etched her in history as the first Korean American woman to place in the final stage. Since then, she has given keynotes all over the world including the Middle East where she was the first lady champion to be invited to speak.
In business, after recognizing a need for more accessible and knowledgeable pointe shoe fittings, she started a traveling pointe shoe fitting company called The Pointe Shop in January of 2014.
The Pointe Shop offers professional fittings inside ballet studios as well as individual fittings at the flagship store in Santa Ana, CA. Convenience and expertise helped The Pointe Shop rise to become one of the top pointe shoe retailers in the country.
PERFORMANCE BY
Ilana Martin
Martin’s 2012 release under LALANA MUSIC, named Moodswings , on Itunes, was a celebrated soul album. Martin entered Boston’s Berklee College of Music with the first award offered for vocals. She toured with the ILana Martin Jazz Quintet as a supporting vocalist for Patti LaBelle, D’Angelo, and has penned songs for film and TV.
An R&B and gospel voice with a powerful tone and storytelling, she thrives as the founder of New York City’s top vocal facility, the Vocal Workout. Martin developed he VW Singing Method for Soul Singing, R&B, Hip Hop, Pop and Gospel. The dynamic voice instruction is compassionate, as it fosters a connection between students and their vocal power.
She wishes to fund charity projects all over the world giving each third nation town its own song of identity, over time. She works with the Luce Foundation to develop a “build your song” platform with skilled programs such as Habitat for Humanity workers internationally and intends on helping third world communities and children in newly developing countries become vocal teachers.
She is happy to talk about her endeavors on her new blog: Soul Stories
