TEDxBeijing

5 upcoming events of the week (August 26th to September 1st)

James — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:30:31 +0000

For another week, the TEDxBeijing team looked for interesting talks and events coming up in the next few days in Beijing.

Here is a list of 5 that we thought you could find interesting:

Chi Fan For Charity: August 27th @ 6:30PM (北新桥/Beixinqiao)
Startup Engine: August 27th @ 1:30PM to 5:00PM (工人体育馆北门/Worker’s Stadium north gate)
营销与品牌/ Sales and Branding with 王湛，百度公司副总裁 (Wang Zhan, vice director at Baidu): August 28th @ 1:30PM to 5:00PM (需要提前注册/ Register in advance by contacting au_com@126.com) (海淀区/Haidian)
Speak, Memory – a conversation with writer-psychologist Douwe Draaisma and novelist-poet Henk Bernlef: August 31st @ 7:30pm (三里屯/Sanlitun)
BC MOMA Open-Air Cinema Season: The Metropolis on the Roof : August 31st to September 11 (东直门/Dongzhimen)

5 upcoming events of the weekend (August 20th and 21st)

James — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:24:06 +0000

The TEDxBeijing team combed through the internet looking for interesting talks and events coming up in the next few days in Beijing.

Here is a list of 5 that we thought you could find interesting:

Indie film documentary on China’s spring festival migration via LumDimSum: August 20 @ 2pm (MOMA Broadway Cinematheque) (F3, Building T4, The North Area, Moma, 1 Xiangheyuan Road, 东直门香河园路1号当代Moma北区T4座)
Tech sharing salon in Garage Cafe hosted by HTML 5: August 20 @ 1pm (北京海淀区车库咖啡)
Fixed gear Revolution with involvement from one of the original TEDx Beijing speakers, Ines Brunn: August 20 from 10am to 10pm (West Gate of Worker’s Gymnasium, 工体西门)
Brain Intelligence “互联网用户体验与眼动研究”沙龙 [ 展览/沙龙 ]: August 21 from 1:30pm-6pm (北京海淀区中关村西区立方庭大厦南侧3w咖啡)
What can the Chinese newspaper industry learn from the newspaper industry crisis in Europe and the U.S.? Rescuing Newspapers: August 21 from 3pm to 5pm (北京市朝阳区朝阳公园路6号院蓝色港湾11号楼rs-16号单向街书店):

Lecturer: Fan Dongsheng. Professor and acting Associate dean of Shantou University School of News and Communications

TEDxBeijing June Salon

James — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:52:32 +0000

Thanks everyone who made it to June’s TEDxBeijing Salon!

Both Michelle Garnaut and Jonathan Hursh provided insight into their work and ideas about development in China.

Check out the pictures below from the event:

Thanks again to the Beijing Shichahai Shadow Art Performance Hotel (什刹海会馆 – 皮影主题酒店) for hosting this event. Check their blog out at http://shadowarthotel.wordpress.com/

Sign up for the TEDxBeijing Salon!

James — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:56:01 +0000

This Saturday, June 25th 2011, the TEDxBeijing team is proud to organize a small salon event featuring 3 speakers on the unusual ways they have built communities.

From building communities with shipping containers to bathhouses, this small event will give a chance to both the audience and the speakers to talk about the different ways people are building China’s society.

~~Please register below. Hope to see you there!~~

Event details:
Saturday, June 25th 2011 – 3pm to 5pm
什刹海会馆 – 皮影主题酒店，Beijing Shichahai Shadow Art Performance Hotel. 北京西城区松树街24号。（德胜门内大街东侧刘海胡同走到头左拐20米）.

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Congratulations to NLGX, TEDxBeijing 2010 partner on new store openings

Segolene — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:18:53 +0000

NLGX, the fabulous designers behind the TEDxBeijing 2010 : Uncovering innovation bags open two new stores in Beijing Capital airport. Be sure to visit them on your next trip out of Beijing.

Congratulations and best wishes for this new adventure!

NLGX Design is a Heritage-Inspired Products Design Company based in Beijing. They create original-designed apparel including graphic t-shirts, Asian-inspired casuals, and fashion bags made from recycled materials.

“Preserve…Create” highlights the company’s design philosophy of Preserving the Past while Creating New. NLGX creates original designs inspired by graphics, materials, and colors of traditional Beijing.

For more about NLGX Design, its products, or its distribution locations, please visit www.nlgx.com.

Update from the Niu Kun-BUU Drum Club

Mia — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:34:14 +0000

We caught up with Majin Buu Drum Circle (who performed at TEDxBeijing 2010). June will be a very busy month for the Majin Buu Drum Circle, the busiest yet, in fact, according to Niu Kun, co-founder of the group. Having just finished performing at the Kama Love Music Festival on June 6, Niu Kun and his drummers are bringing their “rhythm culture” to the US this week. The Kama Love Music Festival on Beijing’s Olympic Green was an “unforgettable experience”, Niu Kun said, “there were 10 of us on stage and 100 people in front of us dancing like crazy.” This Thursday the drummers are landing in LA with a performance scheduled on July 2 and another one in San Francisco, venues to be decided. Their usual Sunday “dun dun” drum workshops near Sihui Subway Station will go uninterrupted in the mean time. For those who are not in the US, catch BUU and their workshop students jamming with the Djembe “master” Kelvin Kew from Singapore on July 8!

Follow BUU Club on weibo (in Chinese):
http://weibo.com/profile.php?uid=1988974785&page=3

Follow BUU Club on Douban for the upcoming events (in Chinese):
http://www.douban.com/event/13960313/

Kama Love Music Festival:
http://www.aiyinyuejie.com/

Kelvin Kew:
http://www.liladrums.com/kelvinkew/

TEDxGreatWall

Frank — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:28:15 +0000

The Second TEDxGreatWall event took place on June 3rd, 2011. Like last year, the event took place at the Jin Shang Ling section of the Great Wall. Talks were held at the “I Will Not Complain” Corporate Retreat center. After the talks the participants hiked up the 10 minute walk to the Great Wall just in time to see the setting sun. The theme was World without Walls 2 and in keeping with that Spirit, most of the talks were conducted in the open Courtyard of the conference center. Talks ranged from a description of diving to a section of the Great Wall that has been submerged in water to the need for Children to have play time and imaginative pursuits.

The weather was spectacular and participants ate lunch and dinner in the great outdoors. The TEDxGreatWall is a very unique type of TEDx and everyone is looking forward to see what next year will bring.

Ines Brunn

Michele — Thu, 12 May 2011 03:45:40 +0000

自新中国建立后，北京这座城市就享有“自行车王国”之称，给众多外来客人留下很深刻的印象。但随着我国经济飞速发展，人们的消费水平提高了，自行车渐渐退出了历史舞台。如今，北京市粗略统计有400多万辆汽车。这个现象给了城市交通造成了拥堵。

去年，IBM公布了该公司调查结果，北京已成为世界公路拥堵状况最严重的城市。市政府并非常重视这个问题，但是到现在它所落实的治堵措施还没有起到作用。

幸运的是，不仅仅是政府在考虑如何解决这个问题。一位叫Ines Brunn的德国自行车女艺术家想到的治堵方法很简单：让部分人先骑起来！Brunn从小就进行体操训练，是一个非常出色的运动员。然而，在她13岁时，她放弃了体操而把目光投向了自行车。随后，她将体操艺术与自行车结合一起，一边骑车一边做体操。这种奇妙的表演，一演就是20年。Brunn希望用这门艺术再度激发人们对自行车的兴趣。

2005年，一家美国电信设备制造商委派Brunn北京担任高层主管一职。但是从2009年，她离开电信行业，投身到自行车行业，先在北京的一条胡同开了全国第一家死飞自行车专卖店，还创办了中国首个死飞自行车爱好者俱乐部。Brunn发现虽然到目前为止中国高端自行车的市场还不成熟，可是它非常有潜力，她对此非常有信心。Brunn希望更多人能通过骑车的方式改善自己的生活方式，让身体更健康，同时也能为对都市路况和空气污染的起到一定作用。

2009年11月，Ines Brunn 在TEDx Beijing举办了讲座。2011年，她获得了安永会计师事务所最佳女性企业家奖的提名。

An Ines Brunn update

Michele — Thu, 12 May 2011 03:34:43 +0000

Ines Brunn gave this speech at TEDxBeijing in 2009, and today, is being nominated for the Third Annual Women in Business Leadership Awards presented by Ernst & Young.

Bicycles were once a sign of affluence and equality throughout China. But today bikes are being pushed aside—literally and figuratively. Car sales have exploded and the sanctity of bike lanes trammeled. While many China watchers see this as a natural consequence of development and material prosperity, Ines Brunn thinks differently. She thinks it’s time for a revolution.

Brunn first moved to China in 2005 to be the Asia-Pacific Market Manager and later Manufactures Program Lead for JDSU, a US-based telecom products and services provider. But long before becoming a successful businesswoman, Brunn was a bike enthusiast. Originally trained as a gymnast, Brunn began learning to perform amazing feats on bikes at age 13. Since, she’s performed for the German national team and once she even made dumplings on China Central TV while riding.

But more than just being a talented artist, Brunn is an entrepreneur. She founded the Beijing Fixed Gear Cycling Club and launched China’s first fixed gear bike shop, Natooke, in order to give enthusiasts and artists a place to gather together and have access to world-class equipment. Committed to the lifestyle that’s good for the environment and personal fitness, Brunn hopes that her revolution can help make Beijing a better, healthier place—one bike at a time.

Pulitzer prize winner showcased at TEDxBeijing2010

Segolene — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:39:27 +0000

Madame White Snake composer Zhou Long was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in music.

Zhou Long was one of the most influential Chinese composers featured by Nick Frisch in his 2010 TEDxBeijing talk on the future of classical music.

We are unsure as of yet whether this had any bearing of the Pulitzer board’s decision. We are nonetheless delighted to have another one of our speakers display such insight and innovative thinking!

More details on Zhou Long and Madame White Snake can be found here.