Park City Institute Announces
TEDxYouthParkCity Auditions
April 18 & 19
Giving bright young minds a time to connect to each other – and the world – TEDxYouthParkCity returns to The Eccles Center on May 4. Auditions for speakers for the event will be held on Monday, April 18 (2 p.m. to 5 p.m.) and Tuesday April 19 (3 p.m. to 6 p.m.) in the Park City High School Lecture Hall. For more information, please call Park City Institute at
435-655-8252.
TED, which stands for “technology, entertainment and design,” is a growing organization of forward thinkers who are dedicated to “ideas worth sharing.” Students in grades eight through 12 are invited to come to the audition with a talk or a performance piece, which ties into the TED philosophy and the TEDx focus on youth. For the purposes of the audition, the talk does not yet have to be memorized. In accordance with TEDx parameters, the talks/performances must be five to 12 minutes in length and cannot be religious, political or self-serving. The students who are selected will share their ideas with 300 of their contemporaries on May 4 at the TEDxYouthPark City event. Preference will be given to Summit County students.
TED began in 1984 with the mission of creating “ideas worth spreading.” Since then, leaders from all walks of life have entered the TED fold and the scope of the project has moved beyond a bi-annual conference of the world’s best and brightest. Today, an array of conferences and programs, such as community-based TEDx, continue the TED mission. Like a TED conference, these independently organized satellite events are designed to bring people together and stimulate dialogue and innovation.
In keeping with past local TEDxYouth events, more than a dozen students from area high schools and junior high schools will be selected to speak and perform at the conference. Each talk and performance lasts for 5 to 12 minutes; and the event is curated to include time for discussion.
“This day is created by, and with, and for, students. The past two TEDXYouth events showed us just how clever and funny and incredibly brave are speakers are. We are looking for not just polished youth experienced in public speakers but those who have, in the spirit of TED, an idea worth spreading. This year our theme is “Dream” so we have a pretty big umbrella for talks to land under,” says PCI executive director Teri Orr.
Last year’s event clips may be found at the following link:
http://tedxparkcity.org/project/tedxyouthparkcity2015/
* PRESS: Please contact Jane Gendron for interview requests, review tickets and press information,
jgendron@jgendron.com or
435-640-3315.
Upcoming Park City Institute Events:
Imagination Movers (Apr. 16, 2016) – Eccles Center
TedxYouthParkCity auditions (Apr. 18 & 19, 2016) – PCHS Lecture Hall
TedxYouthParkCity (May 4, 2016) – Eccles Center
St. Regis Big Stars, Bright Nights Concerts at Deer Valley Resort:
Squirrel Nut Zippers (July 3, 2016)
Emmylou Harris & Lyle Lovett and His Large Band (July 14, 2016)
Chris Botti & Lucia Micarelli (July 21, 2016)
Kip Moore (July 24, 2016)
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (July 28, 2016)
Mike Posner (August 7, 2016)
Andy Garcia and the CineSon All Stars (August 20, 2016)
Trace Adkins (August 25, 2016)
TBA (August 27, 2016)
Jewel (September 3, 2016)
ENTERTAINING, EDUCATING AND ILLUMINATING SINCE 1998
Park City Institute is a non-profit organization, dedicated to bringing world-class performances and new ideas to the community. Since 1998, PCI has presented internationally renowned and cutting edge musicians, actors, authors, comedians, dancers, speakers and film at The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Center for the Performing Arts (a joint-use facility with the Park City School District). The organization will embark on its 13thseason of headliner concerts at Deer Valley Resort this summer. PCI is dedicated to introducing young people to the arts through free student outreach workshops, shows and demonstrations. They proudly launched the Mega-Genius Supply Store and IQ HQ - an after school literacy programand very thinky retail store - in January 2010; and opened a second Mega-Genius retail shop and after school tutoring center in New Park in 2015. And the organization continues to illuminate with TEDx events, Curiosities evenings and the Park City Institute / Strategic News Service Future in Review Speaker Series.
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