{"id":2962,"date":"2016-11-22T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/school.chethams.com\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2016-11-22T14:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:32:22","slug":"tedx-trip-to-fallibroome-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/blog\/tedx-trip-to-fallibroome-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"TEDx trip to Fallibroome Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Wednesday 16 November, 40 Sixth form students from Chetham\u2019s were lucky enough to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/tedxyouthmanchester.com\/\">TEDxyouth@Manchester<\/a> at Fallibroome Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, the TEDx conference presented a programme of short talks given by both outside speakers and students from local secondary schools. This year\u2019s theme was Identity, which the speakers tackled in a variety of thought provoking, inspiring and even funny ways.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst these speakers were extreme athlete, Ben Smith, who talked of how his running had helped him find his identity; geneticist and presenter Ben Garrod who has worked on a variety of fascinating wildlife projects; evolutionary biologist, Kat Arney, who explained genes, memes and wobbles; Nicola Osborne, who provoked much thought on the importance of being aware of our digital footprint and a singer-songwriter, VV Brown. And, of course, the highlight for us: Chetham\u2019s own Tammas Slater and Ignacio Ma\u00f1\u00e1\u00a0Mesas.<\/p>\n<p>Tammas and Ignacio\u2019s talks on the importance to their identity of being a composer certainly went down well with the audience. We were treated to a view of a couple of Ignacio\u2019s short films and Tammas bravely demonstrated the composition process from the grand piano.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights included group participation in a chimpanzee call, a selection of videos including specially filmed conversations with local primary school children and their unusual career aspirations and the personal talks from Sixth Form students on their LGBT+ identity.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone had an informative morning and thanks must go to Fallibroome Academy for such a well organised, enjoyable and stimulating event. We are already looking forward to next year\u2019s conference!<\/p>\n<p>The full TEDx talk can be viewed in full <a href=\"https:\/\/livestream.com\/tedx\/tedxyouthmanchester2016\">here<\/a>. Tammas and Ignacio feature around the hour mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 16 November, 40 Sixth form students from Chetham\u2019s were lucky enough to attend the TEDxyouth@Manchester at Fallibroome Academy In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, the TEDx conference presented a programme of short talks given by both outside speakers and students from local secondary schools. This year\u2019s theme was Identity, which the speakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":2963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-composition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chethamsschoolofmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}