TEDxQUTSalon | Artful Minds: Drawing for Mental Health, Version Two | 2024

Nov 21, 2024 1:45 pm

TEDxQUTSalon | Artful Minds: Drawing for Mental Health

Due to popular demand, TEDxQUT are excited to announce a second iteration of our Neurographica Salon with Art Therapist and Mental Health Clinician, Kirsty Mitchell.

Arts and creative practices have been used throughout human history to explore, process and understand the world around us, providing a broad range of psychological, emotional, physical and social benefits.

This workshop is an invitation to learn a technique called Neurographica (neuro=brain; graphica=line) - a creative tool to help support your mental health and wellbeing. Neurographica is a scientifically validated form of guided drawing that uses line, shape and colour in an art process that transforms thoughts, feelings, and experiences as energy onto your page. This session will provide you with an overview of the technique and an opportunity to create your own artwork.

It is a therapeutic process that provides a tangible and accessible flow state experience where you can de-stress and reflect, allowing you to create and enjoy.

Whether you love drawing, need some space to nurture your mental health, or are a TEDx enthusiast, this event is for everyone!

Tickets can be purchased here

TEDxQUT 2024 | ILLUMINATE: Shaping a Brighter Future

Oct 27, 2024

Queensland University of Technology is proud to host its tenth TEDxQUT annual event.

TEDxQUT 2024 | ILLUMINATE: Shaping a Brighter Future

Prepare yourself for a day of transformative talks and conversations which incite forward-thinking, ethical and community-focused discussions, and inspire our next generation of thinkers and doers.

With these ideas and topics, we can ignite change and encourage current and future generations to shape a brighter future.

Topics are as diverse as our community, including AI, journalism, filmmaking, education, p*rn literacy and so much more!

TEDxQUT propagates the TED ethos by providing a platform for the sharing of unique ideas, development of curiosity, and inciting a deeper engagement with the world. TEDxQUT inspires our community to stimulate conversation and be part of solutions which make a positive change.

The event day livestream can be accessed here.

Speakers for this event can be viewed here. Logo design by QUT student David Huynh.

View the 2024 event program here

TEDxQUTSalon | Artful Minds: Drawing for Mental Health | 2024

Oct 10, 2024 4:45 pm

TEDxQUTSalon | Artful Minds: Drawing for Mental Health

Join TEDxQUT for their last Salon of 2024!

In celebration of Queensland Mental Health Week, TEDxQUT invites you to you to take part in a hands-on and creative workshop, led by qualified Art Therapist and Mental Health Clinician, Kirsty Mitchell.

Arts and creative practices have been used throughout human history to explore, process and understand the world around us, providing a broad range of psychological, emotional, physical and social benefits.

This workshop is an invitation to learn a technique called Neurographica (neuro=brain; graphica=line) - a creative tool to help support your mental health and wellbeing. Neurographica is a scientifically validated form of guided drawing that uses line, shape and colour in an art process that transforms thoughts, feelings, and experiences as energy onto your page. This session will provide you with an overview of the technique and an opportunity to create your own artwork.

It is a therapeutic process that provides a tangible and accessible flow state experience where you can de-stress and reflect, allowing you to create and enjoy.

Whether you love drawing, need some space to nurture your mental health, or are a TEDx enthusiast, this event is for everyone!

Tickets for this event have now sold out

TEDxQUTSalon: Specialty Coffee 101 | 2024

May 16, 2024 4:45 pm

Join us for an interactive and tastebud-tingling event, TEDxQUTSalon: Specialty Coffee 101.This event will feature:Several tastings on offer form multiple roasters

• Coffee brewing demonstrations
• Opportunity to learn from key industry players
• Light snacks to accompany the coffee tasting

We are so excited to announce the following coffee roasters who will be joining us for this incredibly unique and interactive event;
☕ @dibscoffee.au
☕ @industrybeans
☕ @talocoffeeroasters
☕ @single_o

Whether you’re an experienced barista, or love using your plunger at the office, this event is for anyone. We can’t wait to see you there!

Buy your tickets here. THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT

Montana White, Kym Cooper

TEDxQUTSalon: International Women's Day, A Conversation | 2024

Mar 7, 2024 4:45 pm

Join our first event in the TEDxQUTSalon Series for 2024, International Women’s Day: A Conversation. Held the day before International Women’s Day, this event will be an opportunity for attendees to actively contribute to important and topical conversations.

The event will feature conversation cards for attendees to explore in group discussion, student club executives to meet, and light refreshments. Join us in TED’s mission of starting conversations and sharing ideas.

Special thanks to our collaborators;

• @womenintech_qut
• @qutwomeninfilm
• @qutwib
• @qutgems
• @qutrealworld
• QUT Pride Staff Network

Purchase your tickets here.

Montana White, Claudia Steiner, Kym Cooper

TEDxQUT: Double Take | 2023

Oct 15, 2023 9:00 am

TEDxQUT 2023: Double Take

To have to look twice to make sure that one really saw correctly.

New, shocking, surprising, or significant ideas can, at times, take us a few moments to comprehend. We may not react instantly, that is, until the realisation that something significant or different from the norm has transpired.

Prepare yourselves for an amazing lineup of speakers who will share their ideas, stories, and perspectives, that compel us to do a double take on every day conversations and topics.

We will be joined by poets, drag queens and a dance troupe to keep us entertained throughout the day.

Logo design by QUT student @samdetailleart

TEDxQUTSalon: Guided Still Life Drawing | 2023

Sep 14, 2023

TEDxQUT is excited to collaborate with Studio Maverik for our last TEDxQUTSalon event of the year!

Have you wanted to learn how to draw still life objects but unsure where to start? Or perhaps you are an experienced artist who likes to keep their canvases full. No matter your skill level, this event is for everyone.

Join us for an evening of Guided Still Life Drawing. Explore the shapes, curves and colours of botanicals and fruit, as seasoned artists Studio Maverik facilitate how to best home in on your artistic skills.

The event will begin with a brief overview of the history of still life drawing, before getting hands on.

Studio Maverik

Studio Maverik is a community-focused and inclusive art studio in Meanjin (Brisbane). They facilitate life drawing sessions, guided visual art workshops, maker markets and other creative events. Artists of all skill levels are welcome and encouraged to attend our events. Come to chat, draw and learn in a vibrant and welcoming space. Studio Maverik is run by two local artists, Frances & Rhianna. They believe that art is for all, and it brings us together.

Drawing materials are supplied. Personal drawing materials such as iPads, graphite pencils and drawing paper are welcome. Due to the event space, paint is not permitted.

Buy your ticket here. View on the TED website here.

Montana White

TEDxQUTSalon: Tea, A Tasting Journey | 2023

Jul 27, 2023 4:45 pm

In collaboration with tea specialist Kym Cooper from The Steepery and East Forged, join us for a night of everything tea.

During this 2-hour event you will be introduced to tea botanicals, tea types and styles, and tea cultivation.

Join us on a journey for your tastebuds and enjoy several styles of pure leaf tea from a number of the world’s most significant tea growing regions. Each tea-tasting station will include a guided discussion around growing and production, how to taste tea, and learning about the tea flavour profile.

Kym will have some incredible products from The Steepery available to purchase on the night.

This is a limited event that you don’t want to miss!

View event on the TED website

Montana White, Claudia Steiner

TEDxQUTSalon: Healthy Sexual Relationships | 2023

Apr 20, 2023

In conjunction with QUT Respect Week 2023, we are proud to host this Salon on Healthy Sexual Relationships.

Join our panel of community experts as we explore topics including:

• defining 'healthy'
• stigma and shame
• consent
• pornography
• sex education
• queer community
• interpersonal violence

Thanks to Nadine Chemali, Naomi Hutchings, Michael Flood, and, Mariana Duce (QUT Discrimination Adviser).

This event will be discussing concepts of sex and sexual acts, inclduing violence. Panelists may choose to share personal experiences at the event. If any topics cause discomfort, attendees are encouraged to prioritise their psychological well-being.

Montana White, Amy Burkett, Claudia Steiner

View here on the TED website

TEDxQUTSalon: Understanding Sense of Place | 2023

Mar 1, 2023

Join our deadly panelists for a night of learning, and sharing ideas.

Hear QUT's Elder-in-Residence Uncle Cheg speak about the history of the land on which QUT stands – the Country of the Turrbul and Yugara people. The panel features First Nation's students, staff and community members; learn as they discuss what sense of place and Country means.

• Uncle Cheg, Traditional Owner, QUT Elder-in-Residence
• Jessy Renouf, Gubbi Gubbi woman, TEDxQUT Speaker, Student Ambassador
• Owen Café, Whadjuk-Pindjarup man, TEDxQUT Speaker, Landscape Architect, Lecturer
• Melanie Saward, Bigambul and Wakka Wakka woman, TEDxQUT Speaker, Lecturer
• With a performance from Pub Choir's  Waveney Yasso, a First-Nations (Yuwi Burra and Tanna island) singer/songwriter.

This event was created in collaboration with Glenda Tanna from the QUT Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Australians).

Due to the cultural nature of the event, this will not be live-streamed or recorded. We decline any recording or note-taking during the event to preserve and respect the cultural tradition of knowledge-sharing in the First Nations community, as well as maintaining standards of cultural safety for the event.

Montana White, Amy Burkett, Claudia Steiner

View here on the TED website

TEDxQUT 2022 | Pause.Rewind.Reset

Oct 15, 2022 9:00 am

TEDxQUT 2022 explored the theme Pause. Rewind. Reset.

In true TED fashion, our speakers this year ask us to re-evaluate and re-think the status quo. Whether this is calling out obsolete ideas, encouraging us to challenge the zeitgeist, or introducing concepts that disrupt our current rationale. We are asked to take a moment to stop, take a step back, and start anew.

View the program here.

Montana White, Amy Burkett, Claudia Steiner

View event here on the TED website

TEDxQUTSalon: Social Enterprise and the Future of Community | 2022

Sep 1, 2022

This salon explored the 101 of Social Enterprise, discussions what it is and how it can be used. Attendees broke into focus groups to explore community issues related to women, environment, youth, affordable housing, and community and inclusion. We were proud to have collaborated with QUT Entrepreneurship and QUT Impact for this program.

Montana White, Amy Burkett, Claudia Steiner

View event on the TED website

TEDxQUTSalon: Disability. Beyond the Label | 2022

Jun 9, 2022

TEDxQUTSalon: Welcome Event and Pitch Night | 2022

Mar 17, 2022

An introduction to the salon series, and opportunity for the TEDxQUT community to meet, a night to share ideas.

Montana White, Amy Burkett, Claudia Steiner

TEDxQUT: Humanity | 2021

Oct 23, 2021

For the first time ever, TEDxQUT did not set an initial theme for the speakers to abide by. For 2021, we selected the theme based on common elements from speaker applications. This year, we saw an overwhelming number of applications that referenced ideas of connection, community and inclusivity. Based on this, we are proud to announce that the theme for TEDxQUT 2021 is: Humanity

Montana White, Amy Burkett, Claudia Steiner

TEDxQUT: Innovate. Activate. Motivate. | 2019

Oct 26, 2019

We celebrate those who think outside the box creating change through innovation, those who take an active part in change and those who motivate others to create their own change.

Yaw Kyei, Abbie Deegan

TEDxQUT: D.I.Y. | 2018

Sep 15, 2018

We celebrate the doers, the dreamers and the designers, and explore the myriad of self-driven approaches, advancements and opportunities shaping our natural world.

Caitlyn Dexter, Karlee Davies, Emily Wells

TEDxQUT: Time | 2017

Apr 8, 2017

Time: where the past, present and future collide.

Caitlyn Dexter, Karlee Davies

TEDxQUT: Future Thinkers | 2015

Sep 5, 2015

Exploring innovative concepts, ideas and practices that are shaping our future.

Karlee Davies, Caitlyn Dexter

TEDxQUTWomen: Momentum | 2015

May 29, 2015

The conference  explored bold ideas that create momentum in how we think, live and work.

Karlee Davies

TEDxQUT: Spark | 2014

Aug 2, 2014

Finding inspiration, turning inspiration into action and sparking a change in others.

Katherine Nickels, Sara Sheather

TEDxQUTChange | 2013

Aug 10, 2013

Over three sessions, our audience experienced performances and shared the experiences of 12 inspiring people who turned their ideas and values into action

Katherine Nickels, Helen Todd, Isaac Pursehouse

TEDxQUT: Ideas to Change the World | 2013

Aug 10, 2013

This event allowed us to be inspired by amazing people who despite obstacles to their ideas, they have made change possible through sustained determination and positive action. Their ideas have the power to change the world.

Katherine Nickels, Novella Moncrieff, Helen Todd, Sue Sweet, Sara Sheather