De blog van Yolanthe (5)

Vrijdag 16 juli kwamen we voor het eerst bijelkaar op de nieuwe lokatie: Communicatiebureau Berg Klein op het Prins Mauritsplein in Den Haag. Friday July 16th we met for the first time at our new location: Berg Kleijn communicatie on the Prins Mauritsplein in The Hague. The theme was Food for Thought. We started with Jennifer 8.Lee, a writer for The New York Times who delivered a funny, fast-paced presentation about the influence of and changes in Chinese food as it is cooked in the millions of… Doorgaan

TED Talks The Hague is going well. Last Sunday, February 8th, 7 people gathered in the Gallery of Tennispark Berg & Dal. It was a pretty international group: French, Italian, Portugese, Dutch-Moroccan and three Dutch people. The conversation was mostly in English, with a bit of Dutch thrown in for good measure. The theme: CREATIVITY. Yeah, what is creativity? According to Wikipedia: Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new… Doorgaan

At least that is the conclusion we came to when only one brave person showed up for Sunday's TED Talks The Hague gathering at Tennispark Berg & Dal. Granted, the feeling of euphoria that can accompany skating along on a frozen lake with the sun shining and the farmhouses glistening in the wintry air is one of life's greatest joys. And since this kind of ideal skating conditions was last seen in 1997 I cannot blame the folks who chose this option. That said, they did miss out on an interestin… Doorgaan

The afternoon was one of snow and ice. Yet there were 7 of us gathered in the gallery at Tennispark Berg & Dal. Aline came all the way from Breda! The room was cold, but the hearts were warm and so was the soup. Before we started I ran home to pick up my camera and grabbed a bunch of 'woollies' so we could wrap ourselves up. We also did some exercises in between the videos to get warm and drank plenty of hot drinks. It was a very special afternoon indeed.

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Well, I admit it, I am a sucker for stories involving children. And each Ted film we watched yesterday at the first Ted-Talks program, selected by my buddy Ralph Oei, featured children in one way or other. Ralph's choices were united by a losely applied theme; i.e. The POWER of WORDS, IMAGES & MUSIC WORDS … Doorgaan