The flagship TEDxBrayfordPool event will return to Lincoln in its traditional in-person format later this year.
TEDxBrayfordPool launched in 2017, with Lincoln playing host to inspirational local speakers who invited people to spark deep discussion and debate.
The 2022 event will take place at the Engine Shed on Saturday, September 3. Tickets are now on sale with prices starting from £11.37 – purchase tickets here.
Cas Potterton at the TEDxBrayfordPool virtual event in 2021.
Applications are also now open as the event searches for its 100th speaker. Speaker and performer applications for TEDxBrayfordPool and [email protected] are open until Monday, April 18, 2022 – apply online here.
The main event will see people gather to celebrate ‘ideas worth spreading’, with the series focusing on turning ideas into action.
It will include exceptional speakers and performers from the local community as they share their ‘ideas worth spreading’. There will also be workshops throughout the day in conjunction with some of the event’s partners.
Lisa Spring speaking at TEDxBrayfordPool in 2019.
The event programme will also be expanded to include a full day TEDxAdventure on Sunday, September 4.
Later in the year, on Sunday, November 6, the [email protected] will relaunch – a full-day event mixing TEDxAdventure with a half-day conference featuring incredible young people aged 16 to 26.
The TEDxBrayfordPoolSalon events are being reformatted to go on tour around Lincoln. The events will explore single topics, screening TED and TEDx talks to spark conversation.
The three key topics being explored this year are the way we work, the way we live, and the way we eat.
The inaugural TEDxBrayfordPool short film competition is also being launched this year, with three debuting at the flagship event in September, and a fourth at November’s [email protected] event – details on how to apply will be announced online here in the near future.
Last year, the annual TEDx event returned in a virtual manner, exploring what society can take from the ‘new normal’ and posing the question ‘what does tomorrow look like?’.
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Nominations are open for schools and education settings to be recognised in the 2022 Lincolnshire Education Excellence Awards.
The event is organised by Stonebow Media, publishers of The Lincolnite, to celebrate the best school and teachers in Greater Lincolnshire.
The headline sponsors making the awards possible are Lincoln College Group.
Twelve categories are now open for nominations. The deadline for nominations is June 3, with a judging lunch scheduled for June 7.
Nominations are open from parents, carers, friends, families or education settings themselves, so if you know someone who deserving of winning now is the time to vote!
The awards ceremony will be held at the Engine Shed on July 7.
It’s been a week since the controversial statue of Margaret Thatcher was installed in Grantham’s St Peter’s Hill.
The £300,000 bronze monument immediately caused a stir and debate from both supporters and opponents of the first female Prime Minister of the UK.
Within hours of its 7am installation last Sunday, it had already been egged by a man later revealed to be 59-year-old Jeremy Webster, a deputy director at the Attenborough Arts Centre at the University of Leicester.
Mr Webster’s mother-in-law recently described his actions as “childish”.
Quoted in the MailOnline she said: “Margaret Thatcher lasted a long time in power. She was a trailblazer as the first woman prime minister and she had such energy, even though I know she slept very little.
“I’m very surprised to hear about all of this [egg throwing]. I’m going to have to call my daughter. I wouldn’t have thought Jeremy would be the sort of person to do this. It seems very childish to me – he has a responsible job.”
There have been reports of other antisocial behaviour taking place including people urinating up the statue, but investigations into these are yet to be confirmed by officials.
Away from the statue itself, others took to social media to react to the new monument.
Twitterer @BolsoverBeast thought Mr Webster’s actions should be expanded as a way to… get more people involved?
I think it would be a good idea to put Thatcher’s statue on a low loader and tow it slowly around the country so that we all have a chance to throw something at it. pic.twitter.com/uftMqr0LgR
— Chloe Schlosberg (@ChloeSchlosberg) May 19, 2022
Some called back to the fate of other statues
@Irritatedllama called back to the fate of slave trader Edward Colston who was thrown into the Bristol Harby in June 2020.
It's absolutely disgraceful that people are throwing eggs at the Margaret Thatcher statue in Grantham! We need to deploy a taskforce to give it jolly good wash!#Granthampic.twitter.com/RKftKUls4u
It wasn’t long before a parody account of the statue was set up on Twitter – nor before “she” was interacting with other parody accounts.
It was awful. I could see almost all of Grantham
— That Statue of Thatcher (@thatcher_statue) May 18, 2022
A… positive view?
There were supporters of the statue, however, Darren Grimes from GBNews was one of the few popular posts calling on people not to “give in to threats of petty vandalism”. He later posted the statue should be in parliament – where it was previously rejected from.
I honestly think Margaret Thatcher would have found this first round of petty vandalism of her statue to be utterly hilarious.
The statue looks absolutely glorious.
Almost a decade on from her passing, she’s still winding them up!
Some, like @Jonnyhibberd were more measured in their response.
I don't see a problem with a Thatcher statue and I also don't see a problem with people throwing eggs at it. Thatcher is an important part of our history, and so is what a lot of people thought about her.
— Jonathan Hibberd 🇺🇦 (@Jonnyhibberd) May 18, 2022
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