Category Archives: Events
Local Authors Shelf goes live at Loveland Public Library
The AiA team is so thrilled to be living in a community where the arts and sciences are valued. The City of Loveland puts its resources into its local artisans. Case in point, take a stroll downtown one morning, enjoy breakfast between the one ways (Cleveland and Lincoln), have a cuppa joe or an herbal tea and a pastry, but make a point to stroll a little further east down 4th street to the Loveland Library, and ask one of the many extraordinary librarians for directions to the Local Authors Shelf.
It is upon this shelf that you will find some things, but not other things. You will most likely not find an elf, for example. You will, however, find books written by authors living here in Northern Colorado. This singular shelf is the result of the Local Authors Showcase I enjoyed back in September of last year. The Showcase offered local authors a day to set up in the library and entertain interested readers.
Small towns just have the most magical feel to them when they highlight local talent.
Enjoy phase II of the Local Authors project and thank your City of Loveland leadership and the library district for giving honor to the locals in their own town!
Wisdom from My Flaming Hot Rod Wheelchair – A “Wisdom & Wonder” TEDxFrontRange talk in 2015
My people
and I had the most amazing Saturday in Loveland at the TEDxFrontRange event. If you did not get the opportunity to attend live, we will have a video link soon. It was pretty awesome all the way around and I met some really amazing new friends.
For those who don’t know, TED, Technology Entertainment and Design, first was founded in 1984 amongst the Silicon Valley folks and it began the talks in 1990. TEDx is the local community version of the “ideas worth sharing” ritual made so popular by TED TALKS.
Facebook is famous for TED Talk links.
And so, the talk began:
Hello, my name is Nick Roussos and this is my job coach, Audrey Hendricks. I am so excited to be part of the TEDxFront Range talks this year. I am a man living with [spastic] cerebral palsy, a complication which developed at birth. As a result, my vocal chords do not speak my words.
It is ironic that someone like me, who speaks differently than most people, is giving a TED Talk at this TEDxFrontRange event. It just goes to show how far technology, and more importantly humanity, has come.
Support your local TEDx Talks. They really are ideas worth sharing and we find them in musicians, technology experts, teachers and administrators, slam poets, athletes, and yes, even guys in flaming hot-rod wheelchairs.
Thank you to all the TEDx volunteers and brain children who made it possible to speak.
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