TEDxPhilly, a daylong multi-disciplinary conference that champions great ideas, will be going on today at Temple Performing Arts Center. This year’s theme will examine vast interpretations of “The City.” The conference will bring together “engaging speakers, performers, participants and exhibitors to deconstruct, decipher and explore some of the greatest challenges, innovations, concepts and realities that shape and are shaped by cities and their inhabitants.” There will be architects, educators, community leaders and activists, public health professionals, urban planners, poets, technologists, journalists, filmmakers, non-profit luminaries, business visionaries, musicians, and others who will converge to share some of their boldest and best ideas on cities. Rich Medina will be giving a talk about his life as a DJ and the community that is shaped around music. Saturn Never Sleeps, the project made up of King Britt and Rucyl, will close out the event with a performance. There will also be a performance by students from Play On, Philly!, a music education program that is led by Stanford Thompson which promotes social progress through musical collaboration. Update: You can also stream TEDxPhilly HERE. Temple Performing Arts Center, 1837 N. Broad St., 9am – 6pm, $100, All Ages – H.M. Kauffman
