WHAT WE BELIEVE
Be authentic
Be empowered
Believe in our possibilities
Build a better future for us all
OUR PURPOSE
TEDx ARISE celebrates our creativity, contributions, and cultures.
The theme of TED 2025 is 'Humanity Reimagined' and resonantly our theme for 2025 is Asian-Australians Reimagined!
We asked you 'How would you like Asian-Australians to Reimagine themselves?'
Read what the community wrote
TO DO
Watch our inaugural TED Talk by Qin Qin, author of "Model Minority Gone Rogue" selected as Top 6 Book of 2025 in Australia by The Age “a searing analysis of changing Asian stereotypes in the West”. HERE
Share your inspirations and ideas for topics, issues, speakers and performers you want to see on our TEDx stage HERE
Propose to share your idea, perspective, or performance on our TEDx stage HERE
JOIN US AND ATTEND
July evening Join our TEDx ARISE Community Salon national online event with 8 speakers and performances To get an invite, sign up with your email.
RECENTLY: We held many community conversation and tutorials during Asian Heritage Week over June, read the Summary notes:
Analysing Luanna's Harvard speech: Learn how to make Impact and Inspire by pioneer TEDx Ambassador and curator since 2009 SEE NOTES
To be or not to be a Model Asian / Minority? Join us to discuss expectations, stereotypes & what it takes to find & walk your own truth. " with author and our inaugural TEDx speaker Qin Qin SEE NOTES
Asian and Female: Not here to be pretty, quiet, or good. Reimagine our power and pleasure with relationship and intimacy coach and our TEDx speaker Susie Kim SEE NOTES
Asian Duty and Desire: How to reimagine how we love? Hear and speak with empathic psychologist and our inaugural TEDx speaker Christine Yeung SEE NOTES
HOW DO WE CURATE? MIX=MAGIC
Overall, there’s 4 categories of ideas, perspectives, stories, and talents that we seek to platform and amplify:
Our Creativity: Amplify multi-disciplinary Asian-Australian talents, especially emerging ones: Architects, animators, authors, actors, visual and performing artists, game designers, comedians, etc
Our Contemplations: Spread the perspectives and ideas of Asian-Australians from diverse professions eg. Science, technology, social innovation, education, environment, entrepreneurship, economics, society, academia, etc (excluding politics and religion disallowed by TED)
Our Champions & Celebrities: Who are your Asian HEroes and SHEroes? Sportswomen and men, celeb chefs, actors, and also long-standing Asian-Australians sharing their experiences and wisdoms.
Our Challenges: Surface and explore issues of importance and interest to Asian-Australians. These TED talks can be given by anyone from anywhere in the world.
JOIN US :
1. A Community-of-Communities To be inclusive, we invite Asian-Australian community groups (both ground-up and formal) all around Australia to represent your city and community, email us CommunityCare@IdeasWorthDoing.org
2. TEDx partners and patrons are believers in our purpose, collaborate and co-create with us in numerous ways for mutual impact and benefit, write to us PartnershipCare@IdeasWorthDoing.org
3. TEDx team members are passionate and purposeful thinkers and doers. If you are Asian-Australian and are inspired contribute your talents and superpowers, write to us TeamCare@IdeasWorthDoing.org
4. Find out what and who we platform and nominate someone for our TEDx stage, here
TEDxPowerSt is initiated by THE ARiSE INITIATIVE. Discover the wisdoms, insights, and actions that inspire everything we do, here.
