Fourth PINC Sarasota set for Dec. 7
Sarasota’s fourth PINC (People, Ideas, Nature and Creativity) event is scheduled to bring another eclectic group of at least 13 speakers to give TED-style talks Dec. 7 at the Sarasota Opera House.
Four-hundred tickets have been sold, with only 50 seats left, and past editions of the 8 a.m to 8 p.m. events have sold out. It was first held at the smaller Florida Studio Theatre before it was moved to the larger Opera House.
Sarasota PINC, which past participants have described as a “feast for the brain and all its senses” and “a bubble bath for your mind,” is an outgrowth of an event held annually in The Netherlands. The 19th Dutch event will be held May 15.
The speakers lined up for Sarasota include:
Meg Daly, founder and president of Friends of The Underline, a nonprofit organization working to transform the underutilized land below Miami’s MetroRail into a 10-mile, urban trail and linear park.
Tim Dodd of Cedar Falls, Iowa, also known as the “Everyday Astronaut,” who works to bring space down to Earth for regular people through fun and factual original content in a used Russian space suit on YouTube and Instagram.
Stefan Sagmeister, an American graphic designer originally from Austria who has spoken five times at official TED talks, making him one of the three most frequently invited TED speakers.
Jaha Dukureh, a women’s rights activist from Gambia who was one of Time magazine’s 2016 Most Influential People in the World and is the African Diaspora Network’s 2017 Humanitarian of the Year who leads opposition to female genital mutilation and child marriage internationally.
Marlowe Stoudamire, founder of Mash Detroit, a neighborhood incubator and community bridge in Detroit that helps people from all walks of life collaborate, build business and re-imagine shared physical space.
Manal Rachdi, a French architect whose firm’s current partnership with Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto aims to create a nine-story reverse pyramid, called Mille Arbres (Thousand Trees), in Paris that is designed to free the ground for a park while creating a floating, vibrant green community.
Tickets for the daylong event are $425.
For more information, go to pincexperience.com.