Gibraltar Cultural Services (GCS), working alongside playwright, actor, director and teacher, Julian Felice, will be holding the GibTalks event on Saturday 1st February 2025 at the John Mackintosh Hall. The idea is styled on the very successful TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) series of talks (www.ted.com).
GibTalks will see a range of local guest speakers deliver fifteen-minute talks on a broad spectrum of subjects with the aim of focusing on the anecdotal, the personal, and the light-hearted.
The organisers are pleased to announce the following speakers who represent a cross-section of the community and will help make up a rich and varied programme, divided into morning and afternoon sessions, as follows:
Morning Session
10:00 – 10:10 Julian Felice – “Ten Years of GibTalking”
10:15 – 10:30 Faith Torres – “Beyond The Crown: A Journey of Growth, Courage and Empowerment”
10:35 – 10:50 Paul Gache – “Louder Than Words”
10:55 – 11:10 Kenneth Cardona – “SIEGE: A Personal Perspective“
11:15 – 11:30 James Neish – “And Now The News…From a Foreigner in London”
11:30 – 11:45 BREAK
11:45 – 12:00 Jeanette Ochello – “A journey of love and determination: building a community of support for dementia”
12:05 – 12:20 Juan Franco – “Presente y Futuro de La Línea y Gibraltar- El Brexit desde el punto de vista de La Línea”
12:25 – 12:40 The Hon Fabian Picardo KC MP – “Picardo’s Inferno in the 10th Circle of Hell – Brexit in the Time of COVID”
Afternoon Session
14:20 – 14:35 Nicole Buckley – “Raising resilience – A Neurodiversity Narrative”
14:40 – 14:55 The Hon Joelle Ladislaus MP – “Masked: ADHDing in Neurotypical Society”
15:00 – 15:15 Brian Reyes – “The Brexit Years: Behind The Deadlines”
15:15 – 15:30 BREAK
15:30 – 15:45 Carl Viagas – “The Art of the Impossible”
15:50 – 16:05 Selwyn Figueras – “Children and Smartphones; There IS Another Way”
16:10 – 16:25 Nicole Byrne – “To Let Go is to Hold on Differently”
Tickets for the event will be on sale as from Wednesday 8th January 2025 via www.buytickets.gi
Tickets are priced £10 for the morning session or afternoon session and £15 for the full day.
GibTalks has a Facebook event page and a Twitter account (@gib_talks). For any queries, please contact GCS’ Events Department via email info@culture.gi or on Tel. 20067236.
