Thursday
Creative Writing
Public Speaking Tips:
- Know your content
- Practice open speaking
- Share your writing out loud
- Not being afraid to fail
- Acknowledge that you have a body present
- Body language
- Meditate
- Lone time
TedxAuckland Video:
Grace Taylor the power of words
- Being afakasi: half-white, half-samoan
- Spoken word
- Sense of belonging - one place?
- First generation of Samoan living in South Auckland
- "Afakasi has no right to speak on these full-blooded affairs"
- Segregation
- Afakasi: badge of identity, product of migration
- Sharing her poetry aloud, carrying her journal with her, learning the power of words
- Vulnerability + poetry = freedom
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