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TEDxRVA Youth 2026: UNRAVEL

  • Collegiate School’s Hershey Center for the Arts 279 North Mooreland Road Henrico, VA, 23229 United States (map)

Unravel ideas. Discover what’s possible.

Sometimes the best things happen when we pull on a thread. When we take a risk and make a move toward something new. Every discovery made started with someone who sought to unravel complexity. Every insight comes from a person willing to sit with big questions. 

To unravel is to get curious, untangle big ideas, and discover what’s been woven together all along. It’s the moment the pieces connect. The moment you realize the world is bigger, brighter, and more connected than you imagined.

Join us for an inspiring evening of talks designed to help you see the world, and each other, in a whole new way.

Come curious. Bring a friend. Leave with ideas worth sharing and a thread of your own to follow.

Speaker and Performer Lineup:

  • Linda Boland, Neuroscientist, on the limits of protein-maxxing

  • Maurice “Moeflowz” Brown, Poet, reciting original poems based on the theme of Unravel

  • Catherine Franssen, Neuroscientist, on the science of pumpkin spice

  • Hamilton Glass, Public Artist, on why painting walls was never the point

  • Tariq Karriem, Artivist, on how to open doors to community theater

  • Arryn Robbins, Cognitive Psychologist, on interpreting images in the age of AI

  • David Warren, Entrepreneur, on how to give a “Good No” 

  • Jatia Wrighten, Political Scientist, on what we can learn from black women in politics

  • Caroline Scruggs, Thereminist, who will both speak on and perform using the theremine, a touchless instrument

  • Sun V Set, Musician, performing two original songs

Earlier Event: November 21
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