Jarell Rochelle | How I Moved from Fame to Purpose

What is our obsession with fame in the Western culture? Most everyone either wants fame, wonders about what it feels like to be famous, but just like any contract it comes with small print. Fame isn’t really what its cracked up to be once you get up close to examine what it is all about.
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Keith Groover | The Glide: A Musical Instrument for All

Most musical instruments have high barriers to entry that are physical, technical, or financial. Keith Groover designed an instrument that lowers all of those barriers without sacrificing musicality or depth of expression. His two year design exploration resulted in The Glide, an instrument that combines the power of the microcontroller with a tiny sensor called
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Phillis Wheatley Repertory Theatre | Group Performance

Enjoy a performance by the theatre of youth from Phillis Wheatley. Providing opportunity for young people to experience their self worth, through participation in the performing arts, helps youth make the right life choices now and in the future. About Sammy and the Repertory Theatre Sammy Dotson was born in Greenville SC and is a
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Shivani Nadarajah | Memoirs of a Makal

Shivani is a local Greenville comedian and improviser with Alchemy Comedy Theater. She was the runner up in the 2014 South Carolina's funniest Comic Competition and is often featured at the Greenville Comedy Zone.
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Janine Monroe | The Significance of Life’s Breadcrumbs

Janine is a distinguished artist whose work is influenced by the knots os sycamore trees is creative and features a new and innovative use of up-cycled sawdust, acrylic polymers, and pigments to create hanging 3D interactive sculptures.
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Crystal Irby | Bible Belt Black: A Biomythography

Crystal is a poet, activist and writer who facilitates writing and performance workshops using art to ignite social change.
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Glow Lyric Theatre | Love is Love is Love

About Glow Lyric Theatre Glow Lyric Theatre is a vocal arts company that ignites change and sparks dialogue in the Upstate community by producing beautiful, relevant and thought provoking productions of opera, operetta and musical theatre.  Each summer, Glow produces three musical shows that are in direct response to the social and political climate of
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Friction Farm | Modern Folk Music Duo

Aidan and Christine are a husband and wife modern-folk duo who combine storytelling, social commentary and humor to create songs of everyday life, local heroes, and quirky observations.
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Taína Asili y la Banda Rebelde | Soul Justice Performer

Taina Asili is a Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, bandleader and activist carrying on the tradition of her ancestors, fusing past and present struggles into one soulful and defiant sound.
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Opera Noire of New York | A Premier Opera Company

Huge voices with a mix of soprano-bass duets and tenor solos. These performers have performed all over the world and brought this TEDxGreenville audience to its feet.
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Song Aziza Tucker | Contemporary Dance Prodigy

This 15-year-old performer has been dancing since she can walk. She wows the audience with her interpretively fluid dance style.
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Hillary Keane Project | Soulful Rockin’ Blues

Soulful, bluesy, and rockin’ is how these performers are described. They produce an eclectic sound you are sure to enjoy. About Hillary Keane Project In December 2014, Lovelorn Records lost its founder, Stephen Crocker, to suicide. He was considered a brother, friend and was the fiancée of co-founder, Hillary Keane. Hillary says that, “Stephen was
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