Last week, Kathryn Schulz taught us to reconsider the idea that being “wrong” is bad.  This week we explore & discuss Leadership.  Warning: It won’t be traditional, top down, controlling leadership!

TEDTalks Roanoke, at noon on Wednesdays inside Compact Cinema, explore ideas worth spreading from the diverse worlds of technology, entertainment, and design.

Get lunch at one of our nearby restaurants or bring your own, and enjoy your meal on the food trays in front of our comfortable seats while you watch the video. Then stay for the always-lively audience discussion afterward!

Please help us spread the word by inviting any friends you know who may be interested in checking out the weekly TED Talks. Thanks for your help!

Cost: FREE!

It’s impossible to top the energy and ideas-you-can-act-on-now content of last week’s 2 TED Talks, so we’ll take a different trip during this Wednesday’s TED Talk – we’ll look at “our puny human brains, just a few bucks worth of water, salts, and proteins” and the (inevitable?) obsolescence of human knowledge.  It’s said that even the GPS is making us dumber!

This sounds ponderous but it’s actually a funny, entertaining, & thought provoking 17 minutes – Come join us at Compact Cinema this Wednesday at 12:00pm!

Get lunch at one of our nearby restaurants or bring your own, and enjoy your meal on the food trays in front of our comfortable seats while you watch the video. Then stay for the always-lively audience discussion afterward!

Please help us spread the word by inviting any friends you know who may be interested in checking out the weekly TED Talks. Thanks for your help!

Cost: FREE!

Last week, we showed Susan Savage-Rumbaugh – The gentle genius of bonobos. Coming up this week will be two high energy talks – think green, kids, schools, urban, food, business, & leaders in action! Sound cool? Come and see for yourself!

Our weekly TED Talks always keep it fresh and exciting… you never know what we’re going to show! Come join us at Compact Cinema this Wednesday at 12:00pm. We keep it a surprise to keep it fun!

Get lunch at one of our nearby restaurants or bring your own, and enjoy your meal on the food trays in front of our comfortable seats while you watch the video. Then stay for the always-lively audience discussion afterward!

Please help us spread the word by inviting (through Facebook) any friends you know who may be interested in checking out the weekly TED Talks. Thanks for your help!

Cost: FREE!

Our weekly TED Talks always keep it fresh and exciting… you never know what we’re going to show! Come join us at Compact Cinema this Wednesday at 12:00pm. We keep it a surprise to keep it fun!

Last week, we showed two TED Talks about flying drones; one that showed the newfound liberation a drone brings to a man paralyzed from the neck down, and one that warned against the future misuse and overuse of drones in public. What will we show this week?

Get lunch at one of our nearby restaurants or bring your own, and enjoy your meal on the food trays in front of our comfortable seats while you watch the video. Then stay for the always-lively audience discussion afterward!

Please help us spread the word by inviting (through Facebook) any friends you know who may be interested in checking out the weekly TED Talks. Thanks for your help!

Cost: FREE!

Our weekly TED Talks are like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’re going to get! Come join us at Compact Cinema this Wednesday at 12:00pm. We keep it a surprise to keep it interesting!

Last week, we showed the TED Talk by Edward Snowden and then had an awesome hour-long discussion. What will we show this week?

Get lunch at one of our nearby restaurants or bring your own, and enjoy your meal on the food trays in front of our comfortable seats while you watch the video. Then stay for the always-lively audience discussion afterward!

Please help us spread the word by inviting (through Facebook) any friends you know who may be interested in checking out the weekly TED Talks. Thanks for your help!

Cost: FREE!

Come join us for the weekly TED Talk at Compact Cinema this Wednesday at 12:00pm. We usually keep which talk we’re going to show a surprise, but this week is a special longer talk by Edward Snowden about how we can take back control of the Internet, and we expect an interesting discussion, so we hope you can make it!

Get lunch at one of the nearby restaurants or bring your own, and enjoy your meal on the food trays in front of our comfortable seats while you watch the video. Then stay for the always-lively audience discussion afterward!

Also, please invite (through Facebook) any friends you know who may be interested in seeing this, or just checking out the weekly TED Talks in general. Thanks for your help!

Cost: FREE!

If you haven’t signed up for the Roanoke Valley Time Exchange yet, go to www.rvte.org and sign up, then come to the New Member Orientation on Monday, June 23rd at Compact Cinema! Help build a vibrant local sharing economy that lets you do what you were meant to do, without waiting for money to be available to do it!

When:  Monday, June 23rd from 7:30pm-9:00pm

Come join the crowd every Wednesday at noon to watch a well-chosen TED Talk and then participate in an engaging audience discussion about it.  The talks that are chosen cover a wide variety of topics, and you never know what it will be about until you get there.  Talks are chosen by either our curator, Gloria Elliot, or suggested by members of the audience.  Grab lunch at one of the nearby food vendors in 16 West and enjoy your meal in Compact Cinema’s comfy seats with food trays while you watch the talk.  Make the most of your lunch hour and treat yourself to this rich community experience!

Click here for an archive of all previous TED Talks shown at Compact Cinema.

The Roanoke Valley Time Exchange will hold their new member orientation for May at Compact Cinema!  Check out the Time Exchange, and if you want to attend, be sure to sign up for the Time Exchange on their website first, at www.rvte.org.

When:  Monday, May 12th at 6:00pm-8:00pm.

At the last minute, Compact Cinema has been spared the axe!  However, it will continue in a different form. It will no longer be a “full-time” movie theater with daily screenings.  Instead, we will show films here occasionally, as special events; perhaps some mini film festivals.

Compact Cinema will probably get used more often as a meeting space for community activist groups and as a special events space for the 16 West Marketplace, and it will host the TED Talks every Wednesday at noon from now on (which are always thought-provoking and followed by vibrant audience discussion).  We will see how it goes in this form, and if it builds an audience gradually over time.  If the audience grows, then we’ll add more screenings and events.  If you have any ideas for films to screen or special events, please contact us at info@compactcinema.org.