Harry Baker: A love poem for lonely prime numbers
Harry Baker: The power of self-acceptance
Poets and doctors both save lives, just in different ways. World-champion slam poet Harry Baker shares the heartache of forfeiting the path of medicine for a self-guided career in poetry and writing. This talk is an ode to choosing to be different, woven through two poems that sing with universal truth. While he won't help the world by becoming ...
Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps
Aris Venetikidis is fascinated by the maps we draw in our minds as we move around a city -- less like street maps, more like schematics or wiring diagrams, abstract images of relationships between places. How can we learn from these mental maps to make better real ones? As a test case, he remakes the notorious Dublin bus map.
Harry Baker: A Poet's Journey Through Lockdown(s)
As a World Poetry Slam Champion, Harry Baker has always written things to try and connect with an audience, but how do you stay connected when you’re not allowed to breathe the same air? From a poem written the day we started lockdown in the UK to the first thing performed on a stage 444 days later, follow a performers journey as they learn to w...
Harry Baker: Songs of hope for the planet | Harry & Chris | TEDxExeter
If you worry about the future of the planet, let Harry and Chris lighten your mood with their optimistic comedy-rap-jazz take on conservation. A World Poetry Slam champion and an internationally celebrated jazz musician, Harry Baker and Chris Read have sold out three runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with subsequent tours bringing light, l...
Harry Baker: Embracing my inner maths nerd
From studying maths and writing poetry in his spare time, Harry is now a full time poet who reads maths books for fun. In this talk, he shares some of his new poems exploring the link between maths and poetry and how, combined, they have helped him get through life events such as marathons, high school bullying, and even his Mum's cancer diagno...
Harry Baker: Everything is impossible until it isn't
Anna Stevens, Harry Baker: Singer/Guitarist - Student Performers
Harry Baker, Chris Read: Finding joy through comedy-rap-jazz
As schoolchildren Harry and Chris, a poet and a musician, once played covers of their favourite songs from the charts. Now after pursuing their own blossoming solo careers they have returned to work together to create something new. In this talk they bring their own brand of comedy-rap-jazz to the University of Bristol. Their performance is a c...