Subjects: Leadership

Musician, recording artist and inventor Jerry Riopelle

Author and medicine hunter Chris Kilham, talks about the gradual erasure of native knowledge and culture.

Mars Space Explorer Dave Lavery speaks about the creation of the first robot to take pictures on Mars.

Ken Danby, a contemporary realist painter, speaks about society’s common perception of art and explains why it is important to keep arts as part of the education curriculum.

Political cartoonist Terry Mosher, AKA Aislin

Writer Mark Abley gives discusses how languages survive and adapt.

Artist Gunther von Hagens, who invented the plastination technique for his travelling corpse museum, brings samples from real human heads on stage with him.

Alan Hirsch, a neurologist and psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of smell and taste loss, speaks about the relationship between smell and behaviour.

Photographer Rick Smolan.

Musician Adam Cohen, son of famous poet and musician Leonard Cohen, performs.