PECHA KUCHA NIGHT Wellington VOL. 02

PechaKucha Night Vol. 2 comes to the Hutt. Pecha Kucha Night @ TheNewDowse

Wednesday 28 May, doors open 7.30pm, start 8.20pm TheNewDowse, 45 Laings Rd, Lower Hutt

Door sales only! $7. Cash Bar!

Don’t miss out when some of Wellington’s finest creative talent, including designers, artists, architects and writers, will bombard you with an inspirational stew of ideas and creative projects at Pecha Kucha Night.

Their brief: a breakneck presentation of 20 images coupled with 20 second sound-bites.

Speakers include:

* Ross Stevens // VUW // on Virtual Migration
* Emily Loughnan // Click Suite // how ideas need oxygen too and what’s in her bottom drawer
* Charlie Ward // DNA // about work he's done for the Moriori people of Rekohu, the Chatham Islands, DNA, poetry, music and performers that inspire him
* Jared Forbes // Lumen Digital // about some virtual projects
* Jo Randerson // Author, Artist // about the power of the unique, original voice and her upcoming exhibition of Outsider Art
* Jasper Cook and Kat Black // VJZOO from Perth // about their work as artists and VJ's
* Mark Southcombe // VUW/PRAXIS // "in praise of detail"
* Peter Wilson // Artistic Director // about his work in children’s theatre
* Kris Sowersby // KLIM Type Foundry // on creating typefaces
* David Cross // Fine Arts Massey University // about his recent performance/installation Hold shown most recently in Dunedin
* Drew James // Erupt // about the Taupo Arts Festival
* Michel Tuffery // artist // about his work
* Lance Lawson // Photography // about his work and fishing in the Cook Straight
* Karin Van Roosmaalen // Fine Arts Massey University // about her recent experiences in Beirut

Pecha Kucha is a presentation format for creative work originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo, Japan in 2003 as a place for creative types to meet, network, and show their work in public. The name derives from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation ("chit-chat") and it’s where you get to talk about whatever you want in 20 second sound-bites.

Pecha Kucha Night is an event in which presenters give brief presentations accompanied by 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 seconds, about a topic of their choosing giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds. Presenters (and much of the audience) are usually from the design, architecture, photography, art, music and creative fields and with up to 14 presenters in a night there’s bound to be something to spark your own creativity.

Pecha Kucha has tapped into the demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global—as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 120 cities across the world, including London, San Francisco, Seattle, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Rio and Berlin. Pecha Kucha Night in Auckland was voted Best Inspirational Event in the Metro 2007 Best of Auckland awards.

For further information visit: http://www.pechakucha.co.nz http://www.pecha-kucha.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechakucha

Hope to see you there!

Your Pecha Kucha Team Wellington Pitsch Leiser and Luka Hinse

If you want to be a presenter at one of our next Pecha Kucha Nights, please send an email with the subject "PechaKuchaNight Presenters" to curators@pechakucha.co.nz

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