We are one week away from PechaKucha for Haiti — the worlds largest distributed conference. (
http://pecha-kucha.org/pechakucha-for-haiti)
It only took seconds to destroy so many bright hopes and dreams in Haiti. The PechaKucha network is joining with Architecture for Humanity to help rebuild Haiti 20 seconds at a time. 20 seconds, 20 images, 200 cities, 2000 presentations, 200,000 people - with the aim to raise $1,000,000 for rebuilding Haiti.
Saturday February 20th will be a 24 hour PechaKucha in more than 100 cities in 20 languages. All the PechaKucha Night cities will be connected by a 24-hour PechaKucha presentation WAVE that will gradually move westward city by city, circumnavigating the globe. The wave will be dropping in on each city for around 10 minutes for a video link up and a live presentation. This presentation wave will be streamed over the internet on a 24-hour WAVEcast, which we think will be a world first. All proceeds will benefit Architecture for Humanity's Haiti reconstruction efforts.
PechaKucha Night's Chicago and Champaign-Urbana "chapters" join forces to bring the most important PK event to date. We look forward to seeing you this Saturday February 20th at 2:00pm (doors at 1:00pm) at Martyrs' – 3855 N Lincoln Avenue.
Some of the featured speakers for this afternoon ALL AGES PK include:
Katherine Darnstadt – of Architecture For Humanity
Nadia Memoine Andre – speaking passionately of her homeland
Jon Langford – Notorious Musician
Andy Warfel and Mark Taylor – Making the trip from Champaign with a notoriously large entourage
John Ronan – Architect of international notoriety
Plus some very special guests (also guaranteed notorious) – to be announced later this week.
Please tell your friends. Come for lunch, or some daytime drinking. But mostly come to make a difference with PechaKucha.
Space is limited. Please purchase tickets at
http://www.martyrstickets.musictoday.com/Martyrs/calendar.aspx
