PechaKucha Night New Haven issues its November, Day-after-election-day Edition "Call for Presenters" because yes, it's happening again!
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Be a Presenter at the next PechaKucha Night ("PKN"), on 4 November 2009
PechaKucha's main idea/rule is "20x20" : each presenter has 20 exciting/beautiful images shown for 20 seconds per slide (seriously, it will run automatically!), on any creative idea you want to present. [Another rule is: "in a bar or a space attached to a bar." Which you've got to admit is a great rule.]
FAQ #1: What kind of presenters is PechaKucha Night for?
Looking through past presenters, there are embroiderers who stitch pornographic designs, ice hotel constructor/dissemblers, collectors of flowerpots and Japanese hearse images, photographers of people asleep in public places in China (among many themes), and a documentarian of the process behind making flowers rain from the sky in Holland. "And much more" doesn't do the variety justice. What all of the presentations have in common is the presenters' passion for their topic.
FAQ #2: What is a PechaKucha Night event like?
[Entirely from PKN participant comments:] PKN is "a leveling experience" wherein everyone has the same 20x20 limitation, whether student or practitioner, amateur or professional, young and old have presented next to one another. The 20x20 format forces people to reduce, clear their minds and think about what is relevant. It "unleashes energy and goodwill in equal measure, with even experienced presenters working incredibly hard to prepare their 20x20," and even introverts able to beautifully describe their innovation, knowing that they have a mere 6 minutes and 40 seconds until it's over. It is all about interaction, direct feedback, eye contact, body heat and excitement which cannot be communicated by a computer screen." It extends knowledge and generates energy by viewing a topic of creative fascination through the eyes of the thoughtfully obsessed.
FAQ #3: Okay, I have an idea for a presentation... how does it work, exactly?
PKN prepares the venue end of the Night ahead of time. You [and other presenters] prepare by distilling your ideas into 20 ".jpg" images you can get through in 20 seconds each, zipping them into a zip or ".rar" file, and contacting us. PKN receives your images and puts your 20x20 into the presentation lineup for the Event. For a spot in the night's lineup we need to have your images ahead of time --e.g., today is not too early. Once you're in the lineup, we let you know, list your presentation on the site, etc. You come to the venue on that night and we give you the microphone for your part in the PKN conversation. (Then you get a drink and feel like a rock star.)
Still have questions? Or want to present?
Email Shunji at:
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/new-haven/enquiry/message
Or view some great Presenter Tips at:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVUxHLF-soFFZGY5MmZ6c2NfNGdnYndiMmdt&hl=en
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Greta Hotopp and Shunji Ohta
PechaKucha Night - New Haven
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/new-haven 
