Pecha Kucha Night Wellington

Pecha Kucha is a presentation format for creative work originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) (http://www.klein-dytham.com/) 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 300! cities across the world. In New Zealand Pecha Kucha Nights are now happening from Auckland through to Dunedin with great nights in Hamilton, Gisborne, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch as well.

Line up for  PKNWGN07

Peter Wilson // artistic director // capital e national theatre for children // www.capitale.org 

Fifi Colston // author / illustrator // the birth of velvet, a wearable art  piece // // http://fifisart.blogspot.com

Spencer Levine // designer // www.spencerlevine.co.nz

Gerbrand Van Melle // media designer / intercept > decipher > participate // www.gerbrandvanmelle.com

Roger Walker // architect / car enthusiast // dancing with the cars //

Sam Trubridge // performance designer/director //

Briar Monro // arts consultant // connecting creativity // 

Chris Moller// architect // click-weave space-time sketching // http://click-raft.blogspot.com/

Tommy Honey // director film school // street crime //  

Ravi Kambhoj // photographer // urban fusion // www.urbanfusion.co.nz

Joe Bleakley // art director / concept developer //

Lorenzo Buhne // musician / about the bite of the tarantula /

Tom Beard // urban designer // about a sentence  by Beaudelaire //

Eric Dorfman // ecclectus inc. //

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