PKN_AKL_20 | at Going West

PKN_AKL_20 // Friday 3 September 2010 // Waitakere Council Chambers, 6 Henderson Valley Road, Henderson // doors open 7.30pm, start 8.20pm // $9 doorsales only // 

Pecha Kucha Night is an event in which presenters give brief presentations accompanied by 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 seconds. Presenters are usually from the design, architecture, photography, art, music and other creative fields. Giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds for each speaker, it's hard to become bored.This time most presenters will come from the word-based creative fields.

List of presenters:

List of presenters:

* John B. Turner // photographer //"Te Atatu Me"

* Edwin McRae // scriptwriter // 'sheep to script' // www.edwinmcrae.com

* Iain Sharp // writer // on the artist Chris Aubrey

* Sarah Laing

* Siobhan Harvey // poet, short story writer, literary critique // "Literary Korero"

* Liz March // photographer

* Paula Green // poet/ childrens writer // The Architecture of Writing Poetry

* David Thomas

* Paul Shannon // novelist, digital producer/copywriter // about his time spent at the Mangamahu Hotel in the early 90s

* Peter Madden // sculptographer // Reality Sampled

* Darryl Torckler // writer, illustrator

* Jenny Walker // fashion designer // fashion design and individual expression // www.ybe.co.nz

* Meghan Geliza alias SisterDarling // painter // about the pop surrealist art movement

* Mels Barton // Heritage Area Coordinator // about Kauri Dieback Disease