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>On Apr 23, 2008, at 17:29 PM Vanessa Coxhead wrote:
>PECHA KUCHA NIGHT COMES TO CHRISTCHURCH
>
>PKN_CHCH_01
>Thursday 29 May 2008
>Start 8.20pm / Door open 7.30pm
>
>The Basement, SOL Square
>Cnr Manchester and Lichfield Street
>(Underneath Ishimoto, 6 SOL Square)
>
>$7 entry (tickets on the door)
>
>We just don't talk like we used to. In these telecommunication times we're
>more likely to hold a conversation or establish a relationship by phone,
>internet or text message. Face to face contact no longer seems as
>important-we're just too busy. But a group of people are bringing back the
>art of good old conversation through Pecha Kucha Nights and they're coming
>to Christchurch.
>
>Pecha Kucha is a presentation format for creative work originally devised by
>Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Kein-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 70 cities
>across the world, including London, San Francisco, Seattle, Rotterdam,
>Shanghai and Berlin. Pecha Kucha Night was voted Best Inspirational Event in
>the Metro 2007 Best of Auckland awards.
>
>PKN_CHCH_01 is the first Pecha Kucha Night to take place in
>Christchurch-attracting fans to see an "array of artists, musicians,
>architects, designers, writers and activists each presenting their work in
>some depth but at a comically breakneck pace-20 slides, 20 seconds each."
>The venue, an industrially raw car park hidden in the middle of a booming
>central city hospitality district with walls bombed by premier street
>artists, is also preparing for its very first grand show case. PKN_CHCH_01
>presenters will be announced at the end of April.
>
>Visit www.pechakucha.co.nz to subscribe to our newsletter to keep in the
>loop. You can even apply to talk on your favourite subject and achieve your
>6 minutes and 40 seconds of fame.
>
>If you want to be a presenter at our first Pecha Kucha Night Christchurch,
>please send an email with the following information to
>vanessa at pechakucha.co.nz, subject "application":
>
>Name
>Profession/Company
>Address
>Telephone
>A short description of what you want to show and tell
>2-3 exemplary pictures
>Some information about yourself
>
>Please don't send 20 pictures right away.
>
>For further information visit:
>http://www.pechakucha.co.nz
>http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechakucha
>
>For publicity information contact Vanessa Coxhead by email
>vanessa at pechakucha.co.nz or by phone +64 27 660 6437.
>
>Pecha Kucha is fun, fast, information. Please pass on this mail and let your
>contacts around the country know about it.