
And just as we announce that Toronto will take part in the Global Cities Week with this month’s Vol. 13, here’s a photo from the city’s Vol. 12 by Behnaz Beigui. As organizer Vivien Leung tells us, it “was a pre-party for the Toronto Design Offsite Festival during the city’s Design Week. We had another full house where some just couldn’t get in. We are hoping to fine a bigger venue soon.” You’ll find the full list of presenters with links on the official event page.

Toronto will be taking part in the Global Cities Week with its PechaKucha Night Vol. 13 on February 23 at The Garrison — check the official event page later as it gets updated with the list of presenters. The poster was designed by Trevor Embury.

You may have seen the works of Tokyo Genso before — his “overgrown Tokyo” imagery was all over the blogosphere last year — and here’s a presentation from the artist himself, recorded at PechaKucha Night in Tokyo Vol. 88.

Hong Kong will be taking part in the Global Cities Week, with its PechaKucha Night happening on February 21 at the XXX Gallery. You’ll find details on the poster and on this Facebook page, and the event will soon be added to the proper HK city page as well.

Although they make the mistake of referring to this one-off event as a proper PechaKucha Night — both types of events are certainly different — we’re still happy to see Forbes cover this recent event that used the PechaKucha format, showing just how powerful the 20×20 can be.

In this presentation recorded at PechaKucha Night in Tokyo Vol. 88, Gueorgui Tcherednitchenko talks about SANPO, his new web app that makes it easy to share photowalks, and find interesting new places to go to take photos.

Today’s presentation, “My True Passion,” was recorded at PechaKucha Night in Sacramento Vol. 16, and features Will Rodriguez as he talks about how he came to discover what his true passion was in life, and how it affected the way he looked at his creative work.