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More Magazine Library, a 3000-seat Venue for Koszalin, and a ‘Raucous’ Night in Nishinomiya

May 15th, 2012

Let’s take a look at what’s happening in PechaKucha today.

Presentations
As we promised yesterday, we continue to share presentations from last Friday’s special PechaKucha event at the Magazine Library exhibition. Today you can hear Antonin Gaultier talk about his new digital Tokyo fashion magazine, De Rigueur (available for Kindle), and Tokyo-based designer Ian Lynam shares some of the magazine titles that have had a big impact on him.

PKN Koszalin Vol. 9

Posters
Two new posters today on our Tumblr blog, starting with the one (above) for the upcoming PKN Koszalin Vol. 9 (on May 25). You see a piece of the amazing venue where it will be held in it, and below, a better look. You’ll also find the beautifully illustrated poster for PKN Barcelona Vol. 16.

PKN Koszalin Vol. 9

It’s the Koszalin Amphitheatre, and it can hold 3000 spectators — that’s PKN Tel Aviv territory!

PKN Beirut Vol. 8

Events
We of course have a few new galleries of event photos to point out, and the photo above is an oldie but goodie, from PKN Beirut Vol. 8 (the most recent event in that city was last week’s Vol. 14).

Here we have a report from PKN Nishinomiya organizer Brent Jones on the city’s recent PKN Vol. 12:

Friday, April 13 (that’s right . . . Friday the 13th) was another raucous night of creativity and fun at CUBE in Nishinomiya. We continue to attract an eclectic mix of presenters, and this beautiful Spring night was no exception. We started the evening by showing Mark Dytham’s PechaKucha Global Events presentation from the PKN website. We explained to the audience that we are locked into our set events (because our venue is a school), but that we try to promote these events as much as we can. Our first live presenter was Teruko Ashida, who introduced her organic fruit farm in Amagasaki and the events she holds there. Peter Sterlacci followed up with a lively introduction to Personal Branding. Shuji Narita came next with a humorous look at common English mistakes made by Japanese, and he was followed by Carmen Tamas and Shawn White swapping musings about the charms of Japan and Romania. Our Beer Break was followed by a PKN formatted workshop on Old School Hip Hop by Warren Decker. Natsuko Shiraishi then introduced her work with groups of indigenous Mangyan on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. The audience was then treated to the trials and tribulations of learning how to scull by Richard Miller, and Wes Lang rounded out the night with a poetic look at Unkai, or the sea of clouds that can be viewed from various summits in Japan. We again enlisted the help of several students in introducing the presenters and keeping the evening full of unexpected twists and turns, and are already looking forward to PKN Nishinomiya Volume 13 on July 6th.

Calendar
As we mentioned yesterday, tonight (May 15) you can look forward to PKN Helsingborg Vol. 8, and then tomorrow night (May 16) Wagga Wagga will be hosting its PKN Vol. 6.

PechaKucha Event in Lonstrup

April 9th, 2012

PechaKucha Event in Lonstrup

In this post you’ll find a few photos (all taken by Mathies Brinkmann) from a recent PechaKucha event held in the city of Lonstrup. It was produced in partnership with the PechaKucha Night in Aalborg series, as a sort of ambassador program to bring PKN to that city. From what we hear, it was a clear hit, and there’s a chance that a regular series might start up in Lonstrup now. There are more photos to see in this Flickr photoset, and here’s a report from PKN Aalborg organizer Annette Scheibel.

The event in Lønstrup went so well, the small cinema was full of an enthusiastic audience (about 40-50 people, there’s isn’t room for more), and there were good, moving, thoughtfull presentations from local people.

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PKN Aalborg Vol. 7

March 19th, 2012

PKN Aalborg Vol. 7

PechaKucha Night in Aalborg Vol. 7 was held last week, and we have a few photos to share from the event, with more to see in this Flickr photoset — all photos are courtesy of Mathies Brinkmann Jespersen. You’ll also find the list of presenters with links on the Vol. 7 event page. Let us also point you to a great photoset of photos from PKN Aalborg Vol. 3, taken by Rasmus Nautrup. Here’s also a report from organizer Annette Scheibel:

We had another one of these amazing evenings, where ideas, playfulness, passion went through every presentation, and made it magic. A playful circus theme found its way to our event as a kind of thread…and we had the event documented by nitusind.nu, who make reviews and interviews with participants. People were crowding out into the hallway to get to see — close to the 100 we’re able to have at this indoor space.

An artist and designer shared her awareness about sensing the world to transfer it into art, a student talked about the importance of creativity in education to make people innovative — presented in a very intelligent observation and funny as well — a designer talked of her work about how to educate children through games she invented and tried out with the children and the importance of being able to be open to play, an art historian talked about documenting the art movement fluxus and Mogens Otto Nielsens’ international project with mailart, and a Venezuelan lawyer active in Amnesty International talked on how to keep alertness in sustaining a society with human rights and how to make an impact on politicians around the world who don’t respect them.

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Play Your City

January 25th, 2012

Play Your City

Today’s presentation — recorded in Danish at PechaKucha Night in Aalborg Vol. 6 — is by Ole Verner Pihl, and entitled “Play Your City – Metaphysics & Landscape.”

PKN Aalborg Vol. 5

September 28th, 2011

PKN Aalborg Vol. 5

We have a few photos from last week’s PechaKucha Night in Aalborg Vol. 5 to share, taken by Anna Scheibel Christiansen — you’ll also find the list of presenters from the event on the official event page. Please note that the next PKN in Aalborg is already set for November 6 at the same venue (Huset).

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Poster for PKN Aalborg Vol. 5

August 24th, 2011

Poster for PKN Aalborg Vol. 11

PechaKucha Night in Aalborg Vol. 5 is set for September 20 at Huset, and you’ll find a list of presenters with links on the official event page. The poster for the event was designed by Casper Andersen, based on the original graphics designed by Justas Cekauskas for earlier volumes.