Gisborne will have its PechaKucha Night Vol. 8 this Friday (February 10) at the Gisborne Hotel. Here is more on the event, from organizer Pene Walsh:
Always on the lookout for new venues and presenters, this summer we are hitting the DB in outer Kaiti. A popular venue in the 1970s we reckon, the bathing beauty on the poster would have been a regular at the DB. Plush carpets, swanky bars, lounge and the pool – this was the place to be. They still have a presidential/honeymoon suite that is pretty top notch.
This summer is an important PechaKucha Night for our organising team as we will never be the same again – the date for the event is all timed around the impending birth of Sarah’s (and the lovely Matt) first child. Although she has cleaned out the linen cupboard already we reckon she will make it through this last PechaKucha Night in one (not 2) piece.
It may not have been much of a summer as far as sunshine hours go this year, there has been heaps of entertainment and it isn’t finishing yet – this time around we have local MP Moana Mackay presenting – who knew she is a scientist? Last PechaKucha Night audiences were surprised when Shauna Ratapu announced she was resigning from her job and was going to follow her dreams – I think her boss in the audience got a bit of a shock. She is back and is going to let you know just how far she has taken the dream – it is a beauty of a story. Other presenters include an artist with an unusual story of nuns to tell, a sports fanatic who will surprise, a clever cushion maker, a DJ, a mad obsessed bamboo bicycle maker and a couple of extra bonus presenters.
PechaKucha Night in Gisborne returns this coming Friday (July 29) for its 6th edition, with the event happening at the Poverty Bay Club building’s Dome Room — $5 at the door, kicks off at 17:30.
It wasn’t enough that the recent PechaKucha Night in Gisborne Vol. 5 got a lot of great press prior to the event, now organizer Pene Walsh sends in this great full-page follow-up report that was published in The Gisborne Herald — click here to see a readable version of the scan.
As promised, here are a few photos from this past Friday’s PechaKucha Night in Gisborne Vol. 5 — there’s more to see in the PKN Gisborne Flickr photostream.
The next PechaKucha Night in Gisborne (Vol. 4) is just over a week away (September 17), and will take place at Aladdin’s Cave. PKN Gisborne organizer Pene Walsh also shared this link, that shows the current earthquake aftershocks that Christchurch is dealing with (see our earlier post).
The next PechaKucha Night in Gisborne (Vol. 3) is just a week away (June 18), to be held at the Tawera Studio Gallery. Organizer Pene Walsh sends in a few details:
PechaKucha Night Gisborne on 18th June is to celebrate Matariki. Matariki is the beginning of the Maori New Year and refers to the time to harvest root crops and the rising of the constellation Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, Subaru in Japan or Matariki as she is known in New Zealand. Just to mix things up we are moving venue once again – this time to introduce the new space, Tawera Gallery and Studio. Speakers and topics include an astrologer, the Matariki story, an iPhone apps developer, and what is the future of the presently defunct Gisborne train line?
And as a follow-up to PechaKucha Night in Gisborne’s Vol. 2 report, here’s a scan of an article that was published in the Gisborne Herald, as a lead-up to the event.
As you can see from the photo above, it was a crowded if very comfy setting for last week’s PechaKucha Night in Gisborne Vol. 2. Here’s more on the event from organizer Pene Walsh:
We were very happy with the 100 strong audience at the January PKN but decided it was a bit squished and that we might need a new venue, so we moved to The Dome Room, and again it was a tight fit with nearly 180 folk attending.
By coincidence, artist Brian Campbell talked and sang his way through his loathing of le Corbusier influence on buildings but was then followed shortly later by post-modern building lover and architect Dan King. Tossed into the mix was Death Punk enthusiast Melanie Tahata who started the New Zealand chapter of Turbojugend Aotearoa U-666 (supporters of Scandanavian group Turbonegro), Polly Green’s journey as world class kayaker and filmmaker, Jamie Quirk’s unique thoughts when he is taking photograph’s in some of the world’s most unique places, Todd Sheridan’s roots journey down the Wanganui river, Darnelle Timbs’ PHD based around politics, hiphop and the Black Eyed Peas, Outsider artist from small-town Wairoa was introduced by Chris Wilson, and Martin D Page’s development form graffiti work to lead artist for a building project.
Earlier this month PechaKucha Night finally launched in the city of Gisborne, and as you’ll see in the following report from organizer Pene Walsh, it was a terrific debut.
We were thrilled to receive “Tokyo Calling” from Astrid and Mark – it was an unexpected surprise and to have them speaking directly to the audience was fantastic. The evening went off without a hitch and a week later people are still buzzing – the presentations were all fantastic, you just never know what is going to happen.
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