PechaKucha Night in Melbourne Vol. 19 is just around the corner, set for this coming Wednesday (April 18) at The Workers Club. You’ll find the list of presenters on the official event page, and here’s more info from organizer Michelle Emma James:
PechaKucha Melbourne Vol. 19 will be held next Wednesday night at The Workers Club in Fitzroy. The Melbourne International Comedy Festival has hit our town this month of April, and we’re joining in on the fun with the theme: Are You Serious?
Well, are you? Is it possible we’re taking things and ourselves a little too seriously these days? We want to make you laugh…or at least make you think. Yes, life has a serious side and many of us design with it every day, but how about taking a step back for a moment? What do you take seriously? What shouldn’t we take so seriously? What needs an injection of un-serious?
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PechaKucha Night in Melbourne Vol. 18 is set for this Wednesday (July 20), and here are more details from co-organizer Michelle Emma James — you’ll also find the full list of presenters with links on the official event page.
PechaKucha Melbourne Vol. 18 will be held on the opening night of the State of Design Festival. Established in 2004, the State of Design Festival is the largest and most innovative design event in Australia and the heart of design thinking and design activity. In 2011 the State of Design Festival explores design in, on and around projects that are transformative, mobile and networked, under the theme ‘Design That Moves.’ We have subverted this for our PechaKucha Night theme: ‘Brake, Break, Broke’. Think putting on the brakes, think pause and stop, taking a break, think crashing, smashing, breaking, think broken, think going for broke. Design starts when we stop.
Our guest speakers include Nicklas Wallberg who through his organisation Tram Sessions encourages Melbourne artists and bands to perform on city trams, artists Sarah Barrow & Michelle Gordon who celebrate transformation and new beginnings in the guise of building and destroying piñatas, and Melbourne’s best-loved cartoonist, poet, and whimsical cultural commentator Michael Leunig. The night will also feature: architects Jeremy McLeod and Ben Callery, fashion designer Liam Revell, researchers Jerome Frumar and Tim Schork, and inventor of hipDisk, Danielle Wilde.
Our audience will gather on the plaza created by Nathan Coley for his exhibition, Apperances at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for an evening of conversation and social connectivity. Street food and locally-made craft beer will be on tap throughout the evening.
Melbourne had its Inspire Japan event last week, and from what we hear — from co-organizer Michelle Emma James — it was “a HUGE success!” Below is a report from Michelle, but also, click here to see a larger version of the panoramic shot pictured above (taken by Neo Feliciano).
We, at herestudio, teamed up with guest curators Antony Di Mase (architect) and Dave Anderson (lighting designer) to ask speakers a simple question: ‘What is light?’ Each of the speakers had something different to share, whether it be about artificial or daylighting in architecture, stage lighting, or capturing light through photography.
This very special volume of PechaKucha Night was located in an amazing basement space in a heritage building in Melbourne’s CBD. We had also collaborated with the organisers of an exhibition which was held in the same space at the same time — over fifty child+parent teams had made lamps out of recycled materials! There was a beautiful glow to the space and was most definitely inspiring! I’ve included an amazing panorama photo taken by Neo Feliciano so you can see!
We also had yummy solar-powered beer served on site which kept everyone drinking and dancing to some great tunes late-ish into the night! We were very happy to award one of our door prizes to Michael, who was actually in Tokyo at the time the earthquake hit on 11 March, and had increased his odds by buying many many raffle tickets to donate to the cause!
PechaKucha Night returns to Melbourne tomorrow night (Friday, March 4) at MiFA, as part of the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival. You’ll find the full list of presenters with links on the official Vol. 16 event page.
As we mentioned the other day, the next PechaKucha Night in Melbourne is Vol. 14, and it’s happening at the end of the month (October 27) at Federation Square (BMW Edge) — see the list of presenters. Organizer Ammon Beyerle sent us the flyer for the event, which we include in this post.
The next PechaKucha Night in Melbourne, Vol. 14, will take place October 27 at Federation Square (BMW Edge) as part of National Architecture Week — see the list of presenters on the official event page — but there’s already a Vol. 15 also scheduled. That event, set for November 12 at MiFA, will examine “the ties that pull Australia towards Asia and vice versa.”
Melbourne is hosting its PechaKucha Night Vol. 12 tomorrow night (May 18), and you just know it’s going to be a special event since PK co-founder Mark Dytham will be on hand for the festivities — Mark is currently in Australia for the launch of the temporary SuperDeluxe event space, part of the 17th Biennale of Sydney. PKN Melbourne Vol. 12 will take place at The Order of Melbourne, and you can find the full list of presenters with links on the official event page.
