The very first PechaKucha Night of 2011 was held on January 1, and it was Philadelphia’s honor to kick of the year with its Vol. 7. As organizer Bradley Peniston tells us, it was a huge night, spurred on by mentions of the event in the city’s two weekly newspapers — here’s a link to one of the them, in the Philadelphia Weekly.
“Perhaps because of that, there were an unusual number of new faces in the audience. Everyone seemed to love the presentation about using goats to maintain urban lots.” It’s certainly great to hear that a whole bunch of people were treated to their very first PKN experience, and here’s hoping they enjoyed it enough to come again.
Bradley also points us to a video of one of the presentations from that evening, on a new podcast series in the area called Talkadelphia.
One that unfortunately got lost in the shuffle as we were gearing up preparations for the “PechaKucha for Haiti” event, here’s a look at the poster that was produced for PechaKucha Night in Philadelphia Vol. 4, held at the tail end of January — and take note that Vol. 5 is just a short few weeks away, set to happen April 17 at Studio 34: Yoga | Healing | Arts. Also, a few comments from organizer Jonathan McEuen on the Vol. 4 festivities:
PechaKucha Night Philadelphia Vol. 4 was a huge success. We heard from kids who started a company that developed into an east-coast enclave of wizards and warriors — mostly children in urban areas with wild imaginations eager to be set free. We heard from professors studying the work of Kevin Bacon’s father, from people building gardens on rooftops, constructing low-power, pirate radio networks, and making the best cupcakes I’ve ever personally had in my life. Attendance grew again to a new record despite the snow, and all had a wonderful time. It was a true gift to be able to organize and present these speakers to the city, as both presenter and audience shared a fantastic night.
Over the past year of blogging here at PechaKucha Daily we’ve covered quite a few flyers and posters for PKN-related events worldwide — you can see all of them by checking out the “flyers” tag — but one thing that we haven’t really covered specifically is how each city incorporates the official “PechaKucha Night” logo with the name of the city. Here’s one we think deserves to be highlighted, for PKN Philadelphia. Also, please note that Philly’s Vol. 4 is just over a week away, set to happen on January 30.
PechaKucha Night in Philadelphia Vol. 3 was held just a few short weeks ago, and now it gets some terrific coverage in the city’s leading newspaper, The Philadelphia Inquirer — you can read the piece online here. PKN Philadelphia Vol. 4 is already scheduled for January 30, again at the regular venue of Studio 34.
PechaKucha Night in Philadelphia is winding down the summer with its Vol. 3 later this month (September 26) with a themed night — “Adult Swim” — and a suitable presenter:
Samantha White, an ex-competitive swimmer, lesson instructor, and swim coach will be your guide in exploring the sometimes shady underbelly of swimming pools. Dive into the details of various pools and their patrons across the United States (ok, mostly on the East coast) — what lies beneath might just surprise you!
PechaKucha Night is of course all about the presentations, but it’s certainly not a rare occurrence to have a musical act perform at the start or end — or even during the beer break — and it looks like the organizers of this month’s PKN Philadelphia Vol. 3 (September 26) are very excited to welcome the group Grandchildren as an opener for the event. See this page for more info on the band.
Couldn’t attend last Saturday’s PechaKucha Night in Philadelphia? The Philadelphia Weekly provides a nice little write-up of that city’s Vol. 2 — read the full piece here.
I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect from Philly PechaKucha 2, held Saturday night at Studio 34 in West Philly. PechaKucha was invented by Japanese architects to move PowerPoint presentations along more quickly — but on the other hand, the event in Philly was being promoted as a cultural event. So what was I going to get? Information or entertainment? Presentation or performance art?
A little bit of both, as it turns out.
The image above is made up of “notes of preliminary ideas” by Jonny Goldstein for this presentation on the fear of snakes.
PechaKucha Night made an appearance in Philadelphia late last month at “Interactivity,” the annual conference of the Association of Children’s Museums, and from this post over at the Living in Kidcity blog, it sounds like it was good fun. I would definitely support the drinking game suggested at the end of the post — all in the name of charity!
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As we’ve seen before, even simple drawings can make for great slides, and so it’s fun to see Jonny Goldstein tease his upcoming presentation for PechaKucha Night in Philadelphia Vol. 2 (June 13), which will cover his fear of snakes, and be presented using his original hand-drawn illustrations.
