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PechaKucha Night in The Hague Vol. 3 was held earlier this month, and here’s a glowing report from organizer Bram van Hasselt. You’ll also find more photos from the event in this Flickr photoset.
On Wednesday March 10th, something special happened in Pip. To us as an organization this would have to be the best PechaKucha Night in The Hague yet! Over 100 people showed up to get inspired and be entertained, to laugh and to meet new people. Now, we look back at the last edition with you to enjoy it for one last time and get ideas for the next PKDH, which will take place sometime in June.
Last week we posted a collection of photos from PechaKucha Night in The Hague Vol. 2 — and pointed you to this Flickr photoset. We now follow that up with a report sent to us by organizer Bram van Hasselt.
The second PechaKucha Night for the city of The Hague had, like the first edition, the bite the organizers wanted it to have. Besides the effort they put in getting an outstanding flock of guests together, a second edition in general tells even more about a first edition: how did the word of mouth go, does the format prove to work and is the public willing to come back. Well, they were! An even broader variety of people came to ‘PIP Den Haag’ (a special department in the big Bink36 building) defying the cold to watch and listen to some very special presentations.
The organisers managed to not only find people that are known for their fantastic still-image work, but also, for example, performer and singer Marianne Kirch, Rotterdam based film producer Jos van de Pal and Rogier Wieland with his overwhelming presentation of his stop motion and animated work, that perfectly fit in the format of 20×20.
After this second edition we are again firmly convinced of the strength of PechaKucha Night in The Hague and its future development to let it suit the character of this city even better. PechaKucha Night The Hague will continue to give space for edgy, rare, mainstream, junior and arrived artist, thinkers and charactères-extraordinaire.
As with the first volume, PechaKucha Night in The Hague now has a terrific Flickr photoset of photos from this month’s Vol. 2 in stark black and white, courtesy of photographers Victor Zwiers and Jonne Seijdel. We’ve selected a few of our favorites, but there’s more to see in the original set.
Were you planning on attending PechaKucha Night in The Hague Vol. 2? If so, we’re afraid you’re too late, since the event was held two days ago, but here’s a look at the flyer for the event, celebrating “ideas, inspiration, and creativity,” things we can definitely get behind.
PechaKucha Night made its debut in The Hague — or Den Haag — just over a week ago, and organizer Marc Boumeester fills us in on how the inaugural event was able to distinguish itself from the other “plentiful” PKN cities in Holland.
The first edition of PechaKucha Den Haag has proven to be exactly what the organizers had hoped it to be. In a country with such a high ‘PechaKucha density’ as Holland, it is hard not to become involved in some sort of competition or express oneself in terms of comparison. The organizers of PK-DH specifically wanted to steer away from these elements, especially because PechaKucha is all about sharing and appreciating. But as the high-brow cultural climate of The Hague has been described in terms like “immature” or “possessing a boring charm” and the general cultural climate has not brought forward spontaneous highly energetic states (like “just do it” or “hype it up”) as some other large Dutch cities have known, the organizers where faced with quite a challenge.
