Atta Girl Art & Gardens

If you love Dayton, like new ideas and want to see what others who believe in our region are up to, you need to experience Pecha Kucha! Correctly pronounced its four syllables “peh-cha koo-cha”, but it’s perfectly acceptable to say you’re headed to PK night! The concept originated in Tokyo and is based on a presenter having up to 20 slides to talk about for 20 seconds each. The images forward automatically and presenters talk along to the images.

Held once a quarter, this Friday, June 25th meeting will also be the public debut of South Park Residents Carli & Hamilton Dixon’s newest adventure: Atta Girl Art & Gardens at 905 E. Third Street, just west of Keowee. The site itself is worth the trip, as you’ll see what these brave entrepreneurs have taken on and are revitalizing an old abandoned 18,000 square foot building into:

* Performance space

* Shared studio space

* Coffee/bicycle shop

* Gallery

* Recording studio?

* Artists’ studios
* Urban gardens

And the line up for Pecha Kucha presentations is pretty amazing to:

There’s a Shakespearean actor, an independent truth telling communications major from Wright State, a cinematic art expert, a puppet theater artist, an architect’s perspective on art like Big Butter Jesus, a women’s rock promoter, an advisor on the culture of India, someone who helped bring back nature with art, a sailor and world traveler, an architect who is turning humble oddly shaped garden fruits into stage pieces, and our MC of the evening will share the odyssey of her art and garden studios.

Cost: $5 (includes 1 soft pretzel and 1 beer) Falafels and additional beer also available. The actual meeting will take place in sculptor Hamilton Dixon’s new studio 811 E. Third Street (just west across the parking lot of the building pictured above). Event starts at 7pm.

No RSVP needed, just grab some friends and get there!