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Let’s get together for volume 39 at the beautiful Grace Church! The PK format has inspired these eight speakers to share ideas and observations; inspirations for art and livelihood; social phenomenon and popular culture trends; and creative odysseys and life influences. As always, we want to unite our community through creativity and storytelling.
Emcees Heather Atkinson and Lela Klein
PechaKucha Dayton tonight at 7 pm at The Brightside Music & Event Venue (905 East Third). PechaKucha 20×20 is a fast moving presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and the speaker needs to keep up. There are 8 presenters sharing their ideas. All of the speakers look like they will be interesting, but if one presenter doesn’t interest you, relax. That presentation will be over in less than 7 minutes.
PechaKucha is held 4 times a year in Dayton. It moves around town to get the audience familiar with lots of venues. Tonight’s location, the Brightside, is a business venture of artist Hamilton Dixon and his wife entrepreneur Carli Ricciardi Dixon who is the final speaker tonight.
This photo shows Carli working in her business Bloombeads by freezeframe, the country’s leading floral preservation company. They can turn the flowers from a wedding ceremony into lasting art or jewelry.
From handwriting to co-housing, the 35th volume of Pecha Kucha will be held on Wednesday, May 9th a the Dayton Metro Library at 7:30pm. Doors open for seating at 7pm.
This PK will be hosted by the library’s own Megan Cooper, who will introduce eight speakers who will bring stories, expertise, and personal history to life in PK style, which means 20 slides shown for 20 seconds each.
Between sets of speakers, enjoy a PK networking break with beer, wine and other refreshments. As always, PK is free to attend and donations are welcome. Street parking surrounding the library will be free. The library’s underground parking garage will be closed.
From handwriting to co-housing you’ll learn and experience something new from each speaker:
Judd Plattenberg – Time Capsule in Lonaconing MD
Tim Kambitsch – Reimagining Works
Ann Bain – The Vital Importance of Handwriting
Mike Huff – AIA Student Design Competition
Ann Kim – Tran-Siberian Railroad Journey
Amy Kollar Anderson and Kate Huser Santucci – The Art of Collaboration (or How to Not Freak Out When You Change Another Artist’s Work)
D Ralph Young – World War II in the Pacific
Chip Williamson – Archi-sociology: Co-housing
Poster art by Amy Kollar Anderson and Kate Huser Santucci.
Art by Kelley Booze
Shayna, Matt & Jill
Pecha Kucha (PK) was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work publicly. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in 455 cities around the world, inspiring creative people worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of “chit chat,” PK rests on a presentation format of 20 images x 20 seconds. In 2009, Jill Davis started Dayton’s PK Nights, partnering with Matt Sauer and Shayna McConville and presenting these nights of quarterly presentations and rotating locations. Over the years we’ve heard about creative candy making, illegal trips to Cuba, Evel Knievel and and how lunches are delivered in India. The beauty of these nights is for 6 minutes and 40 seconds you’ll be exposed to a presenters world and then another and another.
For this month’s PK night head to the Dakota Center for a special welcome and a night of knowledge hosted by Yvette Kelly-Fields of Wesley Community Center. Come be inspired! Topics will include:
PARKING: The Dakota Center has a small lot, so expect to use the plentiful free street parking nearby. There’s also public parking at W. 4th and S. Broadway behind Chase Bank. (You are just steps away from Texas Beef + Cattle if you’d like to eat before PKing)
It all started for Dayton Pecha Kucha August of 2009 at c{space. A crowd of 75 gathered to hear speakers do a 20×20, which means each talk is illustrated by 20 images that show for 20 seconds each, a total of six minutes and 40 seconds.
While it was new for Dayton, Pecha Kucha was actually created in Tokyo in 2003 by a couple of architects, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, who were seeking a way to encourage student presenters to use PowerPoint in a more organized and succinct manner. The format works best when the presenter picks a main idea, writes a script for his presentation that supports that main idea and then breaks the script into twenty “scenes” that become slides. Only at this point should the presenter begin to think about finding or creating images to go with each slide. Part of the spirit of pecha kucha is that an image on a slide should support what the speaker is saying and not be something the audience has to read.
Tonight is the 30th PKDayton and will be held at Hope Lutheran Church, 500 Hickory St, Dayton, OH 45410. The event starts at 7:30pm, but it’s usually best to arrive early and find a seat. About half way through the speakers there is usually an intermission (for beer and networking) and the presentations usually wrap up about 9:30pm
Elom grew up in Senegal, West Africa before making Dayton her home.
The lively Elom Dossa will be the emcee. Speakers (not in this order) are:
Kevin Uppstrom – Photos from my world travels as a cargo pilot
Kristina Bilberry – My Catholic University Educated, Black, Female, Daytonian Privilege
Pat Santucci – Creative candy making
Aaron Glett – How to accomplish things when you are different
E. Andi Woods-Fasimpaur – Visual journaling
Marsha Theresa Danzig – Amputee yoga teacher and memoirist
Jude Walsh Whelley – Why I dance
Jill Davis – PK Dayton Founder
Dayton’s Engineers Club is a living memorial to the men and women that built our city. Walking through the Club you can easily imagine Charles Kettering or the Wright Brothers sitting and discussing the social and political issues of the day. It is here you can find rich pieces of Dayton’s at every turn.
It is the mission of the Engineers Club to “foster the advancement of business, education, engineering and science, and to promote the professional development of its members.” If you have never had the pleasure of visiting the club Thursday night is your chance to soak up all that is Dayton while enjoying the 24th Volume of Pecha Kucha.
Pecha what? Pecha Kucha are 6-minutes 40-seconds presentations accompanied by 20 slides. The speaker must use 20 slides that automatically advance every 20-seconds. Pecha Kucha rules are strict and going over your time is prohibited. Generally each slide only will contain a single image. The format was developed in Tokyo (hence the Japanese name) by two foreign architects: Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein.
Dayton gathers 4 times a year for Pecha Kucha. It is free and open to the public. Volume 24 is scheduled for Thursday August the 20th and will begin at 7:30 pm. According to the Dayton PK website you can expect a diverse roster of presenters.
“Emcee Duante Beddingfield will keep us on our toes as the mic passes between: Emmy-winning artist Rodney Veal, Rue Dumaine bartender Brian Petro, artist Austin Radcliffe of “Things Organized Neatly,” attorney Lela Klein, the “great” PR man Charlie Campell, Chef Anthony Head, librarian Lisa Holmes, Tibetan traveler Emily Fleitz, veterinarian Bethany Horn and adventurer Kriss Gang.”
The event is free and a cash bar will be available. Don’t miss out on this unique style of presenting in one of Dayton’s most unique spots.
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On February 23, 2012, I was invited to present at Pecha Kucha Dayton Volume 10. Pecha Kucha ( also called PK Night ) is a series of presenters that are required to show 20 images each lasting 20 seconds long. This format allows for a rapid, fast-paced, and eclectic group of presentations.
For more information, please visit
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/dayton/
This video can also be found at Snobby Beer.
Pecha Kucha Dayton Volume 7 is at Yellow Cab, 700 East 4th, next Thursday, June 30 at 7:30pm. It’s free. Our sponsor, Dragonfly Editorial, is providing the beer. Eight speakers will present their
creations and ideas using the fast-paced 20×20 presentation style. Twenty slides that roll by at 20 seconds each, forcing the speaker to be brief but intense. Like a shot of espresso. You should try it.
PK has been called “beat the clock performance art,” a “chaotic culture mash with a relaxed vibe,” and “both an art form and competitive sport.” If the presenter tries to say too much, the slides can get ahead of them, “like they are being dragged down the street by a big dog chasing a squirrel.”
Strangely, despite the strict 20×20 rule, there’s freedom to innovate. It’s one of those things artists understand: you can be adventurous within tight boundaries. Which is maybe another reason you should try it.
PK Night 3 at The Cannery
The goal of Pecha Kucha is to highlight the energy of ideas in a party atmosphere. PK speakers are thinkers and doers from all walks. Designers, artists, writers, activists and anyone passionate about their work who can tell a story. Storytelling is key. Architects don’t just show pictures of their work. They reveal their inspirations, the creative process, their mistakes, their epiphanies and their hopes. Or gourd art. Or funk, as has happened. And it was fascinating.
Your topic can consist of anything that has grabbed your imagination and compels you to share. At Volume 7, artist and art professor Kevin Harris has titled his presentation “Tread.” Kevin creates drawings and prints combining traditional and digital art media, mind and body, eye and hand, camera and computer, printer and press. Writer J.T. Ryder will tell how he ended up producing the “Dirty Little Secret Variety Show.” Idea guy/politico David Esrati presents “The end of coin flip politics” or how to put the people you really want in charge. Actress Megan Cooper will tell of life without a car, restaurateur Kimberly Collett will share the ongoing saga of Olive, Kidtee Hello will treat us to her strikingly beautiful photography and Jeff Opt, Creative Circus, will explain how we all ended up at the Yellow Cab building listening to him and drinking beer.
Pecha Kucha Night is one of those things that feels different every time. It’s dependent on the space, the speakers, the beer (beer is the other PK rule) and the zeitgeist. So you never know. But seriously? You should try it.
The worldwide phenomenon Pecha Kucha (Japanese for “chatter”), devised in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo‘s Klein-Dytham Architecture, has gone around the world virally. Today, PK nights are 418 cities worldwide. www.pecha-kucha.org. Dayton was granted its own PKN via a handshake agreement with Klein-Dytham for four volume per year minimum. Matt Sauer, architect with Rogero-Buckman, serves as Dayton’s PK coordinator with the help of Jill Davis, a local freelance writer. Jason Sheets, architect at Moda4 Design is the MC, which seems to be a more agreeable term than smartass. They’ve all tried it. It was fun.
This post submitted by guest columnist Jill Davis, one of the driving forces that brought Pecha Kucha to Dayton, and who continues to recruit, promote and nurture the presenters that make each PK night a unique sensation.
There’s a fabulous group of people, led by South Park’s Jill Davis, hosting Pecha Kucha Night in Dayton. The Living City’s Kate Ervin had the chance to present at PK Vol. 3 and you can see her slides below. But what is Pecha Kucha?
“PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. It has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of conversation (“chit chat”), it rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds. It’s a format that makes presentations concise, and keeps things moving at a rapid pace.”
“The sound of conversation” – that is the translation for the Japanese phrase Pecha-Kucha, which is also the name for a creative way of presenting creative ideas to an audience of – well, other creative people. This new concept has taken the planet by storm, happening in over 100 global cities since 2003 when it was first thought up by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Tokyo’s Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa), who sought to give young designers a venue to meet, network, and show their work and to attract people to their experimental event space in Roppongi.
Hmm, experimental event space – sounds familiar. Ah yes, we have one of those here in Dayton: c{space! Located at 20 N. Jefferson, this space was opened last year by a group of Dayton Create catalysts in conjunction with the Dayton Circus who set out to find an empty yet interesting urban space to hold independent street-level art & music events and other creative gatherings. Its first event was the successful Ladyfest Dayton, and since then the space has hosted several interesting events as well as small groups working on all kinds of things from film festival planning to urban bicycle events. And yes – your’s truly was part of that original group that made c{space possible.
Back to Pecha-Kucha… this presentation/networking event is unique in that it restricts presenters to 20 powerpoint slides at 20 seconds each, for a toal of 6 minute 40 seconds per presentation. In other words, no long drawn-out boring presentations. Personally I’d like to see EVERY committee meeting, board meeting, and business meeting follow this format! But until that happens, I encourage you to check out Dayton’s version of Pecha-Kucha Night on August 27, 2009 at 6:30pm (more details at the link). And there is already a second night scheduled for November 6 – this one is for Dayton AIA architects to quickly present their creative thoughts. And if you think you have the goods to present at one of these, contact Jill Davis (5455davis@gmail.com or 937-225-9307).
