PBO Goes Int’l with Pecha Kucha Night
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Contact:
Jaime Chandra Kozlowski – The Abundance Foundation
919.200.9569 – tryjaime@gmail.com
http://theabundancefoundation.org/pecha-kucha-night/
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/pittsboro
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Pecha Kucha Night Pittsboro goes international!
Now Presenting Pecha Kucha Night, Volume 3 on Monday, July 13th, 7:30 pm at the Eco Industrial Plant, 192 Lorax Lane in Pittsboro
Advance ticket purchase recommended. Tickets $5 available online: http://theabundancefoundation.org/pecha-kucha-night/
(Pittsboro, NC)… Pecha Kucha Night brings prominent and emerging creative minds together for an evening of lightning-fast presentations, networking and fun. This phenomenon is now held in over 215 cities around the world. Pittsboro is one of the newest cities and was just accepted to the international www.Pecha-Kucha.org website. Chatham County has joined the ranks of progressive cities like New York, Stockholm, and Tokyo!
The Pecha Kucha 20×20 format, allows presenters 20 slides each shown for 20 seconds to reveal their passions, work and inspirations. The result is a high-energy showcase of inspiration. If you’ve ever sat through a boring presentation with the presenter rambling on and on and on or reading to you EXACTLY what is already on the screen, this definitely for you. And its appeal is spreading… Some Georgia Tech professors are already beginning to require students to deliver their lectures in the six-minute, 40-second Pecha Kucha format.
Pittsboro’s Volume 3 features a spirited group covering topics ranging from “Rebuilding Appalachia” to “Chatham’s new Farm to Table restaurant” to “How Geeks Inherited the Earth” to “Cohousing” to “How Chatham County could generate utility-scale renewable electricity.” Get all the details about the presenters and topics: http://theabundancefoundation.org/pecha-kucha-presenters/
Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global – as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 215 cities worldwide.
Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, was conceived in 2003 in Tokyo as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-ka-cha) premiered in Pittsboro in October 2008.
~Jaime Chandra Kozlowski
c. 919.200.9569
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