My friend Toni Hughes was one of the opening night presenters at the first Pecha Kucha event in Johannesburg last week…. And you may well say Pecha what? I will tell you a bit more about Pecha Kucha later - first I want to tell you about Toni.
Toni was also one of the organisers of this event – her company being nominated to run Pecha Kucha in South Africa and she did her presentation based on the book by Edward Monkton called the Pink Pig of Happiness. The purpose of the Pecha Kucha presentations is primarily design and secondly to get your message across in 20 slides of 20 seconds each – no easy feat. Toni’s presentation is a stunning animation - the Pink Pig gallivants across the screen, leaping and frolicking with all the miserable pigs until all the happiness that the Pink Pig is leaking (think water sprouting out of the pig) soaks into them – and they also become full of happiness. There is a really good message there so take note! But, Toni’s presentation had people laughing and genuinely feeling happy and the entire event was a huge success. They expected 40 people to attend and over 100 turned up…. (In some cities there have been attendances of 3000!) They are now looking for another venue – it was opposite 44 Stanley where Toni’s new offices will be (lucky thing.)
So, now a little bit about Pecha Kucha: It is free, there are Pecha Kucha events in 195 cities around the world, it was started as a place where designers (and others) could meet and network, it is a place where people can share ideas and display their own work. The events happen about every 3 to 4 months, will always start at 20h20 and the presentation must be 20 slides of 20 seconds each – is this 20/20 vision – I think so *grin*
The Pecha Kucha web site is : http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
Toni was also one of the organisers of this event – her company being nominated to run Pecha Kucha in South Africa and she did her presentation based on the book by Edward Monkton called the Pink Pig of Happiness. The purpose of the Pecha Kucha presentations is primarily design and secondly to get your message across in 20 slides of 20 seconds each – no easy feat. Toni’s presentation is a stunning animation - the Pink Pig gallivants across the screen, leaping and frolicking with all the miserable pigs until all the happiness that the Pink Pig is leaking (think water sprouting out of the pig) soaks into them – and they also become full of happiness. There is a really good message there so take note! But, Toni’s presentation had people laughing and genuinely feeling happy and the entire event was a huge success. They expected 40 people to attend and over 100 turned up…. (In some cities there have been attendances of 3000!) They are now looking for another venue – it was opposite 44 Stanley where Toni’s new offices will be (lucky thing.)
So, now a little bit about Pecha Kucha: It is free, there are Pecha Kucha events in 195 cities around the world, it was started as a place where designers (and others) could meet and network, it is a place where people can share ideas and display their own work. The events happen about every 3 to 4 months, will always start at 20h20 and the presentation must be 20 slides of 20 seconds each – is this 20/20 vision – I think so *grin*
The Pecha Kucha web site is : http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
This sculpture is called Wavefield by
one of my favorite artists - Maya Lin
And this is a little blurb from Wikipedia and it tells you how to
pronounce it:
Pecha Kucha (ペチャクチャ ?), usually pronounced in three syllables like "pe-chak-cha") is a presentation format in which content can be easily, efficiently and informally shown, usually at a public event designed for that purpose. Under the format, a presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds apiece, for a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds.
It was devised in 2003 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.[1] They devised a format that kept presentations very concise in order to encourage audience attention and increase the number of presenters within the course of one night. They took the name Pecha Kucha from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation ("chit-chat").
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