PechaKucha Night Chicago presents Volume 10
Event Type:
PerformanceTuesday, July 21, 2009 8:00pm
July 21st, 2009 at 8:00pm at Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago IL 60615
Free, and open to the public (all ages).
More information about Hyde Park Art Center at http://www.hydeparkart.org, (773) 324-5520
(Chicago, IL)... PechaKucha Night brings prominent and emerging creative minds together for an evening of lightning-fast presentations, networking and fun. The PechaKucha format, where a dozen or so presenters are given 20 slides each shown for 20 seconds to reveal their passions, work and inspirations, is now held in over 210 cities around the world. Chicago events are increasingly popular, with over 300 people attending each event.
Chicago’s Volume 10 features 6 minutes and 40 seconds seconds each of Art Center director Chuck Thurow, poet and HBO regular Kevin Coval, from the trenches of Chicago politics Alex Armour, über blogger Rob Keenan, young architects Darya Minosyants and Ryan Johnson, film maker Karen Carter Lynch with Jackie Kazarian, along with artists Emmy Brown, Christa Donner, and Andy Hall (alumni of PechaKucha Night Chicago Volume 2, stepping up to the microphone again). More presenters will be announced. Kate Lorenz of PechaKucha Night Volume 7 fame, and regular emcee Peter Exley will introduce the evening. Presenters will utilize the Garofalo Architects (PechaKucha Volume 1) designed giant projection screens, indoors and out, among the exhibit Apocalypse and Rapture, curated by photographer Doug Fogelson (PechaKucha Volume 4).
PechaKucha Night Chicago Volume 10 for one night only at Hyde Park Art Center (5020 S. Cornell Avenue, Chicago) on Tuesday July 21st. This is a one time venue change. PechaKucha Night Chicago will return to Martyrs’ on September 1, 2009, for Volume 11.
Now a staple on the Chicago creative calendar, PechaKucha Night has made its home at Martyrs’ club on the city’s North Lincoln Avenue. Recently, PechaKucha Night was the most sought after ticket as an official, and sold out, Neocon World’s Trade Fair event. Future events this year are planned as part of Chicago Artists Month in October at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and as part of the A+DEN conference hosted by the Chicago Architecture Foundation (dates to be announced). PechaKucha Night Chicago at Martyrs’ was voted as the Readers’ Best Non-Musical Event for 2009.
For additional information, graphics, logos and photography, Contact: Peter Exley (312) 335-1317.
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 210 cities worldwide.
Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 in Tokyo as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. PechaKucha (pronounced peh-chak-ka-cha) premiered in Chicago in March 2007.
Contact Email:
peter@pechakuchachicago.org