Pecha Kucha Night: Outside the Box

Overview

Give someone a microphone and they'll talk too much. Give someone a microphone with the limited timeframe of 6 minutes 40 seconds and they'll likely squeeze in a whole lot of enlightening information.

Originally designed by architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham in 2003, Pecha Kucha is a presentation format in which presenters - most in creative fields - indulge in some passionate storytelling with a slideshow of 20 images, for 20 seconds each. Since its inception, the event has played out in more than 600 cities across the world. The format made its way to New Zealand in 2007 becoming a permanent fixture in the main centres.

The latest Pecha Kucha Night will be centred around the theme 'Outside the Box'. The tentative list of presenters to give their two cents at the event include: vernacular architect and author Tony Watkins; writer/artist/gallery director Sheridan Keith; Coleen Pugh of the suitcase size Tiny Travelling Gallery; Auckland Zinefest organisers Linda Lew and Sophie Oiseau; artist Meghan Geliza; social change maker Aych McArdle; artist, technologist and creative entrepreneur Allan Xia; Peter Rogers of Ponsonby antique store Real Time; and urban planner and cajoler Joel Cayford.

Seats will be limited and there will be a cash bar.