IdeaSPARK an Official Pecha Kucha Event!

SEPTEMBER 9
Pecha Kucha Night (PKN), the organization and network for Pecha Kucha presentations, has declared SPARKcon’s IdeaSPARK event on September 17 to be an official PKN event.

Local PKN chapter organizers Sumit Vohra and Jeff Brenman joined IdeaSPARK when they realized how PKN and SPARKcon goals for the community were so well aligned. Soon thereafter, IdeaSPARK worked together with PKN to become one of the first local PKN events in the Triangle.

The event will be held at Marbles Museum in downtown Raleigh, NC. A reception will be held at 6 pm, with refreshments provided by LoneRider Brewery. The event will start with a keynote speech by Henry Copeland, and then be followed by 11 Pecha Kucha presentations. Admission is free and will kick off the entire SPARKcon festival.

About Pecha Kucha Night:

Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.

But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

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 100 cities across the world. Find a location and join the conversation.