MEET, NETWORK, SHOW YOUR WORK. A SPACE FOR 'THINKING AND DRINKING’ Join us for an evening celebrating innovation, design & the human experience
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From the Japanese word for ‘chit chat’ Pecha Kucha celebrates the unique stories we all have to tell. Pecha Kucha Nights give a platform to a wide range of people, to speak on a diversity of topics. The model sees presenters define their own topic, with each having just 20 seconds for each of their 20 images. Embraced around the globe; from Tel Aviv to London, Toyko to Berlin, Pecha Kucha events c
onnect people, fuel conversation & inspire thinking with topics ranging from the intellectual to the sublime to the hilarious.
Just some of the photo's from
Hamilton Festival Of Weird - Kirikiriroa - Pechakucha Hamilton special last Friday!
Many thanks to the speakers who came and gave fantastic presentations, from the weirdly wonderful to creative arts and to supporters The Riff Raff Public Art Trust.
And a big thanks to everyone who came along for our first P.K in a long while!
📢Speaker announcement No. 8
Mark Servian - someone else who doesn't need an introduction...
'Street Theatre in Garden Place 1980-2000' - this will be weird, so make sure you get your tickets via Humantix - link in comments below.
📢 Speaker announcement No. 7
Dr. Jeremy Mayall
Jeremy is an award winning composer, producer and performer with a focus on exploring his fascination in the interrelationships between sound, time, space, the senses, and the human experience. He's also the CEO of Creative Waikato.
Exploring some interesting and hopefully fascinating observations on things in life, moments in the world and exploring our navigation of the trivial and the philosophical.
Get your tickets from Humantix, link in comments below.
📢 Guest speaker announcement No: 6
Ben Paris aka Batman
Ben Paris worked for the Waikato Regional Council bringing tūī, back to suburban Hamilton, then co-lead the formation of Project Echo, after developing a love of the pekapeka-tou-roa. 🦇
Moving to Auckland, he has helped kick start a bat awareness movement & helped develop pest free communities to protect Pekapeka & other native species across the city.
Tickets to hear Ben and our other fabulous speakers via Humantix - link in comments.
📢 Guest speaker announcement No. 5!
Iain White
Hailing from the UK, by day he's a Professor of Environmental Planning, with a passion for making better cities. By night, despite being terrible at art - he's Chair of Hamilton Arts Trust (AKA Boon) - which happens to be the topic of his presentation.
He'll tell us how a conversation sparked nearly 100 murals in the city!
Join us, 7pm Friday 3 November at Wintec - Events Room 1.
Ticket link in comments below.
https://events.humanitix.com/pecha-kucha-hamilton-kirikiriroa-vol-47?fbclid=IwAR0nDF4VB1Jqt9hu9_L_Ckar5njzSi-d7wywjLcON50RCrM27oTwfxs-GhE
📢Speaker announcement No. 4!
Sandra Jensen
Doesn't need an introduction...
Sandra's topic is "Cephalopods Cant Cycle". Weird facts that make the argument for octopus being unable to ride a bike..🐙
Tickets to this Friday's event through Humantix. Link in comments below.
WIN tickets to Pecha Kucha Hamilton Festival Of Weird - Kirikiriroa special! Just comment on HLIVE post on their page!
On Friday, Nov 3rd, 7pm at Wintec Gallagher Room.
But don't worry if you don't win.....tickets are available on Humantix!
Link in the comments!
It’s weird, it’s wonderful it’s almost here!
Hamilton Festival Of Weird - Kirikiriroa is bringing a collection of curiously cool creative experiences and eccentric events to Hamilton Kirikiriroa over 27 October – 5 November and we’ve got some event tickets up for grabs 😉
📌The Corkboard Conspiracy on 29 October
📌PechaKucha - Vol 47 Festival of Weird Special on 3 November
To go into the draw just LIKE this post and tell us which event you’d like a double pass (two tickets) for!
Winners will be drawn and contacted directly via messenger on 27 October 😉
📢 Guest speaker announcement No. 3!
Lora Thompson
Lora is a bit of a local legend, being one of the very few female sound and tech in Hamilton, Kirikiriroa....even NZ! For her day job she Head of Audio at SAE teaching students everything about music production.
She also regularly performs with her band The Sour, which features some of NZ finest musicians. They are currently recording with another NZ legend Ladyhawke. Locally Lora also plays with her band Empress who regularly support touring acts.
She even fits time to build guitars pedals and telephones mics at Ritual FX and make Tiktok vids about the builds! Phewww!
But Lora has a side hobby if you will and it involves trash in all its obscure beauty!
Come see Lora talk about her obscure fascination!
Tix link in the comments!
📢Guest speaker announcement No. 2!
Lisa Perrott
Lisa is author of the renowned book 'David Bowie and the Art of Music Video' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) – the first book to provide a scholarly analysis of Bowie's music video through out the artist's iconic career.
Lisa is also Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato with her research centering of the relation between music, sound and image and the remediating propensities of audio-visual mediums. She has interests in popular music, artistry, indigenous modes of storytelling and representation inform her research and teaching across the fields of documentary, animation, transmedia storytelling, and media and cultural studies.
Come see Lisa talk about the one and only David Bowie!
Link to Lisa's article in Elsewhere NZ in the comments below.
📢 Guest speaker announcement!
Ian Duggan
Ian is a bit of an all rounder, local musician in the band Bitter Defeat who plays his keyboard on an ironing board stand.
By day he is an Associate Professor at University of Waikato, Ecology, Biodiversity and Animal Behaviour, where his primary interests are invasion biology and zooplankton ecology.
But he is also a GNOME enthusiast!
Come hear Ian talk about his great hobby of advocating for the humble garden gnome!
Tickets available for Pecha Kucha vol 47 on Humantix (link below in comments).
Who would have thought these cheerful figures in our gardens come with weighty baggage that speaks to New Zealand culture, history and politics.
Pecha Kucha is back for Hamilton Festival Of Weird - Kirikiriroa on Friday 3rd on Nov.
We are currently on the look out for speakers!
If you have an awesome topic, creative endeavour, awesome travels, a weirdly wonderful hobby, job or story you would like to tell.
Please get in touch!
Over the many years we have had the good fortune to hear and learn many interesting topics and stories through Pecha Kucha.
Yours could be one of them :)
It's been a long while kind folks!
But we are back and currently preparing a smorgasbord of guest speakers for Hamilton Festival Of Weird - Kirikiriroa!
If you have a quirky topic, hobby, story, know interesting fun facts that you want to share with others, please get in touch with us!
Looking forward to getting back into the swing of Pecha Kucha things!
We're pumped to be heading back to Victoria on the River for our first event of 2022~! Put the 19th of February in your diary and invite your friends - it's FREE & an awesome way to learn more about our city and the people creating it!
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When was your last Pechakucha Hamilton evening?
We're super excited about PechaKucha Vol46 - Ramp Festival TOMORROW NIGHT with another epic line up of locals telling stories, sharing passions and showing off their latest projects.
Don't miss the learning, laughter and connection.
🔥 You can still purchase a $15 ticket online now tinyurl.com/pechakucha46
Door sales are *cash only* / Students $10 with ID
Events Room 1, is in the Bill Gallagher Centre at the top of the hill. (Not the Atrium). Campus map including parking is in the comment field below. See you then!
📢 Speaker announcement
Renee Boyer - Mid-life career changer
Renee grew up in Auckland, studied in Dunedin, then moved to the UK for seven years before returning to New Zealand and settling in beautiful Whaingaroa, Raglan. She lives with her fiance Daina, 12-year-old kid Lennox, two dogs, three cats, three chickens and two ducks (at last count). She teaches English at Fraser High School and, when time permits, writes a lot of short stories.
After a 20 year career, mostly in office admin and various aspects of tertiary education, I decided to reinvent myself. A series of major life changes were thrust upon me in 2019, so in 2020, in the wake of New Zealand's national lockdown, I took charge of my life and made the biggest change of all. I decided to take a massive pay cut and increase my workload to follow my heart and find a career that made me feel like I was making a difference in the world. This is the story of what happens when you decide to follow a dream.
🎟️ Buy your $15 ticket online for an evening of learning, laughter and connection at PechaKucha Vol46 - Ramp Festival
Pssst... Students $10 cash, at the door with ID thanks to support from Ramp Festival 2021
PechaKucha Hamilton and Wintec School of Media Arts bring you an evening of laughter, learning and connection. From the Japanese word for ‘chit-chat' - PechaKucha evenings are the ideal way to share passions and drop some knowledge. 20 slides with 20 seconds of commentary per slide. That’s it. S...
📢 Pamella Ariestia
Speaker announcement for PechaKucha Vol46 - Ramp Festival
Pam from Escapist NZ is a food technologist turned business owner. She was born in Indonesia but has called New Zealand home for the past 13 years. For the past 2 years, she has enjoyed helping people build stronger relationships through escape rooms and board games.
Pam will be presenting on making friends through escape rooms and board games.
Doors open for 7pm start, 7.30pm Thursday 5 August, Events Room 1, Gallagher Hub, Wintec. $15 Door sales
Proud to be a Ramp Festival event.
📢 Kimai Huirama - Activist
Speaker announcement for PechaKucha Vol46 - Ramp Festival
Born into a large family, Kimai has a passion for hapū narratives, design thinking and travel. She spends a lot of her time surrounded by the chaos of whānau life while concocting plans to ‘help whānau help themselves’ through mana motuhake (self-determination)
Kimai will share a hapū journey of identity, whenua and reclamation. Ngāti Tamainupō are leading a campaign to protect centuries-old gardens in Ngaruawahia for future generations of New Zealanders.
Protect Pukeiāhua
Doors open for 7pm start, 7.30pm Thursday 5 August, Events Room 1, Gallagher Hub, Wintec. $15 Door sales
Proud to be a Ramp Festival 2021 event.
📢 Speaker announcement for PechaKucha Vol46 - Ramp Festival
Dana C Carver: Author
Unexplained ecological mysteries span hundreds of years and multiple continents. Could there be one explanation that brings all the ancient obscurities together? This is the idea that inspired the novel Two Truths. 📖
Dana C Carver wrote her first book at seven years old and won the school's "super writer" award. Since then, her life has not gone to plan and has been that much better for it.
Her journey has seen her live in five states and three countries, wearing many hats including snowboard instructor, personal trainer, coach, motivational speaker, wellbeing specialist, evaluation consultant and author.
She lives in the South Island of New Zealand with her husband, Tony, five ducks, four chickens, three cats and a dog. Dana’s novels are rich and adventurous. They question the status quo and inspire new possibilities.
📢 Speaker announcement for Pechakucha Hamilton on August 5th, 7pm, Gallagher Rooms, Wintec.
Kat Waswo - 'Rediscovering my Creativity'
From Kat "Often when life throws us the tough stuff, we go into 'crisis mode'. But it's these really harsh moments which eventually teach us about our most basic needs and desires. For me, my moment called for creativity. Having just turned 30 with two young kids and struggling with full-time work in the corporate 'rat race' world - my heart, mind and soul did a U-Turn - I finally returned to nurture my childhood talents and discovered the creative industries."
About Kat:
A mid-thirties mum with 'tall person problems', Kat Waswo is a self-described "Jill of all Trades". After making the move to go back to full-time study at age 31, Kat accidentally "changed the channel" of her life and is excited to share her discoveries and inspirations. Celebrating the second birthday of her work-from-home business Wazkat_Productions. Kat is also an active advocate for the local creative arts whilst managing the other many hats which come with parenthood and entrepreneurship.
📢 Speaker announcement for PechaKucha Vol46 - Ramp Festival on August 5th, 7pm, Gallagher Rooms, Wintec.
Oliver Stewart - "Bring your own Beamer"
Bring your own Beamer is a projection/light based art event coming up on August 28th at the Gallagher Performing Arts Centre. With incredible artists, Oliver will be discussing what he loves about their work and projection based multimedia as a concept. Oliver will be discussing what gets his creative juices flowing.
About:
Oliver Stewart has been producing multimedia art in Kirikiriroa for the last 11 years and has a frighteningly vast array of work under his belt. Oliver is also a musician aka Glass Shards, an immersive and visual artist who worked on the Mesoverse project.
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From the Japanese word for ‘chit chat’ PechaKucha celebrates the unique stories we all have to tell. PechaKucha Nights give a platform to a wide range of people, to speak on a diversity of topics. T. Join us for an evening celebrating innovation, design & the humhe model sees presenters define their own topic, with each having just 20 seconds for each of their 20 images. Embraced around the globe; from Tel Aviv to London, Toyko to Berlin, Pecha Kucha events connect people, fuel conversation & inspire thinking with topics ranging from the intellectual to the sublime to the hilariousan experience
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