Pechakucha Hamilton

09/11/2023

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!

03/11/2023

03/11/2023

02/11/2023

📢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.

01/11/2023

📢 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.

31/10/2023

📢 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.

30/10/2023

📢 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

29/10/2023

📢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.

24/10/2023

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 😉

11/10/2023

📢 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!

11/10/2023

📢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.

11/10/2023

📢 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.

01/09/2023

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 :)

21/08/2023

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!

05/01/2022

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!

Pechakucha - Creative cities Vol 48

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06/08/2021

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04/08/2021

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!