Ryan Gravel expresses his 20 moments of the Belt-Line, which was his thesis in 1999 and how it can create a new kind of city.

Merrill Elam of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects provides a little bit of story telling about the wonders, magic and truths behind the Buckhead Library that has always been a lighting rod for conversation.

Coming back in full force on Sept. 20th at 20:20, a.o. as part of the Design September programme !

Stay tuned, Alok NANDI

Ruth Dusseault presented her photographs while reading from the journal of Henry David Thoreau.

yeah!!we've signed and faxed our 'shake-hand agreement' with KDa as PechaKucha Night organizer in Bandung.currently building up list of presenters for our first volume;to give you brief image of who will be our presenter, here are some sneak preview:Product designer and architect cum senior member of Bikers Brotherhood in Bandung;Architects as lecturer; architect who runs a magazine; socialists

David Sweeney takes us through Dynamic Dish, which is simply an idea that offers people with modern urban lifestyles to eat healthy while taking a rest out of their day.

Danielle takes us on a personal journey as she shares her experiences through cultural and language differences while working with Coffee Roasters in Japan.

Pecha Kucha Night was first conceived in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham Architecture) where upto now, this event is now happening in 129 cities globally.Bandung has recently join those cities to hold its first Pecha-Kucha Night in August 2008.Before the 'legal agreement' with KDa, we-Pecha Kucha Night Bandung (PKN.bdg)-would like to keep everyone posted with what's on during

Gavin Holmes from R!OT storyboards the anatomy of a 30 second spot.

Here are the slides of the First Pecha Kucha Night Manila:

Wham Bacabac
Jin Joson
Dominique Marie Tiu
Jan Vincent Ong
Visual Pond
Nicky Sering
Joni Caparas
Leo Abaya
Raymond Red
Katrina Encanto
Donna Miranda
Leeroy New
Grafik Salad
Pilipinas Street Plan
Inksurge

In Makati, hop on over to Kate Torralba’s at the 2/F Greenbelt 5!

In Quezon City, just give us a call at Idea!s at 4368864 and drop by our office at Unit G03, Casa Baronesa Building, 86 E. Abada St., Loyola Heights.

Starting tomorrow, June 11, tickets will be available at Mogwai Cinematheque at the Cubao Expo.

We will be selling at the venue on event date. Yehey! See y’all.

Presenters for PKN vol_05 are:

:: Bill Ostrander ::
headwinds in conservation development
"When I grow up I'm going to leave the midwest and go to Hollywood and make movies. When I'm done with that then I'm going to go to Africa and do something for wildlife. Like help try to save rhino's and cheetahs. When I'm there I'll meet this really cool girl and we'll get married and have kids and move to California where we'll live on a farm and raise hay and cows and horses and chickens. Besides farming I'll build stuff. Then I'm going to find land and develop some cool places to live. And sometimes I'm going to travel and I'll play with my kids a lot."
--Bill Ostrander.

:: Sumaya Agha ::
photography
Sumaya has been studying the Arabic language for the past year. Recently returning from Damascus, Syria, she spent a four-month stint learning to speak Arabic more proficiently, absorbing the culture, and acclimating with humor to the ways of the city.
She has worked for DoubleTake magazine, filmmaker Errol Morris, and Plazm magazine. Her photography has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times. She graduated from the Art and Design department at Cal Poly University, San Luis Obispo.

:: Mark Bryan ::
artist
Local painter Mark Bryan has become known as a deadly satirist taking on the villains of the day in surprising and delightful fashion. He is also known for his whimsical surrealistic work and pieces that evoke wonder and ask the big questions. Bryan’s work has been widely exhibited and featured on numerous satirical and political web sites across the US and internationally. The work has also appeared in many publications and magazines as illustration and cover art.

In 2007 Bryan was given a feature article in Juxtapoz magazine. This fall, Bryan’s well known “Mad Tea Party” painting will be appearing in a new movie. “Lake View Terrace”, starring Samuel Jackson.
www.artofmarkbryan.com

:: Enrica Lovaglio collaborating with Russell Read ::
media arts + poetry
Enrica Lovaglio currently teaches digital arts at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is known to inspire and stimulate her students, pushing them to be outstanding and individual. Born on the French border in the Italian city of Bordighera, her childhood took her to Egypt, Borneo, Singapore, France and then Spain as her family followed her father's career in deep-sea exploration. This exposure to diverse cultures increased her visual sense and led to a passion to discover new forms of expression through design.

In Italy, Enrica studied architecture where beauty, function and meaning all intersect in a magnificent sculpture that becomes part of a living city. In France, she studied town planning which deepened her understanding of the context of architecture and expanded her ability to design on the larger scale of urban environment. In the United States, she has studied multimedia arts in order to extend her design knowledge into the virtual world.

:: Mignon Khargie collaborating with Kellie Wenzel ::
artist w/ vocalist

:: Mignon Khargie
Mignon Khargie is Hannah Fowler's mom. They are both residents of www.zand2ohs.com where they share a passion for drawing animals.

:: Kellie Wenzel
Kellie Wenzel has been performing since she was 12 years old and has been in a number of musicals and has sung regularly before large audiences in the Bay Area and on the central coast. She has toured Africa twice with a band called Quest and currently teaches piano and vocal at Grand Central Music & Conservatory. She has composed her own songs and sings regularly at Atascadero Bible Church. Kellie has had a longstanding love for Jazz music and drummer Jesse Hesch invited Kellie to sing with a local band called NewjaZ. With Kellie singing, NewjaZ can cover songs by artists like Norah Jones, Jane Monheit, Diana Krall, and many others.


:: SLOmobility: Tony Henderson, Derek Benedict, Chris Pratt ::
city of the future
SLOMobility is a multidisciplinary team of student engineers and planners from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo hailing from every region of California. Focusing on sustainable mobility, the original SLOMobility team won the student segment of the Los Angeles City of the Future challenge for 2007. In 2008, SLOMobility looked to the future of San Francisco by incorporating sustainable mobility, land use and design; approaching the design challenge with a wide variety of leadership, professional, and competition experience and a passion for the built environment.


:: Lisa Deyo performing with Helene Dinsmoor & Drew Silvaggio ::
dance
Lisa Deyo, choreographer and 2006 winner of an ART INSPIRES! Individual Artist’s Grant, is the product of a diverse background as a dancer. Originally from San Luis Obispo, she went on to New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago), returning to San Luis Obispo to form her company, Deyo Dances. For 10 months last year, Lisa was dancing and teaching ballet, jazz and modern at the Ramon Solé Studio in Barcelona, Spain.
Deyo Dances exists in varying forms, whether on the stages of Russia or in the aisles of Vons grocery store, using Lisa's diverse dance resources to tell a story and reflect the human condition.

Pecha Kucha Night (PKN) is a presentation format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and informally shown. Pecha Kucha Night vol_05 will be held Friday June 13th at the Steynberg Gallery in San Luis Obispo.

More about Presenters for PKN vol_05 can be found here:


DETAILS:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 05 will be held:
:: Friday June 13th, 2008, Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
:: conversations start @ (19:00) 7:00pm
:: presentations start @ (20:20) 8:20pm
:: $1.00 donation at the door

CONTACT:
Email: pechakucha.slo@gmail.com
Web: http://pechakucha-sanluisobispo.blogspot.com/

For more information on Pecha Kucha Global:
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/. For those interested in presenting for future PKNs contact: pechakucha.slo@gmail.com .

Listen to NPR Chicago Public Radio's "Hello Beautiful" coverage of Pecha Kucha Night Chicago


Pecha Kucha Night - June 4, 2008, 8:00pm
[special opening act starts at 7:45pm]
Martyrs' - 3855 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago


Pecha Kucha Kucha Night is really taking off in Chicago.
Don't say we didn't warn you, but Volume 4 sold out.
Don't be left outside - get your tickets early for Volume 5.

Click here for tickets
[Click "music" link, go down to the Pecha Kucha link]

Presenters are James Venturi, Jim Lasko, Ed Stevenson, Arielle Weininger and Paul Tebben, Michael Wilkinson, Joshua Wentz, Arild Øvrum, Steve Skinner, Monte, Barbara Koenen and Jeff Scurry. Emcees are Thorsten Bösch and Peter Exley. As an opening act, James Venturi will present the Chicago premier preview for “Learning From Bob and Denise”, an upcoming documentary on the architecture and ideas of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

If you would like to be considered as a presenter at Pecha Kucha Night Chicago Volume 6 (September 2, 2008) or Volume 7 (December 2, 2008), please send a short email to info@pechakuchachicago.org.

Read what Time Out Chicago has to say about the Chicago version of the global phenomenon.



Photos © Thorsten Bosch
[top] Pecha Kucha Night Volume 4 Presenters,
[below] Martyrs' at Pecha Kucha Night

Pecha Kucha Night San Luis Obispo Vol. 5 is coming soon.
Save the date:
:: Friday June 13th, 2008, Steynberg Gallery, SLO
:: conversations start @ 7:00pm (19:00)
:: presentations start @ 8:20pm (20:20)

Take note: volume 5 is sound and movement driven. Join the conversation!

Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo Volume 4
will feature Cal Poly Architecture students.

An architectural marathon of student talent!!!

WHEN: Friday May 16, 2008
:: Presentations start @ 19:00 (7:00pm)
:: Ends @ 22:00 (10:00pm)

WHERE: Steynberg Gallery
1531 Monterey Street in San Luis Obispo
$1 donation at the door

The Line Up:
01_peter turba: Defacing Groundscrape
02_brian siu yang: velO.city a high speed transit center spanning the sociological bay between the carbon-free world and gluttonous america
03_taline ayanyan: CREEPS: Timeless"Abstract"Machines
04_yimon aye: MEMORY RECALL BURMA:UNVEILING THE HIDDEN TRUTH 05_keith berry: biological structures
06_tyler bornstein: David Lynch + Icky Phenomenology

30 minute break

07_david pak: Spaghetti Sauce Architectural Variability
08_dustin pires eco2 ecology x economics
09_brandin roat Andy Warhol in the Afterlife
10_katsu shigemi SYMBIOTIC URBANISM The Future of LA
11_nathan smith Bifurcation of the Conscious Realm
12_danny thai Voluntary Transfiguration

30 minute break

13_remy junio Learning is.
14_frank lara DEMOCRATIC SPACE
15_noelle lee arCUREtecture: 20 Ways to Heal from 5 Years of Architecture School 16_michelle nelson DESERT_the inner boundaries : new urban place in Phoenix
17_leti chagolla Border-less Identity
18_simon diesendruck Corpulent Spectacle Sumo Wrestling in Beverly Hills

KAIE ENCANTO is an art director for Ace Saatchi & Saatchi. She which won Second Prize in the Poster Category of Adobo Magazine for her work “Tabi Tabi Po: Eto na Ang Aming Mundo”. She is also part of The Cheshire Cat, a team of local young designers specializing on graphic design.

DOMINIQUE MARIE TIU is a 19-year-old undergraduate student at the Ateneo de Manila University and founder of Mann for Every Woman, an online-based clothing retail business that will be launched this June.

DONNA MIRANDA of Green Papaya Art Projects, is a contemporary dancer and choreographer who is a member of Dance Forum Myra Beltran. She was last year’s recipient of the Jury Prize in Solo, Duo and Group Division of Yokohama Dance Collection, and the recipient of Rimbun Dahan Choreographer’s Residency in Malaysia.

JAN VINCENT ONG is a writer who prides himself in also “judging books by their covers.” His website Read Now features blogs about his “adventures” in the writing world, as a literary enthusiast and a book critic.

A 4a edição da PKNL registou mais de 600 pessoas no Museu da Electricidade, sendo a mais concorrida de sempre.A organização gostaria de agradecer a todos os que estiveram presentes, aos oradores pela criatividade das suas apresentações, aos vivóeusébio pela imagem gráfica do evento, à Catering Band por todo o trabalho de som e actuação no beer break, à amo.te tejo pelo bar e, por último, à fantástica equipa de produção da Fundação EDP.A todos os que assistiram e ficaram com vontade de saltar para a frente dos microfones, a equipa PKNL desafia-vos a enviarem propostas para figurarem no programa da próxima edição que deverá ocorrer em finais de Setembro, principios de Outubro de 2008.
Obrigado e até à próxima.

Idiz Bogam was at Pecha Kucha Brussels and here is the video on line on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0L2t4LC_IU

Vol. 04 worked out very well with a full hall, despite train strike.

4 evenings with a focus on “diversity” - thanks to all the speakers and the audience. There was also a special appearance by Idiz Bogam and her two partners, offering an unexpected performance.

Stay tuned for next season and see you on Sept. 20th !