Our next PechaKucha Night is Thursday May 23rd! Call for talks is open!

Theme: Creative living or loafing
Date: May 23, 2013
Time: 6:40pm
Place: Visual Art Exchange
Social: @pknraleigh, #pknraleigh

PechaKucha Night Raleigh encourages creativity in our presenter talks. We want to see creativity in all its forms, from painting, drawing, sculpture, ideas, writing, architecture, product design, software, culinary, thought, music, spoken word, performance, athletics, interior design, living, spaces, and more. We like crafty titles and topics that will move our audience to think and/or see something new, inspiring, different, or provoking.

Submit now! Our submission area is open 24/7/365! Now whenever you have a great idea to share you can simply add it to our que. This way we can curate and balance the talks for content better throughout the year. After you submit we will reach out to you and find an event that will work best for your schedule and our event.

Read Tips to prepare yourself for the PKN stage.

See videos from the past.

Contact us if you have questions about your idea and want to learn more about what makes for a great PechaKucha talk. Feel free to drop in to one of our upcoming Video Chats on our Google+ Community.

A few changes for PechaKucha Night going forward

More ideas and creativity. Starting in 2013 our criteria for talks will be more sharply tuned for creativity. The original PechaKucha Night in Tokyo back 2003 was an event where young designers could meet and show their work. While we are not quite that focused, we want our PechaKucha Nights to support  and encourage creativity in all its forms: painting, drawing, sculpture, ideas, writing, architecture, product design, software, culinary, thought, music, spoken word, performance, athletics, interior design, and more. Contact us if you have questions about your idea and want to learn more about what makes for a great PechaKucha talk. Feel free to drop in to one of our upcoming Video Chats on our Google+ Community.

Our submission area is open 24/7/365! Now whenever you have a great idea to share you can simply add it to our que. This way we can curate and balance the talks for content better throughout the year. After you submit we will reach out to you and find an event that will work best for your schedule and our event. As always, please reach out to us if you have any questions!

We just had our final PKN Vo.13  event for 2012 and it was great. Everyone (meaning about 101 of us) really enjoyed the show.  I know this because I received comments that night like “I really like this venue. How long has it been here?”, “It is so intimate and cozy. I feel very comfortable here”, “I think this was the best PKN ever”, and  ”I really had fun, thank you!”.  Our musical guest, Josh Hamilton, had a great time as well and decided to donate his tip jar contents to PKN saying “I want you to have this. I totally had a great time tonight, thank you.”  And even though I had only met Josh a few hours earlier, I had to reach out (and up, he is tall!) to give a quick hug. That’s how it rolls in PKN-land. P.S. Josh, I heard that folks really liked your music, you may get a few new fans on your FB page!  Our emcee, Willa Brigham, was brillant and in typical Willa fashion broke into short alcapello songs (Amazingly made up on the spot!) that thoroughly entertained the crowd. Her panache added a nice touch to our PKN holiday event. I’m thinking we need to ask her back again! Check this out! See Willa in action on WRAL’s Smart Start Kids show.

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Our video from PKN Vol.11 is live!

Shot, edited and produced by Larry Evans.
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Below is a transcript of a PKN talk given by Terry Wirkus, DE Manager at University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. Although it was presented at a conference for Mediasite users, we thought it could be helpful advice for all PechaKucha speakers – so with his permission we have re-posted the text from his 20 x 20 talk here for ya’ll to enjoy.

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