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 .
03 June 2008
02 June 2008
about PKN volume 5 presenters

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.
:: 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.
13 May 2008
Mark your calendar for Vol. 05
12 May 2008
Cal Poly Architecture students + Pecha Kucha Night

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
09 April 2008
everything you have been waiting for and more

Please save the date for pecha kucha night slo vol. 3
DETAILS:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 03 will be held:
:: Friday April 25th
:: at the Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
:: doors open 19:00 (07:00pm)
:: presentations at 20:20 (8:20pm)
pkn vol. 3 presenters:
:: Para_architects
:: Christina Mc Phee_media arts
:: Terry Hargrave_multimedia
:: Gary Dwyer_photography
:: Peter Schwartz_physics
:: Joe Biel_artist
:: Lorna Teixeira_artist with musician Brynn Albanese
CONTACT:
Email:
pechakucha.slo@gmail.com
WEB:
http://pechakucha-sanluisobispo.blogspot.com/
For more information on Pecha Kucha Global: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
02 February 2008
Pecha Kucha Night - is HERE!
11 January 2008
Get Ready for PKN vol. 02

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Get Ready for Pecha Kucha Night:
San Luis Obispo, volume 02
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Back for volume two, Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo is presenting another night of cultural karaoke.
Japanese for "the sound of conversation," Pecha Kucha Night is a digital presentation event where each participant is given 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide to share their works and ideas freely, giving a total of 6 minutes 40 seconds before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show. With no specific theme or topic, six presenters are provided a forum to render their creativity into a free-flowing non-stop time slot. No breaks. No interruptions. One right after another. It is similar to a Salon from times past, with organizers encouraging event participants and the audience to gather, discuss and socialize.
Volume two presenters are an eclectic mix of professionals, academics, eccentrics, students, and artists, who are brave enough to break the 'death by PowerPoint' mold.
Presenters for PKN vol_02 are:
:: garcia_architecture+design
:: matt ritter_plant_forms
:: isabel barbuzza_installation
:: myla collier_tapestry_weaver
:: peter steynberg_paintings
:: brian lawler_typographical eros
:: eric meyer_trendy eco products not yet cliché
:: leticia chagolla_salsa_merengue_watercolors by tom di santo
Pecha Kucha (pronounced Peh-Chak-Cha) Night was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham - Klein Dytham architecture in Tokyo, as a place for designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. The event has grown into a global phenomenon and happens in most major cities around the world. San Luis Obispo is the smallest city to hold a Pecha Kucha Night event. Tokyo is the largest, where 2,000 people might congregate to meet, discuss, view and engage the nights' creative presenters.
To be held four times a year, the local collective is dedicated to seeing the Pecha Kucha philosophy and conversation included as an element in San Luis Obispo's cultural landscape. They have garnered support from designers, artists, students, professionals and musicians who are all committed to joining the San Luis Obispo conversation. Presented by M:OME & M:OMElife; sponsored by Steynberg Gallery and the generosity of Eric Meyer.
Details:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 02 will be held:
:: Saturday February 2nd, 2008
:: at the Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
:: doors open 19:02 (07:02pm) presentations at 20:20 (8:20pm)
###
"Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down."
---Daniel H. Pink, Wired Magazine
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Back for volume two, Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo is presenting another night of cultural karaoke.
Japanese for "the sound of conversation," Pecha Kucha Night is a digital presentation event where each participant is given 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide to share their works and ideas freely, giving a total of 6 minutes 40 seconds before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show. With no specific theme or topic, six presenters are provided a forum to render their creativity into a free-flowing non-stop time slot. No breaks. No interruptions. One right after another. It is similar to a Salon from times past, with organizers encouraging event participants and the audience to gather, discuss and socialize.
Volume two presenters are an eclectic mix of professionals, academics, eccentrics, students, and artists, who are brave enough to break the 'death by PowerPoint' mold.
Presenters for PKN vol_02 are:
:: garcia_architecture+design
:: matt ritter_plant_forms
:: isabel barbuzza_installation
:: myla collier_tapestry_weaver
:: peter steynberg_paintings
:: brian lawler_typographical eros
:: eric meyer_trendy eco products not yet cliché
:: leticia chagolla_salsa_merengue_watercolors by tom di santo
Pecha Kucha (pronounced Peh-Chak-Cha) Night was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham - Klein Dytham architecture in Tokyo, as a place for designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. The event has grown into a global phenomenon and happens in most major cities around the world. San Luis Obispo is the smallest city to hold a Pecha Kucha Night event. Tokyo is the largest, where 2,000 people might congregate to meet, discuss, view and engage the nights' creative presenters.
To be held four times a year, the local collective is dedicated to seeing the Pecha Kucha philosophy and conversation included as an element in San Luis Obispo's cultural landscape. They have garnered support from designers, artists, students, professionals and musicians who are all committed to joining the San Luis Obispo conversation. Presented by M:OME & M:OMElife; sponsored by Steynberg Gallery and the generosity of Eric Meyer.
Details:
Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 02 will be held:
:: Saturday February 2nd, 2008
:: at the Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo
:: doors open 19:02 (07:02pm) presentations at 20:20 (8:20pm)
###
"Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down."
---Daniel H. Pink, Wired Magazine
02 January 2008
SAVE THE DATE: pecha kucha night vol_02

pecha kucha night: san luis obispo vol. 02 will be held:
saturday february 2nd at the steynberg gallery,
1531 monterey st. in san luis obispo
doors: 19:02 (07:02)
presentations: 20:20 (8:20pm)
check back soon for list of presenters.
13 November 2007
09 November 2007
Join the PKN_vol_01 conversation tonight
07 October 2007
Press Release: Pecha Kucha Night SLO
October 8, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Local Collective to launch Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo
SAN LUIS OBISPO – The architects of M:OME Laura Joines-Novotny and Tom di Santo; as well as curator Catherine Trujillo and Enrica Lovaglio, have brought the global phenomenon Pecha Kucha Night to San Luis Obispo. Pecha Kucha Night (PKN) is a presentation format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and informally shown. Pecha Kucha Night vol_01 will be held Friday November 9th at the Steynberg Gallery in San Luis Obispo.
Japanese for "the sound of conversation," Pecha Kucha Night is a digital presentation event where each participant is given 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide to share their works and ideas freely, giving a total of 6 minutes 40 seconds before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show. With no specific theme or topic, six presenters are provided a forum to render their creativity into a free-flowing non-stop time slot. No breaks. No pauses for questions. One right after another.
Pecha Kucha (pronounced Peh-Chak-Cha) Night was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham - Klein Dytham architecture in Tokyo, as a place for designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
"We brought Astrid Klein to come speak at Cal Poly as part of our lecture series. We were struck by the ingenuity of Pecha Kucha night as presented to us in her lecture. It was a wonderful event, bringing creative people both famous and not from multiple disciplines together to have fun, share ideas and make contacts. When one of our students attended PKN in Bangkok, we discovered the idea was spreading (80 cities on every continent to be exact.) We wanted to be the 81st. Global brought local."
---Tom di Santo + Laura Joines-Novotny, M:OME architects
To be held four times a year, the local collective is dedicated to seeing the Pecha Kucha philosophy and conversation included as an element in San Luis Obispo’s cultural landscape. They have garnered support from designers, artists, students, professionals and musicians who are all committed to joining the San Luis Obispo conversation.
Presenters for PKN vol_01 are:
:: Sky Bergman, Photographer;
:: Daniel Dove, Painter;
:: Tom Peck, Artisan;
:: Laura Joines-Novotny and Tom di Santo, M:OME;
:: San Diego Architect Ralph Roesling;
:: Pedro Arroyo + Catherine Trujillo ending with galería de música.
The first Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 01 will be held Friday November 9th at the Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo beginning at 20:20 (8:20pm)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Local Collective to launch Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo
SAN LUIS OBISPO – The architects of M:OME Laura Joines-Novotny and Tom di Santo; as well as curator Catherine Trujillo and Enrica Lovaglio, have brought the global phenomenon Pecha Kucha Night to San Luis Obispo. Pecha Kucha Night (PKN) is a presentation format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and informally shown. Pecha Kucha Night vol_01 will be held Friday November 9th at the Steynberg Gallery in San Luis Obispo.
Japanese for "the sound of conversation," Pecha Kucha Night is a digital presentation event where each participant is given 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide to share their works and ideas freely, giving a total of 6 minutes 40 seconds before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show. With no specific theme or topic, six presenters are provided a forum to render their creativity into a free-flowing non-stop time slot. No breaks. No pauses for questions. One right after another.
Pecha Kucha (pronounced Peh-Chak-Cha) Night was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham - Klein Dytham architecture in Tokyo, as a place for designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.
"We brought Astrid Klein to come speak at Cal Poly as part of our lecture series. We were struck by the ingenuity of Pecha Kucha night as presented to us in her lecture. It was a wonderful event, bringing creative people both famous and not from multiple disciplines together to have fun, share ideas and make contacts. When one of our students attended PKN in Bangkok, we discovered the idea was spreading (80 cities on every continent to be exact.) We wanted to be the 81st. Global brought local."
---Tom di Santo + Laura Joines-Novotny, M:OME architects
To be held four times a year, the local collective is dedicated to seeing the Pecha Kucha philosophy and conversation included as an element in San Luis Obispo’s cultural landscape. They have garnered support from designers, artists, students, professionals and musicians who are all committed to joining the San Luis Obispo conversation.
Presenters for PKN vol_01 are:
:: Sky Bergman, Photographer;
:: Daniel Dove, Painter;
:: Tom Peck, Artisan;
:: Laura Joines-Novotny and Tom di Santo, M:OME;
:: San Diego Architect Ralph Roesling;
:: Pedro Arroyo + Catherine Trujillo ending with galería de música.
The first Pecha Kucha Night: San Luis Obispo vol. 01 will be held Friday November 9th at the Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo beginning at 20:20 (8:20pm)
For more information on Pecha Kucha Global: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
Or for those interested in presenting for future PKNs: pechakucha.slo@gmail.com
CONTACT:
Email:
pechakucha.slo@gmail.com
WEB:
http://mome.org/
Or for those interested in presenting for future PKNs: pechakucha.slo@gmail.com
CONTACT:
Email:
pechakucha.slo@gmail.com
WEB:
http://mome.org/
###
“Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for "chatter"), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That's it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down.”
---Daniel H. Pink, Wired Magazine
---Daniel H. Pink, Wired Magazine
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