Category : Pecha Kucha

Several times during our run with Pecha Kucha Night, we received inquiries from other groups on how to start up the event in their own cities. Most recently, we shared our tips with a group out of Dayton, lead by Interbrand Design Forum. After letting us know that we helped in their success, we thought we’d share it with the rest of the world.

What is Pecha Kucha Night?
Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha) is a global grassroots movement started by architects and designers in Japan to remedy long-winded lectures and frivolous presentations. In one corner, the presenters at Pecha Kucha have only six minutes and forty-seconds to convey their idea, with twenty slides at twenty-seconds each, whether they…

On February 20th, 2009 a hundred or so of our creative soul mates convereged at Invoke Yoga & Pilates Studio for 2009's first Pecha Kucha event. We had an all star cast of presenters including: Aaron Renn, Renee Wilmeth, Laura Henderson, Justin Keller, Mahesh Senagala, and Terry Border. Pecha Kucha Indianapolis has continued to grow with every event and we are sincerely grateful to everyone that has come out to support Pecha Kucha Indianapolis.

We are taking a brief hiatus from staging and promoting PKIndy to focus on a couple of other experiential endeavors (more to come on this), but fret not – we'll be back soon with something even more scintillating. In the meantime, check out some photos from the…

A big thanks to the editors at Indianapolis Monthly for naming Pecha Kucha Indy "Best Open Mic" event in Indianapolis for 2008. Kristian Andersen + Associates and our friends at Asthmatic Kitty have been staging Pecha Kucha events here in Indianapolis for over a year now and continue to be amazed by the level of enthusiasm and support that the event garners. If you're interested in presenting, helping, or just finding out more, be sure to visit: www.pkindy.org.

Excerpt from Indianapolis Monthly below:

Its concept is simple. Its pronunciation is not. Pecha Kucha (peh-chak-cha, if you’re a stickler for authenticity; peh-cha-koo-cha, if you speak Hoosier) takes its name from the Japanese word

We hosted the fourth installment of Pecha Kucha Indy on November 7th, 2008 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. More than 80 people turned out to hear one of the strongest groups of presenters we've had yet. Pecha Kucha, literally meaning "chit-chat" in Japanese, is a grassroots movement started by architects and designers to remedy long-winded lectures and frivolous presentations. The movement has spread to cities across the world, including Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Budapest, Hong Kong, London, Portland, Nagano, Toronto, and now Indianapolis. In one corner, the presenters at Pecha Kucha have only six minutes and forty seconds to convey their idea, with twenty slides at twenty seconds each, whether they like it or not. In the…