The newest edition of Pecha Kucha night is set to take place at Hong Kong’s club Prive on Wednesday, February 25th. Not familiar with Pecha Kucha? Check out our post on the first one here.

In short, the serial event features an assortment of creative professionals talking about their projects and professions in a concise, yet casual setting. Pecha Kucha night is a great way to get the inside scoop on being involved in creative industries.

This installment of Pecha Kucha night features graphic designers, motion graphics pros, illustrators, architects, interior designers, animators and furniture designers. Pecha Kucha also provides a good platform for Hong Kong’s creative professionals to meet each other. It’s a free event!

Wednesday’s line-up includes:

- Greg Pearce (One Space Limited)
- Lance Chiu (Lanciple)
- Oriana Reich (Oriana Reich Creative Services)
- Emily Eldridge
- Johnny Wong & Miho Hirabayashi (FAK3)
- Chris Dingcong (Springtime Design)
- Calvin Yu (R3SP3CT)
- Postgal Workshop
- Nic Tinworth (Fluid)
- Ree-yong Yuen (Ree-yong Pet Lifestyle)

Privé
G/F, 60 Wyndham Street
Central, Hong Kong
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Time: 8pm to 10pm
Free!

Hong Kong’s second Pecha Kucha night is about to take place this Tuesday, July 22nd, at 20:20pm. Not up on what Pecha Kucha is all about? Check out my previous post or have a look at the turnout from the initial Pecha Kucha event.

The first Pecha Kucha night was a major success. While setting a stage for top creative types to talk candidly about their work, the event drew a large art and design savvy crowd.

It will be interesting to see how Pecha Kucha shapes up this time around. The venue is again club Volar located in Lan Kwai Fong.

Pecha Kucha night is free. You can RSVP to Bo Bo Shum at 3586-3012.

Volar
Basement, 38-44 D’Aguilar Street
Lan Kwai Fong
Central, Hong Kong

You think it’s something cute and furry? Well, you thought wrong! Simply put, a Pecha Kucha night is a gathering where creative professionals present their work in a casual environment, following a specific, concise, presentation form. The system was hatched in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham for young designers to discuss their work without getting bogged down or boring the audience. The rigid format allows for only twenty slides, each with a time limit of twenty seconds. This gives the speaker roughly six minutes and forty seconds to get their points across. O.K., so what does ‘pecha kucha’ actually mean?

The Japanese word pronounced ‘peh-chak-cha’ is an onomatopoeia, similar to the term chit-chat in English (a reference to the sound people make when talking).

The event will be held for the first time in Hong Kong on Tuesday, May 27th, from 8:00-10:00 pm at Volar. Tuesday’s pecha kucha night includes several notable speakers in the design world including one of the founders of United Nude, Rem D. Koolhaas, as well as Ed Ng an interior designer from the firm AB Concepts, Teddy Lo an internationally recognized LED artist, Stanley Wong of 321 Communications and several others.

Pecha Kucha night Hong Kong
Tuesday, May 27th, 8-10 pm
Volar
38-44 D’Aguilar Street, Central

RSVP to Maggie Ma at 2522-8688 or maggie.ma@hkdesigncentre.org

For more information check out the official Pecha Kucha page!