The link accesses the prose poem performed with improvised sound at the first Stoke-on-Trent Pecha Kucha Night To view this powerpoint presentation, double click and run the file if on a pc with Office. Otherwise download the Powerpoint 2007 Viewer free from the Microsoft site. What is Pecha Kucha? Pecha Kucha (pronounced “pa-chok-cha” http://www.pecha-kucha.org )is an entertaining way to exchange ideas and experience. The aim is to get people from different walks of life and experience talking to each other in a way that is original, funny, unusual, serious or just different. Using 20 images in total and a time of 20 seconds per image your presentation is then 6 mins 40 secs. The format was devised and copyrighted by Royal College of Art architecture graduates Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, working from their multi-disciplined arts business base in Tokyo, originally as a way of getting art and design professionals talking to each other in a focused and inventive way. The idea has spread virally to many different walks of life and many city events have been held around the world. Stoke-on-Tent becomes the first city in the West Midlands to win permission to hold a programme of Pecha Kucha Nights. This initiative came out of an alliance of two locally based projects, Headtalk, http://www.headtalk.org.uk/ , a project out of AirSpace, http://airspacegallery.org, and Blurb, http://blurbonline.ning.com/. Both these projects are focused on exchange and networking amongst arts people and equally the promotion of dialogue between the arts and other social groupings or communities in Stoke-on-Trent and regionally. We believe the introduction of the Pecha Kucha format to the city is an exciting and effective way to pursue these aims You can email your idea to stokepechakucha@yahoo.co.uk SPK Volume 2 Thursday March 11th 2010 Venue: Fat Cat Cafe & Bar, Trinity Street, Hanley (Downstairs room with bar) ST1 1HJ.

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  this bar is traversed and adjoined by animations that are a detail of 'the instability of seriousness 1' a digital installation - click and go