PK-sf#52 - "Off Leash" in Dogpatch

Join us for our first event Co-hosted by one of San Francisco's many great neighborhoods: Dogpatch.  Check out the very cool things going on in Dogpatch, September 28th. Gonna be some fun - OFF LEASH!  


September 28th, 6:30PM at the Wineworks, 2455 3rd Street at 22nd street.

A great line-up is in store:

1. David Fletcher, Fletcher Studio
2. EB Min, Min|Day Studio
3. Jason & Nataly, Future Cities Lab
4. Meg Aihara from Andie Cocharan Landscape Achitecture
5. Jerry Kung, glassblower, former technical director at Public Glass
6. Mimi Moncier, Artist, owner/teacher Giggling Lotus yoga studio
7. Alan Lewis, Hargreaves Associates
8. Villy Wang, President and CEO of Baycat
9. Brian Krieger, Co-Founder, Pocobor
10. more to come...

Call for Presenters: PK-sf v.51

Theme: "E|Motion"

Designers, animators, filmakers, architects and everyone else, PK-sf invites you to explore this theme with the option to incorporate up to 10 video or animated clips into your 20-slide presentations. The clips may be distributed in any order you wish, but may NOT aggregated into longer continuous segments. Within each 20-second clip, they may have internals cuts & edits. Being Pecha Kucha, the 20-slide format will be strictly enforced. Non-complying submissions will be returned.

We will post links to online tutorials for capturing video content from the internet.

Contact us at "pechakucha.sf at gmail dot com" for submission requirements.

Pecha Kucha-Sf v51 will be a pre-launch evening in anticipation of the September's 2012 Architecture in the City Festival. The theme for this year's festival is "DESIGN: It's about Time."

When: August 28th, 6:30PMWhere: SPUR on MissionHow much: Free with PK-password "Move me." 

Our 50th Pecha Kucha Night! March 22nd

Hi PK-sf!

With our next Pecha Kucha night 10 days away...Here's a call for presenters! No theme requirements, besides if there's one thing the spirit of India is all about it is eclecticism. So, if you've got something design-related our savvy PK community would dig, contact us. The screen, mic, 6:40, fame and fortune await you. pop us a note at pechakucha.sf@gmail.com.

feel free to pass this along to others - it's all about sharing....

cheers!!

PK-sf

The Map to find PK-sf #49 - at the Children's Creativity Museum at YBG

PK-sfv49 @ The Children's Creativity Museum

Creating Outside the Lines!

Pecha Kucha Night is coming to the Children’s Creativity Museum! You can see and hear big people talk about their creative process and how they got their start as little people, focused on the theme of "Creating Outside the Lines" February 22nd at 6PM.

Presenting on the 22nd:

• Ingrid & Nick Dragotta, Howtoons
• Kelly Wainwright , Messy Monkey Arts
• Barak Kassar, Rassak Experience Digital Design & Experience
• Irina Zadov, Children’s Creativity Museum Director of Experience & Community Engagement and Founder of Feast of Words
• Maurice Woods, Founder of the InnerAct Project
• Daniel LaRossa, Amadeo Bennetta, School 4 Burma Design Competition Winners
• Edgard Gouveia, the Oasis Game
• Dylan Gold, Furniture
• Adam Fong
• Brian Asman

The Children's Creativity Museum is going to host us in their theater for this event. Most of you may know them as the 'Zeum in Moscone Center. They just re-branded this past month and are keen to collaborate with our creative network of attendees.

Hope to see you on the 22nd!

Pecha Kucha Night SF - #48 "CHAOS"

Happy New Year! We're all set (almost) for a great kick-off of 2012 coming up on January 24th. The Mayan calendar seems to suggest this year will be the last, so what better way to kick off the year than to dive into the boundless possibilites of CHAOS?

1. Harley Dubois, Burning Man, Founder
2. Nicholas deMonchaux, Urban Designer, Professor, UC Berkeley
3. Jeffrey Tumlin, transportation planner
4. James Tracy, author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
5. Yoko Kumano and Kayoko Akabori Journalists reporting on Japan & the impacts of radiation on food systems following the .March 2011 tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear plant disaster.
6. Tal Klement - public defender, SF criminal justice system
7. Marc Babsin - was in Tehran during the 2009 uprising
8. Morgan Fitzgibbons of the Wigg Party –on the wiggle
9. OtherLAB – flexible robots in Potrero & more

Pecha Kucha Night SF - #48 "CHAOS"

Happy New Year! We're all set (almost) for a great kick-off of 2012 coming up on January 24th. The Mayan calendar seems to suggest this year will be the last, so what better way to kick off the year than to dive into the boundless possibilites of CHAOS?

1. Harley Dubois, Burning Man, Founder
2. Nicholas deMonchaux, Urban Designer, Professor, UC Berkeley
3. Jeffrey Tumlin, transportation planner
4. James Tracy, author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
5. Yoko Kumano and Kayoko Akabori Journalists reporting on Japan & the impacts of radiation on food systems.
6. Tal Klement - public defender, SF criminal justice system
7. Marc Babsin - was in Tehran during the 2009 uprising
8. Morgan Fitzgibbons of the Wigg Party –on the wiggle
9. OtherLAB – flexible robots in Potrero & more
10. Cindy Wu - Chinatown Community Development Group

SPUR

654 Mission Street

start time: 7pm check our Facebook page for more info!

PK-sf v47 @ Levi's w/ the Commonwealth Club

Have you SEEN this line-up!?

Mark Dwight, Founder & CEO, Rickshaw Bagworks

Rob Forbes, Founder, Design Within Reach; Founder, Public

Flora Grubb, Founder, Flora Grubb Gardens

Nikki Henderson, Executive Director, People’s Grocery

Walter Hood, Principal, Hood Design; Professor and Former Chair of Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley

Max Schorr, Co-founder and Publisher, GOOD Magazine

Bryony Schwan, Executive Director, Biomimicry Institute

Not our usual "Open Mic" group...all headliners, it'll be a terrific night. Goodies at the post-show mixer. A Great way to dive into October, so come on down! Tickets available at the door...See y'all tonight!

PK-sf v47: How to build a Sustainable Future

Greetings SF Pecha Kucha people!

Hope y'all had a great summer! Now we're looking forward to it getting warm, finally. Coming up October 3rd, we will be stepping beyond the our usual focus on design to engage the bigger question facing the planet when we co-host our first event with both the Commonwealth Club of California* and Levi's. There's an excellent line-up coming together. The evening's format will be a bit new, tickets must be purchased on-line at the Commonwealth Club website:

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2011-10-03/6-minutes-40-seconds-how-design-sustainable-future

October 3rd @ 6:00 PM

Levi's Auditorium, Levi's Plaza 1155 Battery St., San Francisco, CA

* "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. We bring over 400 annual events on topics ranging across politics, culture, society and the economy to 15,000 members."

We hope you can make it! It'll be a whole scene, crowd, etc. & a good chance to see how sustainability is viewed from new and interesting perspectives.

cheers,

Team PK-sf

PK-sf joins the Commonwealth Club of CA at Levi's

Oct 3rd at Levi's - for more info click here for tickets:

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2011-10-03/6-minutes-40-seconds-how-design-sustainable-future.

more info and the line-up to come soon!

Team PK-sf

PKN vol.44 May 23rd, NEXT MONDAY

A little late notice, but we're hosting another event on Monday evening, the 23rd, at 330 Ritch.

A really great group of presenters has stepped up, and i think we'll be seeing a fantastic range of topics. We've got a community educator and artist, a bike-builder, a spirits distiller, a sustainable entrepreneur, a few industrial designers, and a sociologist, to name a few.

GRASSROOTS is the theme for May. Come hear about how design can be used for social, environmental, or even political activism and change. We've scheduled another event with the great folks at 330 Ritch for Monday, May 23rd at 8:20pm (doors at 7pm). We will be back at 330 Ritch, (after April 16th's brief detour to Yoshi's). Their helpful staff will be fixing drinks behind the bar and Little Skillet will be cooking up some delicious Fried Chicken & Waffles (w/hot sauce OR syrup), chicken sandwiches, amongst other things.

Head over to the main page for the details: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/san-francisco/44

Cool digital cartography course!

GAFFTA is offering an excellent Digital Catography course tomorrow, downtown SF:

http://www.gaffta.org/our-work/education/data-visualization-digital-cartography/

It's an introductory course, not-necessarily for programmers & coders.

INSPIRE JAPAN - Pecha Kucha Night for Tsunami Relief

If you cannot attend one of the over 94 events this Saturday, you can still contribute:

http://global-day.pecha-kucha.org/

The message is clear and need very, very real.

Join us - wherever you may be.

Pecha Kucha Night #43 - INSPIRE JAPAN - April 16th @ Yoshi's

The on-going tragedy in Japan has prompter our global Pecha Kucha community to reach out along with Architecture for Humanity through Pecha Kucha to raise funds for their important work and raise awareness of the diverse, pressing needs confronting our friends in Japan. This will be just one stop along with over 100 other Pecha Kucha cities sweeping around the world to help give a hand just like last year's huge effort for Haiti.

Because SPACE IS LIMITED at Yoshi's, you must PRE-PURCHASE tickets online here:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=NMV4E28WBZGWS

Yohsi's is a premier jazz venue, with a full bar & excellent hors d'oeuvres available for sale and donations will be warmly accepted, but tickets MUST be PRE-PURCHASED online.

If you're on Facebook, there's more info at the following event listing:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104825896269021

plus our listing on the PK.org website:

http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/san-francisco/43

If you'd like to present in the theme of INSPIRE JAPAN, contact us at "pechakucha.sf at gmail.com"

Great Night - Great Cause

Thank you PK-sf people,

Monday night's "Madness" fundraiser for Japan Earthquake relief raised money - ($1,500!)and awareness. And, on top of that, we kicked-off the global PechaKucha fund raising campaign for Japan Earthquake relief. We want to also thank the many RISD alums who reminded why that institution remains one of the top design schools in the world - fantastic work everyone. Notable among them was a local Pecha Kucha favorite, Joe Gebbia who not only shared his design rags (in his case butt pads) to riches story with the birth of Air B-n-B their fantastically successful venture connecting travelers with spaces -all online! He also handed-out $50 vouchers good at any AirBnB stay. Not bad. Throw in some more truely inspirational presentations and you've got another outstanding PK-sf evening. Date an theme for our May event will be announced soon - stay tuned.

Feel free to chime in here with comments or on Facebook - Follow us Twitter at @PechaKucha_SF

cheers!
Team PK-sf

PK-v41 "ONE" - great start for 2011

Last Tuesday's 1st PK-sf of the year saw a great turnout - a full house and some terrific presentations. Look for announcements of the year's up-coming events. What will YOU present?

Team-PK

Top 10 reasons to present at Pecha Kucha SF

1. Get the thrill of karaoke without exposing our horrible singing skills.
2. For 6 minutes and 40 seconds, you will finally be listened to.
3. Easiest way to amass a set of design groupies
4. It's a great way to find like-minded geniuses like yourself
5. Consider it less fatal than a jury of your peers plus there's beer!
6. Prove you CAN do something pleasurable non-stop for 7 minutes.
7. First step to your own reality TV show.
8. Hang your brilliance out for that talent scout to see.
9. Boost your google search results - a lot!
10. You can be someone else's inspiration - you're more amazing than you think.

we are currently accepting new presenters. contact us at pechakucha.sf@gmail.com

PK - presenters & volunteers....who's 'in'?

Tonight, before a meeting for the 10/27 PK, we randomly met the organizer of Buenos Aires' PK events - 1,000 people/ mo.!! - great set-up. You want events that Big? Wanna help? We're looking for good presenters & volunteers!

Pecha Kucha Time!

Get out your calendars - Pecha Kucha SF rides again, October 27th at 330 Ritch. Check back for more details as they develop - pass it on.

Team PK