ArtOrg Executive Director Dave Machacek will be presenting at the Minneapolis group of PechaKucha Night on Saturday, February 20 at 7pm at the International Market Square, 275 Market Street, Minneapolis, MN 55405. This evening is special and is organized to raise money for Haitian reconstruction efforts. The PechaKucha Night gathers about ten presenters together on various interesting topics, and this night is special: all 200 Pecha Kucha locations around the world will be presenting on February 20–that means 200 cities, 2000 presentations, 200,000 people – with the aim to raise $1,000,000 for rebuilding Haiti. Dave’s 6-minute-40-second talk will be on the artist John Berkey.

All the PechaKucha Night cities will be connected by a 24-hour PechaKucha presentation WAVE that will gradually move westward city by city, circumnavigating the globe. The wave will be dropping in on each city for around 10 minutes for a video link up and a live presentation. This presentation wave will be streamed over the internet on a 24-hour WAVEcast, which we think will be a world first. The PechaKucha Presentation WAVE will start simultaneously in SuperDeluxe in Tokyo where PechaKucha Night was first conceived, and in our most easterly city in New Zealand. It will then move west crossing all times zones and cultures. The PechaKucha WAVE will finally come ashore in San Francisco, where Architecture for Humanity (AFH) is headquartered. AFH’s founder, Cameron Sinclair, will be there with the rest of San Francisco to give presentations and celebrate the successful circumnavigation of the world. That will be about 1pm Sunday Japan time. Watch progress of this global event.

The speed presentation method of Pecha Kucha is characterized by a 20 slide, 20 seconds per slide format. In a typical Pecha Kucha event, 10 presenters go through their 6 minute 40 second presentations in rapid succession. The 20-second slide transitions are fixed, so there is no going back or talking too long.