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PechaKucha Night Cardiff Volume #03

7 October, 2010 - 18:30

Chapter, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1ZZ [ Get Directions ]

Following the overwhelming success of the premier night and second event in May, we are pleased to announce Volume #03 of PechaKucha Night Cardiff.
There will be keynote speakers including Dr. Ben Evans talking about the Bloodhound project, the engineering adventure for the 21st century. Pushing the limits and inspiring young engineers and scientist with the incredible car capable of 1,000mph!

PechaKucha is launched and hosted by Louisa Cameron, Inkling Creative and produced by Adam Bourne, Brain Multi Media.

PechaKucha Night Cardiff, volume #03, Thursday 7th October / Doors at 6.00pm; event 6.30 - 8pm Chapter, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1ZZ Cinema 1. www.chapter.org

Free registration online at www.inklingcreative.co.uk

Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of sound of 'chit chat', Pechakucha's format allow each selected speaker to share their knowledge through 20 images each shown for 20 seconds creating tempo, story tension, show and tell.

This will be a night for sharing ideas and inspiration. Hear from a brand designer; performance artist; magazine editor; scientist; adventure junkie; architect; poet; paper artist; architect; engineer; photographer; fashion/homeware entrepreneur and more...

Speakers include:
Guto Evans, Creative Designer, Elfen, www.elfen.co.uk - "Brand shift."
Ric Bower, Senior director/editor, Blown Magazine, www.blownmag.com - "Did you ever Start Something."
Theo Humphries, Lecturer and PhD student, Cardiff School of Art & Design, UWIC, www.3eyes.co.uk - "Crapestry."
Huw James, Scientist, Presenter, Adventure Junkie, www.huwjames.com - "Science and sport - A relationship of two halves."
Corinne Thompson, Paper artist, Flutterbugs, www.flutterbugs.co.uk "Flutterbugs - My creative journey."
Richard Weston, Professor of Architecture, www.richardwestonstudio.com - "Ammonites to digital delight."
Dr. Ben Evans, CFD (Comutational fluid dynamics) Engineer, Bloodhound, www.bloodhoundssc.com - "Bloodhound, 1,000mph car."
Richard Huw Morgan, Performance artist - "Croeso i Gymry/u Fwyaf!"
James Mitchell; Su Mei Tan; Julissa Kiyenje, Architect students, Orkid Studio, www.orkidstudio.co.uk - "Shelter for the Soul."
Jon Chase, Poet - "Life - An autobiography."

and many more!

In partnership with Chapter and kindly supported by Cardiff School of Art & Design, UWIC; Design Wales; Atticus Digital; Orangutan Studio; Inkling; MultiStream and Culture Colony.

www.pecha-kucha.org PechaKucha Night is trademarked, devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture.

If you're attending let us know, and why not upload some photographs that you took on to the
Cardiff Design Destival Facebook Group or if you are a Twitter user then please make use of our hash tag #cardiffdesfest.