Jan 28th marks the first Pecha Kucha night in St. Louis. Finally, St. Louis is on the PK Map along with hundreds of other global cities. To answer a few of your questions: 1) No, I’m not exactly sure how to say it and I’m sure in STL we’ll probably say it wrong anyway and 2) It’s a unique presentation style event that’s focused on creativity, each presenter gets 20 slides for 20 seconds each to share their story. Its a great format to get a lot of info from a lot of interesting people in one night… or a great format to make really boring or sales-y presentations end quick. No real rules, though it’s not meant to promote a business directly, but more of an idea.
The lineup is set and the venue is in place, now the people just need to come. I was part of a larger group that helped get this going here, for the first event I helped recruit a couple presenters and did a quick poster. Even did my first silkscreening and printed about 50 and put them up around town. Printing was done at the studio of the fine people at All Along Press.
The event is free, on the 28th of this month. Get there early as it is limited to the first 200 people. More information is available on the pkstl.com site!