Pecha Kucha Night Belfast
Allen and I attended Pecha Kucha Night Belfast tonight, as part of Belfast Book Festival.
The Storytelling theme attracted our attention.
What is it?
The formula was a new one on me. This is taken from the PechaKucha website:
PechaKucha 20×20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images forward automatically and you talk along to the images.
It was indeed a fast-moving series of fascinating, sometimes confusing, rambling, varied presentations loosely based around the theme. Some shared information; most told stories or shared ideas, opinions, passions on book format, design, font, imagery, sculpture, art, thoughts, childhood, business and more…
I liked it.
Great idea. It’s hard to get bored when looking such rapid presentations!
Indeed, Julia! It’s a really new concept for Northern Ireland, and I think meeting and conference organisers could learn a thing or two from the format.
Also, I just noticed this recently, Swiss ‘Party’ Campaigns Against PowerPoint: http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/07/08/swiss-party-campaigns-against-powerpoint/?mod=google_news_blog. Have you ever heard of them? Interesting concept!
WOW!this is the first time i see Night Belfast so fast just 20 seconds for 20 images…hmmmm and they explain it very well.i am very thankful that i found this post.
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It’s a really interesting format Elizza. It was fascinating to see how each speaker used their time.
“PechaKucha 20×20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images forward automatically and you talk along to the images.” So 1 image per second in the slide? I think that this is a great idea for doing presentations and will have no delays.
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Absolutely Ron, if only all presentations were timed! It works well in that it forces people to use images, diagrams, book covers, art (representing ideas rather than long-winded theories or lists). You come away with new ideas and thoughts, rather than the usual dread associated with information-heavy presentations.