PechaKucha Buffalo

06/19/2018

Hey Chicago! Our PechaKucha Tokyo friend Peter Exley of ArchitectureIsFun is putting on PechaKucha Night at Apple in Chicago next Wednesday 6/27. Sending best wishes from Buffalo! Sign-up below:

Join Peter Exley, Keisha Howard, Tom Burtonwood, Michelle Smyth, and Ryan Duritsa for an engaging look at PechaKucha.

05/10/2018

We had a great PechaKucha night with GrowWNY and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center back in March. Here are the live presentations from that 28-degree evening when we cozied into the warmth of the Ninth Ward and heard from innovators in the region working to improve the health and wellness of the environment through design.

Many thanks to Antonina Melissa Simeti for inviting us to particiapte in the WNY Environmental Alliance Annual Congress.

Presentations by: Jay Burney (Friends of Times Beach Nature Preserve, Our Outer Harbor, Pollinator Conservation Association), Jim Howe (The Nature Conservancy), Rita Hubbard-Robinson, JD (NeuWater & Associates, LLC), Alexandra Jewett McPherson (Niagara Share) & Tyra Johnson (Blue Sky Design Supply), Jajean Rose-Burney (Western New York Land Conservancy), Zoe Hamstead (University at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning), Elizabeth Walsh (University at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning and the Champions for Change Program of One Region Forward's Citizens Planning School), Derek Nichols (University at Buffalo, Office of Sustainability), and Douglas Funke (President, Citizens for Regional Transit).

We are pleased to announce PechaKucha Buffalo vol. 19: Environment & Design. Co-presented with the WNY Environmental Alliance, hosted by Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and featuring innovators in the region working to improve the health and wellness of the environment through design. Presenters...

03/15/2018

Thank you, Buffalo, vol. 19 presenters, Western New York Environmental Alliance (GrowWNY), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Derek Nichols, and Seth Amman for the great photo!

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Talkin bout clean energy.

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03/14/2018

TONIGHT. Doors open to the public at 7:15 pm sharp. Cash bar. $5 general admission. 7:45 pm start.

Featuring presentations on projects, plans and campaigns including the Project Rainfall hydro and aquaponics farm, an elevated park in South Buffalo, conservation at the Outer Harbor, the Collaboratory for a Regenerative Economy, renewable energy for Buffalo, the impact of climate change and extreme weather on public health, and more! With GrowWNY and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

03/08/2018

March 14th
The 9th Ward @ Babeville
7:15 doors / $5 general admission / cash bar
Presented with GrowWNYand Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

02/17/2018

Save the date!
We're landing again on March 14th.
The 9th Ward @ Babeville
7:15 doors / $5 general admission / cash bar

Co-presented with GrowWNY (WNY Environmental Alliance) and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, featuring innovators working to improve the health and wellness of the environment through design.

We are pleased to announce PechaKucha Buffalo vol. 19: Environment & Design. Co-presented with the WNY Environmental Alliance, hosted by Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, and featuring innovators in the region working to improve the health and wellness of the environment through design.

10/14/2017

We see you, Gary Sczerbaniewicz! Confined Architectural Space and Psychological Unease is PechaKucha's presentation of the day. Looking good!

Download the PechaKucha of the Day iOS app here http://bit.ly/PechaKuchaoftheDay

"I want to destabilize the viewer in relation to the work."

In "Confined Architectural Space and Psychological Unease" from PechaKucha Night Buffalo Vol. 14, artist, sculpture, and professor, Gary Sczerbaniewicz shares his practice involving an insatiable fascination with interior architectural spaces that evoke a sense of psychological unease. This compulsion toward an aesthetics of anxiety leads him to fabricate confined space environments which include-scale shifts-using architectural models seamlessly blended into full-sized structures - into which the viewer is invited to physically enter and explore.

Watch it here: http://www.pechakucha.org/cities/buffalo/presentations/confined-architectural-space-and-psychological-unease over on the PechaKucha of the Day iOS App: bit.ly/PechaKuchaoftheDay

06/20/2017

Our friends at the Dreamland community arts space could use some support. They've faced some unexpected city permit issues and now need to make renovations. If you saw Dana Mcknight's kick-ass presentation at our 10th Anniversary PechaKucha Night, you know Dreamland is a true artist-run space in Allentown. They count on event donations to keep things rolling. Renovations and waiting for permits = no event income = tough situation. Please consider helping out. Thank you! ~Joanna

05/31/2017

Hello, Friends! We are pleased to share recent presentations from our special edition in honor of the 50th year of the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning. It was an early morning session—without beer, I might add—but we had a fine time in the spectacularly renovated Hayes Hall revisiting some of the school's fruitful community partnerships in the Buffalo Niagara region across an arc of a half century. Have a look! (Scroll down to watch individual presentations.) Thank you, Bradshaw Hovey, Erkin Özay, Beth Tauke, Frank P***n, Edward Steinfeld and the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, and Dean Robert Shibley.
~ Joanna (p.s. shout out to my colleague Nick Bruscia in Japan, ki wo tsukete.)

PechaKucha Buffalo, in partnership with the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, was pleased to present PechaKucha Buffalo vol. 18: UB School of Architecture & Planning 50th Anniversary: Looking Forward, Looking Back. Part of a weekend of commemorative events celebrating the re...

02/09/2017

Hey ya'll, Nick here with an update - Our very own Joanna Gillespie steals the PK People Spotlight this week! Check out the link right there on the front page of pechakucha.org. Well deserved recognition! Thanks for working so hard on these events and for keeping PK Buffalo going.

The art of concise presentations. PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.

01/05/2017

Congratulations to Torn Space Theater and Daniel Shanahan for the honor of PechaKucha Presentation of the Day (1/2/17) from PK headquarters in Toyko. Thanks for hosting, Albright-Knox Art Gallery! Watch Dan's gorgeous presentation here:

“We devised a few rules: Start with the architecture. Consider its history. Draw from its mythology.” In "Site-Based Performance: Development of a Process" from PechaKucha Buffalo Vol. 17, Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Torn Space Theatre in Buffalo, NY, Dan Shanahan, reveals Torn Space's proce...

12/14/2016

Congratulations Jean-Michel Reed for capturing the eye of PechaKucha Tokyo to earn a prestigious Presentation of the Day distinction. Today is Collage City Day! You can see J-M's talk (from our September event at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, here:

"An architect, it seems, has to be an optimist and idealist. That by building we're somehow making the world a better place. But before you need buildings, you need people." In Collage City from PechaKucha Buffalo Vol. 17, artist, designer, realtor and retired paramedic, Jean-Michel Reed, shares sto...