For the last four years, with 4 editions per year, the Pecha Kucha Night brings together artists, designers, architects and graphic designers from Marseille and elsewhere. Pecha Kucha was set up in Tokyo in 2003 by the architectural agency Klein Dytham. Today, there are more than 400 groups spread across every continent, and it’s become a busy network of independent creatives, a platform for exchange and interdisciplinary encounters.

 

Pecha Kucha Night lets professionals and especially the general public in to the backstage of contemporary creation. As we all know, hand the mike over to a designer (and particularly an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours.

Pecha Kucha might seem to belong to the same family as the Cucaracha, Pikachu or Machu Picchu. It shares a great sense of rhythm with the first, with the second, Japanese origins, and with the third, a taste for reaching the top. However, Pecha Kucha is against all expectations a Japanese expression, which means ‘the sound of conversation’, chitchat in English, brouhaha in French…

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That’s where the brilliance of the Pecha Kucha Night resides, which spares you this fate. Each participant has free rein, except they can show a maximum of only 20 images, and with just 20 seconds for each one. Today, this format has been reinterpreted in as many performances, ballets, concerts, fashion parades and films, but always with a maximum of 6 minutes 40 seconds.

 

The presentation system imposes a certain rhythm, it’s the ideal amount of time to discover an artist’s universe but you can still have a drink afterwards and learn a bit more. 

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PechaKucha
Night #16

Cabane du Roucas, 7pm-2am, free entry.

Gaston Deferre Beach, avenue Georges Pompidou (just after the boat club), Marseille 13008.

 

In Marseille, Pecha Kucha returns each season, though not always in the same place: at the Cartonnerie, the Contemporary Art Museum, at La Boate, the Oogie Lifestore, the Bergerie, the Palais de la Bourse, the Grandes Tables de la Friche restaurant, in front of the Opéra, at the Daki Ling theatre, and – we’re in Marseille after all – even at the beach!

 

For that matter, it’s at the beach-side bar the Cabane de Roucas where the event will celebrate its 4th birthday on 25 June, with Virgo Music on the decks, and a whole host of creatives including the photographer La Brouillonneuse, the fashion designer Bird Song, the designer Salomée Gentil, Wildproject publishers, the Galerie Seize, ecological design specialist the 3ème Element, the design

and architecture collective La Canopée, the pediatrician Patrick de Boisse and the photographer Michel Eisenlohr for the project ‘Women from here and from elsewhere’, Marseille art director Jérome Bourgeix, and Paris-based graphic designer and plastic surgeon of the image Sopra Vento… plus a few other surprises.

 

www.pechakuchanight.fr

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