Pechakucha Hamilton

Just some of the photo's from
Hamilton Festival Of Weird - Kirikiriroa - Pechakucha Hamilton special last Friday!

Many thanks to the speakers who came and gave fantastic presentations, from the weirdly wonderful to creative arts and to supporters The Riff Raff Public Art Trust.

And a big thanks to everyone who came along for our first P.K in a long while!

📢Speaker announcement No. 8
Mark Servian - someone else who doesn't need an introduction...

'Street Theatre in Garden Place 1980-2000' - this will be weird, so make sure you get your tickets via Humantix - link in comments below.

📢 Speaker announcement No. 7
Dr. Jeremy Mayall

Jeremy is an award winning composer, producer and performer with a focus on exploring his fascination in the interrelationships between sound, time, space, the senses, and the human experience. He's also the CEO of Creative Waikato.

Exploring some interesting and hopefully fascinating observations on things in life, moments in the world and exploring our navigation of the trivial and the philosophical.

Get your tickets from Humantix, link in comments below.

📢 Guest speaker announcement No: 6

Ben Paris aka Batman

Ben Paris worked for the Waikato Regional Council bringing tūī, back to suburban Hamilton, then co-lead the formation of Project Echo, after developing a love of the pekapeka-tou-roa. 🦇

Moving to Auckland, he has helped kick start a bat awareness movement & helped develop pest free communities to protect Pekapeka & other native species across the city.

Tickets to hear Ben and our other fabulous speakers via Humantix - link in comments.

📢 Guest speaker announcement No. 5!
Iain White

Hailing from the UK, by day he's a Professor of Environmental Planning, with a passion for making better cities. By night, despite being terrible at art - he's Chair of Hamilton Arts Trust (AKA Boon) - which happens to be the topic of his presentation.

He'll tell us how a conversation sparked nearly 100 murals in the city!

Join us, 7pm Friday 3 November at Wintec - Events Room 1.

Ticket link in comments below.
https://events.humanitix.com/pecha-kucha-hamilton-kirikiriroa-vol-47?fbclid=IwAR0nDF4VB1Jqt9hu9_L_Ckar5njzSi-d7wywjLcON50RCrM27oTwfxs-GhE

📢Speaker announcement No. 4!

Sandra Jensen
Doesn't need an introduction...

Sandra's topic is "Cephalopods Cant Cycle". Weird facts that make the argument for octopus being unable to ride a bike..🐙

Tickets to this Friday's event through Humantix. Link in comments below.

WIN tickets to Pecha Kucha Hamilton Festival Of Weird - Kirikiriroa special! Just comment on HLIVE post on their page!

On Friday, Nov 3rd, 7pm at Wintec Gallagher Room.

But don't worry if you don't win.....tickets are available on Humantix!
Link in the comments!

It’s weird, it’s wonderful it’s almost here!
Hamilton Festival Of Weird - Kirikiriroa is bringing a collection of curiously cool creative experiences and eccentric events to Hamilton Kirikiriroa over 27 October – 5 November and we’ve got some event tickets up for grabs 😉

📌The Corkboard Conspiracy on 29 October
📌PechaKucha - Vol 47 Festival of Weird Special on 3 November

To go into the draw just LIKE this post and tell us which event you’d like a double pass (two tickets) for!

Winners will be drawn and contacted directly via messenger on 27 October 😉

📢 Guest speaker announcement No. 3!

Lora Thompson

Lora is a bit of a local legend, being one of the very few female sound and tech in Hamilton, Kirikiriroa....even NZ! For her day job she Head of Audio at SAE teaching students everything about music production.

She also regularly performs with her band The Sour, which features some of NZ finest musicians. They are currently recording with another NZ legend Ladyhawke. Locally Lora also plays with her band Empress who regularly support touring acts.

She even fits time to build guitars pedals and telephones mics at Ritual FX and make Tiktok vids about the builds! Phewww!

But Lora has a side hobby if you will and it involves trash in all its obscure beauty!

Come see Lora talk about her obscure fascination!

Tix link in the comments!

📢Guest speaker announcement No. 2!

Lisa Perrott

Lisa is author of the renowned book 'David Bowie and the Art of Music Video' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) – the first book to provide a scholarly analysis of Bowie's music video through out the artist's iconic career.

Lisa is also Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato with her research centering of the relation between music, sound and image and the remediating propensities of audio-visual mediums. She has interests in popular music, artistry, indigenous modes of storytelling and representation inform her research and teaching across the fields of documentary, animation, transmedia storytelling, and media and cultural studies.

Come see Lisa talk about the one and only David Bowie!

Link to Lisa's article in Elsewhere NZ in the comments below.