City Focus: Copenhagen

The "City Focus" this week falls on Copenhagen, a city that celebrates its PechaKucha Night Vol. 24 on May 15 -- visit the official event page for more details on the PKN and see the full list of presenters.

Orlando Fringe Festival

The 22nd Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival kicks off this week (running until May 28), and the Orlando PechaKucha series will play a big part with 4 events being held throughout the festival. Visit the PKN Orlando Vol. 10 event page for info on all 4 events and the lineups.

Top 5 in April

Every month we send out a global newsletter -- you can subscribe in the footer below -- in which we highlight the 5 most popular presentations from the previous month. Here's a look at what was tops in April. Pictured, Jake Adelstein's "Tale of the Lucky Cat."

Presentation of the Day

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Susannah Acuff

Anthropologist in Memphis, TN

Graduate student Susannah Acuff talks about her journey from pre-med to anthropology. She began by shadowing her grandfather, a physician, in free clinics, and examined the cultural opinions and use of health care and insurance, which eventually led her to Africa, where she examined alternative models for health insurance, instead of the for-profit model found in the United States.

Beautiful photographs by Jim Tanton, jimtanton@gmail.com

Donations for bed nets at http://www.matregroup.org/

Solar lamp program https://sites.google.com/site/tuchwemuproject/

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Past Presentations of the Day

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New Karakuri Puppets

BY KENICHI ASANO
@ PECHAKUCHA X DESIGN-AH EXHIBITION ON MAR 23, 2013

Kenichi Asano, who currently works at repairing Buddha statues, talks about his endeavors with karakuri puppets. He employs traditional japanese statuemaking techniques, but produces more modern figures, from robots to popular video game characters. (in Japanese)

仏像の修復の仕事をされながら、伝統技術や古典技法を使い、現代の格闘技やゲームやロボットをイメージソースに制作活動を行われいらっしゃる淺野健一さんの作品プレゼンテーションです。

"Presentation of the Day" on May 17, 2013. 

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Hands Hands Hands

BY NIKY ROEHREKE
@ VOL 78 ON NOV 24, 2010

German-Japanese illustrator Niky Roehreke talks about communicating and expression using her unique hand imagery. 

Find more of her work on NikyNiky.com.

"Presentation of the Day" on May 16, 2013. 

 

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My Bees

BY STEVEN STARK
@ VOL 10 ON MAR 02, 2011

Steve Stark tells us the story of his farm, his bees, and the quest for golden honey (as well as the trials and triumphs along the way). 

"Presentation of the Day" on May 15, 2013.

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Samuraidea: How to Use Identity for Collaboration

BY AKIRA UCHIMURA
@ VOL 102 ON APR 24, 2013

In this second PKN presentation by Akira Uchimura -- watch the first one here -- he explores the topic of collaboration. There are 1 billion "Japanese people" around the world, and here he looks at ways of combining that collective power.

"Presentation of the Day" on May 14, 2013.