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. 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. 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

📢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.