Calgary Arts Development is pleased to announce that Calgary’s first PechaKucha Night will take place at Theatre Junction Grand on September 14th at 6:30 pm, as part of Calgary's Culture Month celebration.

Calgary joins international centres around the world in bringing together our first-ever PechaKucha Night. Devised and shared by Klein Dytham Architecture in 2003 as a place for designers, developers, and architects to meet, network, and show their work in public, PechaKucha Night is now taking place in 226 cities around the world. The format is simple: speakers present 20 slides for 20 seconds each slide. Pecha Kucha is properly pronounced 'peh-CHAK-cha' and is Japanese for 'chatter' or the sound of conversation.

Calgary Arts Development's first PechaKucha Night will revolve around the theme of ‘creative spacemaking’ and will present a dynamic list of cultural space creators together that will include Artscape Toronto's President and CEO Tim Jones and Toronto Brickworks chief architect Joe Lobko, Partner with du Toit Allsopp Hillier I du Toit Architects Limited.

These events are fluid and social. The Velvet Restaurant and Bar at the Grand will be open for full service during this event.

Calgary Arts Development has secured the rights to PechaKucha Nights in Calgary and will be hosting four PechaKucha Nights over the course of the next year. Following the September 14th event, Calgary Arts Development will hold a PechaKucha night on December 3rd with the theme 'How We Live Together.'

For more information on PechaKucha Night visit CalgaryArtsDevelopment.com/PechaKucha.