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Pecha Kucha Night Budapest (vol.26) 5th birthday party

This December we celebrate the 5th birthday of Pecha Kucha Night Budapest! At this very occasion we enjoy the sexy-quick talks young architects, designers and artist PLUS we organize a super-huge party with KÉK, the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre.

Date: Thursday, 15 December 2011 8 pm
Venue: Szikra 1066 Budapest, Teréz krt. 62.
Admission: HUF 1500

Past events

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.25 – Budapest Design Week special edition

In collaboration of KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre and WAMP.

Date: Wednesday, 5 October 2011 8 pm
Venue: Szikra 1066 Budapest, Teréz krt. 62.
Admission: HUF 1500 (includes one drink)

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.24 – Friss 2011 special edition

At this time, in collaboration of KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre and KOGART.

Date: Friday, 16 September 2011 8 pm
Venue: KOGART 1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 112.
Admission: HUF 1500

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.23

At this time, in collaboration with Reinforced Concrete Spring program of KÉK, we will feature very concrete presentations… on concrete.

Date: Saturday, 23 April 2011 8 pm
Venue: Trafó House of Contemporary Arts 1094 Budapest, Liliom utca 41.
Admission: HUF 1200

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.22 & New Tech Meetup Birthday

Venue: Merlin 1052 Budapest V. Gerlóczy utca 4.
Date: Friday, 18 February 2011 8pm – arrive early to avoid queues!
Admission: HUF 1200

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.21 special edition: model festival

Venue: Kunsthalle Budapest
Date: Friday, 12 November 2010 8pm
Free admission

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.20 special edition: green!

KÉK and Holcim present: Pecha Kucha Night Budapest celebrates its 20th edition with a special green edition.

Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Be there, be green!

Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2010 8pm, arrive early to find a seat
Venue: West-Balkán Budapest, Nyugati tér 1-2. (former Skála Metro building)
Admission: HUF 1200

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.19 at Design Hét 2010

co-organized by KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre and WAMP

Date: Tuesday, 5 October 2010 8 pm, please arrive some earlier
Venue: Merlin 1052 Budapest V. Gerlóczy utca 4.
Ticket: 1200 HUF

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.18

Date: Friday, 14 May 2010 8 pm
Venue: Trafó Budapest, Liliom utca 41. http://trafo.hu

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.17 & New Tech Meetup Birthday

Date: Friday, 27 February 2010 8 pm
Venue: Merlin

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.16

Celebrate with us at the 3rd anniversary of Pecha Kucha Night Budapest!

Date: Friday, 18 December 2009 8 pm
Venue: Toldi Cinema Budapest, V. Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 36-38.

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.15

Date: Thursday, 8 October 2009 8 pm
Venue: Museum of Applied Arts Budapest, IX. Üllői út 33-37.

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.14

Date: Friday, 18 September 2009 8 pm
Venue: Trafó Budapest, Liliom utca 41.

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.13

Date: Saturday, 20 June 2009 after dusk
Venue: Városliget 1146 Budapest, Olof Palme sétány 3. (Novus Művészeti Iskola, just behind Kertem)

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest vol.12

The 12th Pecha Kucha Night in Budapest was hosted by Museum of Applied Arts and was surrounded by  Wa: A mindennapok harmóniája – Contemporary Japanese Design exhibition. Kawakami Noriko curator of the exhibition made a guided tour on the exhibition. Our special guest was The Flying Grass Carpet from the Netherlands. After Pecha Kucha there was a great party with DJ Csodafarkas (Tilos) and VJ Admonkey.

Each time 2-300 guests showed up at our previous events to see the presentations of Pecha Kucha Night in Budapest. Superb projects and tasty DJ sets made up unforgettable nights. Our last event co-organized with Budapest New Technology Meetup and KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre was a great success, over 600 people showed up!

What is Pecha Kucha Night?

Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. (Admittedly, it was also a way to get more people to visit SuperDeluxe – their then newly opened multimedia event space in Tokyo).

But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global – as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over a dozen cities across the world. And so it arrived to Budapest where the first event on 15 December 2006 attracted over 150 guests.

Rules

20 images x 20 seconds
20:20pm start

Apply

If you are interested in presenting your work please contact info@pechakucha.hu for more details. See Paul Baron’s guide for presenters

Contact

Pecha Kucha Night Budapest is organised by Attila Bujdosó and KÉK. Email: info@pechakucha.hu

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Links

KÉK – Kortárs Építészeti Központ
Pecha Kucha – global website
Klein Dytham architecture

Articles

20/20 Vision
Pecha Kucha: Design Virus
P. Kutya (in Hungarian)

Sponsor

Sponsorship is welcome please contact us at info@pechakucha.hu.