PechaKucha #12
Saturday, November 23, 2019 at 8 pm – 9:30 pm
PechaKucha Nights are fun, informal gatherings where people share their stories and passions in a concise format.
Participants
Jenna Field – What is Pilates?
Jenna Field is a fitness enthusiast and instructor notes that perhaps you are not in great shape, and haven’t exercised in ages, yet would like to strengthen your mind and body, Pilates might be the answer.
Richard Hull- Secret African Masks for Life’s Sake
Richard Hull tells of his half century encounter with the Mystery and Magic of masks and their significance to their users in Africa and abroad. His talk is based on his more than 50 years of collecting and analyzing traditional masks and their uses in African secret societies.
Claire Gilliam- Dissolving into Abstraction (with copper and silver)
Finding a way to connect her longtime love of darkroom printing with a newer passion for printmaking, Claire Gilliam shares her latest body of work “Lifelines”, revealing a journey into line and abstraction she didn’t expect.
Karen Martis-Wilderness Survival
Karen Martis notes that our ancestors lived closer to the earth. What did they know and what can we learn from them? How can we experience this natural connection?
Kathryn Nieves-Artificial Intelligence: Fear of the Unknown
Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence is all around us. It’s developed into more tools and platforms than we realize. Is this technology something to fear or something to embrace? Kathryn Nieves’ talk will dive into the advantages of artificial intelligence and its real-life advantages and applications.
Loren Talbot-Homecoming: My Constant Return to Food and Photography
Loren Talbot is an artist, photo editor, poet, wife and mother. She studied photography at Marlboro College, Urban Planning at Pratt Institute, and has worked in Northern Italian restaurants. She regrettably killed hundreds of lobsters in Maine, and catered in Manhattan and Vermont. Her DNA is made up of one strand of food and another strand of art. When she’s not editing world news, she can be found in her kitchen making a delicious mess.
Loren explores the intersection of food and photography throughout her life.
PechaKucha Website
The Amity Gallery presented the first of a series of PechaKucha evenings in March 2017. Started over a decade ago, PechaKucha nights are informal and fun gatherings where people get together to share their enthusiasms, ideas, and thoughts. The PechaKucha format consists of 20 images displayed for 20 seconds while the presenter describes and explains them.
Take a look at all the previous PechaKucha presentations we made in Warwick .
https://www.pechakucha.com/events/warwick-vol-12
PechaKucha is Japanese for chit chat. It is the world’s fastest growing story telling platform used by millions around the globe. Learn more about PechaKucha.
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