Next Tues­day, 2 March, sees the very first Ignite even­ing in Wel­ling­ton, 6.30 at the Para­mount Theatre.

Ignite is sim­il­ar in format to Pecha Kucha even­ings. With Ignite, the speak­ers have five minutes each to deliv­er 20 slides, at 15 seconds per slide. This con­straint will (hope­fully) unleash creav­ity and causes audi­ences brains to ignite with inspir­a­tion. Or some­thing like that.

The line-up so far has some­thing for every­one:

James Ever­ett – Design for Play
Mike Brown – Cyc­ling across Amer­ica
Tim McNamara – Kiwis help­ing Haiti (& more!)
Lenz Gschwendtner – Real­ising your ideas
Julia Hol­d­er­ness – Venice Bien­ni­al
Dave Moskovitz – The music industry
Mark Har­ris – ACTA – We *could* tell you, but we’d have to kill you
Dave ten Have – Noth­ing to fear, but fear
Melissa Clark-Reyn­olds
Sarah Harpur
Dav­id Ritch­ie

Find out more at the Ignite web­site. Admis­sion is free, but make sure you register if you want to go. It’s going to be a good one.