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.