If you’re like me, you’ve spent the last few days feel­ing rather glum and not in much of a going-out mood. But there are a cou­ple of Pecha Kucha Night events com­ing up in Welling­ton this week­end that look pret­ty good — one with an arts theme, the oth­er with a sci­ence theme (includ­ing a seis­mol­o­gist!)

Arts — Sat­ur­day 26 Feb­ru­ary, 8pm

Tarana­ki Wharf
Tick­ets $5 (cash only).
Bar open from 6pm, starts 8pm.

On Sat­ur­day night, there’s an arts-themed open-air PKN in the Per­for­mance Arcade on Tarana­ki Wharf. The Per­for­mance Arcade is a series of ship­ping con­tain­ers in front of the har­bour side of Te Papa.

And it fea­tures these speak­ers:

David Stubbs // direc­tor // Krafthaus Films/ KFH Media //
chit­ty chit­ty bang bang with a free set of steak knives
Sarah Hunter // photographer/filmmaker // Trans­mit media
Sophie Zhang // TV pro­duc­er and doc­u­men­tary direc­tor // — Only Me Gen­er­a­tion: a doc­u­men­tary about Chi­na’s ‘One Child Pol­i­cy’
Pat Shep­herd // pho­tog­ra­ph­er // Focus on Pho­tog­ra­phy
Mark Har­vey // per­for­mance artist // On Per­for­mance, Labour, and Idio­cy
Joe Bleak­ley //About the Island Bay Sund Fes­ti­val
Cather­ine Bag­nall // artist /
Leo Gene Peters // The­atre Director/Creator
Lyn­da Chan­wai-Ear­le // play­wright / actor /poet
Anton Carter // musi­cian // Marked for life: The Art of Tatau from Ocea­nia
Mar­cus McShane // Light­ing Design­er / eco­con­trap­tion inven­tor

Sci­ence — Mon­day 28 Feb­ru­ary, 7.30pm

And on Mon­day night, there’s a sci­ence-themed PKN at Down­stage The­atre. Among the bril­liant sci­en­tif­ic speak­ers on the line-up, there’s seis­mol­o­gist Helen Ander­son, who is sure to have some­thing very inter­est­ing to say.

On Mon­day 28th Feb­ru­ary @ 7.30pm Pecha Kucha Night Welling­ton will present the Sci­ence Ses­sion curat­ed by Chris­tine Harp­er and Eliz­a­beth Con­nor at Down­stage The­atre, 12 Cam­bridge Ter­race, Welling­ton
Con­firmed speak­ers for PKN_WGN_VOL_10 include:

Paul Callaghan // Physi­cist, Com­mu­ni­ca­tor and Entre­pre­neur // Sci­ence and New Zealand’s future: an iron­i­cal per­spec­tive
Elf Eldridge // Nan­otech­nol­o­gist, Physi­cist, Men­tor // Viral Tech­nol­o­gy
Bill Williams // Bio­physi­cist // The Inex­orable emer­gence of the com­plex
Eliz­a­beth Con­nor // Sci­ence com­mu­ni­ca­tor // Atman: A life­time Inspi­ra­tion
Craig Stevens // Oceanog­ra­ph­er // Ocean Pow­ers of Ten
Sea Rot­mann // Marine Biol­o­gist /energy behav­iour researcher // The Krak­en Ris­es
Shaun Hendy // The­o­ret­i­cal Physi­cist // too many cooks spoil the broth or many hands make light work?
Nico­la Gas­ton // The­o­ret­i­cal Chemist // the case for Sklodowski­um
Ruth Beran and Ali­son Bal­ance // Broad­cast­ers // Sci­ence Radio and the The­atre of Mind
Helen Ander­son // Seis­mol­o­gist and recov­er­ing pub­lic ser­vant // Liv­ing on the Edge
Hamish Camp­bell // Geol­o­gist // Zealan­dia: nuclear-pow­ered, twice-cut and ripped
Hei­di Meudt // Research Sci­en­tist // A botan­i­cal life across three con­ti­nents
Har­iti­na Mogosanu // Space Explor­er // about life on mars

Pecha Kucha New Zealand have a rec­om­men­da­tion for anoth­er char­i­ty to sup­port — Archi­tec­ture for Human­i­ty. It’s a group that aims to use archi­tec­ture and design solu­tions for crises. And Christchurch deserves some beau­ti­ful design.