PechaKucha Night comes to Boneyard Arts Festival!

THE NITTY GRITTY
WHEN Friday, April 16, 2010 WHERE The Canopy Club
TIME Doors open, 7pm :: Show starts at 8:20pm :: Ages 18+
TICKETS $5 in advance, $7 door; CUDO members free with ID

PRE-SHOW music by DJ Mertz
AFTER PARTY at Canopy Club with Fishing with Dynamite —
the premiere sketch comedy troupe at the University of Illinois.

THE EVENING’S LINEUP
Our rockin’ emcee for the night is PKN C-U alum Andy Warfel. Champaign-Urbana’s third PechaKucha Night will feature presenters:

• Chris Berti :: Associate Professor of Art & Design at Parkland College.
• Andy Borbely :: Manager of Seven Saints in Downtown Champaign and whiskey connoisseur extraordinaire.
• The Bike Project :: The Bike Project co-op offers a space, tools, and community to repair bikes, share knowledge, hold classes, and advocate for bikes in Urbana-Champaign.
• Kevin Coulton :: On pixel art as a modern form of design analogous to mosaics of old.
• Glen C. Davies :: Local Midwestern muralist and the 2010 Boneyard Arts Festival featured artist.
• Peter Exley / Thorston Bösch :: Our fellow PK Chicago organizers are joining the party!
• Fishing with Dynamite :: The premiere sketch comedy troupe at the University of Illinois.
• Matt Gornick :: Matt designs software to provide realtime information to OrangeQC’s users and favors usability over complexity.
• Stewart Hicks :: On the back and forth conversation between media and space that underpins what I do as a designer.
• Paul Kotheimer :: U. S. songwriter, activist, recording artist, and performer of DiY/acoustic, indie rock, and political folk music.
• Daniel Schreiber :: An (aspiring) chocolate maker. He’s always happy to talk about chocolate, taste chocolate, or think about chocolate.
• Ping Wu :: Project Runway Season 7 alum, designer, physical therapist and former Urbana, IL resident.

Purchase your ticket in advance for $5 at Canopy Club’s website: www.canopyclub.com. We’ll see you there!

TELL ME MORE, TELL ME MORE!
For additional information or if interested in presenting at a future Pecha Kucha Night Champaign-Urbana, please contact Christina Tapp, co-organizer, Pecha Kucha Night Champaign-Urbana, at (217) 419-3255 or pechakuchaCU@thecudo.org. Check out the www.pecha-kucha.org global website to get a sense of the magnitude of the event as well as our city page, www.pecha-kucha.org/night/champaign-urbana.

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