rt Week Austin heats up with Pecha Kucha Night Volume 8 this Thursday. In the Starr Building, starting at 8:20 pm sharp, a line-up of 12 local mavens will have just 600 seconds each to provide insights about their respective creative fields. This Tokyo-born tradition of straightforward slide presentation keeps things dynamic with a time limit of 20 seconds per image. more ›

Pecha Kucha Night Volume 7 starts promptly at 8:20 p.m. (20:20) this Thursday at 416 W Cesar Chavez, and will feature nearly a dozen Austinites hailing from a variety of disciplines, including Austin Kleon, the talented artist/writer/poet who sketched our last Local Music is Sexy party, B. Iden Payne Award-winning actor/playwright and economics professor Steven Tomlinson, and architect and affordable-housing champion Chris Krager. more ›

Our coverage of Art Week Austin continues with a rundown of today's events: 12:19 Project at AMOA: Also an ongoing project of the Fusebox Festival, this open collaboration encourages people to document a single minute in their lives. A project of local non-profit Refraction Arts, anyone is invited to create an image (a photo, video, audio file, text, map, etc.) of their experience at 12:19 on any given day. Participants may also call 524-9772 to record one minute of their life. Presented in a real life and online "library" of sorts, the resulting documentation of everyone's short history will be on display at AMOA until May 2nd. more ›

On Thursday, a Japanese phenomenon is coming to Austin. The event, known as a Pecha Kucha Night, is the brainchild of two Tokyo based architects and allows artists, designers, and creatives to show off their work in a unique format. Japanese for "chit-chat", a Pecha Kucha night is a controlled creative showcase in which a series of artists present PowerPoint slide-shows of twenty images each for twenty seconds a piece. more ›