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Upcoming events: Pompeii to Paris and Pecha Kucha

I’m madly busy sewing and writing and researching for two upcoming events. The first I’ve already blogged about, it’s the Pompeii to Paris redux as part of the Blow Creative Arts Festival. Excitingly, it looks like it may be webcast live, but I don’t know the details of that yet.  I’ll keep you updated. The second is a bit more unusual (at least for me). I’m going to be presenting at Pecha Kucha. Some of you are thinking “oh, cool!”, but probably most of you are thinking “what the heck is Pecha Kucha?” Pecha Kucha is a relatively recent movement/presentation format that started in Japan.  A bunch of interesting people are invited to present, and each presentation consists of 20 slides which each last for 20 seconds, so the whole presentation is only 6 minutes and 40 seconds in length. This means that in one evening you get to be introduced to a dozen interesting ideas, and if some of them aren’t so interesting, well, at least they don’t last long. As a public speaker …