7th November, 7:00pm at Dundee Rep Theatre
PechaKucha Night Dundee returned to Dundee Rep Theatre on Thursday 7 November 2024 with for another sold out event! Huge thanks to our wonderful audience for joining us and supporting each of our ten brilliant speakers.
Hosted by Creative Dundee in the city since 2011, PKN now runs in over 1,300 cities around the world. It’s a simple quick-fire format – speakers show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. You can watch all previous talks online, or use our randomiser if it’s too hard to choose!
Always different, entertaining and inspiring; there is something for everyone at this event which first started in Tokyo in 2003 and has now grown into a global phenomenon. Our regular Pass the Mic section also gives anyone the chance to shout out the events and opportunities they have coming up!
Creative Dundee centres creative communities as powerful catalysts for collective good. Since 2008 our work has been about better connecting the city and amplifying how creativity impacts our lives.
Thanks so much to Rhianne Connelly for this year’s fantastic artwork, inspired by the interactive spirit of PechaKucha Night from pass the mic to the PKN wave!
#PKN_DND
Lesley-Anne Kelly is an international award winning journalist and the head of data journalism at DC Thomson. Her work is at the intersection between journalism, data science, and design and she is passionate about making data more accessible. Her team investigate everything from NHS waiting times to Nessie sightings, but her greatest love is baby name data.
Originally from Glasgow, she moved to Dundee at the age of 17 for university and never left – which means she has now lived in Dundee for 55% of her life.
X: @L_A_Kelly / TikTok: @L_A_Kelly
Tom Metcalfe is an interdisciplinary designer and researcher whose work begins with social purpose, and evolves through the creation of meticulously considered forms, intuitive yet surprising interaction design, and an open, conversational quality which invites human and more-than-human connection. He works across multiple mediums and materials, often utilising technology in subtle ways to enhance the texture, capacity and magical animism of object-based interaction.
LinkedIn: Tom Metcalfe / Instagram: @tommetcalfe
Hope Busák (“Boo-Shack”) is a Project Manager for RSPB Scotland and proud Dundee resident for over a decade. Hope is passionate about community outreach and collaboration, believing that working together is the key to achieving meaningful change. With a strong connection to Dundee’s wildlife and greenspaces, she focuses on helping people reconnect with nature. For Hope, supporting people to support nature is more than just a job – it’s a personal mission!
LinkedIn: Hope Busák
Daniëlle Gaffney du Plooy is a creative psychotherapist and entrepreneur, with a love of creativity, play and exploring the unconscious. She is currently running a social enterprise and charity that she founded in 2015, and is in the process of starting another social enterprise with the aim of developing teams and leaders using therapeutic processes and themes of nature. She is a qualified art psychotherapist, with a passion for working with teams and the unconscious. She love’s hearing stories, and different ways of experiencing the world, and has a passion for connecting stories.
Calum Wallis is an artist whose work attempts to prod and peel away at the stony mysteries of deep time. A childhood spent in the Highlands has informed a sincere love of rubbish weather and wild places, where he can increasingly be found making drawings of rocks and trying to find evidence of a few millimetres’ erosion since he was last in that place. His work is driven by a joy in observing a world which is permanently on the move and will never be finished.
Instagram: @calwals
Claire Morwood is a self-taught game designer, programmer and artist. She currently works as a solo game developer, alongside collaborative projects with her company 3-Fold Games, and also as a member of Biome Collective. She is interested in games as a medium for creative personal expression, and is fascinated by game development tools such as Bitsy, which provide accessible ways for people with no previous game development experience to make and share their games. She runs events and workshops for people to learn how to make games, and is also very enthusiastic about game jams.
Bluesky: @shimmerglitch
Mike Forbes is Founder of TinyGyms, a 24/7 private exercise space for people who find busy public gyms an intimidating experience. Despite remarkably limited success, he’s also somehow survived 20+ years as a Premier League football manager without being fired. Well, Fantasy Premier League. But, semantics? You don’t outlast Arsene Wenger, Sir Alex Ferguson and Tim Sherwood without learning a thing or two about life along the way. Mike shares some insights on what life as an FPL manager has taught him about living a happy life.
Instagram: @mikey_forbes
Amira Al Shanti is a Palestinian actor, singer and writer based in Scotland; represented by Infinity Artists. She was shortlisted for the Kavya New Writers Prize in 2023 and named as one of Scotland’s 30 under 30 in 2020 (YWCA). Amira wrote and starred in her short film ‘Said the Dove to the Olive Tree’, and her pieces have been published in both Dardishi and The Herald. She made her West End debut as ensemble in Rumi the Musical (London Coliseum, 2021); and other notable theatre work has included Arabic voiceover in National Theatre of Scotland’s screen adaptation of Adam (BBC Scotland), and starring as Reem in the short film Ladies’ Coffee; Muna in Shadow World the Musical; and Fatima in Immigration Crisis the Musical. She will be playing Jasmine in this year’s Aladdin pantomime in Motherwell (Spillers Pantomimes). Her original Palestinian Carol ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’ was performed at several activist events for Gaza during Christmas 2023.
Ally Low is a game developer who runs Lowtek Games and has worked in the games industry for over a decade, shipping titles on most platforms from NES to PS5 and playdate. He’s a keen maker who previously helped run Dundee Makerspace. Ally likes to bridge the gap between physical and digital in new and interesting ways with alternative controllers and displays.
X: @LowtekGames & @Wallmasterr / Instagram: @wallmasterr / TikTok: @wallmasterr
James Liandu is a musical artist hailing from Dundee, who puts a completely different spin on the term “singer/songwriter”. He is all about making music that you can really feel. Taking influence from every song, every project he’s been a part of, and everyday life; he applies it all to his music.
After releasing several songs online (2020 – present), with a decade of live experience under his belt, getting featured on the BBC show run by Emeli Sande (Discovering the best busker in Scotland / 2019). Playing his first major festivals: Connect Festival (2022), New Skool Rules (2023 , 2024), Eden Festival (2024), are some major highlights in his career thus far. Earlier this year, he had his first single featured LAST MINUTE on BBC Introducing Future Alternative Sounds, another major highlight and big dream of his since he started playing music as a young boy.
He has a collection of songs which showcase the different sides to him musically, showing that he won’t box himself in any specific genre, rather create something of his own nature.
Instagram: @jamesliandumusic
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This event was BSL interpreted by Linda Duncan and Leigh Anderson.
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PechaKucha was devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture. The PKN Dundee event is organised and hosted by Creative Dundee.
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