7th November, 7:00pm at Dundee Rep Theatre
PechaKucha Night Dundee is back at Dundee Rep Theatre on Friday 7 November 2025 with another incredible lineup of speakers, ready to take to the stage!
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’s 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!
We’d also love for you to join us for a drink after the event and the Rep Bar will be staying open late to continue the party.
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 Melina G. Ayala for this year’s out-of-this-world artwork!
#PKN_DND
PechaKucha Night Dundee Vol. 32
Fri 7 November 2025, 7–10pm at Dundee Rep Theatre
(event start 7.20pm, and stay for a drink with the Rep Bar open late to celebrate!)
Tickets:
Recommended ticket price: £10
Reduced: £7 (for those where the standard price is a barrier towards enjoyment and Amps supporters)
Pay it Forward: £17 (covers your ticket plus another for someone from a community group receiving a free ticket from Creative Dundee)
Jackie McKenzie is Director and Founder of Braw Tea CIC, an award winning social enterprise café that supports women who may have challenges in life. They use the power of lovely food made from scratch, amazing cake and very good barista coffee to bring women from diverse backgrounds together to build self-esteem and a supportive community. Jackie established the café in 2023 when she took over the council hall (adjoining the public toilet block) in Broughty Ferry’s popular Castle Green Park and raised an initial £40k to revamp the building into a thriving place where braw food, braw women and braw stuff all happens.
Instagram: @brawtea @dragonjem
Fergus Coyne is an award-nominated Events Coordinator running Hubworld Scotland, one of the largest community networks for game developers in Scotland, running monthly events and initiatives for the ecosystem. He is also a producer of the Glasgow Independent Games Festival, the biggest indie fest in the country!
Fergus is a seasoned presenter, hosting events for BAFTA and the Scottish Game Developers Association, an artist at Team Terrible, one of Dundee’s most unique and innovative upcoming indie game studios, and finally a Quizmaster at You Game Entertainment, a source of some weekly chaotic pub quiz fun! All in all, he is most passionate about creating entertaining and unforgettable experiences!
Linkedin: @ferguscoyne / Instagram: @ursunshineboy @yougameentertainment
Dr Kathrine Cuccuru created, designs and runs the Dundee-based public philosophy project ‘a philosopher…walks…talks…makes’ that aims to bring philosophy to everyone through walking, talking, and making. With over 20 years professional philosophy experience, including a PhD from University College, London, academic lecturing at University of Sussex, and prize-winning research, Kathrine now specialises in creative, public and community-based philosophy. Her novel practices playfully reimagine traditional learning through nature, performance, and art to expand our philosophical thinking. Current examples are: the weekly Philosophy Playtime at EH9 Espresso, regular ‘good morning from the Tay’ on social media, and genre-bending shows at the Dundee Fringe Festival.
Instagram: @aphilosopher_walks.talks.makes / Bluesky: @aphilosopher.bsky.social / Mastodon: @KathrineCuccuru@zirk.us
Cat MacLeod is a poet, library worker, eco-literature researcher, creative/environmental facilitator and bug enthusiast currently based in Dundee. She holds an MA in Literature and Creative Writing, PGCert in Applied Arts and Social Practice, was a Clydebuilt 16 poet and was awarded an Eco-literature MRes scholarship from UHI to write a thesis on modernist roaches. Cat has presented at the British Society for Literature and Science Conference and at University of St. Andrew’s Twilight Interdisciplinary Conference. Cat’s writing can be found in Burned, Rebirth Anthology, Snack Mag, and Discount Guillotine. Cat is currently developing Dundee Feminist Bird Club, and other environmental education programmes designed to break down barriers to understanding the ecosystems we inhabit.
Instagram: @skeletonarchitecture @caterpillarmacleod @dundeefeministbirdclub
Hadi Mehrpouya is an artist and lecturer at Abertay University whose work explores the intersection of society, technology, and ecology. His multimedia installation ‘Rhizoma‘ reflects on language, AI, and human connection through environmental theory and community engagement. As a Royal Society of Edinburgh research fellow, Hadi conducted a year-long ethnographic study of PUBG Mobile, examining themes of placement, forced migration, and digital connection. His practice reveals hidden dimensions of everyday technologies, with previous works including ‘Philodox’, a search engine with opinions, and ‘Maladox’, an interactive portrayal of cyborg diseases.
Gavin Cameron is a writer and facilitator based in Dundee, where he ran the open-mic night Hotchpotch for nine years and is a founder member of the Wyverns poetry circle. He continues to take part in creative projects including Fun a Day and the Dundee Fringe, and is enthusiastic about helping others overcome stage fright. Away from the page, Gavin enjoys long-distance walking, especially along disused railway routes.
Instagram: @MiddayDolomite
Anita Taylor is an artist, curator and educator and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee since 2019 and a Professor of Fine Art since 2002. She was previously Executive Dean of Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University [2013-19]; Director & CEO of the National Art School, Australia [2009-13]; Dean of Wimbledon College of Art & Director of The Centre for Drawing at University of the Arts London [2006-09]; Vice Principal of Wimbledon School of Art [2004-06].
Anita has had an exhibiting career since 1987, her most recent solo exhibition was Moonraker, Vision Art Platform, Istanbul, Türkiyë (2024-25). Founding Director of the annual international Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition (since 1994), she established Drawing Projects UK in 2009 to develop and promote research initiatives and public engagement in and through drawing.
Instagram: @anitataylor_ / Linkedin: @anita-taylor
Lucy Wakefield is a gardener in Dundee. She grows for mental wellbeing, community and wildlife. With a small forest garden in Charleston and involvement in the local community garden and permaculture networks she spends most days thinking about, dreaming about, admiring and eating plants.
Carolina Rocha Santa María is a researcher that uses science and communication tools to support initiatives for the common good. After more than a decade of researching and teaching at universities, she now works as an independent researcher collaborating with third-sector and grassroots organisations. An example of this work is an ongoing collaboration with Grow Dundee, the network of community gardens in this city. Jointly with their members, Carolina has developed participatory action research addressing how community gardens can become more appealing to local residents. Earlier research work by Carolina has addressed how solidarity can be promoted when people are seeking asylum and amid crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and political repression.
Linkedin: @carsm
Aaron McCarthy is an artist, practice-based researcher, and cycle advocate based in Arbroath. He’s an Adult Cycle Trainer, Cargo Bike Instructor, and Ride Leader, passionate about reclaiming public space through joyful mobility. In September 2024, Aaron launched Critical Mass Dundee, a monthly ride amplifying calls for safer cycling infrastructure. The event joins a global movement that’s been rolling strong for over 30 years—usually on the last Friday of the month.
Instagram: @criticalmassdundee
More speakers to be announced soon!
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PechaKucha Night Dundee Vol. 32 will be BSL interpreted by Linda Duncan and Leigh Anderson.
The event will be filmed, photographed and shared on Creative Dundee’s social media platforms. If you do not wish to appear in any of the images that are made public, please let us know at news@creativedundee.com.
PechaKucha was devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture. The PKN Dundee event is organised and hosted by Creative Dundee.
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