Volume 34
On June 20th, 2019, Cleveland, Ohio kicked off a weekend of celebration with PechaKucha Night: Waterways, a groundbreaking event featuring presentations from thought leaders from around the world!
Taking place in the 5,000 seat open-air Jacobs Pavilion amphitheater on the banks of the Cuyahoga River, this event took place 50 years after the last time industrial pollution caused a U.S. freshwater river to catch fire. This blaze on the Cuyahoga River, which feeds the Great Lakes, triggered a national reckoning on water policy and led to the establishment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Presenters came to Cleveland, Ohio from all over the world and PechaKucha Founders Mark Dytham and Sean Smythe traveled from Tokyo, Japan and Chicago, Illinois respectively to co-host with our local PKN Cleveland team!
Presenters from Ethiopia, Uganda, Lebanon, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Detroit and Cleveland leveraged the rapid-fire PechaKucha format to share diverse perspectives on how communities around the world can re-think their relationship with the world's more important resource.
Presenters included:
Sharon Day
Pat Conway
Taraneh Meshkani
Mark Dytham
Monica Lewis-Patrick
Sadhu Johnston
Kizito Johnson
Saul Kliorys
Cordell Stokes & Chuck Stokes
Adib Dada
Photos from the event!!!
