Volume 36
On February 20th of this year, we held the 36th volume of PechaKucha Night. The presentation topics that evening ranged from the amazing Arabella Proffer walking us through her truly magical book about the best restrooms in Cleveland, to motorcycle designer Scott Colosimo showing us his path to designing an electric motorcycle… to even a conversation about democracy by none other than Cleveland’s Dan Moulthrop.
There were four hundred of us in the room and you could feel connections being built across the community as guests sat shoulder to shoulder…sharing stories with one another, hearing new ideas and talking about topics they would have never been interested in before that evening.
Fast forward what feels like an eternity…though has really only been three months since COVID-19 changed the world. It is still unsafe for people to gather in large groups. Many have gone from having more ways of connecting than we knew what to do with while still being disconnected. To having too few ways of connecting, and re-discovering the desire to be closer. If the past three months have taught me anything, its that connections are what makes life worth living. Connections with your loved ones, with your colleagues, with your neighbours, with your friends, with your community…
Connections matter because they inform our context for life…and the diversity of our context is what shapes our perspective. And the depth of our perspective shapes our actions. And at a time like now, when it is dangerously easy to disconnect, we can’t forget our rekindled desire for connection.
So as we look toward the end of 2020, and hopefully starting to conceive what life after the Pandemic ends, we here at PechaKucha are looking forward to getting back to the moment we can reconvene with one another and continue to build meaningful connections through these community led evenings!
Because when the world comes out of this pandemic, and we will come out of this, we owe it to ourselves to never lose sight of how important it is that we find meaningful ways to be together. To learn from one another, to meet new people and hear new ideas that will might shape our perspectives of the world.
Presenters included:
Dan Moulthrop
Nicole Kusold-Matheou
Arabella Proffer
David Wilson
Stephen Tomasko
Dere Brennan
David Biro
Loree Vick
Scott Colosimo
Matt Ashton
Example of some of the content shared that evening by the above group of amazing presenters!!!
