Give a group of creatives a mic and 6 minutes 40 seconds each to show 20 images, and you get Pecha Kucha Night - new to Auckland and kicking off tomorrow night at Galatos. An onomatopoeic Japanese phrase meaning "the sound of casual chatter", Pecha Kucha (pronounched pet-shah coot-shah) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. Give a group of creatives a mic and 6 minutes 40 seconds each to show 20 images, and you get Pecha Kucha Night - new to Auckland and kicking off tomorrow night at Galatos. An onomatopoeic Japanese phrase meaning "the sound of casual chatter", Pecha Kucha (pronounched pet-shah coot-shah) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor.Best of all, with a time limit of 20 seconds per image, there's no endless waffling - presentations are concise, interest levels are kept up and more people are given the chance to show their work.

The idea was originally conceived in 2003 by Tokyo-based architects Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, who make adventurous buildings together as Klein Dytham. Their club SuperDeluxe has hosted the Tokyo events since they started in 2003. Pecha Kucha has since spread around the globe to more than 40 cities, including London, San Francisco, Seattle, Rotterdam, Shanghai... and now Auckland.

When: Thursday 19 April 2007, 8.20pm
Where: Galatos, 17 Galatos Street, Auckland

Image: Pecha Kucha Night in Tokyo.