"Brian LeBarton and Francesco Valentino have never met. The terrible tragedy in Haiti has brought them together by fate for this moving presentation. Brian LeBarton is a composer and keyboardist for Beck - and we had been chatting to him about musicians performing over 20 images 20 slides for PechaKucha presentations. Francesco Valentino is a film maker and photograher who we knew through a chance meeting in Tokyo. Only a few days ago when we had this idea of PechaKucha for Haiti, Brian stepped forward and said he would compose and play something for us - at the same time we bumped into someone who said Francesco was in Haiti trying to find his family and had been taking some moving shots as events unfurled. Sadly he didn't find all the lives he was looking for. This a poignant first PechaKucha presentation for Haiti. Thank you Brian, thank you Francesco - and thank you Joey and Corrie for making this happen. Please spread the word about this initiative and our Global PechaKucha Day on 20th February - and please click the donate button. Many other bands are working with us. If you are a photographer or have any other images of Haiti past or present you want to share - we will be happy to match you with a musician. Please get in touch info@pecha-kucha.org. Unlike anything else out there in this world of visual entertainment the PechaKucha Presentation Player allows you look, listen and think."
Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham PechaKucha founders

Starting at 12:30 PM EST watch the Live Global PechaKucha Wave through Europe and Africa!
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Your help has made a differance! Thank you!

A Message from PK HQ:
So we have raised enough money for Architecture for Humanity to build a school in Haiti!

YES!

On the 20th February 2010, the 7th anniversary of PechaKucha Night, 117 cities came together on a single day and held events across the globe to support Architecture for Humanity's plans for rebuilding in Haiti. Other PechaKucha events for Haiti during February took this total to 174, and with cities still holding PKN events for Haiti in March this total will top 200.

Today - 20 days later - it gives us great pride in announcing that the PechaKucha global network of cities, organizers, presenters and fans has raised over $60,000 which allows Architecture For Humanity to build the first PechaKucha School in Haiti.

This just in from Cameron Sinclair:

Our team arrived in Haiti last week, and we will know more about specific costs in the next few weeks. Our preliminary estimates for school costs are:

Basic Costs
Main Teaching Blocks (3) $30,000
Toilet Block (1) $5,000
Cafeteria $15,000
Teachers Room $5,000
Landscaping/Reforestation $5,000

Total: $60,000

We will know more about volunteer needs also in the next few weeks but probably won't have volunteers there until the summer or later, so we will keep you posted on this.

Really looking forward to seeing all the 100's of presentations online in the next few weeks. Good luck with the uploading!

Thank you for organizing such an amazing event!

Cameron Sinclair
Architecture for Humanity

PechaKucha Night for Haiti - the world's biggest distributed conference.

With over 200 PechaKucha events taking place for the rebuilding of Haiti in February and March we have generated well over 1000 presentations which we will be putting online in the next few weeks. In doing this, we are being told that PechaKucha Night for Haiti has become the world's biggest single distributed conference to date - and no one flew anywhere, no cars were rented and no silly shampoo bottles were used!

The first 30 presentations are already online and we have some really amazing content.

The PechaKucha Presentations for Haiti will build here:

http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/channels/pechakucha-for-haiti

New presentations will be added daily, and you can donate to any of the presentations. You can optionally leave your name, so show your personal support for the presentations you like. Why not have a glass of water and watch a presentation and donate the cost of your coffee to building our 2nd school!

Some presentations are about Haiti pre and post earthquake, some about earthquake response, some about tsunami response, some are about rebuilding, some about why not to send tents to disaster areas. Some presentations do not relate to Haiti directly, but are about passions, obsessions, love and hates - but all the presentations were given to support the rebuilding in Haiti.

Please look at the presentations and give generously and please send the presentations you like to your friends and encourage them to donate too. Please use the '< >' tag to embed them into your blogs and web pages! If every presentation viewed generated a few dollars we would soon be looking at several new schools!

Just to help you get started viewing the PechaKucha for Haiti Distributed Conference Archive, here's 20 presentations to get you going!

Cameron Sinclair
Architecture For Humanity Rebuilding Haiti
PechaKucha SAN FRANCISCO
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/presentations/83

Amanda Roelle
Rebuilding after the 2004 tsunami
PechaKucha CHICAGO
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/59

Mark Taylor
Building in Haiti
PechaKucha CHAMPAIGN URBANA
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/55

Nadia Lemoine Andre
Haiti - The Pearl of the Antillies
PechaKucha CHICAGO
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/56

GEA-SAR
GEA-SAR arrived in Port Au Prince-Haiti, from Turkey 57 hours after the Haiti Eartquake.
PechaKucha ISTANBUL
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/82

Johan Karlsson
No tents please we are Swedish
PechaKucha STOCKHOLM
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/62

David Wimmer
Rebuilding after the Samoan tsunami
PechaKucha RAGLAN
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/65

Vaishali Katyarmal
Crumbles Hopes - after the Gujarat earthquake, Western India, 2001
PechaKucha CHICAGO
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/57

Scott Thomas
Designing Obama
PechaKucha CHAMPAIGN URBANA
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/67

Nicolas Uribe (in Spanish)
''better than Picasso''
PechaKucha BOGOTA
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/74

Noriyuki Shiina (in Japanese)
Japan Platform in Haiti
PechaKucha TOKYO
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/60

John Manoochehri
Unmake Me Whole - How do we unmake the world around us?
PechaKucha STOCKHOLM
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/73

Brian LeBarton & Francesco Valentino
Masses
PechaKucha TOKYO
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/52

Katherine Darnstadt
Design Like You Give a Damn
PechaKucha CHICAGO
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/54

Filipe Balestra
Acupuncture architecture & urban village
PechaKucha STOCKHOLM
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/70

Melissa Withers
A New Paradigm for Civic Engagement
PechaKucha CHAMPAIGN URBANA
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/81

Anders Wilhelmson
PeePoo - a single use toilet that weighs only 40 grams
PechaKucha STOCKHOLM
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/61

Peter Exley
Leeds, Leeds, Leeds, Cheap Trick, Leeds
PechaKucha CHICAGO
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/66

Anna Maria Orru
In praise of the Namibian fog basking beetle
PechaKucha STOCKHOLM
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/64

Astrid Klein & Mark Dytham
Global PechaKucha Night for Haiti - THANK YOU
PechaKucha TOKYO
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/71

All PechaKucha Haiti presentations can be found here
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/channels/pechakucha-for-haiti

All PechaKucha presentations
http://pecha-kucha.org/presentations/

Please check back daily for new presentations and sign up for to twitter for up to the minute presentation postings!

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Thank you all so much - Haiti loves you!

Astrid Klein, Mark Dytham & the PechaKucha Global Team in Tokyo