From my Inbox to you, courtesy of David Verde, a press release on the next installment of PechaKucha Night.

PechaKucha Night Southwest Virginia presents Volume 2 for one night only themed, “We’re all in this together.”

On April 25th, 2012 at Kirk Avenue Music Hall downtown Roanoke. Doors open at 6:00pm talks start promptly at 7:00. (22 Kirk Avenue Southwest Roanoke, VA 24011.)

Pecha Kucha Night Volume 2 is free to attend with limited seating. First come first service.

PechaKucha Night is bringing back lightning fast 20×20, 6 minute and 40 second presentations by movers and shakers from all over Southwest Virginia. Prominent and emerging local minds will come together at Kirk Avenue Music Hall for an evening, showing, growing, networking and fun. The PechaKucha format is now held in over 450 cities around the world. Armed with a new name, an amazing line up, and a growing team of volunteers, PechaKucha Night Volume 2 is setting the tone for what will soon become the must see quarterly event in our area.

Roanoke-SWVA’s Volume 2 features 10 amazing locals to include, Minnesotan transplant – Blacksburg resident, and Iraqi war vet Tommi Godwin, Roanoker Jeanie Patterson, Ms. Virginia Senior 2011 Louise Wade from Dublin, Richard Sifton with the Roanoke Diversity Center, Owner and developer of Chantilly Farm in Floyd David Larson, Emily Sibitzky & Chelsea Brandt on the launch of Via Noke Magazine – a new visual arts publication, Salem architect James Ruland III, WSLS 10 – Daytime Blue Ridge hosts Mike Wilson and Natalie Faunce, Blacksburg resident and cyber security developer Carlos Aquayo, and Fluoride Free NRV founder Dan Steinberg.

PechaKucha Volume 2′s soundtrack will be provided by Salem based DJ and performing artist Bryan Hancock, a.k.a Harvest Blaque.

PechaKucha Volume 2 will be hosted by a special surprise host.
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PechaKucha Night Southwest Virginia Volume 2 for one night only at Kirk Avuene Music Hall, April 25th, 2012. (22 Kirk Avenue Southwest Roanoke, VA 24011)

PechaKucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) 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. This is a demand that seems to be global – as PechaKucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 450 cities worldwide.

PechaKucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 in Tokyo as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. PechaKucha (pronounced peh-chak-ku-cha).