PechaKucha Portsmouth Takes on the Holidays

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On Sunday, December 29, 3S Artspace will present PechaKucha Night #17, “Home for the Holidays” at the Portsmouth Gas Light Company. Hot off the heels of the holiday season, the theme for the night seeks to capture the complicated nature of holiday gatherings and the stories that go along with it. 3S Artspace is looking for presenters who are willing to raid their frayed photo albums, scan old Polaroid's, and share a favorite holiday story – whether it’s good, bad, or ugly – in the traditional PechaKucha format (20 slides, 20 seconds). 

If interested in presenting, contact Celeste Ladd at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it." target="_blank">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

“For PK17, we want to put a different lens on the holiday season, and maintain the curious and thought-provoking nature that makes PechaKucha so unique” says Celeste Ladd, Project Manager and Development Associate for 3S Artspace. “We all have a holiday story or two that may make us smile, cringe, or laugh – one of the great things about PK nights is that they provide a space for these images, stories, and ideas to be shared. The holidays are generally a time when lots of memories are made and photographs snapped – some you may cherish or want to forget – either way, there’s a story within them and we want to hear it.”

The Portsmouth Gas Light Company will host the event in its third floor nightclub space. Doors open at 7pm and presentations begin at7:30pm. The gathering is free and open to the public and donations will be accepted. PechaKucha Night is sponsored by 3S Artspace, Klein Dytham Architecture, Calypso Communications, and the Portsmouth Gas Light Company.

PechaKucha begin in February of 2003 in Tokyo as an event for young architects to meet, network, and show their work in public. The presentation format was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture. Since that time, PK Nights have migrated to hundreds of cities around the world. PechaKucha (meaning the sound of chit-chat in Japanese) has brought Seacoast people together under a simple premise of sharing concepts, inspirations, and motivations through a creative, fun conversation with 20 presentation slides, giving each slide no more than 20 seconds.

To learn more about 3S and its upcoming events, to keep apprised of the development of its new space at 319 Vaughan Street, and for more information and a downloadable commitment form for Making Space: The Campaign for 3S Artspace, please visitwww.3sarts.org.

About PechaKucha

PechaKucha (Japanese for “the sound of conversation”) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown. The concept has grown into global demand – without any pushing – as PechaKucha Night has spread virally to more than 550 cities around the world. For more information, visit www.pecha-kucha.org.

About 3S Artspace

3S Artspace is New Hampshire’s first nonprofit, multidisciplinary contemporary arts space. To be comprised of three spaces — a mid-sized performance venue, non-commercial art gallery and farm-to-table restaurant — 3S will fosters the creative community and engage and educate the community at large. Focusing on emerging, innovative and unconventional arts, 3S will feature local, regional and nationally and internationally recognized artists, presenting accessible, high quality programming across multiple media. As a dynamic cultural gathering place for the Seacoast region and beyond, 3S will provide artists and the public affordable farm-to-table dining and a welcoming venue for professional development, networking and the discussion and exchange of ideas. For more information about 3S, please visit www.3sarts.org or www.facebook.com/3SArtspace.