PechaKucha Night Victoria

💥WHAT A NIGHT!
I am still buzzing, and I don’t think I am alone!
Last Thursday night, we celebrated our 20th PechaKucha Night, after a 4 year break AND “we are back, baby!”

⚡️The evening featured 12 stunning presentations by 12 amazing creative leaders, artists, visionaries, storytellers + changemakers!

The FEEDBACK on the night (and since) has BEEN INCREDIBLE!
It seems “the people have spoken” and they want more PK Nights!

💛 And we’ve heard you, we will bring you PKN Volume 21 in the FALL ~ with date and venue TBA!

👏The theatre was almost full, with approx 170 seats occupied, and the audience was so special, hanging onto every word from our Presenters and supporting them with their silence, their laughter and their cheers!

🙌 THANK-YOUS 🙌

⚡️MISSIE PETERS Missie Peters
~ our talented MC/HOST, who carries the night with so much care + passion
⚡️LEDA
~ for putting everyone’s presentations together and enabling a seamless evening, technically
⚡️THE VIC THEATRE
~ for great support with their staff + volunteers, a huge screen and lots of comfy seats
⚡️VOLUNTEERS
~ for greeting folks and for the excitement they had for the show!

💛And mostly to our 12 INCREDIBLE SPEAKERS, for their brave contributions (to our local community AND to our audience last week)!

IN LOVE with this Community!
Makeshare xo

✨⚡️We are so excited for tonight!!

Perfect weather outside, to come into a cozy theatre and be inspired + energized and enjoy 12 wonderful talks by 12 wonderful local folks!

🎟 ADVANCE TICKETS are now closed, but we have appro 50 tickets at the DOOR ~
$20

💛 We love the VIC THEATRE, and are excited for great seating (210 theatre seats) + the BIG screen!

A reminder that the Theatre is 19+, for this event and to bring your ID to show at the door.

Doors and Bar Open at 7pm
Talks Start at 7:30pm

✨⚡️Can’t wait✨⚡️

TONIGHT!

✨PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT ✨

ANDREW POLANYI | Executive Director | Ocean Aid

✧ Andrew Polanyi grew up in Toronto and as a kid, each summer he would fly out to Vancouver Island to go salmon fishing with his grandparents. From spending time on the ocean, he got to experience seeing whales, dolphins, birds, and fish all living in harmony. Andrew developed a deep connection with the ocean and decided to move to Victoria to study Software Engineering at UVic. When he graduated last year, he founded Ocean AID to use his software skills to help solve ocean problems. Ocean AID works to help solve the global problem of ghost fishing gear, which is abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear that continues to kill countless amounts of fish and marine life.

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✨COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING! With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

➜ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA?
A 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and presenters have 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20 at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm

✨PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT ✨

TAMARA MACINTYRE | End of Life Architect & Coffin Weaver

✧ Tamara MacIntyre brings over two decades of experience in holistic medicine with doctorates in chiropractic and natural medicine, as well as a Master's degree in neuroscience. With a focus on fostering open dialogue around mortality, aging, illness, and death, Tamara empowers individuals to navigate life's transitions with agency. As a death educator and client advocate, she offers end-of-life education, individualized care planning, and client advocacy, alongside her work as a sustainable coffin maker.

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✨COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING! With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

➜ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA?
A 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and presenters have 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20 at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm

✨50 TICKETS LEFT ✨

COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING! With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

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✨ OUR AMAZING PRESENTERS ~

Kate Braidwood and Andrew Phoenix | The Wonderheads
Toni Desrosiers | ABEEGO - The ORIGINAL Beeswax Wraps
Joanna Buczkowska-McCumber | Ideas 4 Impact
Nicholas Van Buren | HAVN Saunas
Emma Gilchrist | The Narwhal
Dyana Sonik-Henderson | Broken Rhythms Dance Company
Andrew Polanyi | Ocean Aid
Tamara MacIntyre | End of Life Architect
Jag Moussa | JagHed Couture Salon
Alina Cerminara | FOLKLIFE Magazine
Ariel Rubin | Rockrose Farm
Logan Ford | Rockslide Studio & Gallery

➜ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA?
A 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and presenters have 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20 at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm

✨PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT ✨

JOANNA BUCZKOWSKA-McCUMBER | Founder & Chief Impact Strategist | Ideas for Impact Sustainability Agency

✧ Joanna is a leading impact strategist guiding companies, organizations and funders in integrating social purpose and sustainability into their DNA. Passionate about translating changemaking ideas into meaningful impact, she champions innovative solutions driving profound societal change. Through her work at Ideas for Impact Sustainability Agency, Joanna shapes strategies to address new climate realities and advance sustainability practices.
She is the Chair of the Scale Institute, Executive in Residence at the University of Victoria Innovation Centre and Impact Investing Fellow with the Impact Investing Hub, Lead at W Venture for Women Entrepreneurs, a Trauma of money practitioners, and
advisor to impact startups such as Teem.Fish, Revol Cares, and Better Basics, she also spearheads Liftd - Stories of Women Navigating and Rocking Midlife, a creative project celebrating women's journeys in this transformative stage.

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✨COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING! With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

➜ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA?
A 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and presenters have 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20 at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm

✨PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT ✨

EMMA GILCHRIST | Editor-in-Chief • Executive Director | The Narwhal

✧ Emma Gilchrist is a reporter, editor, public speaker and spreadsheet-keeper. She started her journalism career more than 15 years ago and co-founded The Narwhal with Carol Linnitt in 2018. Emma grew up in a small town in northwestern Alberta where she saw firsthand the important role resource development plays in Canadian communities.
In 2015, Mount Royal University honoured Emma with an alumni award for her work reimagining Canada’s media landscape. And in 2017, Emma was recognized by Canada’s Clean50 for building a “powerhouse environmental investigative journalism outlet.”
When she’s not tethered to her computer, Emma is happiest reading a book or surfing the waves of Vancouver Island (not simultaneously).

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✨COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING! With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

➜ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA?
A 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and presenters have 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20 at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm

✨PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT ✨

ARIEL RUBIN | Owner • Designer • Farmer | Rockrose Farm
✧ Ariel is a multifaceted creative, whose diverse background spans from musician, photographer, and horse trainer to design manager and flower farmer. Her farm dream traces back to a childhood spent on the Gulf Islands, where industrious parents instilled values of community leadership, environmental
action, and self-sufficiency.
After many years living abroad, Ariel and her family moved back to BC during the pandemic. Whatstarted as a desire to unplug and return to elemental work evolves daily. The garden keeps growing, the community expanding, and the farm has taken on a life of its own, employing a dedicated set ofwonderful people and offering medicine in the form of plants, beauty, and connection to our localcommunity.

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✨COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING! With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

➜ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA?
A 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and presenters have 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20 at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm

✨PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT ✨

TONI DESROSIERS | Founder | ABEEGO - The ORIGINAL Beeswax Wraps

✧ For sixteen years Toni has eaten almost every bite of her fresh food, and it's rarely "gone bad." The only thing she's done differently from others is use ABEEGO Abeego. Her eyes have been opened to the fact that slimy, moldy, rotting fresh food is NOT NORMAL, and the problem vanishes when you eliminate the root cause: airtight plastic.

Toni's journey began as the inventor of beeswax wrap, and she's on track to be known as the woman that rebelled against the food-killing concept of airtight plastic, radically transforming the world's understanding of the life of food and ending fresh food waste forever!

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✨COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING! With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

➜ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA?
A 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and presenters have 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20 at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm
YAM Magazine – Victoria #

✨PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT ✨

LOGAN FORD | Founder, Director | Rockslide Studio & Gallery

✧ Rockslide Studio & Gallery is dedicated to making creative spaces and exhibition opportunities accessible to professional and emerging artists alike. Established in 2013 by Logan Ford and Ian George, this growing independent arts organization advocates for affordable artist studios where a vibrant local culture can flourish.

Rockslide Gallery provides studio spaces to more than 70 artists. Besides providing artist studio spaces, Rockslide Studio & Gallery offers an artist residency program. Their popular interactive studio tours and gallery openings bring together people from all walks of life to celebrate the best of local arts.

As the son of a professional artist, Logan has been painting and studying art independently for most of his life. His work is inspired primarily by the natural world, depicting pristine, ethereal landscapes, seemingly untouched by the hands of mankind.

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✨COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING! With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

➜ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA?
A 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and presenters have 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20 at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm

✨PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT ✨

KATE BRAIDWOOD + ANDREW PHOENIX | Co-Founding Heads | The Wonderheads

✧ WONDERHEADS
is a physical theatre company specializing in mask performance and visual storytelling. Our work is performed in full-face mask, a wordless, whimsical form which audiences have described as watching living animation and the CBC calls “Pure magic.” In stories that are at turns hilarious and profound, we WONDERHEADS make it our business to step beyond words and ignite the hearts and imaginations of every audience member!

The co-founding ‘heads’ of Wonderheads are Kate Braidwood and Andrew Phoenix, who came together in 2009 resolved to conjure a little magic and wonder into the world. Over the past fourteen years we have developed five original productions: Grim and Fischer, LOON, The Middle of Everywhere, The Wilds, and A WONDERHEADS Christmas Carol!

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✨COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING! With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

➜ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA?
A 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and presenters have 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20!! at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm
City of Victoria - Local Government Greater Victoria Chamber of CommerceYAM Magazine – Victoria

✨PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT ✨

DYANA SONIK-HENDERSON | Artistic Director | Broken Rhythms Dance Company

✧ Broken Rhythms Dance Company Broken Rhythms Dance Company s a not-for-profit independent dance company founded in 2011 under the artistic direction of DYANA SONIK-HENDERSON. The company was created to showcase the unique style of Rhythmical Contemporary, to provide local artists with performance and training opportunities, and to support and develop the Canadian arts community. Broken Rhythms has created and produced numerous original works such as SPARK, GRIM, SEVEN, UNIVERSAL HORRORS, THYSELF , INTERNAL RHYTHMS, INTO THE WIRE, 1,000 PIECES OF ∏ , ABOVE ME, and CHIARO:SCURO AND MOST RECENTLY 'KNOTTED' which made the big jump this April from a smaller theatre to the one of Victoria's largest theatres, at the McPherson Theatre!

✧ Dyana's presentation is sure to be very interesting and inspired, with her talk covering Π (Pi), neurodiversity and creativity, wow!

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✨COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING!
With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

➜ WHAT IS PECHAKUCHA?
A 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It’s non-stop and presenters have 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20! at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm

✨PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT ✨

Alina Cerminara | Founder | FOLKLIFE MAGAZINE

✧ FOLKLIFE is a premium semi-annual print publication inspired by island dwellers who live close to the earth, move with intention, and craft life as an art form. Evoking fine craftership with its minimalist design, matte aesthetic, poetic editorial, and vibrant photography, the 128-page beauty FOLKLIFE honours art and agriculture, business and creativity, food and farming, and dwellings and nature, all with a goal to 'Slow the FOLK down'. Each issue explores one theme through engaging interviews, stories, photographs, recipes, and artwork, celebrating and connecting those who live simply and sustainably.

FOLKLIFE is Alina's dream come true, but you might also find Alina planning arts events, getting sweaty, working for the forward-thinking New Society Publishers, dreaming of her next travel destination, advocating for animals, or raising her sweet daughter.

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​✨COME OUT FOR THIS EXCITING EVENING! With presentations from 12 AMAZING LOCALS!

✨PechaKucha Night Victoria✨
VOL 20!!
at The Vic Theatre
Thursday, May 16
Doors at 7pm

PKN 20 PRESENTER SPOTLIGHT: Nicholas Van Buren | CEO of HAVN

Nicholas is a co-founder and CEO of HAVN ~ a floating park-like environment on the edge of Victoria’s Inner Harbour. Lush green spaces, cold pools, hot tubs, and hand-built saunas bring people together for a vibrant self-care experience.

Quoted from Douglas magazine article (Top 10 to Watch Winner):
The Nordic-style HAVN (pronounced “hah-vin”) Sauna is built aboard a refurbished 1943 U.S. Navy barge, featuring cedar woodwork made completely out of salvaged driftwood.
“We didn’t want to cut down any old-growth cedar, so we collected logs out of the ocean and milled them all.” says partner and CEO Nicholas Van Buren.

So excited to hear from Nick at PKN 20!

MORE INFO: https://www.havnsaunas.com/or https://www.instagram.com/havn.saunas

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See you at The Vic Theatre!
MAY 16th 7pm

City of Victoria - Local Government

Missie is anyone's dream host and PechaKucha Night Victoriacould not be in better hands, than with our gifted + charismatic host, Missie Peters!

Missie has the extraordinary ability to create an intimate + engaged environment, connecting our presenters with the audience and providing a safe + fun platform for this to happen.
Missie is a writer + performer who loves to host. She’s a founding member of Paper Street Theatre Co. and has toured across Canada + Europe with her improvised poetry duo Speakeasy.
Paper Street Theatre is a local theatre company, with many shows on the go, check their Paper Street Theatre Co.. FB page to learn more!

Photo Credit: Derek Ford Studios

Advance Tix Available:
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PKN Victoria | Vol. 20
Thursday, May 16th at 7pm
The Vic Theatre

♡ Hey Victoria ♡
PKN VIC is BACK! Coming soon, with VOLUME 20 (!) picking up where we left off and bringing you talks from TWELVE incredible presenters!
-->SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, May 16th (doors at 7pm)
And stay tuned for the OFFICIAL EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT (including line-up and venue), being announced here next week!!