Thinkers chit-chatat Pecha Kucha final

THE Centre for Rare Arts and Forgotten Trades will host this year’s final Pecha Kucha event on Friday 14 November with a panel of luminaries and thinkers including ABC TV science expert Ann Jones.

Jones is a self confessed nature nerd with a PhD in history, who concedes she “loves finding out all about the intricacies of how the natural world works”.

She’s a broadcaster who has worked for the ABC for about 15 years in radio and TV in Australia and abroad.

While Jones has won various awards, she lists her biggest reward as “getting to be a professional dork in front of the nation”.

Jones is host of Dr Ann’s Secret Lives… for ABC TV, the podcasts What the Duck?! and Noisy by Nature and the video series How Deadly. Pecha Kucha is Japanese for chit-chat, and organisers of the last in the series for this year say plenty of chit-chat can be expected with each speaker on the panel invited to share their work and ideas in a concise and visually captivating manner.

The format is simple yet impactful, involving 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide, for a total presentation time of six minutes and 40 seconds.

The final in the series for the year carries the theme of collaboration and organisers say it aims to “lift the curtain on the beautiful, messy, surprising, and powerful ways we work together”.

Art Gallery of Ballarat curator Emily Wakeling and acclaimed Iranian-Australian musician Gelareh Pour of the experimental duo ZÖJ have also been listed among the panel members.

It happens from 6pm to 8pm with bookings required.