This Saturday night (20.02.10) Melbourne’s thinkers and doers will gather to raise money for earthquake-ravaged Haiti as part of the 20x20 PechaKucha event.
Taking place at 1000 Pound Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale Street, the evening will be the world’s largest 24-hour online streaming event.
Twenty people will present 20 images in a talk that will be replicated in 130 cities across the world.
The evening will feature a collaboratively-curated line-up of designers, artists and performers, together with some local Haitians, engaging with the theme ‘here and now’.
The event will start in New Zealand and end in San Francisco, creating a Mexican wave of presentations that will circumnavigate the globe. Melbourne is currently set to go online globally at 8pm AEST, sharing with Sydney and Hobart.
Visitors will be asked to donate a minimum of $10, with 100 per cent of donations going directly towards Architecture for Humanity’s ready-to-go reconstruction projects in Haiti, and no administration costs.
“The fact is more people died in Haiti than in the 12 countries affected by the ‘04 Tsunami. Oh, and rainy season begins in eight days. So this natural disaster is a big deal and it’s going to get rough,” said Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity.
“The result, in the hands of masters of the form, combines business meeting and poetry slam to transform corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art,” Daniel H. Pink of WIRED Magazine, said.??The event is being organized by Architecture for Humanity, Urban Village Melbourne and Architects for Peace.
