past events

PKN_Dunedin_07 // Wednesday 25 August 2010 // Lecture Theatre P152 (off Riego St), New Art Block at the Otago Polytechic

• Margo Barton // Design Educator and Milliner // Get a-head, get a hat

• Zina Vandervis // Graphic Designer// OUSA Designer

• Blair Kennedy // Artist and Educator // Toitu, a brief history of Queens Gardens

• Kerry Ann Lee // Artist and Educator // Shanghai 2010: underneath the electric city

• Qassim Saad // Academic Leader-Product Design // The Culture of food at home

• Aaron Hawkins // Broadcaster, writer, Mayoral candidate // Through The Past Darkly: A Musical History

• Jacque Gilbert // MFA student // Wee photobooks

• Julie Woods // International speaker and author // Turning your “no” into “why not”

• Richard O’Neill-Dean // Psychotherapist // Time in the Mountains

• Ron Esplin // Artist // Of course you can paint in watercolour

• Rachael Rakana // Artist

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PKN_Hamilton_06 // Tuesday August 10th 2010 // Bill Gallagher Centre, Gallagher Hub, Wintec’s city campus // Hamilton

• David Gardener // Wintec Media Arts design lecturer // back by popular demand tells us how not to design a submarine in wartime

• Leafa Wilson // Curator/ Concept Leader Visual Art, Waikato Museum // top twenty count down

• Simon and Kat Wade // 6Twenty // musings on their journey through the motion graphics industry

• Dawn Tuffery // Master of Arts Student // an account of the Cornish mining village Greensplat

• Geoff Lealand // Assoc Prof, Screen & Media Studies, University of Waikato // an account on Albert Einstein’s first visit to Hollywood in 1931

• David Cook // Photographer // presents ideas on misadventure

• Borden Li // Director of photography / producer IndieFilms // from design, photography to moving image

• Mike Williams // MWDesign // humour (or the lack of) in product design

• Kate Wilson // Intellectual Property Strategist, Patent Attorney & Partner // On capturing creativity

• Meliors Simms // Artist and Poet // Living in the Anthropocene

• Rosie Percival // Iyengar Yoga Teacher Trainee + Artist // Gives a taste testing deconstruction on dating

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PKN_AKL_19 (as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography) // wednesday 16 june 2010 // Galatos, 17 Galatos St, off K-Road

• John B. Turner // Director & Co-Editor, PhotoForum Inc. // A brief history of PhotoForum Inc., 1973-2010 // www.photoforum-nz.org

• Abby Storey // Photographic Artist // Public Portraits // www.abbystorey.com

• Mark Leonard Watts // Photographic Artist // Why do I take pictures of myself ? // www.mlw.me.uk

• David White // Photographer // Overview of my print media work from the last decade

• Roberta Thornley // Artist // My work, influences and future projects // www.timmelville.com

• Serena Stevenson // Multimedia artist // Beyond Documentary // www.serenastevenson.com

• Nikki Denholm // Photographer // HIV/AIDS, orphans, prisons and vulnerable children // www.exposure.org

• Rebecca Swan // Visual Artist // Rebecca Swan discusses the ‘C’ word // www.rebeccaswan.com

• Mark Smith // Photographer // Jack Smith // www.marksmith.co.nz

• Dr Roger Grace // Marine Biologist/Photographer // promotion of the natural beauty and values of the Whangateau Harbour

• Peter Madden // Sculptographer // Reality Sampled // www.michaellett.com

• David Cook // Photographer // Misadventure

• Derek Henderson // Photographer // My Practice: commissioned & non commissioned // www.derekhenderson.net

• Robyn Hoonhout // Visual Artist // The Unchosen: A More Profound Condition // www.artpix.co.nz

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PKN_AKL_18 // wednesday 19 may 2010 // shed^10 and 12, 90 Wellesley Street / Entrance from 77 Cook Street

• Mark Dytham // architect and PechaKucha founder, Tokyo
• Oliver Neuland // Industrial Designer, Senior Lecturer ID Massey University // Slim rides – My journey from a motorbike design to public transport
• Lisa Ho // Social Change Advocate // Art as a tool for social change: The Tiny Toones story
• Alastair Jamieson // Environmental consultant and photographer // The volcanoes in our backyard
• Meighan Ellis // Photographic/Video Artist // beauty, beauty look at you: an archive of curiosity
• Andrew Johnston // architect, designer // a story of a succesful transition from an architect to a product designer
• Tom Reilly // movie director // www.colossuspictures.com
• Jessica Mills // about colour management
• Fabiana Kubke // scientist // Science and Science communication in the 21st century
• Gerald Melling // architect // Freerange/Tsunami Box
• Wil Bardebes // lecturer UNITEC, e-Learning Community Coordinator // about a future environment for learning

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PKN_CHCH_08 // Thursday 20 May 2010 // Level 5, Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti, 263 High Street (above Hallensteins) // doors open 7.30pm / start 8.20pm // $10 pre sales from Galaxy Records, 110 Manchester Street

• Mark Dytham // Architect and Founder of PechaKucha Night // Pecha WHAT?!?
• Kris Herbert // Journalist // Swap-O-Rama-Rama: recycle, re-make and inspire
• Andre Hemer // Artist // A brief childhood biography and an artist life in transit
• Richard Dalman // Architect // Architecture dreamt, built and demolished (but not necessarily in that order)
• Dulia Halliday // 5th year Medical Student // This is how you’re going to die
• Peter Young // Documentary Cameraman and Producer // The last intact marine ecosystem on Earth, the Ross Sea Antarctica
• Adam Hayward // Dance Festival Director and Freelance Arts Producer // December 12th
• Maria Walls // Artist // HOT! Copies
• Mike Dickison // Zoologist // What, if anything, is Big Bird?
• Chloe Geoghegan // Graduate Graphic Designer and Highly Confused Human // Going Nowhere Slowly
• Matthew Arnold // The single most ridiculous premise for a film ever.
• Jo Burzynska aka Stanier Black-Five // Wine Writer and Sound Artist // Vinsonics—the art of combining music and wine
• Mark Dytham // Architect and Founder of PechaKucha Night // Tokyo Calling
• Spanky Moore & Stephen McCarthy // RDU Breakfast Host and Theologian in training / Designer and Musician // Scaredy Cats—The bogey man’s our buddy now

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PKN_Welington_ 07 // 19 april 2010 // Downstage Theatre, Cambridge Terrace

• Roger Walker // architect / car enthusiast // dancing with the cars
• Peter Wilson // artistic director // capital e national theatre for children // my heritage and inspiration
• Fifi Colston // author / illustrator // the birth of velvet, a wearable art  piece // www.fificolston.blogspot.com
• Spencer Levine // designer // www.spencerlevine.co.nz
• Gerbrand Van Melle // media designer / intercept > decipher > participate
• Sam Trubridge // performance designer/director // Drawing: the performing page
• Briar Monro // arts consultant // connecting creativity
• Chris Moller// architect // click-weave space-time sketching // http://click-raft.blogspot.com
• Tommy Honey // director film school // street crime
• Ravi Kambhoj // photographer // urban fusion
• Lorenzo Buhne and Kedron Parker // musicians // about the bite of the tarantula
• Tom Beard // urban designer // about a sentence by Baudelaire
• Eric Dorfman // director // the affair of the diamond necklace, an interactive theatre event
• Marcus McShane // designer // sustainable contraption

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PKN_Dunedin_05 // Sunday March 21 // Dunedin Public Gallery

• Full Fucking Moon // artists/musicians // New Age Farming
• Marchell J.T. Linzey // Children’s broadcaster// Japanese Influences on a Children’s Radio Show - Contrast vs Constant
• Joseph Worley // artist // War, Shelter and Origami
• Sarah Gallagher // writer/researcher/photographer // Named flats as ephemeral street art
• Cathy Helps // artist // Stories of paintings, a faith healer, a farmer and other stuff
• Callum Stembridge, Ascia Maybury and Eve Gordon of The Dust Palace an aerial theatre company dedicated to creating from the ideas ‘Magic’ and ‘the Political’ // Burlesque: the struggle to be both sexy and intelligent
• Ali Bramwell // artist // risk management structures
• David Eggleton // poet // How to write a poem
• Jay Hutchinson // artist // The Scribble and the Stitch
• Christy Flaws // circus performer// Circus and social change
• Regan Gentry // artist // Dabbling in Dunedin
• Erika Wolf // visual historian // The Post-Socialist Toilet

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PKN_CHCH_07 SPECIAL EDITION (In collaboration with Ten—Pacific Arts Festival)

thursday 4th february 2010 // Dux de Lux, Corner Hereford and Montreal Streets (all donations collected were split 50/50 and go to the Samoa Tsunami Relief Fund and Architecture for Humanity’s current rebuilding effort in Haiti)

•    Tanya Muagututi’a // Musician and writer

•    Brae Toia // Make up artist

•    Nathan Pohio // Exhibition designer

•    Barbs Carpenter // Film maker

•    Steph Oberg // Curator

•    Tusiata Avia // Writer and poet

•    Anton Carter // Rhombus’s MC Antsman
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PKN_AKL_16 [in collaboration with the NZ Book Council] // thursday 11 february 2010 // galatos // 17 galatos street, off k-road, City

• Dylan Horrocks // Cartoonist // Burning Comics
• Keely O’Shannessy // Artist and designer // ‘The cover as canvas: making art and designing books’
• Marie Shannon // Artist // The cardboard footprint
• Kathryn Burnett // Screenwriter, playwright and script consultant // writing for the screen
• Sarah Maxey // evolution of the hand lettering artist
• Paula Green // poet/ childrens writer // words for children
• Renee Liang // poet // “A Writer’s Toolbox”
• Emily Perkins // Writer // Trying to Eat a Book
• Simon Oosterdijk and Markus Hofko // Publisher // about pie paper
• Lily Richards // Unity Book Auckland-Brand Manager // “Judge Everything by its Cover: The Art of Unity Book’s Aesthetic”
• Louise Lever // Research Tutor // about the links between Judith Butler’s ideas on performativity and feminine sexuality and the work of Rebecca Swan
• Louise Tu’u // We Should Practice // To Fergusson with Love
• Hilary Beaton // Director Downstage Theatre // some thoughts on theatre and current practice

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PKN_AKL_15 [manukau edition_02] in collaboration with Manukau Festival of Arts // Thursday 12 November 2009 // Metro Theatre (Mangere East Hall) / 351 Massey Road / Mangere East / Manukau

• Sangeeta Singh and Luisa Tora // Videographer / Activist and writer // PR Application Attempt #679
• Tanu Gago // Film maker // Samoa is in the TV
• Angela Tiatia // Installation and performance artist
• Nigel Borell // Painter // Lost in Hong Kong
• Terry Koloamatangi Klavenes // Creative
• Hone Ngata AKA DJ Poroufessor // Pro Entertainer, TV Presenter, Youth Mentor // Tables are Turning
• Leilani Kake // Video installation / performance artist // Art and Humanity
• Edgar Melitao // Designer // Two Lives
• Vinesh Kumaran // Photographer // Recent assignments
• James McCarthy // Director CEO, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts // Resonating ideas
• Shigeyuki Kihara // Multimedia and performance artist // ethKnowcentrix
• Michael O’Sullivan // architect

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PKN_Nelson_05 // Wednesday 21 October 2009 // Granary Café, Founders Park

• Véronique Cornille // Photographer // “A crayfish on the run at Wellington Airport”

• Nick Sewell // Graduate Architect and founder of Nelson Traceurs // “Running on Walls”
• Pauline Farley // Textile Artist // “Musings of a textile junkie”
• Zoe Buchanan // Artist/Jeweller // “Opening the jewellery box – Reasons to make jewellery”
• Nick Kiddey // Nice guy // sustainability enthusiast and occasionally overimaginative locavore
• Akiko Crowther // Master Calligrapher and students from the Yu Yu Japanese Calligraphy Gallery and School // “The Four Treasures Tour”
• Rhonda Mowat // Photographer and Artist // “Found in the Suburbs – familial, flora and fauna”
• Julie Catchpole // Director of Suter Art Gallery // About the making of the NZ Memorial in London
• Cleve Shearer // Principal and Teaching Refugee // “ A School Story”
• Daniel Campion // Artist // About his innovative and challenging work in a variety of mixed media.
• Ann Dewey // Spinning Sun Dance Company Choreographer and Artistic Director
• Sam Scott // Artistic Director and Founder of Massive Company

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PKN_WGN_06 // Monday 19 October 2009 // Downstage Theatre / 12 Cambridge Tce / Wellington

• Ralph Johns // landscape architect // about new sea land // www.isthmus.co.nz
• Meena Kadri // design lecturer/communications strategist /researcher // about lo-fi creativity in India // www.randomspecific.com
• Philippe Campays // architect/artist // on drawing the invisible // www.vuw.ac.nz
• Sarah Maxey // graphic designer/artist  // www.sarahmaxey.co.nz
• Andy Irving // artist/designer // serious dabbling // www.andyirving.co.nz
• Hilary Beaton // this is [NOT] a dead parrot - cultural change within downstage theatre // www.downstage.co.nz
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Troy Donovan // façade designer // living in glass houses … // www.troydonovan@tumblr.com
• James M. Maddock // culture hybridisation: the aotearoa-new zealand experience
• Margaret Austin // about english language // www.write.co.nz
• Craig Nicholson // interculturalist // valparaíso - port of dreams
• Sheba Williams // artist/ about shanghai sheba // www.shebawilliams.com
• George Hajian // graphic designer // change - looking in for inspiration // www.thealchemist.co.nz
• Meighan Ellis/ artist // beauty, beauty look at you: an archive of curiosity
• James Everett // game designer @ sidhe // making shatter // www.shattergame.com
• Alison Wong // novelist/poet/ about what inspires her writing // www.penguin.co.nz

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PKN_AKL_14 // Thursday 15 October 2009 (as part of the Auckland Architecture Week) // Galatos, 17 Galatos Street / Auckland City

• Philip Smith // Landscape designer / www.o2landscapes.com // evolution of ‘hybrid’ landscapes
• Zoe Ikin // Designer / www.studioalexander.co.nz // the archivist’s table
• Richard Reid / Architect & Landscape Architect // on designing motorways
• Noemi // House sitter / www.TheHouseSitter.co.nz // on house sitting
• Vitamin S // www.vitamin-s.co.nz // on improvisational performance
• Lauren Mathieu // Producer/Director // A critique on **ALFISM**
• James Pearce // Designer / www.ohnosumo.com // The Cupcake Pavilion
• Jeremy Hansen // Editor, Home NZ // on writing The Villa
• Patrick Reynolds // Photographer / www.patrickreynolds.co.nz // shooting The Villa
• Pete Bossley // Architect / www.bossleyarchitects.co.nz // on the National Maritime Museum
• Raymond Sagapolutele aka RIMONI // Photographer / www.rimoni.com // Brotography 101
• Fiona Jack // Artist and lecturer at Elam School of Fine Arts // recent projects
• Reza Fuard // Points2Change // on creating social change

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PKN_DN_03 // Wednesday 16 September 2009 // The Common Room, Union Building, University of Otago

• Dr Jonathan W Marshall // Lecturer in Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Otago // Electrifying acts: Etheric images and magnetised bodies from 1800-1960
• Juliet Novena Sorrel // Artist // Sketchbooks
• Victoria McIntosh // Jeweller // My spoon collection
• Andrew Wallace // Professional Practice Fellow in Industrial Design at the University of Otago // Cut and paste
• Ali East // Dancer & Dance Lecturer at University of Otago // It’s all the same dance after all
• Jaenine Parkinson // Director of Blue Oyster Gallery // A personal art history
• Leigh Paterson // Graphic Designer and Communication Lecturer at Otago Polytechnic // Pixels, politics and prince
• Katrina Thomson // Artist // Emerging
• Peter Porteous // Architect // The Glenorchy Scheelite Mining Huts
• Lynn Taylor // Artist // The Westland: Responses to the 1879 maiden voyage
• Scott Savage // Designer // ‘It’s OK’ and other sundry things
• Chris Gable // Photographer // Burnside

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PKN_CHCH_06 // Wednesday 16 September 2009 // The Repertory Theatre, 146 Kilmore Street

• Nicholas Burrowes // Hum Dingers of the Grid City
• Matt Akehurst // // Artist // GalleryGallery and the adventures of Clark Kent
• Alice Banfield // NGO Worker // Young People These Days
• Victor Rodger // Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury // Films I’ve loved and films I’ve loathed
• Frauke John // People Photographer and Empathy Junkie // Portraits of a different kind
• Reuben Davidson // Producer // Right and Wrong
• Kerry Swanson // Geologist // Big images, minute life
• Rick Harvie // Filmmaker // On being a Dick
• Massimiliano (Max) Capocaccia // Architect (ita reg) and Artist // Certain vs. Uncertain, Comfort vs. Unsettle
• Rachel Gafa // Underwear Designer // Let’s get intimate
• Coralie Winn & Ryan Reynolds // Free Theatre Christchurch // Distraction Camp

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PKN_AKL_13 // Wednesday 05 August 2009 // Galatos / 17 Galatos Street / Auckland City

• Janet Lilo // Over-qualified, unemployed Visual Artist // No Wucken Fay!
• Patricia Burgetsmaier & Laurent Antonczak // Designer // about ‘Hamster Squaredance’ an interactive, animated music video designed for iphone
• Catherine David and Xin Cheng // Product Designer / Artist // about Products and Services, a design initiative and how you don’t have to be a slave to the things around you
• Stacey Childs // brains behind // disco underworld
• Matthew Salapu Faiumu aka ANONYMOUZ // Producer, Pianist, Songwriter, Rapper // Working with youth
• Louise Evans // Musician / Radio Manager / Magazine Editor / Urban Villager // On urban and rural ‘villages’ supporting and sustaining the creative individual
• Marc Conaco III // Graphic Designer/ Illustrator
• Simon Oosterdijk // Designer // on ghostbooks, pie paper & theveryday
• Kathy Waghorn and students // Senior Tutor,  School of Architecture and Planning, UoA // intro to the upcoming architecture week
• Sophia Hawthorne and Derek Bean // Jazz Singer and Pianist // jazz, jazz, jazz
• Carl Chenery // Potluck host  // about the number 350
• Guy Quartermain // Photographer and Movie Maker // insights
• Fabiana Kubke // Neuroscientist // about the brain of the kiwi
• Scott Alexander Young // Writer, Actor, Filmmaker

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6 August 2009 |  Gallagher Hub, Wintec | Angelsea Street | Hamilton

• Grant Collier // General Manager SODA Inc
• Sarah Anderson // Painter // Musings on what motivates artists
• Gaye Jurisich // Multi media art practitioner // V8 Supercards, Pit Lane Art Projext
• Fiona Mackinnon // Presenting images from her new book “ROAR”
• Cameron & Lucy Kay // The Avatar Course
• Dominic Buckell // Architect // Chibnall Swann Team Architecture
• Floyd Wilde // Free Culture Advocate // History of Copyright
• Stacey Childs // About Discounderworld

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05 August 2009 // Galatos / 17 Galatos Street / off K-road / Auckland City

• Janet Lilo // Over-qualified, unemployed Visual Artist // No Wucken Fay
• Patricia Burgetsmaier & Laurent Antonczak // Designer // about ‘Hamster Squaredance’ an interactive, animated music video designed for iphone
• Catherine David and Xin Cheng // Product Designer / Artist // about Products and Services, a design initiative and how you don’t have to be a slave to the things around you
• Stacey Childs // brains behind // disco underworld
• Matthew Salapu Faiumu aka ANONYMOUZ // Producer, Pianist, Songwriter, Rapper // Working with youth
• Louise Evans // Musician / Radio Manager / Magazine Editor / Urban Villager // On urban and rural ‘villages’ supporting and sustaining the creative individual
• Marc Conaco III // Graphic Designer/ Illustrator
• Simon Oosterdijk // Designer // on ghostbooks, pie paper & theveryday
• Kathy Waghorn and students // Senior Tutor,  School of Architecture and Planning, UoA // intro to the upcoming architecture week
• Sophia Hawthorne and Derek Bean // Jazz Singer and Pianist // jazz, jazz, jazz
• Carl Chenery // Potluck host  // about the number 350
• Guy Quartermain // Photographer and Movie Maker // insights
• Fabiana Kubke // Neuroscientist // about the brain of the kiwi
• Scott Alexander Young // Writer, Actor, Filmmaker

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PKN_Dunedin_02

wednesday 10 June 2009 // Otago Polytechnic / School of Art / lecture room P152 / Dunedin

• Alan Dove, Photographer

• Annette Rose, Mask Educator

• Bill Curry, Wind Turbine Engineer

• Caroline McCaw, Designer/Artist

• Christine Keller, Textile artist

• Henry Feltham, Writer, Gaming Designer

• Max Oettli, Photographer/Artist

• Michael Findlay, Designer

• Penelope Todd, Writer and Karate enthusiast

• Pete Gorman, Artist/Film maker

• Ryan Hobbs, Artist

• Scott Willis, Waitati Energy Project Coordinator

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PKN_WGN_05

tuesday 9 June 2009 // Overseas Terminal / Chaffers Marina / Azzuro room /  1 Herd St / Oriental Bay / Wellington

• Ralph Johns // landscape architect // Isthmus Group Limited // about  new sea land

• Stacey Childs // about discounderworld

•  Sam Trubridge // Director & Designer // about Sleep/Wake

•  Mervin Singham // Artist // about his inspiration for his work

•  Edward Lynden-Bell // Writer & Filmmaker // about the Drake Equation

•  Tim Bollinger // Cartoonist // about his comics

•  Joshua Judkins // about playing “The Lost Ring”  and Ponoko

•  Jared Forbes // Creative Director // storytelling, interaction and experience design

•  Emma Knight // about experience design and snowboarding

•  Luke Pittar // on travel sketching as an educational experience

• Chris Jackson // industrial designer // 2000 years in 20 chairs

• Maurice Bennett // the toastman // about bread and beer

• Tao Wells // unemployed

• Rob Abbierdo// creative director / VJ // dnation // about the storybox

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PKN_CHCH_05

thursday 28th may 2009 // The Bedford, 46 Bedford Row

• Bill de Friez // The man who nearly died of embarrassment

• Lizzy Moyle // Visual artist // Sentient Beings

• Lincoln Sell // idesign solutions // Product evolution and the people’s choice

• Rob Mayes // Failsafe Records // Nice album covers and how I made ‘em

• Mike Hodgkinson // Founder of FX Bikes // Developing a new kind of motorcycle

• Keinyo White // Painter and illustrator // Aotearoa from an Af-Am perspective: How NZ has benefited me

• Justin Leadbetter // Warren and Mahoney Houses and Flats 1955–1980

• Flip Grater // Musician and writer // The Cookbook Tour Europe—a food and music trip across the continent

• Seth Wagoner // Interclue // Pimping Your Firefox

• Cara Gouvea // Student // Saint Petersburg I love you

• Bruce Russell // Academic, sound artist, writer // XPRESSWAY—my part in its downfall

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13 may 2009 // Suter Theatre / 208 Bridge Street / Nelson

• Grant Palliser // sculptor/artist // The Seduction of Bronze
• John-paul Pochin // web designer / photographer
• Sally Burton // artist
• Dave Jerram // architect
• Andrew Irving // architect // Scale: fridges, ufo’s and sticks of kindling
• Otto Von Busch // Haute Couture Heretic and DIY-demagogue // From his projects under the label SelfPassage.
• Gerard Hindmarsh // writer // “Strange encounters along my travels…”
• Daniel Campbell-Macdonald // Museum Registrar // From the Collection
• Loudarcie Lewis // artist/fairy
• Richard Aindow // traveller/journalist/photographer // “Identity and the Toast rack”
• Darryl Frost // sculptor/artist

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PKN_CHCH_04

2nd april 2009 // C4 // 165 Lichfield Street / Christchurch

• Heather Hapeta aka The Passionate Nomad // Author, blogger and photographer // Helps create 79 Buddhist monks
• Nick Taylor and Phil Redmond // National Architecture Office // Would the real Christchurch Domestic Airport please stand up
• Lucy Arnold // Designer and founder of Felt // On making space
• David Read // Photographer and publisher // On being a skateboard photographer
• Adi Tait // The Burning Man experience
• Neil Dawson // Artist // Fanfare
• Ben Coles // All around good guy from The Crater Rim // Wine Labels—they don’t always happen by accident
• Chey Ataria
• Amira Mikhail // Veterinarian // The Art and Science of African Wildlife Conservation
• Belinda Harrow // Artist and Teacher // The goat in the lavender t-shirt
• Roger Dennis // Information Omnivore //  Funket—avoiding the lawyers while trying to create a great night out
• Richard Till // Observer of culinary customs, the social theatre of dining and a champion of ordinariness // People and big dinners

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29 March 2009 // Public Art Gallery / 30 The Octagon (as part of the 2009 Dunedin Fringe Festival)

• Luka Hinse // Industrial Designer, Pecha Kucha NZ founder/Coordinator
• Gavin O’Brien // Designer, Lecturer at Otago University Design dpt
• Jane Venis // Sculptor, Polytecnic Design dpt
• Simon Kaan // Artist
• Lyne Pringle  // Dancer, Bipeds Productions
• Felicity Molloy // Pointy Dog Dance (Akld)
• Peter Entwisle // Historian, arts columnist
• Tim Heath // Architect, Eco Sanctuary
• Martin Kean // Design lecturer, publisher
• Te Radar // Opinionist
• Sudhir Duppati // Artist, Curator
• Claire Beynon // Artist

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25 march 2009 // Samoa House / 283 K-Road / Auckland City

• Finn Mackesy // about Permaculture, Deep Ecology, Ecological Literacy and Community Empowerment
• Leigh Martin // artist // about things you shouldn’t like as an artist
• Dr. Olaf Diegel // director of the Creative Industries Research Institute
• Rhys Morgan // animator // The Gravy: making a TV show about creative New Zealanders
• Evren Uzer (TR)// urban planner // about Roomservices, an interventionist research institute for practice-based and experimental design projects
• Otto von Busch (SE)// artist, activist, fashion theorist, designer // about Selfpassage, a fashion brand and research project exploring hacktivism and modes of engaged fashion design
• Nia- Val Ngaro // visual artist / teacher/ Pacific storyteller // about her work
• Victoria Grimshaw // Misschief events // on Being a Burlesque Performer
• Leila Goddard // artist // about her practice with specific reference to watercolour drawing
• Sophie Bannan // director 448 gallery // about the gallery and a lot about whatever else
• Jenny Laycock // artist // two months of learning among other things
• Nicole Stock // editor of Urbis magazine // about architecture and design publishing
• John Worth & Chris Mackenzie // engineers // about the Yellow treehouse
• Marilyn Kohlhase // one of two directors of okaioceanikart // The Okai Story

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tuesday 10 March 2009 // Gallagher Hub / Wintec / Angelsea Street/ Hamilton

• Antanas Procuta | Architect | Playing on a level field
• Craig Brown | Photographer
• Oliver Raman | Images from the NZ Schools Photographic Competition
• Mark Hamilton | Images from the Abandoned Tokonui Psychiatric Hospital
• Hamilton Fringe Festival Crew | Highlights from the Fringe Festival
• Mark Servian | Supporting Public Art

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friday 13 feb 2009 // The Independent Theatre / 12 Church Street / Nelson

• Janet Bathgate // Artist/graphic Designer
• Adrian Faulkner // Adventurer
• Jess Smale // Grad. Arch. // about her most inspiring place
• Christopher Vine // about  various ruins he’s rescued and lived in
• Fritz Kuckuck // Brewer, Photographer // Nurturing Your Inner Idiot
• Phil Thomson // about People and Place
• Julia  Marshall  // Publisher // about Reading
• Ken Robinson // Architect // about 2 baches
• Mike Hindmarsh // Furniture maker
• Nick Channon // High Flying Photographer

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25 november 2008 // Paramount Cinema, 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington City

• Craig Stevens // Scientist // Environmental turbulence - or how to capture ephemera for a living
• Suzanne Tamaki // Fashion designer // about natives in fabulous frocks
• Heather Galbraith // Curator // A wish list for an exhibition which may never happen (here)
• Roger Walker // Architect // ‘IRREVERENT INSERTIONS’ ?
• Simon Hames // Prop maker // about making props and world of wearable art costumes
• Duncan Sarkies // Writer
• Natalie Robinson // Oceanographer // A life on ice
• Christopher Kelly // Architect // the coral reef -the aggregation of an architecture culture
• Dick Whyte // Musician
• Rhys Morgan // Animator // The Gravy: making a TV show about creative New Zealanders
• Andy Morley-Hall // Photographer // Witnessing The Woolshed
• Tim Bollinger // Writer/Cartoonist // On the life and philosophy of W.B. Sutch
• Ron Hanson // Writer // Nam June Paik the legendary Korean multi media artist
• Kent Blechynden // Photographer // capturing musicians

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PKN_AKL_11 (as part of the Manukau Festival of Arts 08)

some awesome first pictures here

15 november 2008 // TelstraClear Pacific / Genesis Energy Theatre, 770 Gr. South Rd, Manukau City

• Andrew Tu’inukuafe // Architect, Creative Spaces // Designing the Pacfic Events Centre
• Serena Stevenson // Photographer // 20 years full circle
• Rewi Thompson // Architect // Projects in Manukau
• Janet Lilo // Visual artist
• Ema Tavola // Curator // Pacific art and Pacific spaces
• Raymond Sagapolutele aka RIMONI // Brotographer // reflecting life in and around Manukau City from a brotographers point of view
• Benjamin Work // Graffiti Artist
• Charmaine ‘Ilaiu // Architect // This architect’s spectacles
• Matthew Salapu Faiumu aka ANONYMOUZ // Producer, Pianist, Songwriter, Rapper // Working with youth
• Turumakina Duley // Ta moko artist
• Jeremy Leatinuu // visual artist // about his work
• Coco Solid // Musician
• Siliga David Setoga // Graphic Artist // Finding my feet and forming
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• Clay Johnsen & Anna Harley // Urban Designers // about Cultural Mapping

live tunez from Hone Ngata Jr AKA DJ Poroufessor
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Thursday 6th november 2008 // NG // 212 Madras Street // Christchurch

• Victoria Edwards and Ina Johann // Artists and collaborators // Insights into their collaborative arts practice
• David Binstead // 1,000km’s by foot: The Pyrenees High Route
• Simon Courtney // Designer
• Reuben Davidson // Producer // On telling lies
• Felolini Maria Ifopo // Curator, artist and magazine editor // Magazine journalism through a Ngai Tahu lens
• Hannah and Aaron Beehre // // Artists // Fantastic Truths
• Mike Thomas // Landscape Architect // On stories in the landscape and reinvigorating our perception of place
• Ashlin Raymond and Mark Wondercastle // Musicians, Tiger Tones // Misrepresentations, not trying, trying, getting places you want to be and don’t want to be, and how to do it
• Telly Tu’u // Artist // On painting
• Callum Pankhurst // Design Director // Identity Group—Past, Present, Future works

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Monday 3rd November 2008 // Wintec HUB, Events Room 1, Anglesea Street // Hamilton

• David Lloyd // Artist // Images of the Construction of 200sq metres of personal studio/gallery
• Steve Perdia // Mr Sustainability // In honour of Real Groovy closing its doors: His record collection
• Renee Casserly, Waimihi Hotere & Kerrie Martin // Arts Waikato Team // Arts Waikato
• John Wakeling // The Sculpture Park @ Waitakaruru Arboretum // Transformation of a former quarry into an arboretum and sculpture park
• Andrea Wilkinson & David Gardener // Design Lecturers // Means by which we find our way Book Launch
• Zena Elliott // Artist // Her art practice, collective projects & art workshops
• Ros Empson // Smith Pickering Architects // The progress of a historic building from derelict to desirable
• April Le’Mon // Museum Education Programme Leader // Toi Awhio Symposium of Maori Art Forms
• Lance Harris // Artist // Biographical observation incorporating graffiti as a medium for personal expression
• Chris Hillock // Photographer // Japanese cultural photographs
• John Smith // Sculptor // Learning to sculpt by trial and error, as a hobby and increasing conflict of demand and supply
• Dawn Tuffery // Animator // Art vs Exercise
• Rainbowmonkey + Kir Royal // “Visual Riddles - with prizes for winners”
• IMPORT-FEATURE from Berlin

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friday 17th october 2008 // Ellen Melville Hall // 2 Freyberg Place // Auckland City

• Dorita Hannah // architect & set designer // Black Widow - Black Window
• Thom Gilbert // Auckland Architecture Association
• Chris Mackenzie // engineer // on collaborating with artists
• Julia Gatley // academic // india
• Simon Devitt // photographer
• Philip Oliver // client services manager // rock and stroll
• Andrew Clifford // arts commentator // the secret life of scaffolding
• Naomi Singer, Emma Tavola // Manukau Arts
• Peter Collis // ceramic artists // recent work
• IMPORT/EXPORT  Jessica Halliday // about brutalism (from PKN_CHCH_01)

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16 october 2008 // Granary Festival Café // Nelson

• Adi Tait // Images from Burning Man festival
• John Palmer // Architect // Obsessed with Making
• Simon Owen // Graphic Artist // Seeking Inspiration: Feeding the Creative Mind
• Robbie Burton // Publisher // on Book Design
• Frances Woodhead // Kick Ass Glass
• Mike Moreu // Cartoonist // about his work
• Mo Killip // on her shoe collection
• Daniel Allen // Photographer // The Inspiration – a selection of images from my favorite photographers
• Richard Aindow // Trains: the missing link
• Stella Chrysostomou // on “Cargo: Finding the Unusual in the Usual
• Ashley Hilton // Jeweller // about his work
• Min Hall // Architect // The bach on the way to church

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21 August 2008 // Crumpet Club, 218 Durham Street (corner Tuam Street)

• Robyn Pickens // Gallery Manager at 64zero3 and curatorial boot camp survivor // on her recent travels to Armenia and involvement in an intensive workshop on contemporary art and curatorial practice
• Richard Hayman // Architect at Dalman Architecture Ltd // Personal reflections on an Architectural Journey
• Simon Kong // Culture Agent // Reporting on the (r)evolution
• Peter Beaven // Architect // How to look at Christchurch
• Margaret Gordon // Television Writer and Researcher // on animals in a domestic environment…aka Pets
• Pauly Vyle // Graffiti Artist, Urban Vybez // about his journey from tagger to artist
• Lisa Carlon // Marketing Manager at Outdoor Visuals // Discusses the ‘Brand Bubble’ and how technology can enhance branding and experimental marketing potential
• James Dann // Student // Flaw by Flaw: The Art and Hypocrisy of Automotive Armageddon
• Nathan Pohio // Artist and Filmmaker // discusses little devils, science fiction and a minimalist aesthetic leaning towards a messy end
• Richard Bell // Filmmaker at Shuriken and Course Leader at New Zealand Broadcasting School // A music video life

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21 august 2008 (in collaboration with Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts)// 13 Reeves Road, Pakuranga

• Florian Habicht // film maker
• Pip Cheshire // architect
• Oliver Kraft // design editor // about purplesouth
• A.D. Schierning // artist // about S.A.F.
• Luke and Kimberlee Munn // werkhaus // illustration and interactivity
• James Pinker // sound artist // Holiwater / Indian Music CoLab
• Malcolm Taylor // architect // drawing a new reality
• Nova Paul // film maker / teacher
• Uwe Rieger // architect UoA // about reactive architecture
• Dean Roberts // sound artist
• Barney MacDonald // allrounder // see no evil, hear no evil
  
• Alex Monteith // artist // recent time-based projects
• Claire Cowan // artist, musician
• IMPORT/EXPORT Joachim Stein
  

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07 august 2008(as part of the SPARK 08 festival)// Wintec HUB , Events Room 1, Anglesea St, Hamilton

• Mark Westerby // Wellington Fringe Festival Director // waxes lyrical about the fringe festival and personal projects
• The Underwater Collective // Collaborative arts collective // discuss collective philosophy and projects on the go
• David Gardener // Design lecturer // tells us how not to design a submarine in wartime
• Marama Mayrick // Contemporary jeweller // describes the uses of ethical recycled materials and processes for silversmithing
• Paul Judd // Artist // gives an account of the fictional design brief for the construction of an aircraft
• Robyn Kenealy // Cartoonist // explains what inspires her cartoons and what she’s learnt from the likes of Tom of Finland
• Ministry of Hypocrisy // Ministry of Hypocrisy // discuss the document of December 15th 2007 destruction
• Andrea Wilkinson // Design lecturer // 5m40s presentation about numerical information attached to time
• Greg Locke // The Trons // chats about the initial ideas that started The Trons band and what’s happening next
• Luke McConnell // Wintec design student // talks about his graphic nature experiment
• Joe Citizen // Film director // tells us all about his work to date

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30 july 2008 // City Gallery Wellington // Civic Square, 101 Wakefield Street

• Ann Shelton // Photographer // on smoke and mirrors in room room, her new show
• Candywhistle // Furniture Designer // on furniture, retail and product design
• Christian Penny // Theatre Maker - Toi Whakaari // “making the most of this meeting”
• Nathan Goldsworthy // Product/Furniture Design // Compromise, conflict and the life and times of an inanimate object
• Dorita Hannah // Architect/Set Designer - Massey // The Black Widow and its link to theatre
• Duncan Sarkies // Writer // his super-mega ’so secret it’s a secret that it’s even a secret’ formula for long term creative happiness
• James Everett // Game Designer // Game design - mechanics, dynamics and aesthetics
• Rachel Davies // Film Maker // “permission to fail - the Golden ticket”
• Luka Hinse // Industrial Designer and Pecha Kucha co-ordinator
• Adam Errington // Cluster Creative - illustration // By drawing everyday things I find the mundane isn’t so
• Nic Marshall // Square Eyes - New Zealand Children’s Film Foundation // A more compelling film culture for New Zealand children
• Sophie Jerram // Sustainability and Art // Current climate crisis and human immortality
• Ron Hanson // Eclectic Art Magazine - White Fungus // Walter Benjamin And His Times

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PKN_Nelson_01 // 25 july 2008 // the Independent Theater, 12 Church Street, Nelson

Luka Hinse - Industrial Designer and Pecha Kucha co-ordinator
Nic Moon - Artist talking about recent work
Dave Remnant - English Language teacher and keen photographer
Jeremy Smith - Architect “Work within our ‘unfinished landscape’”
Andy Clover - Artist/ Graphic Designer
Kate Walker - Artist will talk about recent and current projects including work in video, drawing and painting
Cliff Fell - Poet from the Moutere Hills, his talk will be based on a new poem about Lord Rutherford
Rigel Sorzano - Craft and Design Writer, talking about Objectspace
Antony Genet - Glass artist
Richard Sellars - Architect , Drawing on nothing
Caroline Earley - NMIT lecturer in Art and Design will talk about her work in ceramics and other mediums
Grae Burton - Actor/Director

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29th may | start 8.20pm | doors open 7.30pm | The Basement, SOL Square, Corner Manchester and Lichfield Streets (underneath Ishimoto, #6 SOL Square)

• Jared Davidson & Zoe Thompson-Moore // Designer & Artist // on the challenges and opportunities they face developing and sustaining a creative practice in Christchurch
• Jessica Halliday // architectural historian // about Brutalism
• Luka Hinse // designer // about Pecha Kucha, fast bikes and Chess-Boxing
• Dean MacKenzie // Photographer // about his work
  
• Pippa Makgill // artist // about the concept of ‘Post-institution’
• Nik Mavromatis // chef // about using molecular gastronomy to create new tastes
• Bruce Russell // sound artist // about his current projects
• John Chrisstoffels // Filmmaker and Lecturer in Film, University of Canterbury // about his recent MFA—Flight and Cinema
• Jason Mill // Starchitect // from modest beginnings to world domination

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28th may | doors open 19:30h | start 20:20h | TheNewDowse, 45 Laings Rd, Lower Hutt

• Ross Stevens // VUW // on Virtual Migration
• Emily Loughnan // Click Suite // how ideas need oxygen too and what’s in her bottom drawer
  
• Charlie Ward // DNA // about work he’s done for the Moriori people of Rekohu, the Chatham Islands, DNA, poetry, music and performers that inspire him
  
• Jo Randerson // Author, Artist // about the power of the unique, original voice and her upcoming exhibition of Outsider Art
• Jasper Cook and Kat Black // VJZOO from Perth // about their work as artists and VJ’s
  
• Mark Southcombe // VUW/PRAXIS // “in praise of detail”
• Kris Sowersby // KLIM Type Foundry // on creating typefaces
  
• David Cross // Fine Arts Massey University // about his recent performance/installation Hold shown most recently in Dunedin
• Drew James // Erupt // about the Taupo Arts Festival
• Michel Tuffery // artist // 20 reasons
• Lance Lawson // Photography // about his work and fishing in the Cook Straight
• Karin Van Roosmaalen // Fine Arts Massey University // about her recent experiences in Beirut
• Chris Morley Hall // Artistic Director

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23rd may | Sky City Convention Centre, Federal Street, Auckland City

• Bill Mckay // architectural historian
• Patrick Reynolds // photographer // about his recent work
• WAYD Editors // University of Auckland architecture students // On “What Are You Doing” (WAYD)
• Min Hall // architect from Nelson // traveler’s tale about small town NZ and the bits in between
• John Radford // artist
• Elvon Young // YYAA, Lecturer, Dept. of Spatial Design, AUT // On his digitally designed project in Fiji
• Andrew Barrie // Cheshire Architects // On research projects
• Gary Lawson // Stevens Lawson Architecture // On their design method
• Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein (via internet) // Klein Dytham Architects, Tokyo
• Stephen Bambury // artist

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29th april 2008 // Samoa House // 283 K-road // start 08.20pm

• Sam Hamilton // artist // sound in the jungles of South
  America
• Martin Horspool // about recycled robots
• Jerome Partington // architect // accelerating global
  sustainability
• Sale Pepe // artist // non-samoan art by a somoan artist
• Nora West // arts manager // MALAGA SAMOA
• Albert Refiti // Senior Lecturer, Head of Spatial Design,
  AUT // on Pacific architecture
• Pip Cheshire // Cheshire Architects // on the conservation of Antarctic huts
• Judy Cockeram // Senior Tutor, University of Auckland
  School of Architecture // on teaching in Pakistan
• Barbara Holloway // Manager KBA // K ROAD – THE FINAL
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• Edward Bennett // an extraordinary landscape

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20th february 2008 // Galatos // 17 galatos st/ off K-road // start 08.20pm

• Jessie Yan (architect // about Master planning, architecture design) www.jhyanarchitects.com
• Ole Maiava (Multi-Media artist // on his recent work)
• Greg Murrell (Director, Ryder Salon // about hairdressing) www.rydersalon.com
• Patrick Loo & Sarosh Mulla (architecture students, UoA// on a new project) www.mantlepiecemosaic.wordpress.com
• Valentin Tinc & Cristina Popovici (artists // on their recent work) www.soca.co.nz
• Rachel Carley ( ceramics designer// about George Perec’s writing on Space)
• Daniel Marshall (architect // on Mexican surrealism) www.marshall-architect.co.nz
• Mark Robertson ( artist // about sideroom) www.sideroom.com
• Russel Walder (artist and oboist // about his work) www.nomadsoulrecords.com

IMPORT - FEATURE

• Anna Krenz (architect and artist // Hens Project: aggressive old women) www.annakrenz.net

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6th december 2007 // A. B. A. stadium // 1 Ngahura St, Auckland // start 08.20pm

• Hilary West (architect and artist // about ‘Shanghai’)
• Elizabeth Mitchell (producer // about bro’ Town) www.brotown.co.nz
• Pitsch Leiser (manager for festivals and community events // about his work)
• Ben Stevens (Spatial Design lecturer at AUT// about his work)
• Isabella Rasch (artist // about ALOFA)
• Michael Davis (architect // about a project in Noumea)
• Ming-Fen Lee (president // Hsiang Yin Choir of New Zealand)
• Luka Hinse (designer and chessboxing promoter // about chessboxing) www.wcbo.org
• Sue Gallagher / Tracey Collins (artists // about the blow project)
• Alex Henderson (photographer // about his work)

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19th october 2007 // britomart PAVILION // cnr gore & tyler streets // start 08.20pm

• Doris de Pont (fashion designer // about her work) www.dorisdepont.com
• Brydee Rood (artist // thoughts and processes around waste management: I waste I waste, I hope.)
• Amanda A’Hara & Tracey Williams (artists // about the Friendly Girls Society)
• Andrew Patterson (architect // about underground buildings) www.pattersons.com
• Fanny FJ Wu (architecture student // competition & projects)
• Julia Gatley (Architectural historian, The University of Auckland // about modern architecture in New Zealand)
• Alexandra-Jayeun Lee & Kirsten Smedley (designer // Architecture for Humanity - Auckland: Mint Umbrella Project) www.afh-auckland.org
• Severin Soder (austrian born architect // from the Bartlett to Awaroa)
• Jessica Barter & Charles Walker ( architects // BARCODE: the book)
• Joachim Stein (berlin based conceptual artist // Extension of the World. of puppet games, castles in the air and fabulous riches)(via skype live from berlin)
• Mike Faulkner (UK, director + founder of D-Fuse)

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29th august 2007 // Galatos // 17 galatos st/ off K-road // start 08.20pm

• Briar Shaw (photographer // about her work as a photographer for a horticultural science research company)
• Netti Page & Kris Holmes (DJ’s // about 45 rpm records)
• Markus Hofko (graphic designer // about his work)
• Andrew Barrie (architect // about projects in Japan)
• Megan Rule (architect //about travel in the USA)
• Urban Spoiler (three constructions for architecture week)
• Peter Vosper (dance performer // about his work)
• Bill Mckay (architectural historian // about biculturalism in architecture)

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05th july 2007 // Hope Bros // 31-35 Dixon St / Wellington-City// start 09.20pm

• Sam Kebbell - Architect
• Gaylene Preston - Filmmaker
• Nicola Pennington - Graphic designer/Artist
• Natalie Butts - Architect
• Ross Stevens - Designer
• ctrlshift07
• Julie Stout - Architect
• Regan Gentry
• Peter Harding
• Jeremy Randerson - Actor
• Chris Morley Hall - Artistic Director

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20th june 2007 // Galatos // 17 galatos st/ off K-road // start 08.20pm

• Jon Hall (blacksmith)
• Jeremy Hansen (editor Home & Entertainment)
• Karen Walker (fashion designer)
• Philip Smith/ Paul Duffy (O2 landscapes)
• Kir Royal alias Karin Hofko (illustrator and media artist //about TTT)
• Rick Pearson (architect // about “In The Wake of a Whale”)
• John Lyall (artist/photographer)
• Daniel Parker (architect, about projects with Zaha Hadid)
• Barnaby Bennett/ Alain Bruner (about ctrlshift07)
• Carl Douglas (lecturer AUT, about “Streaming, Pattern Recognition, and Strategic Inefficiency (Project for an Intelligence Agency)”

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19th april 2007 // Galatos // 17 galatos st/ off K-road // start 08.20pm

• Mark Dytham (Architect + Pecha Kucha Inventor// tokyo)
• Anet Kuhla (Interior Architect// berlin)
• Julie Stout (Mitchell Stout Architects)
• Layla Walter (Glass artist)
• John Radford (Sculptor, about his current installation)
• Serena Stevenson (Photographer)
• Nicholas Eagles (Artist)
• Luke Duncalfe (Artist/ Programmer, about his film works)
• Stu Barr (Designer)
• Hamish Neville (Engineer, Projects with UN Studio)
• Patrick Reynolds (Photographer)
• Jack Mc Kinney