The wife and I were at the Irving Theater tonight for an evening of (long winded) stories from schlock movie maker Charles Band when Amanda received an e-mail telling her that our proposal was one of ten accepted for Pecha Kucha 7. Entrants were told that the final ten would be notified on Fri., Oct 23 – we didn’t hear anything and she’d been in a funk ever since. That’s because this edition of PK features a $10,000 grant awarded to the winner.

Rather than paraphrase, I’ll lift this from the official PK Indy site:

On Thurs., Nov. 12, at 9 p.m., Pecha Kucha Indianapolis will hold its seventh volume in what is its most collaborative and meaningful event yet. Hosted at The Toby by the Indianapolis Museum of Art as an official Spirit & Place Festival event, the judges of “Pecha Kucha Vol. 7: The Next Indianapolis” will grant an award of $10,000 from the Central Indiana Community Foundation to one of ten presenters for use towards a project that turns an Indianapolis location into a more inspiring place.

For those of you who are unfamiliar, Pecha Kucha is a competition to see who can make the most compelling/entertaining presentation using the most despised communication tool on the planet: PowerPoint. Presenters are restricted to 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide. I don’t want to spill the beans on our proposal but I can say our project involves using the INDIEana Handicraft Exchange to improve the lives of working artists around the city, state, region, and beyond while helping to make our neighborhood a more inspiring place. We’d love to see our friends and friendly acquaintances on Nov. 12, and support from Craft Exchange vendors and visitors would mean the world to us. Tickets are free but you need to request them online or in person at the IMA.

See you there?