Live Urban Jacksonville Weekly 50th Episode

Saturday January 23rd we’ll be having the first ever, but not the last, LIVE Urban Jacksonville Weekly. It will be on the back patio of the Burrito Gallery at 1:30pm. There will be food and drink specials, giveaways, live performances by Tough Junkie and we’ll be taking your questions.

Join Tony, Jonathan, Jack and Ian Ranne, owner of Shantytown Pub and Hip Hop Hell Records. We’ll be talking Downtown, Springfield, Hip Hop and taking your questions.

If you want to sponsor the show with giveaway items please let me know. We’re also looking for an ongoing show sponsor to help us buy new microphones and headsets for the studio.

Other Cool January Events In Your City

All of a sudden the 5 Points Theatre is the venue of choice.

Cinema Sounds 5 Jacksonville is 4 bands playing a movie soundtrack

• CIVILIZATION Duval’s premier punk-sludge duo does Destroy All Monsters
• WUDUN dynamic fuzz pop does Metropolis
• DIAMOND HYMEN lo-fi electro does Jesus Christ Superstar
• BRIGHT ORANGE ambient / ethereal / warm drones does Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan

Pecha Kucha #7 is fast-paced presentation fun with beer on tap
I’ve seen Corey’s Failure to Succeed and it’s awesome. Worth the trip.

• Carl Smith – “From mess to success, getting my kids to keep their rooms clean.”
• Florence Haridan – Hope and Help
• Corey Grusden – Failure to Succeed
• Tiffany Manning – The Girl Next Door
• Luis Casillas – How to have 26 hours of fun in one day

Midnight Movie Schedule at the 5 Points Theatre for January

• 2001: A Space Odyssey plays January 15th. Because it’s a long one, we’re starting it at 11 pm
• The Breakfast Club play at midnight on January 22nd.
• Labyrinth is midnight on January 29th.
• Back to the Future Part II will be February 5th.

Screening of “$100 and a T-Shirt” by the Main Library Zine Collection
Main Library » Experience the ups and downs in the zine publishing world as it was experienced by Joe Biel and the rest of the staff at Microcosm Publishing. Refreshments will be provided.

The first person who leaves a comment tell me who’s pictured above gets two free tickets to Pecha Kucha night at MOCA this Wednesday. Or give me a really good reason why you want the tickets.

I hear this Art Walk is going to be the biggest yet. Don’t forget to visit Biggie’s Igloo at the Burrito Gallery for $2 tall boys.

Come what may the History Center and Maritime Museum will be ready for their first Art Walk tomorrow evening. There will be jazz on the Center and Blue Grass at the Museum. Bottled water will be our refreshments for the evening.

So what is Pecha Kucha night? Here’s a video of me presenting at the first Pecha Kucha night. It’s good stuff and they normally fill up quickly.

This will be my first slide. Possibly my last.

The buzz has been building about this event, so they are expecting a huge turnout tonight. Here is the presentation order, saving the best for last. Bam! I was hoping to go first. Oh well.

• Marshall Adams – MOCA
• Greg Beere – Content Design Group
• Shaan Batten – Nest Living
• Melissa Hirschman – UNF
• Kim Heyde – Artist
• Ryan Price – Florida Creatives / Likemind
• Marc Rapp – Renaissance Creative
• Dustin Harewood – Artist
• Chris Noel – TTV Architects, AIA
• Joey Marchy – Urban Jacksonville

More Info
Official Event Information
Jacksonville Pecha Kucha on Facebook
Urban Jacksonville at Pecha Kucha

I’ll be one of ten speakers giving a presentation at the inaugural Jacksonville Pecha Kucha (peh-chak-cha) night. It will be held at MOCA as part of the June Artwalk, this Wednesday June 4th. I should be able to post a full list of speakers and times later on Monday. I’ll be talking about where Urban Jacksonville comes from and where I see the city going in the next year.

Pecha Kucha (peh-chak-cha) Night is a presentation format in which work can be easily and informally shown. It originated in Tokyo in 2003 as a place for young creatives to meet, network and show their work in public. The name derives from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation “chitchat”. The presenters from a wide range of fields such as architecture, design, art, music, culinary arts, journalism and academia have 20 slides and 20 seconds to present each slide.

Attendance is limited to 125 and is first come, first served. Sorry, you can’t sign up in advance. The presentation begins at 8:20pm in the MOCA Theatre. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. Future Pecha Kucha nights are scheduled during the Art Walks on July 2, August 6 and September 3.

In addition, there are lots of other things going on at MOCA this Wednesday for Artwalk: Paper Cuts: Contemporary Works on Paper. Included in this exhibition are And Further the Dew Drop Falls: Installations by Chris Natrop and Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Recent Drawings by John Bailly. And in the David A. Stein Family Gallery see Carly, So Far: Photographs by Francie Bishop Good. This will be the last chance at ArtWalk to see the First Coast Educators juried exhibition.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
MOCA Jacksonville – Downtown
7:00 pm – 8:20 pm Social
8:20 pm Presentations begin
Admission: Free
Cash bar available at Café Nola

Here are some sample slide from my presentation: