PechaKucha Night Ústí nad Labem #12

Do you love your Ústí? The twelfth Ústí PechaKucha Night will offer you stories from its history, present, and future. The gates of Hraničář will open again on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, at 7 PM. It will feature personalities who live with and in the city. How do three teenage girls from the SMĚJ SE gallery enjoy the city, how do they bike around Ústí, what secrets does the Spolchemie complex hide? Or how do architects see the city? This will be shared by both Vladimír Charvát and Martin Pospíšil from the city's chief architect department, as well as the well-known architecture popularizer Adam Gebrian. The story of Schicht's car will be presented by historian Martin Krsek from the Ústí museum, while photographer Vladimír Cettl will show how the poor state of affairs leads to creativity.

PechaKucha Night Ústí nad Labem number 12 will take place for the fourth time in the closed Hraničář cinema. It is expected to have brighter tomorrows thanks to the activities of the Činoherák Ústí association. "We are glad that our last year’s idea of reopening the cinema through PechaKucha Night evenings and subsequently the fashion market ParketMarket is gaining new momentum and in the future the building will offer the most diverse and regular program possible," says Tomáš Petermann on behalf of the organizers. Architects Zuzana Koňasová and Ondřej Pleštil from the association rescuing the oldest Liberec cinema Varšava will also share similar efforts with the Ústí audience. “We believe that the Hraničář building will offer a wide range of activities. We want to return it to its original purpose, the Public Hall,” revealed Richard Loskot, another organizer.

The concept of PechaKucha Night was created in 2003 in Tokyo as an idea of the architectural studio Dytham Klein Architecture, which wanted to give talents a platform to present their work. The meetings received a great response, and since then the 20x20 format has spread to more than 700 cities around the world. In the Czech Republic, it takes place in Prague, Brno, Mariánské Lázně, Olomouc, Ostrava, Plzeň, Znojmo, Železný Brod, and indeed in Ústí nad Labem.

Program and information about PKNÚ.

More information about the association at www.cinoherak-usti.cz.