Thanks to Enroot, JJ Sheffer, and the York County Economic Alliance, I had the opportunity in May (2023) to be one of five presenters in York, Pennsylvania’s PechaKucha Night York.

For those unfamiliar with the event name, there have been over 1,300 communities that have held similar events with local presenters, but the presentations have some unique twists.

The presenter selects twenty slides, primarily without text, which automatically advance every twenty seconds — regardless of the presenter’s readiness for them to do so! That twist creates the challenge, as well as the puzzle of sorts, in deciding how to tell about your craft in pictures and words in precisely six minutes and forty seconds.

Audience members at the event would see both the presentation on screen and the presenter themselves.

Thanks to JJ for her ongoing work in providing community-building events in York County and to Randy Flaum for his excellent work in capturing the event visually.

PechaKucha presentation from Andrew Smith in May of 2023. Video courtesy Randy Flaum & PechaKucha York.