Pecha Kucha Night
In Denver? Not doing anything January 20th around 8pm? Come on down to Pecha Kucha Night and watch 7 artists/designers (and 1 engineer) show 20 slides and speak for 20 seconds about each slide. It's at Buntport Theater. The prize for sitting through six and a half minutes of whatever I manage to come up with is that you also get to hear from real Denver stars like:
Alicia Bailey
Judy Gardner
Marc Hughes
Max Kauffman
Justin Martinez
Myron Seveland
Katie Wells
And in a weird coincidence, the current production at Buntport is Neil Simon's Rumors by Hunger Artists. The last time I was on a stage in front of a significant crowd was 17 years ago at our high school production of Rumors, in which I played co-lead Ken. (The other lead was played by my friend Marcus Folmar, who went on to become a successful actor and screenwriter.) Even stranger, the set for this production is almost exactly the same as the one we had in high school.
This is also my first attempt at public speaking since getting the voice disorder spasmodic dysphonia over 7 years ago (has it been that long already?). And SD is exacerbated by stress (stress like, oh I don't know, speaking in public) so it should be... interesting. Or awful. But like I said, there are seven other people who presumably don't have neurological voice disorders, so it's still 5 bucks well spent.
posted by Scott Bennett on 1/10/2009
3 Comments:
Oh dear! Like I said we can put you in the 2nd half. and I don't know if this helps or not, but there's beer!
It's gonna be great - thanks again for doing it!
Don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds. I can usually work around it when I have to, it's normal quiet conversation (and talking on the phone) where it's really bad. And, yes, I will be drinking. It may not help, but it makes everything seem a lot better.
Good luck with your speech. Worst case scenario you could find a good text-to-speech program and go full Stephen Hawking style. Actually I dare you to get pushed on to stage in a wheel chair..body limp...head cocked to the side with a subtle amount of drool. Have someone start the Hawking speech then about half way through it stand up, walk over to the podium, pull out some Bombay Saphire and tonic, pour yourself a drink. Make sure you raise the glass in a "toasting"/head nod gesture to the audience and enjoy. Get back to the wheel chair before the speech is over and resume the limp posture and stay in character the rest of the night. You will be the hit of the show/talk of the town.
Oh shit....wait...this comment is going to be posted in public where others can read it....I probably shouldn't have said all those things....just kidding...have fun and good luck.
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