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.

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