“And then the Grizzly Charged.” Tom Dickson, PechaKucha veteran and longtime editor of Montana Outdoors, is back with a presentation about why wildlife attack people, yet do it so rarely. Tom’s presentations in Bozeman have included “My Left Kidney: Why I Donated a Perfect Organ” and a humor-filled story of his brief career as a carnival barker.
At the next PechaKucha Night, Dickson joins an eclectic roster of presenters at Downtown Bozeman’s Ellen Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 21st and 22nd at 6:40pm each night.
Local architect Rob Pertzborn returns with a dramatic story about the revival of the US Bank building to its original grandeur and how COVID may have saved it. Eva Ticknor describes how a birthday present inspired her to soak her way through 70 Montana hot springs. And middle-school student and podcaster Ezra Graham offers a blueprint on how we can fight “climate hopelessness.”
In “At Least You’re Not Dead,” Jonathan Stewart tells a “medicinal love story” with a big dose of humor and romance mixed in about his medical journey through a rare disease that has left him 50% bionic. Greg D. Adams, a former faculty member at Carnegie Mellon, will explain why every possible voting method is flawed even though democracy is still the best system. And Sierra Drake, who has spent a large chunk of her 36 years living and working with foreign exchange students will explain how it has enriched her life.
In “The Road We Travel,” Marion Scott, a single mom of five children, will relate how she and her children survived domestic abuse. “I want to share parts of my story so others know they are not the only ones,” she says. PK organizer Emilie Saunders will reprise her heartwarming story of Maggie, the Alaskan elephant. Jeremy Mistretta, owner and founder of New Age Artisans, will regale us with how his new-found love of near-beer turned dry January into a dry year and a new lifestyle. Finally, in “Walking to Be Human Again,” Catherine Cassaguet will describe the beauty she finds in walking both here in Montana as well as in the Himalayas and France.
Missy O’Malley, long-time PK emcee, auctioneer, comedian, personality and former TV anchorwoman, will once again grace us with both her charm and groan-inducing humor.
The event is sponsored by American Bank. Tickets are available at www.theellentheatre.com. for $9 (including facility fee). Students may purchase tickets at the door for $5.50.
PechaKucha (peh-chak-cha) offers anyone with a passion or a vision – designers, artists, inventors, architects, adventurers, entrepreneurs – an opportunity to share their ideas with the community during a fast-paced, friendly social get-together. There’s just one catch: presenters have only 20 slides x 20 seconds each, a total of 6 minutes, 40 seconds! •
