Volume 23
Asheville, after a brief hiatus, we are BACK!
PechaKucha Night returns to Asheville for v23: BREAKING THE MOLD. Get excited to hear from creative, passionate, and delightful humans who are breaking the mold in our community and in our world.
Doors open at 7p and the show begins at 730p.
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When we sell out, there's standing room, so arrive at 7p to claim your seat!
Free parking is available in the lot across from The Grove House, while space lasts.
Tickets cost $11 online and $12 at the door.
TONIGHT’S SPEAKERS
Lisa Zahiya
Lisa is an internationally known life-coach, small business developer, speaker, dancer, and performer. She is the founder & owner of Studio Zahiya, Zahiya Bellydance, Asheville Bachelorette Parties; and Lisa Zahiya Coaching, a coaching program for entrepreneurs. She has offered workshops on body image and self-love across the country; she's taught and performed belly dance in New York City, Las Vegas, Austin, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Montreal, and Southern France. She's also taught at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, Warren Wilson College and Western Carolina University.
lisazahiya@gmail.com
Kendall Williams
My passion for health and well-being has inspired my work with individuals and groups for the past 15 years. I have facilitated transformational experiences through bodywork, meditation, embodied movement practices and wilderness adventure. Within my private practice I work with individuals using a relational, bottom up and body-oriented approach to healing, I aim to increase one’s unique capacity for fulfillment and a sense of ease in the world. I weave Somatic Experiencing, touch, mindfulness and spiritual coaching into personal sessions depending on the needs of the moment.
kendallw3@gmail.com
Beth Kellerhals
From the Midwest, Beth Kellerhals spent her college years in Greenville, SC where she baked instead of studied. She earned an English degree which she put to good use teaching English in China. A scholarship provided by the Chinese Government allowed her to study Mandarin while eating her way across Asia. She returned to Chicago to earn a Art de le Patisserie at The French Pastry School before heading to Los Angeles. She is excited to be returning to her roots here in Asheville. Her family has lived here for almost 19 years and she is happy to be a part of this creative and innovative food community.
pastrychefbeth@gmail.com
Erik Iverson
Remember this face because Erik Iverson is someone you might want to track down in the apocalypse. He can cook a satisfying meal foraged from the trail or roadside. He’ll teach you to cultivate the seeds with improvised tools. He’ll unite a well-rounded alliance of your new best friends and collaborators. Apocalypse or not, death comes for us all, so why not make it a good one? This is, in part, what led him to co-found www.holdingspaceasheville.org
erik@holdingspaceasheville.org
BATTLEDECKS:
You take the stage! We’ll show five random images for 20 seconds each; you improvise a talk without knowing what is coming next. The result? Hilarity! Each volunteer receives a free ticket to the next PK Night Asheville on 02.20.2020!!!
Amber White
Amber has been an Ashevillian for nearly 10 years. She graduated from UNC Asheville in 2012, and worked in Marketing and Design for the first 8 years of her career. She now co-owns a woman-led Real Estate team called Curated Housing Collection of Asheville under the Berkshire Hathaway umbrella. When she's not showing homes, she loves taking walks with her Beagle, Josie, cooking, enjoying live music, and casually dismantling the indoctrination of Evangelical Fundamentalism in her everyday life... You know, the usual things.
amberleigh164@gmail.com
Liz Trader Williams
Located in Asheville, Liz toes the line between the real and fantastic in a variety of mediums including photography and illustration. Her subjects range from photos of nationally acclaimed musicians to animations of family cats. Recently, she has joined Campaign for Southern Equality as the Artist in Residence. Through this position, Liz seeks to collaborate with her community and create uplifting artwork and conversation reflective of the LGBTQ identity and the nuances of it.
e.evwilliams@gmail.com
David Carr
David is the husband of Terri, the father of Erin (NYC) and Brett (AFD). He is an Eagle Scout and graduate of DePauw University. David has been a business owner, marketer, sales manager, artist, newspaper columnist, teacher, Girl Scout, window washer, blogger and author of "What's On Your Rear End?" Since 1996, David has be an experience-based facilitator of organization development, team building and leadership for Fortune 500 companies, non-profits and currently, the City of Asheville. He and Terri became transplanted Buckeyes in 2009 to Asheville.
carrpe.diem@gmail.com
Amy Cantrell
Rev. Amy Cantrell lives/works in the intentional community, BeLoved Asheville. BeLoved brings people from all walks of life together to tackle some of the most challenging problems of our time: homelessness, poverty, and racism. BeLoved’s projects includes: BeLoved Village of affordable homes, Homeless Voice Project, the first homeless Street Medic Team in the nation, Proud to Be Brown initiative, BeLoved Mexico, Rise Up Art Studio, being the first declared sanctuary in WNC, Elders Free Farmers Markets and community gardens, as well as advocacy campaigns around affordable housing, gentrification, systemic racism. She is a pastor in the Presbyterian Church, USA. A queer woman who loves being mom to twin five year olds. She loves the color purple, playing guitar, and studying movement history.
belovedasheville@gmail.com facebook.com/amycantrell
If you're new to PechaKucha, go brush up on the details: pechakucha.com If you have questions after that, give us a holler!
If it ain't your first rodeo, we're so eager to see you again. The organizers are thankful for your patience as we dove deeper into the worlds of business-building and human-raising!
