7:30 p.m. Happy Hour 8:45 p.m. Presentations.
Rain Date: Tuesday June 9

Light refreshments are provided. Alcoholic beverages by The Esquire Tavern are available for purchase for guests ages 21-years or older.

Emcees: Randy Beamer and Molly Cox
PechaKucha Night San Antonio, in partnership with Las Casas Foundation, presents PechaKucha San Antonio Vol. 18 as part of The Department for Culture and Creative Development’s Cine y Arte at La Villita series

PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) is an event format developed by Tokyo’s Klein Dytham Architecture to encourage creative professionals to share projects and ideas that they are passionate about. Presentations follow a typical PowerPoint format, with the limitation that each presenter must have exactly 20 slides, and each slide advances automatically every 20 seconds (for a total time of 6:40). San Antonio’s first PechaKucha Night was held in February,
2011, and has been a quarterly event ever since.

Lewis F. Fisher, Author and Historian
Lewis F. Fisher is the author of numerous prize-winning books on San Antonio. They include American Venice: The Epic Story of San Antonio's River, Chili Queens, Hay Wagons and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio and Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage. His Maverick Publishing Company, which published 45 general interest nonfiction regional books by 26 authors, was recently acquired by Trinity University Press.

Corey Squire and Helena Zambrano, A Sustainable Relationship
Helena Zambrano and Corey Squire both decided at a young age that they wanted to save the world, and they came to the same conclusion: that architecture is the way to do it. They both currently work as sustainability coordinators at neighboring architecture firms — Helena at Overland Partners and Corey at Lake | Flato Architects — and serve on the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) as chair and treasurer, respectively. They first met at a COTE meeting and bonded over their shared love of daylight simulation and their shared hatred of perforated metal. Corey and Helena live in Dignowity Hill where they spend their time cycling, composting, and subsisting off vegetables from their garden and eggs from their chickens.

David Martin Davies, Public Radio Journalist
David Martin Davies was once arrested for playing punk rock music inside Wonderland Shopping Mall. Today, he hosts The Source on KSTX Texas Public Radio — a live daily call-in news program. He also hosts Texas Matters, which airs on Texas Public Radio stations. In his 20 years in journalism as a TV news producer, reporter and columnist, his work has been featured on NPR, Marketplace and the BBC. His many awards include the 2008 Texas Radio Journalist of the Year.
www.tpr.org

Brantley Hightower, Architect and Writer
Brantley Hightower founded HiWorks, a San Antonio architecture firm, after studying architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and Princeton University. He has taught at schools including the University of Texas at Austin, Texas Tech University and Trinity University. Brantley produces "The Works," an architecture podcast, and is a regular contributor to Texas Architect magazine. His first book, The Courthouses of Central Texas, was published earlier this year by the University of Texas Press.
www.HiWorksArchitecture.com

Libby Wardlaw Maddin, Road Trip Enthusiast
Libby Wardlaw Maddin is a musician, road trip enthusiast, and San Antonio native. She spent the vacations of her youth packed into a 1978 suburban with her five siblings and parents, who ignited her passion for exploration and in more recent years provided her with a day job flexible enough to take business calls and write emails from the middle of the desert. When she's not hitting the road, she sings in various musical projects with her husband Chris and with the San Antonio Mastersingers. She has also been a host on KRTU's Indie Overnight for 10 years.
www.sharkheart.com

Amanda Bianchi, Snazzy Arts Babe
Amanda Bianchi works at Cinnabar art gallery in Blue Star and is a style contributor for the new LGBTQ publication, Out In SA. . She has also been actively involved with the food and beverage industry in San Antonio for the past five years, working at establishments such as The Monterey and Feast that have helped to shape the current landscape we see today.
www.bianchisbits.com

Avi Avalos, Mr. Piñata SA
Avi Avalos is a Mexican-American artist and San Antonio native. His art is simply a visual language used to connect to the city’s vibrant culture in the most positive light. Mr. Piñata SA was initially created as a research tool for a children's book in 2013 but evolved into an initiative to bring fine art to public places in an effort to create cultural art awareness. Mr. Piñata SA is now an ambassador of San Antonio, and his adventures have taken him across the U.S. as he promotes our City on the Rise.
www.mrpinatasa.com

Jeremy Joseph, Clinical Psychologist
Jeremy Joseph is a psychologist who conducts clinical research on treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder. He is interested in how we relate to our dreams, often working with patients who struggle with nightmares. The California native went to college in Chicago, volunteered in Israel, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming and did an internship year in Albuquerque. In 2013 he began a postdoctoral fellowship at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. If you live in Monte Vista, you’ve probably seen him and his wife walking their greyhound, Sofia.
www.jjosephphd.com

For more information, go to www.pechakucha.org/cities/san-antonio