We host a series of brief lectures by York, PA's makers and doers, who talk about their craft. Our speakers come from varied backgrounds, but they all work systematically and intentionally to create visceral experiences.
PechaKucha Night York utilizes the 20x20 PechaKucha presentation format: 20 slides that automatically advance every 20 seconds. Learn more at PechaKucha.org.
Featured Speakers AT February 12, 2020 PK NIght Event
Our fourteenth event featured eight presenters talking about their respective crafts.
Rosa Luz Catterall
Experiencing the World through Art and Compassion
As a Latina immigrant from Peru, Rosa Luz Catterall expresses a curiosity to understand people, cultures and community. This led her to pursue careers as a social worker, an art therapist, and a self-taught artist. Her work in the community focuses on themes that address cultural diversity, hope, and healing, and creates spaces that promote support and safety to express freely. The unique qualities that she brings to her practice help connect with people on a human level.
Rosa Luz Catterall was born in Peru and grew up in the U.S. from the age of nine in Queens, New York. She graduated from Queens College with a B.A. in Sociology. Rosa Luz completed her graduate education at N.Y.U. and practices as a bilingual licensed social worker and a registered art therapist. She is an independent contractor for Hershey Medical Center, Conewago Place Drug and Alcohol Residential Treatment, Wellspan, and Olivia’s House. She has an art studio/gallery at Marketview Arts where she paints, plans community projects, and coordinates art wellness groups. Rosa Luz has made a commitment to give back to the community through volunteering as an art therapist at York County Prison Women’s Wing and going on mission trips to Guatemala and Ethiopia.
Steph Holmes
Art and Exploring the Self
The process of arranging recycled collage papers, painting the delicate pattern of a butterfly wing, and building clay sculptures allows artist Steph Holmes to see herself and in turn understand her role in helping others.
Steph Holmes is an artist, art educator, and explorer. Her creative journey has led her to many places and to many forms of self-expression: ceramics, sculpture, painting, book-making, and many others. She now splits her time between creating other worlds in her studio and working as the Director of Education at Creative York, where she helps other people connect with their innate creative selves.
Kraig Hursh
Living the Dream, Helping Others Live the Dream
Kraig’s journey to real estate involved many curved paths, but he is thrilled to have found this destination many years ago. This crazy curvy path involved college in Miami, Florida, working between Miami and New York City, back to York to save money, culinary school in New York City, and finally returning back to York in 1994 to save money, once again, to hopefully blow out of town one year later. Funny thing happened though…Kraig’s “adult get your life together roots” started, family began growing, his second career took off (followed by his third career!) and then flash forward to today. The dream is alive and well.
A full-time, full-fledged, full-service REALTOR with Berkshire Hathaway HomeSale Services, Kraig Hursh has been living the dream since 2002. He has served as President for the REALTOR’s Association of York & Adams Counties, been recognized as REALTOR of the Year in 2012, and has been a top single agent consecutively since 2003, including Rookie of the Year.
Julie Poland
Unleashing Team Potential
How do you take a collection of ordinary people and help them to accomplish extraordinary things? It involves assessing their talents, uncovering the hidden dynamics, and helping them maintain focus on what’s important. Teamwork doesn’t always have to be work – as a matter of fact, it’s often better when play becomes an integral element. This is where the craft comes in.
When she was in first grade, Julie Poland’s teacher Mrs. Clough wrote on her report card that “Julie is sometimes bossy on the playground.” Young Julie’s defense was that “they wanted to do what I wanted to do.” You could probably say that leadership was hard-wired. But Julie will tell you today – MANY years later – that the secret sauce in her work and in her life is rallying people toward the achievement of compelling goals.
Julie Poland is a Partner in Proactive Leadership Group, and works with high-functioning teams and professionals. She’s active on a national and local level as a SCORE volunteer, and she serves on the York board of The Heart and Stroke Association.
Clint Stehman
Creativity Through Collaboration
How the search for individual expression led to the discovery of Clint’s true craft.
Clint Stehman is the founder of Kensho Design/Build. The studio bases its practices of wood and metalworking around the loose translation of its name, revealing a practical approach to fine craftsmanship.
Danielle Stehman
The Real, The Ideal, and the Tension Between
An inherent tension exists between what we ideally envision and what is actually possible. The constant pull between the real and the ideal is where Danielle finds her own practice as an Architect and Urban Designer. Danielle will retell the lessons – learned and learning – from her journey as a hopeful idealist, living and implementing projects amidst a multitude of opposing realities.
Danielle Stehman is an Architect and Urban Designer. Her work focuses on urban revitalization and its transformative potential. Danielle draws inspiration from a mix of interests including furniture fabrication, digital data representation, and community engagement. Her educational and professional background include sustainable urban design, project management, and building design. She has called six countries home, resided on both U.S. coasts, and now lives and works in York City with her husband Clint.
Christopher Strange
How I Became Professionally Strange
Growing up in Southern PA with a fascination for unsolved mysterious, the supernatural, and ghost stories is a blessing and a curse. PA’s rich history provides plenty to be fascinated about, but the community can make it difficult for the oddballs. Christopher ignored the naysayers and turned those unusual fascinations into an ever-evolving performance art career that explores the bizarre all around us.
Christopher Strange, Witch Doctor - Presenting unique and original psychological illusions, hypnotic influence, and turning imagination into reality. Christopher has studied the mysterious and bizarre for decades and now brings that knowledge onto the stage. Using modern science and psychology, he shows how ancient cultures may have achieved the feats we now think are pure fantasy and legend.
John Terlazzo
A Delirious Longing
“My father & mother were holy & wild.
They slept beside the fire & on the ground they bore this child.
I was nursed on the Legends, the mandolin & horn,
Never kneeled to nothing save the Inconceivable Form…”
From The Last Illumination (The Ghost of Arthur Rimbaud),
Words & Music by John Terlazzo, from his newest album, Ancient Chains.
John Terlazzo is a singer-songwriter, poet, painter, and storyteller who has written hundreds of songs over the last 40 years, recorded nine albums of his original works with his band, Voices in the Hall, and has published three books of poetry. He also writes essays, short stories, and two (as yet unpublished) novels, one of which he’s also penned as a full-length feature film script. Additionally, John has been painting for longer than he’s done any of that. For nearly 30 years, Terlazzo has also facilitated a weekend retreat entitled The Flame in Every Hand: Writing as a Contemplative Act. John is self-taught in these disciplines and has no credentials, save that he won’t back down.
FEATURED PRESENTERS AT OUR EVENT ON February 12, 2020. LEFT TO RIGHT: Danielle Stehman, Rosa Luz Catterall, Clint Stehman, John Terlazzo, Kraig Hursh, Julie Poland, Christopher Strange, Steph Holmes.
Anthony Machcinski
