# PechaKucha Night Kyoto

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Published: 2025-09-24

Updated: 2025-09-26

After a decade away, I’m back co-organizing PechaKucha Night Kyoto.

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PechaKucha Night Kyoto

After a decade away, I’m back co-organizing [PechaKucha Night Kyoto](https://www.instagram.com/pechakucha_kyoto/?ref=ashryan.io). [Volume 50 is this Saturday](https://www.instagram.com/p/DOqKVpvDyXg/?ref=ashryan.io\&img_index=1), Sep 27 from 8pm at [UrBANGUILD](https://urbanguild.net/?ref=ashryan.io).

I’ll be presenting about why people in 2025 still care about vinyl records. It’s a topic I have [some bias](https://www.collxn.com/?ref=ashryan.io) about.

Attached are some pics from my last couple of PK Kyotos back in late 2014, one pic from the 10th anniversary of PechaKucha Night Tokyo in 2013, …

And if you make to the end there’s a blurry one of my first PK Kyoto presy in maybe 2011 or 2012 where you might assume the title was “What if a guy in a cowboy hat told you about MPCs.”

![Ash Ryan Arnwine presenting at PechaKucha Night Kyoto](https://www.ashryan.io/images/writing/pechakucha-night-kyoto/ash-ryan-arnwine-pechakucha-night-kyoto-3be012df93.png)

Ash presenting at PechaKucha Night Kyoto.

![Ash Ryan Arnwine saying goodbye at PechaKucha Night Kyoto](https://www.ashryan.io/images/writing/pechakucha-night-kyoto/pechakucha-night-kyoto-ash-ryan-arnwine-goodbye-607f37c47b.jpg)

A goodbye moment at PechaKucha Night Kyoto.

![PechaKucha Night Kyoto audience and stage](https://www.ashryan.io/images/writing/pechakucha-night-kyoto/pechakucha-night-kyoto-845f53dbaf.jpg)

PechaKucha Night Kyoto, late 2014.

![PechaKucha Night Kyoto event photo](https://www.ashryan.io/images/writing/pechakucha-night-kyoto/pechakucha-night-kyoto-2-8aeaaa19f6.jpg)

Another PechaKucha Night Kyoto event photo from late 2014.

![PechaKucha Night Tokyo 10th anniversary event photo](https://www.ashryan.io/images/writing/pechakucha-night-kyoto/pechakucha-night-tokyo-10th-anniversary-c7428c2bad.jpg)

PechaKucha Night Tokyo 10th anniversary, 2013.

![Ash Ryan Arnwine presenting at an early PechaKucha Night Kyoto](https://www.ashryan.io/images/writing/pechakucha-night-kyoto/ash-ryan-arnwine-pechakucha-night-kyoto-2-7631a89ddf.jpg)

Ash presenting at an early PechaKucha Night Kyoto.

Follow [PechaKucha Night Kyoto on Insta](https://www.instagram.com/pechakucha_kyoto/?ref=ashryan.io) and you win life.

If you’re ever rolling through Kyoto, come speak at PechaKucha! We do them twice a year.