Category: PauseTalk

  • PauseTalk in January

    This was originally posted on the PauseTalk website. The first PauseTalk of 2025 in Shanghai, our Vol. 94, will take place on Thursday, January 23 at Bananafish New HQ (7 Hongbaoshi Road), with a start time of 19:30. As always, no entry fee, and you are free to bring your own drinks and snacks. Here’s the Facebook event page, and more updates will…

  • PauseTalk Vol. 93

    This was originally posted to the PauseTalk website. PauseTalk Vol. 93 was held on Thursday, December 12 at Bananafish New HQ, with a group that was ready to talk and drink (well, I might have done most of the drinking). As always, a great evening of discussion that touched at various points on freelance vs.…

  • PauseTalk in December

    PauseTalk in December

    The post was originally shared on the PauseTalk website. The next PauseTalk in Shanghai (Vol. 93) is set for Thursday, December 12, again at Bananafish New HQ. As usual, we’ll start the discussion at 19:30, and please note that there is no entry fee, and you are free to bring drinks and/or snacks. Here’s the Facebook event page, and as a…

  • PauseTalk Vol. 92

    This was originally posted to the PauseTalk website. PauseTalk Vol. 92 took place on Thursday, October 10 at Bananafish New HQ, and we had another great mix of participants which made for a fun couple of hours of discussion, from the ups and downs of working on projects for western brands in China, to the art scene in Shanghai (and China in general), with…

  • PauseTalk Vol. 91

    This was originally posted to the PauseTalk website. PauseTalk Vol. 91 was held on Wednesday, August 28 at Garden Books, and it was a wonderful session. First off, it was the biggest group we’ve had so far in Shanghai – lucky 13 – which really tends to be the ideal size for this sort of thing…

  • A Summer of PKN & PT

    It’s been a while since my last update, I know, but things keep on keeping. On the PechaKucha Night side of things, since April we held events both in May (Vol. 36, themed on “gaming”) and July (Vol. 37) at our usual venue of Studio 9. The July event marked the start of a “triple…

  • PauseTalk Next Week

    One of the interesting things that has happened since my return to Asia is the return of PauseTalk. As I wrote in detail in this post, when I left Tokyo back in 2015 I also decided to put an end to my PauseTalk series (with Vol. 85). I wasn’t really interested in handing it over…