PORTSMOUTH, N.H., November 3, 2011 – The latest PechaKucha Portsmouth Night, “Everybody Eats,” co-sponsored by Calypso Communications and STREET eat/drink 360’ is slated for Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 7pm.  PechaKucha, pronounced pet-cha-ku-cha and meaning the sounds of chit-chat in Japanese, has brought Seacoast people together under a simple premise of sharing concepts, inspirations, and motivations through a creative, fun conversation with 20 presentation slides, giving each slide no more than 20 seconds.

Calypso Communications (www.calypsocom.com), a strategic marketing and public relations firm and STREET eat/drink 360’, the hip new restaurant serving local organic food prepared with flavors from around the world are expecting more than their typical 100 in attendance on this, the 9^th PechaKucha Portsmouth Night.  “Meals become exciting when you mix guests and expose them to a variety of styles and flavors,” said PechaKucha (PK) Portsmouth organizer Mike Teixeira. “PK and STREET 360’ do the same thing: one does it on the palette and one in the mind.  This event at this place was the perfect combo meal.”

PK Night will feature eight local professionals; each will impart their unique vision and provocative interpretation on the topic through PechaKucha’s signature presentation style — 20 PowerPoint slides, with 20 seconds of explanation per slide, for a total of six minutes and 40 seconds.  The PechaKucha presentation style creates an interesting challenge while providing a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

PechaKucha began in February 2003 in Tokyo as an event for young architects to meet, network, and show their work in public.  Since that time, PK Nights have migrated to hundreds of cities around the world into conversations for all industries and disciplines to share a collective enthusiasm for ideas and celebration.  “There is a great dichotomy here between the concise business presentation format and timing and the informal exuberance of sharing a passion with others,” said Teixeira.

The STREET eat/drink 360’ doors at 801 Islington Street will open to the PK Night at 6 p.m. and the program will begin at 7 p.m. sharp.  PK Night is free and open to the public. For more information visit the event Facebook page or follow @nhpk on Twitter.  To present at a future PechaKucha Portsmouth event, contact Calypso at 603-431-0816 or email pschmuhl@calypsocom.com.

About PechaKucha

PechaKucha (Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown. This concept has grown into global demand – without any pushing – as PechaKucha Night has spread virally to more than 449 cities across the world.  For more information, visit www.pecha-kucha.org.

About Calypso Communications

Based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and active in Washington D.C., Calypso Communications is a premier, award-winning strategic marketing, corporate communications, and business development consultancy. Highly sought after for its seasoned insight and perspective, Calypso effectively engages stakeholders crucial to driving business and value for clients in the energy, healthcare, and technology industries. For more information on how Calypso can focus your communications to maximize your bottom line, visit www.calypsocom.com.

About STREET eat/drink 360’

Nestled in the Gallagher’s Place Plaza of Portsmouth, NH’s west end, Chef Josh Lanahan and Principal Michelle Lozuaway have made another splash on the local dining market with STREET.  This sibling to the Fresh Local trifecta (Bayside, Dockside, and Truck) offers guest culturally inspired dishes that focus on international street foods of the world.  STREET’s “I am going to eat everything in the whole world” dining experience is a glimpse into the fun, healthy desire to share foods not typically found in the Northeast.  Located at 801 Islington Street in Portsmouth, NH, the restaurant is open seven days a week 11:00 a.m.to close serving lunch and dinner with a full bar; Sunday brunch from 9:00 a.m. ‘til 3:00 p.m.; Sunday dinner 4:00 p.m. to close; and can accommodate private functions.  For more information, visit www.streetfood360.com.

Portsmouth N.H.—October 21, 2011 – Calypso Communications (www.calypsocom.com), a strategic marketing and public relations firm, announced the appointment of Parry Headrick as Senior Director of Communications. Headrick, a former reporter and public relations agency leader, is charged with providing ongoing strategic counsel and execution for Calypso’s diverse roster of national and international clients.

“The role of communications has evolved radically in recent years, and it’s critical that we continue to provide clients with evolving, high-level expertise,” said Kevin Stickney, Calypso’s founder. “Parry has spent the last decade in the trenches with some of Silicon Valley’s most forward-looking companies, and he understands the challenges – and opportunities – in today’s communications landscape.”
Headrick spent the last six years as a director and vice president at SHIFT Communications in San Francisco, where he developed creative public relations and social media strategies for business-to-business and consumer clients alike, both public and privately held. He also served as a national media training lead for several clients, and worked across teams as a creative branding leader.
Prior to SHIFT, Headrick served for four years in the public relations account management function at Sterling Hager, working on a range of high-tech clients in San Francisco and the greater Boston area. Before moving deeper into the public relations field, Headrick was a general assignment reporter at two daily newspapers in New England – the Lowell Sun and Waterbury Republican-American.
“This is an agency with both creative moxie and a firm grounding in traditional communications principles,” Headrick said. “I’m excited to join forces with Calypso at this upward stage of its growth, and look forward to helping clients put their competitors in their rearview mirrors.”
About Calypso Communications
Based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and active in Washington D.C., Calypso Communications is a premier, award-winning strategic marketing, corporate communications, and business development consultancy. Highly sought after for its seasoned insight and perspective, Calypso effectively engages stakeholders crucial to driving business and value for clients in the energy, healthcare, and technology industries. For more information on how Calypso can focus your communications to maximize your bottom line, visit http://www.calypsocom.com.

“Usource helps its customers secure industry leading prices, flexible terms, and new opportunities in today’s complex deregulated energy markets,” said Tom Withka, Managing Director of Usource.  “Calypso has significant experience in energy industries and we saw the firm to be a perfect match in assisting USource.”

Usource’s strong energy knowledge allows clients to focus on core businesses, quickly secure reliable power supply, and realize long-term cost savings. With more than1,200 customers in 18 states, Usource has a customer retention rate of 98%, giving the company highly unusual positioning in the energy services marketplace.

“We’re thrilled to work with Usource, providing support and guidance as it continues its substantial growth in the energy services industry,” said Kevin Stickney, Calypso founder. “From our energy industry experience it’s clear that the Usource brand, value proposition, and remarkable customer loyalty rates promise considerable opportunity for new success.”

Calypso has established itself as a leading communications and business development agency, nationally recognized for its innovative expertise and experience in the rapidly evolving energy and environmental sectors. The agency’s broad client base represents a full range of traditional, alternative, renewable, and emerging solutions for future energy, power, and environmental demands worldwide and includes companies active in municipal waste-to-energy, clean coal, natural gas, nuclear, biodiesel, wind, tidal, solar, geothermal, ethanol, and cellulosic ethanol technologies and services.

“The word ‘sakura’ denotes not only the famous springtime cherry blossom season throughout Japan, but also the spirit of rebirth and renewal,” said Pecha Kucha organizer Mike Teixeira. “In light of the recent devastation in Japan from the earthquake and tsunami, we thought it was the perfect theme for the night’s presentations as a symbol of hope for Japan.”

PKN Sakura will feature local artists and innovators presenting on the over-arching themes of springtime, renewal, rebirth, reconstruction, and/or reawakening. The speaker line up for PKN Sakura includes Alfonso Fabrega, Pixel Media; Pam Ikegami, UNH Professor of Japanese Language and Culture; Matt Talbot, Illustrator; Lars Trodson, Roundtable Pictures; Jim Roldan, Illustrator; and Stephanie Cornell, Photographer. Each will bestow unique insight and thought provoking interpretation on their topic via Pecha Kucha’s signature presentation style: 20 PowerPoint slides, with 20 seconds of explanation per slide, for a total of six minutes and 40 seconds. The Pecha Kucha presentation style creates an interesting challenge while providing a fun and relaxed atmosphere.

“Our community has responded so strongly to these events in the past. They have been a source of insight, laughter, and new business connections and we are proud to be a part of it,” said Teixeira.

PKN Sakura is free and open to the public. For more information visit the event Facebook page or follow @nhpk on Twitter. To present at a future Pecha Kucha event, contact Mike Teixeira at 603-431-0816 or visit www.calypsocom.com.

About Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha (Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown. This concept has grown into global demand – without any pushing – as Pecha Kucha Night has spread virally to more than 250 cities across the world. For more information visit www.pecha-kucha.org.

Stephanie Cornell, Art Director

Calypso Communications (www.calypsocom.com), a full-service strategic marketing, corporate communications, and business development consultancy, recently expanded its creative services department with the appointment of Stephanie Cornell as the firm’s art director. With 15 years of experience in media, marketing, and public relations at both the national and international levels, Cornell will be responsible for visual direction and implementation across Calypso’s growing client roster of energy, healthcare, and technology clients.

Cornell comes to Calypso after four years in Asia where she worked as a copywriter and project manager with consumer electronics giants such as LG Electronics and Sony Corporation for public relations firm Burson-Marsteller in Seoul, South Korea, and Tokyo, Japan.

This international business perspective has refueled her design and adds valuable experience as Calypso continues to add to its international presence. Prior to her move to Asia, Cornell worked as a graphic designer and art director to create advertising, merchandising, and marketing tools for consumer retail, food, and healthcare clients.

“Energy is an international industry and having her global insight will be a huge benefit to our client base,” says Mike Teixeira, Calypso’s creative director. “She is one of those rare creative folks who excels in multiple disciplines. She writes like a photographer, shoots like a story-teller, and designs with a passion-backed intellect. I’m excited to have Stephanie on our team.”

Cornell also brings ten years of experience in television and film production, having worked on numerous television commercials and motion pictures. Most recently, Cornell produced two television programs in 2010 for broadcaster Discovery Channel Asia, including a documentary about Korean figure skater and Olympic gold medalist Yuna Kim.

Cornell holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film from Emerson College in Boston. She has recently relocated to Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

“As we approach two decades of operation, we’re confident that Calypso’s marketing expertise will help solidify our brand persona and introduce new areas of focus, differentiating ourselves from the competition,” said Jim Sullivan, NEFCO’s general manager.

Bold, colorful design reflective of NEFCO’s new brand image merges the vitality of nature and the company’s role in sustaining the environment. Targeted key messaging and integrated search engine optimization (SEO) improve user experience through intuitive navigation and interactive elements. Calypso developed the site on open source software to facilitate integration with current online technologies, incorporating a robust control panel for easy in-house editing.

Serving Boston and 43 surrounding communities for the past 18 years, NEFCO currently operates one of the world’s premier biosolids dewatering, drying, and granulation facilities in Quincy, Massachusetts. Additional facilities are located in North Andover, Massachusetts; Shakopee, Minnesota; West Palm Beach, Florida; and Cumberland, Maryland.

“NEFCO is poised to become an industry leader in the next several years,” said Kevin Stickney, founder of Calypso Communications. “We’re delighted to be working with such an innovative pioneer in the biosolids industry, a company that is rapidly reshaping the way communities manage and renew their water and wastewater resources.”

At a moment when many public relations firms seem more interested in the platform used to deliver messages than the content of the message itself, Calypso Communications remains intensely focused on ideas and the language used to convey them… Click here or on the adjacent icon to read the full article.

“Portsmouth offers the highest caliber talent in marketing, design, and public relations – typically at more reasonable rates than similar agencies based in the Boston,” said Calypso’s vice president Sharon Delaney. “We’re thrilled to partner with Graphic Details on this project and look forward to continuing to provide the Museum with marketing support following its March 2011 grand opening.”

The 22,000 sq. ft. Waterworks Museum is located at 2450 Beacon Street on the site of the historic Chestnut Hill Reservoir and High Service Pumping Station. The Museum is home to a number of collections that preserve the history and traditions of the Boston region, including three steam-powered pumping engines, each standing more than three stories high, which provided the rapidly growing metropolitan area with clean, portable water at the turn of the 20^th century. It also provides a variety of hands-on educational experiences in history, science, engineering, and technology, from both self- and staff-guided tours and expert-led lectures to school field trips and teacher professional development workshops. The grand opening of the Waterworks Museum in Chestnut Hill is scheduled for Sunday, March 27, 2011.

Angela Carter, Senior Vice President

Since 1988, Leadership Seacoast has provided its members with programming that offers the opportunity to engage with the people and organizations that shape the Seacoast’s economic structure and social fabric. Carter has served on the Board of Directors since 2006 and has helped the non-profit organization further its mission of positively impacting the communities of the Seacoast by developing a base of effective, knowledgeable, and engaged leaders. In June, Leadership Seacoast graduated its 22nd class increasing the alumni count to more than 600 community leaders.

Living and working throughout the region in corporate, non-profit, public, and private sectors, graduates are diverse in their interests and community involvements. “The power of our people is a driving force for Leadership Seacoast,” said Carter. “As we enter 2011, we remain on task to re-engage the many talented alumni in our ranks and continue to provide opportunities to enhance the communities we live in.”

The Leadership Seacoast Board is comprised of 12 members including vice chair Carol Walker Aten of Tegwe Consulting, board secretary Rick Dexter and treasurer, Cindy Boyd, Managing Director of the Greater Seacoast United Way.