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Give special cheers to our Digital Illustrators 🖍️ Katya Balakina (@xrenobl) and 🖍️ Coté Soerens (@cotesoerens) for turning our December's Audience Takes the Stage speakers into visual notes. 📝

Check out this graphic recording about our 3 super-talented audience members on the theme CYCLE. ♻️ 🛞 🌀

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Digital Kitchen - 8.26.11, a set on Flickr.

Photos from the Latest Creative Mornings Breakfast Lecture

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What a morning hosting December's event! Special thanks to our venue, volunteers, global, and local sponsors for making this month's event happen.

A special shoutout to our 3 talented audience members for their inspiring dialogue on the theme #cycle.

As we wrap up our 2024, we thank everyone for attending our 2024 events. We are excited for what 2025 holds for us!

If your company, agency, or business love what we do and want to support our chapter to generate future morning events, DM on our Instagram (@chicago_cm) or drop an email - chicago@creativemornings.com

We are excited to hear from you!

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This month, December 2024, Audience Takes the Stage will feature 3 super-talented members on the theme CYCLE 🛞 ♻ 🌀. Let's learn about our: 🎤 Speaker #1: Kurt Jolly

Kurt Jolly is a queer Chicago-based writer, director and performer. They have a diverse experience in many artistic avenues: teaching art education, performing on the stage, and working behind the writing desk and the camera. Like their name, they look to find the joy and happiness in the world while also acknowledging its darkness. Upcoming projects include a horror comedy film 🎥 “Death Fest 3000” and a one person show 🎭.

🎤 Speaker #2: Nic Huchtmeier

Nic (they/them) is self-taught artist offering fine line, soft realism, dotwork, and stipple style tattoos. They have been tattooing for several years in Illinois and Colorado. Nic is currently based in Chicago at the beautiful serene Evergreen Studios.

🎤 Speaker #3: Madeline Loshaw

Madeline Loshaw is a collector of stuff she finds on the sidewalk. She loves recognizing patterns of waste and organizing discarded items in new ways to return their value. She is also the creator of the tiny lil actions Chicago newsletter and is currently improving foster kittens' lives by introducing them to Taylor Swift's discography. The event will be ✨ In-Person ✨ at The Den Theatre - 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60622 🗓️ Friday, December 13th ⏰ 8:30-10AM CST 🎵 DJ Mike Caliber 🎟️ Registration Opens this Friday, Dec. 6th. First come, first served! Limited! 👏 High fives and humble gratitude to our local sponsors: Big Shoulders Coffee | Busy Beaver Buttons | Downstate Donuts | DJ Mike Caliber

💛 Humble gratitude to our global partner: Adobe

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We're throwing some magic throwback from September's event. ✨

Everything would not be possible without our September's speaker, volunteers, and local sponsors. We thank you! 💛

See the rest of the our magic 📸 ✨ from our Flickr.

📸 taken by our #CMChi Photo Team.

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October's photos are up on our Flickr. Visit our memory lane of many new and familiar ✨😄✨

Special thanks to our October's speakers, venue, & local sponsors for making the event happen.

We are counting down the end of 2024 and preparing one final event before we wrap up the year.

Photo taken by our awesome #CMChi Photo Team 📸

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What a morning hosting November's event! Special thanks to our venue, volunteers, global, and local sponsors for making this month's event happen. A special shoutout to Emma McKee for her inspiring dialogue on the theme #thread. See the rest of the magic pics ✨ 📸 from our Flickr taken by our fantastic #CMChi Photo Team: https://lnkd.in/geXV_EPb If your company, agency, or local business love what we do and want to support our chapter to generate future morning events, DM on our Instagram (@chicago_cm) or drop an email - chicago@creativemornings.com We are excited to hear from you!

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🎤 Next Speaker: Emma McKee, @thestitchgawd Emma McKee isn’t your average cross stitcher. Born in Kansas City, she was first introduced to the medium through her mother, a British opera singer who frequently attempted to teach Emma how to stitch during her childhood. Yet she always refused to learn, finding the British craft too antiquated — that is, until she found a way to make cross stitching work for her. In 2014, Emma stitched her first piece: An adaptation of Will Prince’s artwork for Chance the Rapper’s song “Hey Ma.” She followed that with a piece for street artist JC Rivera, Chicago’s “Bear Champ.” Her portfolio expanded from there, as she firmly planted herself within Chicago’s rap community, as the scene’s preeminent — and only — hip-hop cross stitcher, earning the name Stitch Gawd. Since 2014, she’s created countless pieces for musicians and artists both in and outside Chicago. 📅 Friday, November 15th at 8:30-10am 📍 ⭐ In-Person Only ⭐ at Marwen - 833 N. Orleans St., Chicago, 60610 🎵 DJ Mike Caliber 🎟️ Registration Opens TODAY (Friday, November 7th at 9am). Tickets go first come, first served. Limited! 👋 High fives and humble gratitude to our local sponsors: Big Shoulders Coffee | Busy Beaver Button Company | Downstate Donuts | DJ Mike Caliber 💛 And a big shout out to our global partner: Adobe

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🥁 drumroll please… @Adobe is CreativeMornings’ new Global Partner! Adobe recognizes the impact CreativeMornings is having on the global ecosystem of creativity and they’re committed to reaffirming their support of creatives all around the world. This is huge!

Read the entire announcement: https://creativemornings.com/blog/welcome-global-partner-adobe  

Bust out your confetti and welcome Adobe!

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Three cheers to our Digital Illustrator 🖍️ Katya Balakina (@xrenobl) for turning our September's talk into magnificent visual notes. 📝

Check out this graphic recording about Natasha Oliveras's talk on the theme #Reflection 🪞

Here's quick takeaways from Sept's event:

- If we can't be ourselves freely, how can we create freely.

- Remove the notion of authority.

- Let people speak their own language.

- Make it safe for everyone to be questioned.

- Take a moment reground & reflect on the instances that seem overwhelmed and big.

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Say hello to our fall local sponsor!

Downstate Donuts is Chicago's First Potato Donut Shop. Their mission is simple, which is making potato donuts that WOW your taste buds with every single bite.

They believe in fun and fit focused foods nurture exceptional quality and help us become the neighborhood beacon our community can be proud of.

Founder Virgil is a former restaurant industry vets with a great love for simplistic food that delivers insanely great flavor. After the company launch at Dountfest 2019 unexpectedly took home 1st place for "Best Donut" the mission was clear: "Make this Chicago's everyday donut."

Their donuts is more then just a fad or trend. They are poised to be the next Krispy Kreme.

Our local sponsor is offering donuts to our monthly, morning events starting September (this month) to December 2024.

Stop by their shop located in Uptown. Drop by for rotating seasonal flavors and take a peek at the Clifton Street Art Gallery.

Follow their Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok.

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We are featured Adler University's blog about hosting of its first CreativeMornings event at the Chicago campus.

We express our gratitude to Adler University for the global mention of CreativeMornings and our local chapter.

The onset of the autumn season brings excitement as we embark on this magical journey! ✨ 🍂

Click here to read more.

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CreativeMornings/Chicago invites you to a panel discussion focused on building a more intentional and connected creative community. This event is for artists and creatives seeking inspiration and committed to social change.

Organized by People's Action, in partnership with the Chicago History Museum and the Design Museum of Chicago, the event encourages active participation and meaningful discussion. 

🗓️ Thursday, September 26th

⏰ 6 - 9PM

📍 Chicago History Museum

🎟️ This event is FREE for all members. RSVP Now!

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🎤 Next Speaker: Natasha Oliveras-Figueroa Natasha Oliveras is a globally-minded creative leader with extensive experience across all aspects of advertising including broadcast, print, radio, OOH, digital, social, experiential, on-premise, and retail/shopper. She’s changed the way Coca-Cola approached their digital programs, told millions of people their breath stinks, wore Sir Paul McCartney’s top-secret album as a USB necklace, and somewhat-accidentally became the “voice of Diet Coke”. She’s a strategy groupie, a constant problem solver, proud mentor, a complicit ally to all, a forever-island kid (hashtag#PuertoRicoSeLevanta), and she’s on a mission to decolonize advertising. 🗓️ Friday, September 27th at 8:30-10am 📍 ⭐ In-Person Only ⭐ at Adler University - 17 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60602 🎵 DJ Mike Caliber 🎟️ Registration Opens next Friday, September 20th at 9am. Mark your calendars! Tickets go first come, first served. Limited! 👏 High fives and humble gratitude to our local sponsors: Big Shoulders Coffee | Busy Beaver Button Company | DJ Mike Caliber

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Tomorrow is Friday and there’s a Creative Mornings, which make it an extremely good Friday! Join us at TEKSystems as Ryan Duggan chimes in on our weird series. But first, take a peek at the Q&A with Duggan below ! Bonus points if you tweet us your favorite concert poster designed the Chicago-based artist!

Define “weird” in one sentence or less.

More interesting than “normal."

What drives your desire to create?

My desire to eat. I also physically need to work or make something on a regular basis or I fall apart.

How does Chicago influence you or your work?

I love this city and I like to think it definitely influences my work and specifically my sense of humor. The work ethic of this town is really impressive and you really have to grind to make things happen here. It’s an ‘unpolished metropolis’ and I wouldn’t change that for anything.

List three words that begin with the letter “w” to describe your personality.

Working-class Willy Wonka.

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Spring is officially here! Help us kick off the season with Dawn Hancock, a troublemaker, a bleeding heart, a designer by trade and a do-gooder by choice. She will be chiming in our risk series. Get to know her a bit better below and join us next Friday, 4/29 at Morningstar! Tickets get released here on Monday, 4/25 at 11am. 

What are three things you love about working in the Humboldt Park neighborhood?

I love being part of a community with a rich history, culture and people. Our nonprofit arm, Reason to Give, has been focused on helping the needs of the community over the last 9 years, so I have gotten to know a lot of the people who live here. The more people I meet, the more I love being part of it.

What drives your desire to create?

Helping people. I feel like that is what I am on this planet to do.

How does Chicago influence you or your work?

Born, raised and schooled here, I’m a midwesterner and Chicagoan through and through. I absolutely love being able to work with clients to help make our city better. From helping small business take their organizations to a new level to giving nonprofits a voice and visual language they always knew was in them but didn’t know how to express, I feel insanely lucky to be able to help our great city become even better, one collaboration at a time.

What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?

Vanilla. Plain + simple.

List three words that begin with the letter “R” to describe your personality!

R.1 — real R.2 — reserved R.3 — resilient 

What does this month’s theme – risk– mean to you?

Risk feels like a dirty word. Like something you’re not supposed to do or feel. I say fuck that. Risk is something that should be embraced. Something that, one way or another, you learn from. The fear that most people feel that comes with risk prevents them following their hearts. Lets get rid of it. Lets think more like Brené Brown and open ourselves to being vulnerable and true and courageous. That’s where all the power is.