CreativeMornings/Johannesburg

CreativeMornings is a free, monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. For the latest on upcoming events, head over to creativemornings.com or follow us @creativemorning.

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We're Back!!!

Hello! I’m Ntombi, your new host. I’m excited to get things rolling here again!

A bit about me

I’m a seasoned creative and brand shaper. I’m passionate about the arts and communications with a growing interest in creating diverse, safe, inspirational and accessible spaces for people to connect. Professionally, I have been in advertising for most of my career, working at a small agency, a big one and now a consultancy. The largest eventing conference I have been involved in was a 250+ multi day business conference for creatives and I’ve generally lost count of how many of these I’ve organised.

I’m a mom and wife which often means I have unexplainable layers of super saiyan senses and operational skills that could trump any LinkedIn profile.

I can’t wait to meet you all at our first event!

A bit about the team

Every CreativeMornings event is free and run by a team of volunteers. Most importantly, it is for anyone and everyone who has an interest in creativity.

The good people at 1410TH will be our production partners! Yay! You’ll see the team snapping away and recording all the memorable moments at each event. Our venue partner for our first event will be WeWork (Yay and Yay!) who have kindly opened their awesome doors to us and YOU!

How to participate

Follow our social channels to be notified of when our first event will be happening. We'd love to see you (and a friend) there!

Sign up for the CreativeMornings/JHB newsletter!

Complete your profile with a photo of your wonderful face at CreativeMornings.com!

Are you a graphic recorder/illustrator? Social media wiz? Are you a graphic designer/art director? Have a knack for photography or video? Love to help run the behind-the-scenes aspects of an event? Please email us to learn more about volunteering your skillz to the cause! [email protected]

Does your business or organization share the values and visions of CreativeMornings and you'd like to talk shop about partnering/sponsoring? Please email us! [email protected]

Donate money to help bring things back with a bang and keep sustaining our chapter! Email us to see how [email protected]

Stay tuned for details and I hope to give you a high five at our first event back!

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We’re looking for a new host in Johannesburg!

In 2008, Tina Roth Eisenberg, also known as Swissmiss, started CreativeMornings out of a desire for an ongoing, accessible event for New York’s creative community. The concept was simple: breakfast and a short talk one Friday morning a month. Every event would be free of charge and open to anyone.

Today, attendees gather in 200+ cities around the world to enjoy fresh coffee, friendly people, and an international array of breakfast foods. Volunteer hosts and their team members organize local chapters that not only celebrate a city’s creative talent, but also promote an open space to connect with like-minded individuals. We call ourselves an engine of generosity and live by our manifesto. 

CreativeMornings/Johannesburg's previous host has since stepped down so we are now looking for a replacement. Could this be you?

If you are:

- passionate about your local creative community in Johannesburg - psyched to lead a small volunteer team to put your own spin on CreativeMornings - excited to be a part of a global network of the nicest, most creative people you've ever met - one to use the words humble, driven, resourceful, generous and connected to describe yourself - ready to grow as a creative leader in your city

...we’d love to hear from you! If interested, complete our standard New Chapter Application, which consists of a written application and video, and we’ll be in touch.

We will conduct a follow up interview with the top candidates.

We look forward to receiving your application!

CreativeMornings

P.s. Insight into what it’s like to be a host. And more insight. Okay, last one. 

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Ross Drakes is our wonderful host of CreativeMornings/Johannesburg since 2013! We highlight members of our community and tell their story on our Instagram! This is the complete interview. What ...

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It has been a tradition at CreativeMornings to work with an artist in our community to create an illustration for the monthly theme. September is all about Magic, and the interview with this month&...

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“Cities are stories that go on and on and we all get to play a part of these stories.” — Aaron Fortner

Watch the video at http://creativemornings.com/talks/aaron-fortner/1

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Check out Ahmed Tilly on Ethics https://creativemornings.com/talks/ahmed-tilly-ethics/1

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CreativeMornings Summit 2016!

That began as a morning speaker series has grown into a global community of creative minds. So much of what we get every single month is due to the dedication of our incredible CreativeMornings organisers. Around the world, these organisers volunteer their time and energy to provide a FREE inspiring talk for their local creative community… and they bring breakfast! All of this effort adds up to be quarter of a million cups of coffee per year, 79,800 hours of work, and immeasurable amounts of inspiration.  

This year we’re hosting the second CreativeMornings Summit for those incredible volunteer organizers. CreativeMornings Summit 2016 will bring organizers from across the globe together to exchange ideas, share best practices, and further develop their leadership skills. And it will be even bigger than the firstCreativeMornings Summit. Why? Because we have nearly doubled in size and the#CMSummit16 will be in a place where everything is bigger – Texas. Giddyup!

We Can’t Do This Alone

If you’ve ever felt inspired by a talk, met a new friend or future employer, or indulged in a delicious donut, then this is your chance to say thank you and help make CreativeMornings even better. Today we’re asking you to help us continue fueling the magical experiment-turned-global-engine-of-generosity known as CreativeMornings.

We’re asking you to help fund the Summit. Whatever amount you’re able to offer will make all the difference. After CreativeMornings Summit 2016, organizers will bring home even more passion and energy to their local creative communities. You will see the return on your investment in the form of more fun, insightful, caffeinated, and inspirational CreativeMornings events!

No, you can’t put a price on making a connection or walking away with a deeper insight or inspiration, but let’s try! Please help us make CreativeMornings Summit 2016 a reality by backing our Kickstarter campaign.

About the Campaign

When you support the CreativeMornings Summit 2016 Kickstarter, you not only reap the rewards of the post-summit enhancements to your local CreativeMornings chapter, you’ll also get a reward! We’re offering rewards that range from music to golden tickets and beyond.

You can join in and support the campaign from March 11th to April 9th, so saddle up and kick in what you can to show the global CM community how much you care! Share the love using #CMsummit16.

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Look how CreativeMornings has grown in the last few years. We were chapter 55.

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Happy CreativeMornings Friday everyone! Here's how we look all lined up by colour in order of launch date. 133 striped rainbow of love!

Johannesburg was #55

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2 years 3 kinds of cocktails 5 Photographers 8 Venues 9 Sponsors 17 Volunteers 22 speakers 88 boxes of baked goods 267 biggest audience 3630 cups of coffee* All the love in the world

*estimated at 1,5 cups per attendee

Get the full story here: http://creativemornings.com/cities/jhb

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Thanks to @royblumenthal for sketching up Gordon cook at our 2nd Birthday. creativemornings.com/talks/gordon-cook-the-link-between-empathy-and-creativity

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We are turning 2, join us for a celebration on the 2nd http://creativemornings.com/talks/gordon-cook-the-link-between-empathy-and-creativity

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The original just for reference.

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We wanted to welcome the super talented full-time designer, Vince Joy who is now working at CreativeMornings HQ. So we got our audience to recreate his profile photo... please note the fake tattoo.

http://creativemornings.com/people/vincejoy

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Future sound of Mzansi Vol 03

See the full talk here: http://creativemornings.com/talks/lebogang-rasethaba

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Future sound of Mzansi Vol 02

See the full talk here: http://creativemornings.com/talks/lebogang-rasethaba