This month marks a new chapter in the story of CreativeMornings/ Edinburgh. 

As previously announced, our October event was the last as host for Alex Duressel-Baker, who set up CreativeMornings in Edinburgh six years ago, and has now stepped down from the team of volunteers that run the event. Alex has been the driving force and powerhouse behind CreativeMornings/ Edinburgh. We want to thank her so much for building such a brilliant event and attracting the strong and vibrant community which has come together around it. Alex has written an open letter to that community, with her thoughts on her time with the chapter and on stepping down.

We also want to say thank you to everyone who has given their time and energy to CreativeMornings over the six years, and it. Special thanks go to Ellie, Chloe and Kristian, who also stepped away from the team in October. 

We are taking this big change as an opportunity to reset, change things up and move forward. Without Alex to fearlessly lead the team, we’re going to be more of a collective, sharing responsibility between us. There isn’t really any one person who could fill Alex’s shoes - It’s going to take a collective effort from all the remaining volunteers. Luckily we’ve got a really strong and enthusiastic team: Matt, Clare, Molly, Kat and newcomers Isobel and Rebecca (and we’ll be recruiting more folk soon!)

The changes are largely backstage, so the most noticeable difference over the next few months will be that we are going to start sharing hosting duties, so the MC role at events will be rotating through the team, and you’ll get a bit more of a chance to meet everyone! Beyond that we have loads of exciting things in the pipeline - great speakers pencilled in for the next few months, and some cool ideas to try to mix up the format a bit and maybe combat a bit of that Zoom fatigue! We are definitely committed to getting everyone back in the same room for in-person events, but it’s obviously going to be quite a while before it’s possible to do that safely and responsibly, so until then we’re going to do our best to keep everything fresh and engaging! 

Our next event is happening on Friday November 27th, with the theme Radical! We’ll have more details appearing on our socials and in the newsletter over the next few weeks - we’d love to see you there!