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Inspired by the West African heritage of founder Dinzi Amobi, ‘ụlọ’means ‘home’ in Igbo, the Nigerian language spoken by Dinzi and her family. ULO creates beautiful statement pieces using traditional African fabrics that tell a story. Embodying the spirit of the conviviality of Nigerians, their love of wearing colour, entertaining and welcoming people into their homes. This month, Dinzi spoke to us about the influence of strong women in her life, from Nigera to London to Melbourne, and her experience forging her own path from law to fashion.Thanks to our generous local sponsors Think in Colour for making this month’s event more accessible with live captioning via Red Bee Media, to BrightStar and Shayna Burns for supporting our speakers with presentation and SEO coaching, Shadowhouse Music for the original music composition, and Offline Supply Co for the sweet notebooks. Thanks also to Saxall Video and Mark Lobo Photography for continuing to support our events every month

Will Dayble co-founded a tech company, a cafe and a tiny house non-profit. He taught systems change and social enterprise at uni, but spends most of his time reading books while pretending to run an education company. He’s given up on entrepreneurship. In May, Will talked to us about how resilience is propaganda! We had a yarn about a few well-meaning ‘scams’: Recycling, grit, carbon footprints, financial literacy, and B-Corps. 🤯Thanks to our generous local sponsors Think in Colour for making this month’s event more accessible with live captioning via Red Bee Media, to BrightStar and Shayna Burns for supporting our speakers with presentation and SEO coaching, Shadowhouse Music for the original music composition, and Offline Supply Co for the sweet notebooks. Thanks also to Saxall Video and Mark Lobo Photography for continuing to support our events every month

Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald is Australia’s leading clothes-mending practitioner, author of the book Modern Mending and shopkeeper at modernmending.com. Her mending has been displayed in art exhibitions and she teaches workshops online to menders around the world. She loves repair in all its forms but is especially passionate about creative clothes mending and transforming damaged clothes so they’re better than new. On this month’s theme PROCRASTINATE, Erin shared her tips for breaking the habit and also accepting it, as she’s learned that procrasti-mending is an unavoidable and perhaps necessary part of her creative practice.Thank you so much Erin! 💛Thanks to our generous local sponsors Think in Colour for making this month’s event more accessible with live captioning via Red Bee Media, to BrightStar and Shayna Burns for supporting our speakers with presentation and SEO coaching, Shadowhouse Music for the original music composition, and Offline Supply Co for the sweet notebooks. Thanks also to Saxall Video and Mark Lobo Photography for continuing to support our events every month, and to Debbie Wood for being this month’s graphic recorder.

Thank you so much to artist, writer, speaker and Deaf activist Asphyxia for her talk on our March global theme, RIPPLE. A small, simple thing you can do each day has the potential to change your life and change the world. Asphyxia talks about how this led to huge insights about Deafness and accidentally becoming a Deaf activist, in the process of writing her book, Future Girl. Thanks to our generous local sponsors Think in Colour for making this month’s event more accessible with live captioning via Red Bee Media, to BrightStar and Shayna Burns for supporting our speakers with presentation and SEO coaching, Shadowhouse Music for the original music composition, and Offline Supply Co for the sweet notebooks. Thanks also to Saxall Video and Mark Lobo Photography for continuing to support our events every month, and to Debbie Wood for being this month’s graphic recorder.

Thank you so much to design thinker Summer Howarth from The Eventful Co for being our February speaker on the global theme DIVERGENT.  Summer showed us how we might use a designer’s mindset to design Ludic Learning experiences; moving away from events that suck. It was awesome. Thanks to our generous local sponsors Think in Colour for making this month’s event more accessible with live captioning via Red Bee Media, to BrightStar and Shayna Burns for supporting our speakers with presentation and SEO coaching, Shadowhouse Music for the original music composition, and Offline Supply Co for the sweet notebooks. Thanks also to Saxall Video and Mark Lobo Photography for continuing to support our events every month, and to Sarah Firth for being this month’s graphic recorder.

It takes a village to run a CreativeMornings chapter, and 2021 brings some delicious creative challenges and opportunities as we continue to run our events in the virtual world (at least for now). Now more than ever we could use the creative input and helping hands of the Melbourne CM hivemind!Interested in joining the team? Email melbourne@creativemornings.com and tell us a bit about yourself, what skills you bring, and how you’d like to contribute. 

Welcome to our new host, Jessamy Gee! Jessamy is a graphic recorder by trade, the Director of Think in Colour and President of Graphic Recorders Australia.CreativeMornings Melbourne will take a brief hiatus while Jessamy and the team get prepared for an epic 2021. Our next event will be held on Friday Feb 26th.Interested in contributing? We’d love to hear from you!
Shoot us an email: melbourne@creativemornings.com .

Thank you to everyone who came along on Friday morning to see Dave Clark from Space Between. Special thanks to Mark Lobo for the photos and as always, all of our wonderful partners who make the events even better: Allpress Espresso , The Commons and Milligram for their notebooks.

Thank you Tania de Jong AM, co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia to speak on our CreativeMornings’ globe January theme Roots.

Thank you again to our Partner and Allpress Espresso, global Partners WordPress.com MailChimp coffee and tea by Allpress Espresso. Photos by @marklobo

Thank you fashion designer and founder of A.BCH Courtney Holm to speak on our CreativeMornings’ globe December theme Silence.

Thank you again to our Partner Billy Blue College of Design and St Ali, global Partners WordPress.com MailChimp coffee and tea by St Ali . Photos by @marklobo