Join us on June 14, 2024 at Launch Co-Working (8:15am to 9:45am) for our final CreativeMornings WPG event before our summer break. We are pleased to welcome our June speaker: Andrew Boardman.

** Note: ASL interpretation will be available at this event.

The June global CreativeMornings theme is PATTERN. Wear your boldest stripes, playful polka dots, or funky florals. Let’s create a tapestry of creativity together!

June’s global theme was chosen by our Chennai chapter and illustrated by Nishant Saldanha.

Recognizing, forming, and breaking patterns are core components of creativity. Visuals, sounds, movements, and the passage of time all form patterns that shape our existence and our work. 

Our Chennai chapter’s selection of this theme was inspired by the art form kōlam; which features patterns of dots that are encircled or connected by straight and curved lines. These intricate, geometric designs are created on the thresholds and floors of houses, temples and businesses using rice flour. The practice is deeply rooted in South Indian culture to welcome guests into the home and bring good fortune and prosperity.

Traditionally created by women, our Chennai chapter shared that these beautiful designs are often created by family members and neighbors as a communal activity. Connections between people form patterns in our lives too. 

Which patterns in your relationships, work, and habits are worth repeating? Which ones should be changed? What new pattern do you want to create?

Meet our June speaker: Andrew Boardman

Andrew is a designer, artist, educator and small press publisher. As a designer and art director, his professional mission is to design a web that is more humane, that is crafted ethically, that is available to all visitors regardless of ability, and that is built using open source technologies. He also runs a small, nascent and indie Riso-powered press, creating and publishing his own and other artists’ books. His research interests include everyday typography,  Jewish visual culture, and the concept of conscious design. He’s also interested in the strange and strained relationship between design and belief.

Andrew is currently creative director at Mangrove Web, a purpose-driven digital agency and Certified B Corp. Previously, he founded and managed his own design studio, Manoverboard, for 20 years. Manoverboard was the first Certified B Corp in Manitoba and served clients across North America. He taught design at Red River College Polytech and the University of Manitoba’s School of Art. He received a B.A, M.F.A., and a Fulbright. 

Talk title: The power and possibility of creative self-expression through print in a world of grey corporate goo

I’ve been self-publishing my own and other people’s work since I was 15 years old when a few friends and I started an alternative newspaper at our high school. This has been a recurring theme throughout my life that I only recently “discovered”: I love seeing weird, unorthodox or otherwise unconventional ideas published — especially in print. Over the past 40 years, I’ve made zines, booklets, newsletters, newspapers, boxes, blogs, books, cards, websites, wikis, posters, pamphlets and postcards. Some people call it ephemera, whether digital or analogue. I call it art. Self-publishing is probably the most important evolution of media in my lifetime. Learn why self-publishing, especially through the medium of paper, remains an expression of wild possibility, a form of deep therapeutic healing, and the clearest affirmation of our rights to freedom and expression of equality. If you’ve ever considered publishing your own work, come ride the wave!

OUR EVENT LOCATION: Launch Co-Working in the Exchange District (500 - 167 Lombard Avenue)

5th Floor, Grain Exchange Building (Turn left off the elevator)

*Located in the Winnipeg Exchange District behind the Fairmont Hotel

*“Bergmann’s” sign on front of building by the door

PARKING 

Street 

Download “PayByPhone Parking” App

* Set your alarm for 8am as that’s when you can pay for parking

Parkades*

Rorie & McDermot

McDermot (between Rorie and Westbrook)

Richardson Centre (Fairmont Hotel)

*More expensive but don’t have to worry about how long you stay

CO-WORKING

By attending the CM WPG event, you are welcome to hang out at Launch Co-Working for the day (in the public spaces). Thanks to Launch for their generosity in offering this opportunity!