We’re looking for a new host in Perth!

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 224 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 Perth’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 Perth
- 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. 

“I would like to throw a reflection.”

Sorry, I was speaking literal-translation-from-Spanish.

I start again: I would like to launch a thought. Better?

That’s the beginning of the problem (and the challenge): language.

My name is Begoña Sánchez (Begonia pronounced as the flower), I am Spanish and I am a journalist. Since I arrived in Australia almost four years ago I have worked in different positions, none of them as a journalist. I am not sure if I will work in a newspaper again -after more than 10 years experience back in Spain- and I am not sure if I am a journalist anymore but I can still say that I am a ‘professional of words’. I mean, in Spanish.

This month, Creative Morning´s topic is language, mi favourite one, and I am missing it. Being a ‘professional of words’ means a lot for me. It is not just about writing, it is about describing with accuracy, precision, sharpness, irony and detail the world I see. For me, being creative is not only the ability to create but also the capability to accomplish that idea, to release, to do something with it indeed.

I considered myself a creative person. I am not a genius, but still have a different way to see things and a different approach to face problems. I would even say that I approach those problems creatively. However, since I am in Australia, and I have to speak English, and the people I want to connect to speak English, I struggle with the idea of me being still creative.

Have this other language (English) decreased my brain activity? Don’t I have ideas anymore? Have the way I perceive the world changed? No. But it is a fact that I don’t feel happy about making an effort to build a text in English when I feel that I can’t do it as accurate, precise, sharp, ironic or detailed as in Spanish. In conclusion: I am not as creative and free like I am in my mother tongue.

It is not a matter of being unconfident. I have this internal debate: If I want to connect to my Australian peers, I need to talk in their language, but if I want to feel as awesome as I think they are, I need to do it in Spanish.

There is no answer or I haven’t found it yet. Maybe for an architect there’s no debate, they only need to know how the name of the Revit tool is called. They are creative and still know how to work with the same software. But I can´t imagine how long is going to take me to control this software called English.

I am not blaming anyone, but I wanted to speak out, and again ‘throwing’ that idea. Because I hope that creativity is not only sharing ideas and see how awesome creative people are. I hope it is also talking about the challenges that it presents.

What do you think?

Kind Regards,Begoña.

All artwork by Michael Grau who, being a beanpole, often forgets to draw the shoulders. Bouncing head of Marcus Taylor.

This Sunday Cure: Jordan Tomnuk

Your Weekly dose of CreativeMornings Worldwide, curated for Perth

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Why you should watch?

”It’s tough keeping things simple and making good products and also keeping it affordable. One of the ways I’ve been doing that is trading work. So giving people product.” - Jordan Tomnuk

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Why you shouldn’t watch?

You’re too busy making money so you can pay for things. Things you could trade for.

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Implications for Perth

When you connect with fellow Perth creatives, offer and ask – in the trade comes possibilities for something greater than the sum of the parts … c/o http://creativemornings.com/talks/jordan-tomnuk/1

This Sunday Cure: Saku Tuominen

Your Weekly dose of CreativeMornings Worldwide, curated for Perth

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Why you should watch?

“Sometimes the ideas that feel small in the beginning are the ones that are changing the world” - Saku Tuominen

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Why you shouldn’t watch?

You think failure feels good.

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Implications for Perth

Perth needs more tests and less failure. … c/o http://creativemornings.com/talks/saku-tuominen/3

This Sunday Cure: David Hieatt

Your Weekly dose of CreativeMornings Worldwide, curated for Perth

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Why you should watch?

If we give up the right to make, what do we do? — David Hieatt

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Why you shouldn’t watch?

You think it’s about jeans.

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Implications for Perth

When you are faced with something big dying, make jeans (“because the job of dreams is to scare the hell out of you”) … c/o http://creativemornings.com/talks/david-hieatt/1

This Sunday Cure: Heather Hardison The hardest part is starting

Your Weekly dose of CreativeMornings Worldwide, curated for Perth

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Why you should watch?

Because starting is the hardest part and when you start not knowing you start to know the knowing and then you do the work of three people but you are one, not three and if you’d known it was worth three would you have started at all?

And editing. Mostly editing.

Learn about lettering, illustration and book design. Learn how to put them together and how you can do it too.

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Why you shouldn’t watch?

You have a thing against pumpkins.

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Implications for Perth

Making a book is hard, it’s also possible and it might just be a mark in your life … c/o http://creativemornings.com/talks/heather-hardison/1

This Sunday Cure: Money is an exchange

Your Weekly dose of CreativeMornings Worldwide, curated for Perth

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Why you should watch?

It seems soooo many people in Perth are talking money. There are more values than financial value. Money is an agreement and yes, it’s an agreement that can keep you fed and housed but what if there’s another way to look at money? Dadara shows you how to start a bank as an artist.

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Why you shouldn’t watch?

You’re over Burning Man.

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Implications for Perth

You can talk about making money, you can make money or you can do both as a Perth creative … c/o http://creativemornings.com/talks/dadara/1

This Sunday Cure: Rory Sutherland of clocks and clouds

Your Weekly dose of CreativeMornings Worldwide, curated for Perth

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Why you should watch?

At at time when Perth faces such massive infrastructure works, you have to wonder what Rory Sutherland would propose with 1/8 of the money. A reminder that small things can have big impacts.

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Why you shouldn’t watch?

The phrase “Austrian school of economics” bores you more than spreadsheets that make decisions for you.

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Implications for Perth

Go make the difference. So many chances to make the small changes to make the big impacts. They are being missed, you are being missed … c/o http://creativemornings.com/talks/rory-sutherland/1

This Sunday Cure: Research is face-to-face

Your Weekly dose of CreativeMornings Worldwide, curated for Perth

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Why you should watch?

This is how you research: face-to-face. You don’t ask: “Do you put your tea towels in the third drawer down?” instead you ask: “Where do you put your tea towels?” … because you are curious about other people and then you build something you love and other people love.

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Why you shouldn’t watch?

You often find yourself saying: “I could have done that”
Don’t watch because you’ll hear “yeah but you didn't”

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Implications for Perth

Qualitative research is undervalued and if you do it your satisfaction and output will improve . To the video … c/o http://creativemornings.com/talks/abigail-crompton/1