Playing House: Creatively Procrastinate with Sam Furness
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About the speaker
Our global theme this month is Procrastinate. Do you have a project you’ve been putting off, an email you’ve been meaning to send, or perhaps just need a bolt of creative inspiration to regain focus?
Come get unstuck with us and join us in Playing House: On Tour! with our special guest, Sam Furness.
Take a holiday from your to do list, say bon voyage to your inbox - we’re going on an adventure (without leaving our homes).
In this one hour adventure, we’ll be reimagining our houses as playgrounds, curing some serious wanderlust and indulging in truly transatlantic levels of procrastination.
Along the way we’ll take on some Playing House challenges together. Fun exercises & games designed to breathe some creativity, adventure and thoughtfulness into your day. Perfectionism isn’t the point - together we’ll be resourceful, commit with a full heart and embrace the silliness - because we all need some joy right now.
Think of it like a yoga class… for the imagination.
Don’t forget your passport! 🌍
Playing House is a home-based creative challenge series brought to life by Channel Twelve founder Sam Furness
About our guest
Sam Furness is an eclectic creative. On any regular day you’ll find him searching for extraordinary creative ideas in ordinary places and bringing them to life in adventurous and collaborative ways. He manages music artists at Everybody’s management based in London and also runs a creative platform called Channel Twelve. At Channel Twelve, he playfully explores the intersection between adventurous lifestyle and creative process through an ongoing series of eclectic projects. He aims to inspire more curious, connected, daring approaches to living and creating - in the belief that there could be unending ways to experience the world and uncover inspiration for truly illuminating ideas.
Local partners
Global Partner — Mailchimp More than 15 million people and businesses around the world use Mailchimp’s marketing automation platform to to reach their customers and grow their business. Mailchimp shares CreativeMornings’ belief that we’re better when we work together.
Basecamp offers a project management tool, Basecamp 3, which helps organizations, teams and individuals manage projects efficiently and effectively. Besides its beautiful product, the people behind Basecamp also created HEY email, a fresh email service transforming your relationship with your inbox.
Skillshare is an online learning community to master real-world skills through project-based classes. Our mission is simple: provide universal access to high-quality learning. Check out their new, free classes on Creativity & Innovation!
Local Partner — Harvest
Harvest is a web-based time tracking and invoicing application relied on by thousands of people around the world, from freelancers to small businesses to departments of Fortune 500 companies. Harvest founders Danny Wen and Shawn Liu had searched for tools to help their agency scale with more efficient methods to track time and send invoices. Unable to find one, they invested their own time, energy, and money into creating what they knew was a better way to run the business—and Harvest was born.
Additional details
Thank you to our Music Partner Sing For Hope
Lissa deGuzman has spent the pandemic at home helping her parents and 4 siblings move out of their childhood home and recover from surgeries. Before the pandemic, she was finishing the run of a new musical Bliss and starting her Off-Broadway debut with another new musical, Between the Lines. Other credits include: Broadway: King Kong (Ensemble, Ann u/s). National Tour: Aladdin (Jasmine). Other shows include: West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Chasing Rainbows, & Les Miserables.
This month’s musical performance is brought to us by our music partner Sing For Hope, a NYC based organization harnessing the power of the arts to create a better world. We love their SingforHopeGrams where a professional musician will personally call and perform a song for your loved one, providing a moment of joy and musical connection. Find out more at www.singforhope.org
April’s Theme is Procrastinate
The things that we perpetually push to tomorrow’s to-do list can become a mental weight. Even though we know the welcome relief that will wash over us when that thing we’re avoiding is complete, still, we delay, just a little while longer.
Procrastination can be a sort of art form: the art of deferred action. It’s a technique that’s got a bad reputation, one often tinged with shame. But it can also be a way to claim the ways you wish to your time. It harbors creative possibilities, too.
In that game of waiting-waiting-waiting until it’s almost too late but not quite, a coiled spring of potential energy hides, ready to leap into action at a moment’s notice. Narrowing a timeline can be a fruitful creative constraint, an exercise in trusting the unknown. When a window of opportunity shrinks, improvisation and spontaneity might unfurl like a flower in a time-lapse video blooming at super speed, a confetti cannon of petals bursting in full color.
CreativeMornings/Turin chose April’s exploration of Procrastinate. Elisa Talentino made the accompanying illustration, and Basecamp/HEY is this month’s global theme partner. Learn more about this theme, attend other events, and watch talks related to this theme on the Procrastinate theme page.
Volunteer Sign Interpretation by Canara Price
Reserved seats are available for anyone who is Deaf or hard of hearing. Email us to reserve a ticket.
About our interpreter: Canara Price volunteers in the Deaf community as an interpreter for civil rights organizations, churches, and several schools and agencies. She is the founder and executive director of People’s Theatre, Inc., a non-profit organization exposing under privileged communities to the performing arts. She has produced and/or directed over 40 productions with this company. She is also an award winning producer and director as well as a member of Black Deaf Advocates, the SAG/AFTRA, National Association of Black Journalists, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the National Council of Negro Women.
