Public Creativity Events
Uptown Stroll
A neighborhood stroll featuring music, vendors and other activations in the heart of Oakland’s Arts & Entertainment District. I’ll be there with my community art station! Come by - it’s free!
East Bay Yesterday Boat Tour
Since 2018, Liam O’Donoghue, host of the East Bay Yesterday podcast, has been leading boat tours of the San Francisco Bay aboard the Pacific Pearl. While cruising along the shoreline, Liam narrates true stories related to the cultural and environmental history of various waterfront sites.
Tickets are available through the Fish Emeryville website.
Checkout the FAQ here for tons more detail. We hope to see you out on the bay!
Adult Field Trip: Japanese Tea Garden
Our next Field Trip is a private tour of the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park—the oldest operating public Japanese Garden in North America. Come learn about this beautiful space and its complex history. Plus you’re in Golden Gate Park.
Cost: $49 ($30 for SF residents)
RSVP: here
The tour is 60 mins + optional tea after. Please arrive by 2:00m for 2:15pm start.
Creative Operations Summit - Los Angeles
Join me and other senior creative leaders on November 13th for the Creative Operations Los Angeles Summit. With speakers from NASA, Publicis, Fox Entertainment, Nordstrom, Google, Coinbase, and many more, this one-day summit explores how to balance speed, scale, and AI with the need to protect creativity.
I’ll be moderating the panel Between Metrics and Magic: How Creative Teams Thrive Between Process and Possibility where we’ll explore:
How to protect creative integrity in a world driven by metrics and machine learning
What an empowered creative team looks like when frameworks and freedom coexist
How technology can enable more human-centric creative processes rather than replace them
See the full agenda here and, for a limited time, register here with my speaker code (KATESULLIVAN200) and save $200.
Creative Sundays
Creative Sundays are for anyone who wants to make time for creativity - from professionals craving a change of scenery while working on their creative projects to the creative-curious wanting to play with the array of creativity boosting materials I provide and see where it leads.
RSVP & more details: Eventbrite
Cost: $10-40 suggested donation
Creative Sundays
Creative Sundays are for anyone who wants to make time for creativity - from professionals craving a change of scenery while working on their creative projects to the creative-curious wanting to play with the array of creativity boosting materials I provide and see where it leads.
September Artist Special: Charlotte Buchen Khadra will be drawing your portrait! Charlotte is a visual artist and video maker who loves the challenge of drawing people. By day, Charlotte is a video producer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, and PBS.
RSVP & more details: Eventbrite
Cost: $10-40 suggested donation
Uptown Stroll
A neighborhood stroll featuring music, vendors and other activations in the heart of Oakland’s Arts & Entertainment District. I’ll be with my community art station! Come by - it’s free!
Adult Field Trip: Paramount Theatre Private Tour
Join our private tour of the historic Paramount Theatre in Oakland followed by hanging at a local coffee shop two blocks away. Opened in 1931 and meticulously restored in 1972/73, "Oakland's Paramount Theater is one of the finest art deco theaters still running in the United States."
Cost: $10
RSVP: closed
Adult Field Trip: Oakland Museum of California Private Tour
Join our private tour of the art gallery at OMCA with plenty of time to wander around the other galleries, special exhibit, the beautiful lawn and gardens, and Town Fare!
Cost: free!
RSVP: closed
Letter Writing & Card Design Workshop
Explore the art of letter writing and card design—with plenty of time and supplies to write and make your own!
When was the last time you wrote or received a letter? Not an email or a text, but an analog letter with a stamp? In this creativity workshop, we’ll explore the art of letter writing and what makes letters so special. We’ll share examples of a variety of letters to get your creative juices flowing and provide plenty of time and supplies for you to write and design your own.
You may want to write a letter to someone you appreciate, an old friend, your future or past self, your inner critic, a politician you support or loathe, an ex, the one that got away, maybe even bring back chain mail, or so many more. Bring your favorite letters to share if you're inspired too, whether old camp letters, love letters, middle school notes, postcards from around the world, or any letter that simply meant so much you kept it.
In addition to taking the time to express yourself in meaningful, intentional and sometimes vulnerable ways, letter writing and design is also a wonderful and accessible tool to help anyone unlock creativity. Join us and see what you end up creating!