As business competition continues to heat up, business owners are looking for new ways to gain competitive advantages. While artwork is nothing new, its positive effects on employee productivity and morale can’t be ignored. Learn about benefits of original art in the workplace, and how it helps to inspire and motivate teams, helps to connect with clients and can be used to promote your brand. Studies have shown that an overwhelming majority of employees feel that artwork is important in the work environment, and that original art creates a better bond with clients.
Need a creative energy boost? Keep your hands and headspace activated in between SUW events during our daily Creative Juices Happy Hour inside the Public Library's new Sewing Lab on the 4th Floor. This hands-on happy hour includes an open house for makers and entrepreneurs plus relaxing and creative walk up projects and fresh nutritious juice from Super Juices. Help us make a Mighty Ugly Crazy Quilt, or up-cycle a coffee coozy to wrap around a beverage from Shush Cafe, (while supplies last). Not enough hands-on for you? Check out the library's vinyl cutter and other tools and learn how to produce your logo, window sign or wall text! Keep it fresh and healthy with a freshly squeezed made-to-order organic juice beverage from the crew at Super Juices, who will be with us Monday, Wednesday and Thursday!
Join David Hendee from Carbon Five as we break into teams and learn how to create an Experience Map. Then learn how to use the map to design new products and improve existing ones. We'll explore:
- Describing existing real-world experiences with simple, visual experience maps - Annotate our maps with customer pain points from user interviews, personas, or domain expertise - Ideate multiple solutions to customer problems - Adjust our experience maps to capture our new product concepts - Discuss ways to extend experience maps
Looking for inspiration? Enhance your creativity with 800 Collective’s mini studio in Basecamp at Miller Plaza! An artist from 800 will be working and engaging passersby and observers to participate in prompts similar to other 800 exercises.
Tuesday October 4, 2016 11:00am - 1:00pm EDT
Basecamp at Miller Plaza850 Market St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
This workshop will give you innovative and practical tools to shake up your business routine, have more fun, and create more consciousness and money in the world!
5 Things You Won’t Want to Miss!
1. Procrastination - Why it may not be as bad as you think it is and what it’s actually telling you 2. How to choose pricing, ask for money and receive it, without feeling like a total a-hole 3. Money follows joy…really! Questions (yes questions, not answers) to create more of both! 4. Are you OCC, an Obsessive Compulsive Creator, and how can you use that to your advantage? ;) 5. Following your gut and trusting what you know - how to create what you know is possible and may not have been done before!
Emily Evans Russell, M.A., JCF, has tried her hand in all sorts of businesses - from teaching Biology to serving and bartending, to creating social media, marketing, and communications for the global companies, Access Consciousness® and Joy of Business™. A recent addition to Chattanooga and former Midwest native, Emily is a mother of 2 young girls, yoga teacher, speaker, Head of Creative Marketing & Production for Joy of Business, Social Media & Promotion Maven for Access Consciousness, and lover of having fun!
Need a creative energy boost? Keep your hands and headspace activated in between SUW events during our daily Creative Juices Happy Hour inside the Public Library's new Sewing Lab on the 4th Floor. This hands-on happy hour includes an open house for makers and entrepreneurs plus relaxing and creative walk up projects and fresh nutritious juice from Super Juices. Help us make a Mighty Ugly Crazy Quilt, or up-cycle a coffee coozy to wrap around a beverage from Shush Cafe, (while supplies last). Not enough hands-on for you? Check out the library's vinyl cutter and other tools and learn how to produce your logo, window sign or wall text! Keep it fresh and healthy with a freshly squeezed made-to-order organic juice beverage from the crew at Super Juices, who will be with us Monday, Wednesday and Thursday!
Learn about the latest digital trends, and myth-bust marketing misconceptions PLUS we will discuss why video content is critical to everyone's brand strategy.
About the speaker: .Casey has been in the digital space since 2008 (aka Twitter's launched), working with everything from start-ups to large corporations. She has ran digital campaigns for a country's tourism, launched an international beverage, and worked with various local and startup brands. From concept to optimization, Casey has worked on every aspect of an integrated campaign, helped build 15+ websites, as well as gained experience in traditional marketing and branding.
Wednesday October 5, 2016 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
Southside CreativeThe Freight Depot Building, 1200 Market St, The Training Room
The workshop will provide tools and tips for artists on how to better position themselves in the art market and ensure that they can make a living by selling their own art.
Deadlines, timelines and outlines. Ease the stress of start-up life with a moment of directed creativity. Reconnect with the genius and inspiration that made you an entrepreneur in the first place.
Lunch will be provided. RSVP required for limited seats.
Q&A / Panel discussion with David Littlejohn, Founder / Chief Creative Officer, Humanaut, Chris Logsdon, Creative Director, VaynerMedia, and Mickey Cloud, VP, Head of Chattanooga Office, VaynerMedia
The internet has ushered in an era of opportunities to build a brand, distribute your message, and reach your most relevant consumers at little cost. As a small-business entrepreneur, you have a leg up on larger corporations that can get bogged down in approval processes by being able to move quickly and take a calculated risks on new platforms. But what you don't have is their budgets. In 2016, luckily for you, this matters less. The cost of entry has never been lower, it's up to you to build a brand that can thrive in an ever-changing business landscape. Join us for a discussion followed by a Q&A session on how start-ups and smaller businesses can pull off big wins.
Need a creative energy boost? Keep your hands and headspace activated in between SUW events during our daily Creative Juices Happy Hour inside the Public Library's new Sewing Lab on the 4th Floor. This hands-on happy hour includes an open house for makers and entrepreneurs plus relaxing and creative walk up projects and fresh nutritious juice from Super Juices. Help us make a Mighty Ugly Crazy Quilt, or up-cycle a coffee coozy to wrap around a beverage from Shush Cafe, (while supplies last). Not enough hands-on for you? Check out the library's vinyl cutter and other tools and learn how to produce your logo, window sign or wall text! Keep it fresh and healthy with a freshly squeezed made-to-order organic juice beverage from the crew at Super Juices, who will be with us Monday, Wednesday and Thursday!
Join The Chattery at Basecamp at Miller Plaza for Speed Learning! Think speed dating, minus the awkward conversation, sweaty palms and rejection. This free event will feature some of The Chattery’s best instructors and most popular subjects.
Wednesday October 5, 2016 6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
Basecamp at Miller Plaza850 Market St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
Each fall OneBeat brings 25 extraordinary, individual musicians from around the world to the U.S for one month to collaboratively write, record, and perform original music, and to lead music-driven engagement with youth and communities. Join us at Basecamp at Miller Plaza, for a performance of daring new musical works performed by a cohort of musicians from over 17 different countries. The group includes electronic music producers, rappers, traditional string instrument players, vocalists, spoken word artists, jazz musicians, and more. There will be food trucks on the scene — bring your family and friends for this unique global music experience!
Wednesday October 5, 2016 7:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
Basecamp at Miller Plaza850 Market St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
Need a creative energy boost? Keep your hands and headspace activated in between SUW events during our daily Creative Juices Happy Hour inside the Public Library's new Sewing Lab on the 4th Floor. This hands-on happy hour includes an open house for makers and entrepreneurs plus relaxing and creative walk up projects and fresh nutritious juice from Super Juices. Help us make a Mighty Ugly Crazy Quilt, or up-cycle a coffee coozy to wrap around a beverage from Shush Cafe, (while supplies last). Not enough hands-on for you? Check out the library's vinyl cutter and other tools and learn how to produce your logo, window sign or wall text! Keep it fresh and healthy with a freshly squeezed made-to-order organic juice beverage from the crew at Super Juices, who will be with us Monday, Wednesday and Thursday!
PechaKucha Nights are informal and fun gatherings where creative people get together and share their ideas, works, thoughts, holiday snaps -- just about anything, really -- in the PechaKucha 20x20 format.
Take a tour of the Hunter Museum art collection through the eyes of 10th grade STEM school students and watch these future tech-entrepreneurs bring art into a 3-D virtual world. (admission to this program and the entire museum is free on this evening).
Team building, low budgets, insane obstacles. Sound familiar? It's time to have a laugh at ourselves and enjoy free movie night at the library, featuring the 1976 classic "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," a tale of many things including team building, low budgets, and insane obstacles. The downtown library is celebrating its 40th anniversary and offering up all things 1976 through out the month of October. Help us kick it off during Start Up Week as we salute the entrepreneur's daily pursuit of the holy grail.
CreativeMornings Chattanooga is a monthly gathering of movers, shakers, builders and makers. We come together on the last Friday of every month to celebrate creativity and learn together. This month, in true just-a-little-bit-too-early CreativeMornings fashion, we're wrapping up Startup Week with a Pancake Party.
So many times entrepreneurs think they need new knowledge or resources to be successful, but most often we need a way to deal with the fear and personal demons that trip us up. Come join Change Your $tory as they show you how to get past fear and take hold of your destiny. You'll walk away feeling powerful and clear.
Need a creative energy boost? Keep your hands and headspace activated in between SUW events during our daily Creative Juices Happy Hour inside the Public Library's new Sewing Lab on the 4th Floor. This hands-on happy hour includes an open house for makers and entrepreneurs plus relaxing and creative walk up projects and fresh nutritious juice from Super Juices. Help us make a Mighty Ugly Crazy Quilt, or up-cycle a coffee coozy to wrap around a beverage from Shush Cafe, (while supplies last). Not enough hands-on for you? Check out the library's vinyl cutter and other tools and learn how to produce your logo, window sign or wall text! Keep it fresh and healthy with a freshly squeezed made-to-order organic juice beverage from the crew at Super Juices, who will be with us Monday, Wednesday and Thursday!
Have some fun with Improv Chattanooga and learn how to foster a work environment full of positivity. Through improv games you’ll gain tools to improve collaboration and communication skills within your team. Space is limited to 10 participants, and registration is required. Refreshments and laughter will be plentiful.
Friday October 7, 2016 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Improv Chattanooga400 E. Main Str. Suite 220
