A Day of Coworking + Inspiration at the DCPL

October 15, 2015

Once a month A Creative DC sets up shop on the third floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; in partnership with the DC Public Library Foundation, our monthly day of Inspiration + Creative Coworking provides artists and creatives – emerging and established – with space and time in which to work and get inspired by the DC Public Library's resources.

Huge thanks to our (amazingly talented) friends at Wilderness Bureau for joining us last month and documenting our day – from the periodicals to the Fab Lab, the stacks of inspiration the librarians pulled specifically for each guest, and the Merima Repesa-designed #aCreativeDC notebooks printed in the Digital Commons – they did such an incredible job of highlighting the resources the DCPL has available not just to us, but to the city at large.

We had additional support last month – our friends at Compass Coffee, Cava Grill, and Misfit Juicery kept everyone fueled throughout the day, and Salt & Sundry provided the colorful layering pieces that made the original Mies van der Rohe-era furniture that much more appealing.

We host these Coworking + Inspiration Days monthly (we're so excited, actually, to be headed there today!) and we'd love to have you there: take a moment to introduce yourself, and in the meantime be sure to wander into your local branch and check out all the ways the DCPL and the DCPL Foundation can work for YOU. Follow the DCPLF at @dcpl_literati for more behind the scenes and creative content coming out of the DCPL, and hey! Keep an eye on our Twitter, too – we'll be at MLK all day and sharing peeks at what we're getting into.

Your life looks good here. #aCreativeDC

ALL CITY SPREE

September 08, 2015

We spent the (unofficial) last few weeks of our Summer on an ALL CITY #aCreativeDC SPREE, spreading images from the feed across all four quadrants. Huge thanks to all ten of the photographers who were generous enough to grant permission for the project, and a round of applause to our special projects interns, Pammy and Sloane, for inspiring + heading up the spree.

Imagery credits belong to: @pootie_ting, @liftoffdays, @smoketoink, @tylrhufm, @jamey_warner, @brittelysedc, @lisetteirene, @sararassi, @sunnysidesdc, and @lukasanorth. And if you're up for a scavenger hunt, the posters live (or lived, as may well be the case) at and around: Union Market, Blind Whino, 9:30 Club, Looking Glass Lounge, Anacostia Arts Center, The Coupe, The Fridge, Wise Owl Club, and the Brookland/CUA Metro Stop.

We're looking forward to more-more-more in the way of taking the A Creative DC project offline and into real life, so in addition to our workshops/events/etc you can keep an eye on our feeds (Instagram! Twitter! THIS BLOG!) for more of the T A N G I B L E over the coming months. Thank you, as always, for following along!

IRL: Join us 7/22 for PROMO

July 06, 2015

We launched the offline, IRL events component of the A Creative DC project last month, and it's been so amazing to connect and meet, face-to-face, the doers and makers, small business owners and artists, organizers, contributors, and supporters that make up creative D.C. One of the things we're hearing across the board is how big the disconnect is between how the city's culture is perceived – at a national level, and even within the city itself – and how amazingly dense, diverse, and A L I V E we know it to be. Who's writing the D.C. narrative comes up again and again, and the answer we keep coming back to is that we can and should be crafting our own.

As part of our mission to connect, empower and push forward the D.C. creative community + D.C. creative economy at large, we're thrilled to kick off our WORKSHOPS series on Wednesday, July 22, at Wild Hand Workspace in Brookland. Focused on sharing resources + best practices, creating systems + infrastructure, and navigating the online + offline challenges specific to D.C., our first workshop is titled PROMO, and it's all about effectively promoting your work through your social media channels, who + how to email within local media, how to build a press list + use it to max benefit, and more. Because YOU make D.C. look good, and more people should know that.

Tickets are priced to be accessible to all, and they're available N O W through Eventbrite. We also have two scholarship seats available for emerging creatives under 25 – for more on that, click here. See you on the 22nd, and keep an eye on our calendar for more IRL events coming soon!

Update 7/7: tickets for PROMO are sold out. If you would like to be added to the wait list please email us at info@aCreativeDC.com.

If the wait list approaches class size we will announce a second date for this workshop!