Come join the very first Creative Chats Conference!

Since January 2025, we’ve had over a dozen Creative Chats gatherings to get creative people face-to-face to mingle, hear a featured conversation on the topic of creativity and the creative life, and engage in the conversation themselves. Now it’s time to end the second season with something a little bigger!

The Creative Chats Conference will be on Thursday, June 4th from 12-4pm at the Mosesian Center for the Arts. Rather than the typical early Friday morning event with a single topic, the conference will be a 4 hour afternoon block which will have multiple speakers and allow for a thread to be pulled through multiple topics. I’m super excited to see this all come together!

Creative Chats are free and open to anyone interested in creativity! Come to get inspired, connect, and reflect.

Pitch me your topic!

Rather than my typical approach of asking people to be a guest for a Creative Chat, I’m opening it up to anyone to throw ideas my way for a conversation/activity/(something outside-the-box?) for the conference. Do keep in mind that these are live podcast events, which means at least part of the event should be able to understood through listening later to an audio recording. But there’s still plenty of creativity to be had there!

I thought of having a theme for the conference, but I don’t want to drive the topic too much. I want the speakers to be able to reflect on what’s actually important and driving their creative life right now. Theme can emerge organically.

So, the prompt I usually give guests to answer to give us our topic is:

What is a question you’ve been engaging with a lot recently surrounding creativity and the creative life?

Send me your pitch below. Include your question/topic and a short explanation about why it’s important to you right now. For a typical Creative Chat, there’s usually a one-on-one conversation between you and me followed by audience Q&A and small group discussions. Feel free to pitch some more creative conversation ideas! (Keep in mind there will be other presenters so it can’t be too long and that audience engagement is part of the spirit of the event.) Also your idea doesn’t have to be fully formed yet, we can piece it together through some discussion. I’m excited to see what people have to share!

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Watertown Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.