CreativeCoffee Club

The group was slightly smaller than usual, perhaps it was to do with the rather miserable weather.. or more likely they were probably just busy (as the weather usually is pretty dreary!!)
Conversation was very relaxed, and it is usually, because mostly (if not always) no agendas or topics are pre-decided. So everyone’s free to talk [...]

Have you ever searched for your home town on youtube? I never thought to before, and today at CreativeCoffee someone asked me if I have… So I quickly checked on-line and was surprised to find so many videos people have made. I searched for the town nearest to where I grew up, and found 5,000 [...]

Some new things I found out today at CreativeCoffee today:
There is a craze circulating called ‘circuit bending’ in which people are taking children’s old musical toys and rewiring the circuit board to create a form of electric music:

I was also introduced to ‘Silverlight’ like flash animations, however it seems much quicker at handing higher definition [...]

Today’s meeting was its usual busy but relaxed self. Around twenty people from various interesting careers came and mingled. There were photographers, web designers, a painter, musician’s, a film director, we had someone from Business Link and a lady from “Skills for enterprise” which provide business link start-up services and many others came along too. [...]

As it was Toby’s Moores birthday on Sunday, to extend the celebrations he generously brought a big chocolate cake! Which went down very well, especially as it was gluten free so everyone could par-take. Ideas and topics discussed in a mass conversation between everyone but most of the time the group divided amongst themselves and [...]

I trailed a while back that one of our friends, Boshidar Zashev, was translating the CreativeCoffee Club manifesto in to Bulgarian.  He’s done that and posted it on the popular Bglog.net, read by many teachers in that country.  How’s your Bulgarian?  I can see there is a conversation going on over there and I wish [...]

Lots of people gathered for today, and the time just flew past! Some of the new faces included:
Keith Cooper a Photographer – Northlight Images, whom took a few pictures while there, his camera looked very cool and complicated! He showed me the effect of a very wide angle lens, it was unbelievable now close the [...]

Yesterday’s meeting was a bit of a ‘laptop convention’ and the one Sue Thomas brought with her was particularly fun! The screen was a tablet and you could write or draw straight on to, I’ve always wondered what they were like to use and I was lucky enough to get to try one out, thank [...]

Every time I’ve attended a CreativeCoffee meeting has been a new experience with fresh and interesting conversations where everyone bounced their notions of creativity in the world we live in. What a great idea to hold it in the Dana Centre! an open, friendly and colourful atmosphere. The meeting on wednesday (November 14th) included topics like [...]

Last Wednesdays CreativeCoffee Club was a great turnout. Over 25 attended, conversations flowed and everyone mingled happily amongst themselves. Photos of this event and others can be found on Facebook and also now featuring on Flickr too!
Originally posted by Tamsin Hatton with 267 views