Spring Clean

With the first signs of spring ahead appearing, and the days growing brighter it's time to spring clean our lives.

Right up until the second world war, a spring clean was a thorough process which involved removing everything from a house and cleaning the empty rooms from top to bottom. Anything that was worn or broken was repaired or given away before it was put back in place.

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Right now, the planet is in trouble and we need all the superheroes we can get.

This year, Live to Create will be working with all sorts of people and groups to take our sessions round the country, and our creative message to a much wider audience.

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Live to Create November

What a wonderful day - thank you to all of you for your open participation, and especially to Erica for co-hosting the event. It was great to have a mixture of familiar and new faces.

This was the first Live to Create one day workshop, and it was good to discover that we could cover most of the sessions and still have time to share our stories and experiences, and to have fun.

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Help us grow!

Sandman Gaiman Mckean signed vol. 1

To help fund our work, we're delighted to offer for sale Live to Create founder Lucy's collection of 1st edition graphic novels.

During the 1980's, comics grew up. A burst of extended narratives and more elaborate visual art led to comics being re framed as graphic novels. This collection contains highly regarded works from that era by Neil Gaiman and Frank Miller.

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Live to Create: November

11/28/2009 - 10:45
11/28/2009 - 16:00

The 28th of November is Buy Nothing Day! A perfect day to explore ways to create and enjoy life - without buying.

Consumer or creator? You decide. BOOK NOW!

All living things consume. Plants need nutrients, minerals, sunlight and water. Animals need food and water to grow and reproduce, but they only take what they need or store for long winters. Throughout human history, we have been the same.

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New Year New Creativity

Our creativity is an important part of our everyday lives and yet is neglected, demeaned and for many of us something we are made to feel is a luxury. Even those of us in the creative industries may locked into uncreative patterns by our preconceptions and the ideas of others.

We're exploring how we can return our creativity it to its rightful place and we'd like to invite you to join us for:

On the 16th of January 2008 we met at Time For Tea in Shoreditch.

Though it was cold outside we soon warmed up and by sharing our creative ideas found threads in common.

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Team Tree

Though the smallest gathering so far, this may well have been the one that raised the most passionate responses in all those taking part.

in the first half of the evening we split into two groups to explore the pros and cons of all working by yourself and working in a team respectively. What was interesting was that one group really closely followed the facilitators suggestion, and looked for the negative and positive sides of certain aspects, whereas the other went for a much more organic approach and explored possibilities of working together in a very imaginative and light-hearted way.

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A message to the climate sceptics

Right now as a society we are engaged the biggest gamble of all time, a bet that the global warming canaries are wrong, climate change is all natural and inevitable and that there's nothing we can or should do.

We already have more extreme weather events in the last 20 years than in recorded history. There are natural weather cycles, but the changes are now so rapid and so unpredictable that our economies and our ability to feed ourselves is at risk, both here and in developing countries.

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Tools for Creativity

03/26/2008 - 19:00
03/26/2008 - 21:00

Come discover tools to help you

document your work
collaborate and work with others
define how you measure success and evaluate your work

We'll also be explore how to access resources like legal advice, funding and help with marketing your creations.

We'll have fun too!

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