Past CreativeMornings speaker Nat Cheshire gave this beautiful speech at Semi-Permanent Auckland. Take a moment to listen to it. Trust us, it’s really good.

Morning Person: Meet Kyra

With our next CreativeMornings fast approaching, so we thought now would be a perfect time to take a moment to sit down and get to know a bit more about this month’s speaker. Meet Kyra Clarke!

Who are you?

Kyra Clarke, Founder, Design Director of Threaded Magazine & Threaded Media Ltd/ Multiple-hat-wearer/ Work-a-holic/ New-Mum-to-be.

What gets you up in the morning? 

Fear of wasting hours stuck in Auckland western motorway system. I like to get in early, beat the rush & ringing phones! 

But seriously, I feel really lucky - I do what I love, every single day. It isn’t a struggle to get up and go to work for me - as ‘work’ is enjoyable. Even when it is challenging and days are long. I see visual problem solving, communication and design as an intrinsic part of any creative person’s life. It’s not just something I ‘clock in’ from 9 to 5 to do.

When not at work I tend to over-committ with other creative outlets away from my screens. For example: painting, tattoo design, drawing, making, crafting and creating gifts and things for friends & family.

Explain Threaded in Five words or less.

Exciting, Challenging, Fufilling, My All.

What’s a surprising fact about you?

I make up people, name them, assign them roles and then get annoyed at them for not doing their job. Yet, I am a very serious person generally.

What is your favourite thing about Auckland?

Great coffee, markets, op-shops, cafes, galleries , creative going on’s, the west coast beaches.

Best breakfast you’ve ever had?

Buttermilk orange scented pancakes with mixed berry compote, vanilla bean syrup, mascarpone and bacon at Fuze Cafe, Te Atatu

Best piece of advice you’ve received?

'Dare to Fail', from Ian Wharton's talk at Semi-Permanent Auckland, May 03 2014

Who would you love to hear speak?

Tibor Kalman, Neville Brody, Audrey Kawasaki, Richard Branson

Secret Superpower?

Functioning on little to no sleep.

What truly makes a person free?

Not being scared to try new things, take risks, make mistakes and learn something from them.

Kyra will be speaking at CreativeMornings on Friday 23 May, hosted by Lot 23. Full details here. Tickets go live Monday 19 at 11am. Sign up to our newsletter to get a reminder email on Monday morning.

Cori Moore helped people find their Hidden talents at her March 2014 #CreativeMornings talk in Berlin. Can she help you find yours?

Watch the whole talk at http://creativemornings.com/talks/cori-moore/1

Actor and Director Michael Hurst has seen a lot in his time on screen and behind the scenes, working on Hercules, Xena, Spartacus and the ATC Productions of Caberet and Chicago. He reflects on his experiences and how the treatment of sex has changed though his career at the April 2014 CreativeMornings talk in Auckland.

Watch it now above or queue it up for later viewing on creativemornings.com

CreativeMornings with Threaded Magazine
23 May, 8am - 9.30am
Lot 23

Creative Freedom. It’s the Holy Grail, the ideal we all fight to achieve. It’s what motivated Kyra Clarke to conceive Threaded Magazine in 2004 during her second year of a Bachelor of Design. An attempt to bridge the gap between established and emerging practice across the creative industries, Threaded Magazine is now in it’s 10th year & is an internationally distributed, collaborative, bi-annual publication proudly produced in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Off the backbone of the magazine Clarke founded Threaded Media in 2007 - a boutique independent, award-winning design studio led by creative directors Kyra Clarke and Fiona Grieve.

“We are a ‘studio of two halves’ with a focus on client-based projects, from print, web and digital, branding and identity, packaging and marketing campaigns to our ongoing international curated editorial design project, Threaded magazine.

Our main objective is to create a creative community-focused publication that showcases the work of designers and the process that sits behind what we see - a ‘show and tell’ podium of creative and design practitioners worldwide”.

Having achieved her vision of creative freedom, does expectation match up with reality?

Join us for some coffee at Lot23 on Friday 23 May from 8am to find out the answer and to hear more of the Threaded story. Registrations open 11am Monday 19 May.

Let freedom ring!

We are excited to celebrate a month around the theme of “Freedom” brought to you by Shutterstock. The theme was chosen by our Budapest team, and we were thrilled to have Kesley Dake as the month’s illustrator. Find out more here. →

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Save the Date! Our next event will be on May 23, with Kyra Clarke from Threaded Magazine taking the stage! More details soon…

Morning Person: Meet Erica

We have an amazing team of volunteers and partners who help us make CreativeMornings happen every month. We think they’re super cool and you should totally meet them.

This week: Meet Erica from Little Lot, a cool new social movement on a mission to turn the millions of smartphones and computers in the world into a giant fundraising mechanism for charity!

1. Who are you?
   Erica Grace McQueen (the first)
2.  How are you involved with CreativeMornings Auckland?
   Little Lot has a close relationship with the team at CMAkl and Curative. Little Lot is a cool new form of digital advertising with a socially responsible twist – and it has the perfect audience for CMAkl. So we hook them up with a monthly piece of promotion for CMAkl. Their design is always top notch which is perfect for our channel as we try to keep our content super nice.
    
3. What gets you up in the morning?
   Photography, music, going to gigs and photographing them. I’m the content manager at Little Lot – it’s awesome knowing I’m doing my little bit of good everyday by working for this social enterprise. I also love eating and sleeping!
4. What’s a surprising fact about you?
   I studied Automotive Mechanics at High School and I love handshakes.
5. What is your favourite thing about Auckland?
   The Music Scene, the diversity and sheer number of gigs! Love the amount of venues that support the up and comers.
6. Best breakfast you’ve ever had?
   I love leftover Apple Crumble with Cream. Also there’s nothing quite like cold, char-grilled, cooked-on-a-BBQ toast at Easter Camp. 
7. Favourite CreativeMornings Auckland so far?
   I’m a newbie so haven’t been to heaps! But I loved Tanja Jade a.k.a Misery. Her story, her passion and her art is inspiring. She’s not afraid to be herself and I love that she does community art.
8. Favourite CM Quote? 

Erica and the Little Lot crew are celebrating their official launch with Lots of Littles, an awesome competition that promises an absolutely massive prize pool (including a VIP CMAkl season pass!).

 To enter, all you need to do is download the Little Lot app for your desktop and mobile.

Find out more about the amazing team at Little Lot and how join the movement and get yourself in the draw for the Lots of Littles prize pool at nzlittlelot.com.

Spatial Designer Celia Harrison and Event Producer Ella Mizrahi of Celery Productions are all about uncovering the hidden potential of the places and spaces within Auckland city for all to enjoy. Check out their CreativeMornings talk from March 2014.

Watch now or add it to your list on creativemornings.com

We’re talking Sex this month, across 70+ chapters around the world. The theme was chosen by our organizer Kyle Baptista and the Toronto team. 

As part of this month’s theme we thought it would be timely to revisit Green Porno, a Sundance TV series by Isabella Rossellini. Isabella acts out the reproductive habits of marine animals and insects, both scientifically accurate yet extremely entertaining. We recommend you check it out. →

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