Creative AfterHours: Speed MENTORing

Join Us for a Night of Speed Mentoring and Meaningful Connections

This month’s Creative AfterHours event is a night of connection, encouragement, and actionable advice. You’re invited to a speed MENTORING event at Be Nice House on Thursday, July 31 from 6:30- 8:30 pm. 

No one is born knowing exactly how to navigate life. That’s why we go to school, ask questions, and lean on others for guidance. But learning shouldn’t end at graduation. If we want to grow—personally, professionally, emotionally—we need to keep learning. And that starts with finding new teachers. That’s where mentors come in.

A mentor doesn’t have to be the most accomplished person in the room. They just need to have experience, perspective, and a willingness to share what they’ve learned. Mentors can be the difference between staying stuck and moving forward. They offer encouragement, real-world advice, and sometimes even open doors when you’re not there to knock.

But here’s the thing: mentoring isn’t a one-way street. While mentees gain knowledge and confidence, mentors often find themselves reinvigorated by fresh ideas and new perspectives. It’s a true exchange—of stories, strategies, and support.

That’s why we’re inviting you to our upcoming Speed Mentoring Night—an evening dedicated to sharing wisdom, building relationships, and accelerating growth.

Connect with mentors across a variety of areas including:

• Career – Navigating your path, switching industries, or asking for that raise
• Relationships & Dating – Real talk on love, connection, and communication
• Finances – Budgeting, investing, and making smarter money moves
• Creativity & Storytelling – Finding your voice, starting your next big project, and more

Whether you’re looking for guidance or ready to share your own hard-earned wisdom (or both!), this is your chance to connect in meaningful, energizing conversations. Come with questions, leave with inspiration. Don’t miss out, register today. 

Join us for Crafts and Cocktails at Atlanta Contemporary, facilitated by visual artist Makiko Frogger. This month we explore the theme TRUST on Thursday, July 25 at 6:30 pm at Atlanta Contemporary with an arts workshop featuring painting and trusting your own creative intuition.

Makiko is passionate about creating art and how art can connect people as well as flourish sense of belonging.  She believes the best part about connection through art is sharing the joy through discovery and listening to stories behind an artwork.

She has been connected with the art-making process ever since she can remember.  It became essential place for calm and happiness when she moved to United States from Japan where she experienced language and cultural barrier. Through that experience she became dedicated in sharing the art-making process with the community where it can be used to express, heal, have fun and make connections.

For TRUST, we will also be providing a tasting of our CreativeMornings ATL + Jake’s Ice Cream collaboration flavors! Get your tickets before they sell out!

Meet up and connect with fellow creatives and get insights to help better shape your relationships, work and habits. Join us on Friday, June 28 at Plywood Place from 8-10am for our next Creative Mornings event.

The theme for our June event is PATTERN and we are delighted to welcome Jon Goode as our guest speaker.

Jon Goode is an Emmy nominated writer raised in Richmond, VA and currently residing in Atlanta, GA. Jon’s work has been featured in CNN’s Black in America, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, BET’s Lyric Café and TVOne’s Verses and Flow. He has also written radio commercials for McDonalds, print ads for Nike, and written and appeared in commercials, vignettes, and interstitials for MTV, Comedy Central, VH-1 and TVLand/ Nick@Nite. Jon’s work earned him the 2006 Promax Gold for the best copyright in North America. In 2022 he won a gold American Advertising Award for Branded Content and Entertainment Non-Broadcast, a Silver Telly Award, and was again nominated for a Promax. Jon’s collection of poems and short stories, Conduit, was #1 on Amazon for sixteen weeks. His debut novel, Mydas, was a #1 new title on Amazon for five weeks. Jon is a Fellow of AIR Serenbe and the current host of The Moth, Atlanta.

Learn how to best recognize, form and break patterns to boost your creativity. Join us on June 28. Admission is free. The registration link is coming soon, so be on the lookout.

It’s time for our evening event! Come hang out with us on Thursday, March 28th at the Be Nice House where you will get a chance to socialize and hang out with other creatives.

This month’s theme is PERSPECTIVE. It’s safe to say, no matter what your artistic medium is, the beauty in creativity is the thousands of interpretations that come with it. Which is why we are super excited to welcome David Perdue! 

David Perdue is an Atlanta comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central,FuseTV, EPIX, & Kevin Hart’s LOL Network. You can also catch David as an on screen actor appearing in “Love Is…” on OWN and “Bobcat Goldthwait"s Misfits and Monsters” on truTV.  David also co-hosts a sports/comedy podcast called “Forth and Ten” as well as the political/comedy podcast “The Confused Caucus”. 

You don’t want to miss a chance to attend this comedy writing workshop! Doors open at 6:30pm. Event starts at 7pm. Admission is free so register today!

See you there!

Don’t miss our first Creative Mornings event of 2024. Join us on Friday, February 23 at Plywood People from 8-10am and celebrate the tradition of native people everywhere while connecting and networking with fellow creatives. 

The theme for our February event is NATIVE and we are pleased to welcome Floyd Hall as our guest speaker. Hailing from Atlanta, Hall is a media strategist, engineer, cultural producer, writer, and documentarian. He is the executive director of Atlanta Contemporary and in 2023, curated “Justice,” the first exhibit fully produced by Science Gallery Atlanta. 

In addition to his recent endeavors, he has claimed curated  large-scale exhibits that merged art, science, design and technology with an emphasis on engaging with youth and has produced and hosted podcasts for WABE and the nonprofit Central Atlanta Progress and the city of Atlanta.

We hope to see you on February 23. Admission is free, so reserve your space now. 

We are BACK! CreativeMorningsATL is so excited to be back with you here on our blog and at our morning & evening events in 2023. SAVE THE DATE for our first CreativeMornings ATL event of the year on Friday, 2/23 at 8am. Stay tuned here and on social media when we announce our speaker, location, and ticket release date. More information soon!

AIE Founders: Tory Edwards, Bem Joiner and Ian Ford
The founders of Atlanta Influences Everything will be our speakers this month. AIE a brand and a creative consultancy, focused on combining civic, corporate and cultural understanding to harness the influence of Atlanta culture, to do good and connect communities. AIE is doing amazing work in our city and we look forward to hearing their thoughts on this month’s “Critical” theme.

“Responsibility to yourself means seeking out criticism, recognizing that the most affirming thing anyone can do for your is demand that you push yourself further.”
Adrienne Rich

Join us again at MODA for a Critical morning, where our speakers will be the co-founders of Atlanta Influences Everything, Bem Joiner, Ian Ford and Tory Edwards on August 26 at 9 a.m.

We’re hosting our first event back in-person with April’s theme of KISMET. Kısmet is a Turkish word that evolved from the Arabic qisma, meaning one’s portion or lot in life. When the stars align and good fortune visits, it must be kismet. An unexpected windfall, a chance encounter with another that blossoms, a doorway opening to impossible dreams. Kismet is a little pocket of time just for you. We marvel at the sheer, unlikely wonder of these moments. 

To explore this theme, we’re inviting an amazing duo to the CM/ATL stage at MODA on April 29 at 9 a.m.

Butter.ATL

Mike Jordan is the Editor-in-Chief and Brandon Butler is the Executive Director of Butter.ATL, a sister media company of Dagger, an Atlanta-based ad agency and recipient of a 2020 Ad Age Small Agency of the Year Award - Silver, Southeast. Butter.ATL is Atlanta’s definitive culture channel and a sought-after stage for the city’s cultural icons. With over 110,000 followers, brand sponsorships, a daily editorial newsletter, and original programming that features ATL legends like Killer Mike, Goodie Mobb, and DJ Scream, Butter has become an entity whose popularity boasts followers - and active commenters - like Chrissy Teigen, Usher, Big Boi from Outkast, and others. Butter.ATL also provides a niche service offering for Dagger clients with an appetite for high-velocity content at the intersection of creative inspiration and cultural relevance. 

You can get to know our speakers by following Butter.ATL on Instagram.

While in-person tickets are all taken, don’t worry! We’re live-streaming the event too. You can register to receive a virtual link to the event here.

March’s theme is FOLKLORE. Humankind spin stories to answer the universe’s mysteries. As these stories are passed down among a people, they become folklore. Folklore exercises our mythic imagination, our way of seeing beyond the tangible to make sense of the enigmatic and the unfathomable. Join us as we explore this theme March 31 at 7 p.m. Just a reminder: We will be hosting March’s event virtually. We do still plan to transition to in-person events this year, so make sure you’re checking these newsletters and our social media pages for the latest updates.

Meet Moksha Rao!

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