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This month we had the pleasure of listening to Crom Ojeda tell his story about how he manages his work and play using the same skills.

By day Crom is a graphic designer at Zayed University, in Dubai, and by night he is an audio experimentalist and the motivation behind  Muhaisnah Four.

For Crom technology, ideas, inspiration and stories all come together in a single word, EXPERIENCE.

Crom is interested in creating immersive experiences and has crafted his design education around experiences instead of traditional courses at a University.

The question we are all left with is what should our work be if as Crom demonstrates the lines between work and play can be very blurred?

This month we have the dynamic duo of Gaya and Reiner joining us to talk about the art of creating, distributing, promoting, recording and preforming as an independent artist in the Middle East.

Gaya Singer/Songwriter/Multi-disciplinary Artist  Independent singer-songwriter Gaya makes anthemic, vocal-driven, highly eclectic, but deeply personal music. With a growing fan base, her debut album ‘The Unknown’ was the result of a highly successful crowdfunding campaign raising over $23,000 in ten days through a first of its kind campaign in the region.
One of the highest rated unsigned artists to date by RollingStone ME, Gaya spent the last year touring the States & Asia, performing at legendary spaces like Joe’s Pub NYC, Sidewalk Café NYC & BlueFrog Mumbai; worked on a collaboration with Grammy-winner Joss Stone and became a TEDx speaker & performer. In 2015, she went back into the studio to co-produce a new eponymous 3-track EP, released independently in June.
www.gayamusic.com
@GayaMuses

Reiner Erlings

Composer/Producer

Award-winning composer, producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Reiner’s musical world is one where grand orchestral melodic fragments build a home with edgy, often-homemade, foley-driven sounds. Immersing listeners in a sort of sonic weather that twists, turns and emotes, through his compositions, his productions, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists, he is constantly in the pursuit of telling stories through sound. ​

www.reinererlings.com ​

@thenightreiner

Here is a listen to Gaya talking about her music.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z6v0d6l9m9c6v15/071015nljukebox_p2.mp3?dl=0

Rania Amer is the founder of of Pure Herat for Cancer, a volunteer organisation that seeks to help cancer survivors get past stigma and stereotypes and return to being active and equal participants in the workplace.

http://www.purehearttoday.com/

How do we get beyond sympathy?

How do we build dignity and empathy into the corporate culture?

When we hear the word cancer and cancer survivor any number of scenarios run through our minds and all too often the thoughts stop on what will this mean for our organisation.

As Rania points out at CreativeMornings we need to build empathy into the corporate conversation and get beyond pr preconceptions and mis conceptions.

There is still much work to be done!

Amal Al Marri & Deem Albassam and Ben Walton & Alex Light: food and fitness revolutions

In 2013, two girls from the Gulf who loved cooking and eating outdoors got tired of ‘burning burgers in the desert’ and decided to create a food movement that would celebrate the open spaces of the UAE with a simple yet premium dining experience.

Amal Al Marri, a designer and event creator, and Deem Albassam, a food and beverage entrepreneur, called this new movement ‘Salt’ – paying their respects to a simple, fundamental of ingredient of life and good food. While they procured a pair of Airstream trailers and the licensing necessary for the UAE’s first mobile food experience, Amal and Deem travelled around the country to listen to their community of ‘Salters’ – first identified on social media – to understand what was missing from the country’s dining landscape.

Today, Salt is a lifestyle movement that delivers simple, premium food, sourced locally where possible, in two beachfront locations in Dubai and Ajman/ and a park destination Abu Dhabi . The menu includes quickly prepared, easy-to -eat choices made onsite with enthusiasm and consistency from the highest-quality ingredients.

As the UAE’s first homegrown, pop-up dining concept, created with passion by its founders, Salt has created a meeting point for like-minded individuals who are active, innovative, creative, and community-minded. It’s a destination that makes UAE resident feel like tourists, and tourists feel like residents in the know.

Ben Walton graduated BSc Business Computing from Leeds Met University, UK. He spent 7.5 years building and growing the epic local classified’s site dubizzle.com as Director of Technology. Ben is an endurance athlete, regularly competing in Triathlons and Mountain Bike races around the world.

Alex Light graduated in Law from University of Southampton, UK. He Spent 6 years in the “dark side” of dubizzle.com, managing teams to help monetize the site as Director of Advertising. Alex is an everyday runner and a fickle sports experimenter.

As insanely curious guys, Ben and Alex are motivated to find solutions to huge problems through the application of technology. Styck is focused on making a dent in the issues that surround Obesity, Diabetes and “sedentary lifestyle”. The Styck app is an attempt to bring all stakeholders in health development together to help motivate users to move more, and develop healthy habits.

There is no shortage of ideas about what makes one place more or less creative than another.

The very question of what is creativity is part of the reason CreativeMornings Dubai exists.

One goal of CM_Dubai is to not only get us out of bed and thinking at 8am but also talking and acting on issues and ideas we are all pondering.

This month our 1st speaker is Atheer bin Shakar.

Atheer is young, hungry and driven to succeed in a creative climate that is changing by the minute.  Many of us are looking in at a generation trying to navigate the changing climate with little 1st hand contact.  This month we have an opportunity to hear what the new generation of creatives is thinking and how one of those creatives is making sense of the climate she is moving through.

January 22nd, 8am, Dubai Media City, CNN Building Lobby.

The theme for January is Ugly.

More details coming, watch this space, but lock us in on your agenda you aren’t going to want to miss January’s CM_Dubai breakfast lecture.

We’re super excited to have eL Seed, the genius Calligraffiti-artist to talk about ‘Chance’ and his new book ‘The Lost Walls’ - a journey of calligraffiti around Tunisia. Stay tuned for details!

Here is a recent snap of eL Seed's work from Germany:

There first CreativeMornings Dubai is here - free entry, register now - 30 October. Marc will be talking about creative responses to cities and enviroments, and Tahir is talking about making the leap and crossing over into the unknown…..and living to tell the story.

October 30th, DMC, 9am, the 1st meeting @CM_Dubai gathering will take place!

Information about our 2 speakers will be coming this week.

Follow us on Twitter, CM_Dubai, and join the Chapter http://creativemornings.com/cities/dxb.

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