We all are innovators in our own ways. We know how creative you can be, we have seen it over and over again from focus groups to ideation sessions, you all bring the “sky is the limit” to the ranch. Now here is a chance to gather with like minded friends both new and old to achieve the impossible. Share ideas, projects, and connect with other local artists and entrepreneurs in an exchange of ideas and creative concepts that will help lead you to your next big idea.  This Thursday, October 21^st, is your opportunity to really get those creative gears going during Create. Innovate. Repeat..

It’s a pop-up.

It’s experiential learning.

It’s an art fair and a performance space.

It’s an event open to the public.

It’s a mini-festival, a series of classes, workshops and, most of all, an opportunity to show the public what artists can do!

It’s Create. Innovate. Repeat.. Entrepreneurs and Artists Unite! is an experiential entrepreneurial happening. 

Thursday, October 21st

from 7-9 pm at the ING DIRECT Cafe Chicago

@

21 East Chestnut in Chicago

Create.Innovate.Repeat. is presented by the Institute for Arts Entrepreneurship, a school designed to help you turn your creativity into a living.  Find out more about the IAE at www.TheIAE.com.

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Sometimes you want to get people in a completely different mindset before you get to the meat of the business at hand. This is a great exercise to get them thinking about everything but your business – specifically a business they know nothing about. It’s also a great way to level the playing field amongst meeting attendees. No one person’s ideas are necessarily better than someone else’s. It’s important to ensure that this is not treated as a contest. It’s just a sharing of ideas. You might be surprised to discover the way some people’s minds work!

Assignment:  Give everyone 3 white sheets of paper and some colored markers.  This exercise is done in three rounds.  In the first round, ask them to design a hat.  Have them all show their hat designs.  Then on the next sheet of paper have them design a vacuum cleaner.  Once again, have them share their designs with the group.  Then in the last round, ask them to design a dog washing machine.  Don’t give them any further explanations.

Allotted Time:  Allow 30 seconds for the design phase of each round.  Total time depends on the size of your group, as this will drive how long it takes everyone to show off their designs.

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Here’s a very easy and fun way to start a meeting, using the talents in the room to redesign the environment and give it some pizzazz.

Assignment: Draw the missing half of a face of a person.

Allotted Time: 5 minutes

• Go through a bunch of magazines and cut out interesting photos of people.  Make sure that they are fairly large photos.  Cut these photos in half – cut some in half vertically, others horizontally.  Mount them on a sheet of paper.  Give each person a sheet and have them draw in the missing half of the face.  Provide them with buckets of coloring pencils, crayons & markers.
• Once they’ve completed the artistic assignment, quickly form a gallery of the drawings which others can then admire.

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