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Issue #37 🔮 sign up for Jan's Quest, our favourite finds from 2023, a free 2024 creative intentions workshop
THE QUEST DIGEST by Creative Quests is a treasure chest of ideas & stories exploring what it means to live an illuminating, creative life. Written by Sam Furness, delivered when inspiration and creativity strike. Subscribe to receive each issue or send to a friend in need of a creative boost.
Dear Questers,
Sam here with our final Quest Digest of 2023! With a round up of this years inspo and how to join us in 2024. I’m writing to you, overlooking a luminous grey sky engulf the North Sea. I hope you’re enjoying some down time in whatever you call this strange week...
A few different terms out there I’ve seen: Twixmas / Dead Week via
/ Feral Week / Crimbo Limbo / Twilight / The Void… what do you call it? Let us know in the comments!Whatever it’s called, it’s certainly fun for time to feel a little more surreal and stretchy.
Join our Quest in January
🗓 16 Jan - 13 Feb
🙌 How it works / details / dates / sign up: www.creativequests.world
❤️ Love to everyone who has signed up so far.
Our 12th and final Quest of this chapter! Community research has begun on January’s theme (this remains a mystery until sign up closes) - safe to say I don’t think there could be a more poignant theme to wrap up this chapter and kick off a new year
A Creative Quest is for you if…
🌀You’re seeking a channel for your curiosity
💧You want to reinvigorate creativity in your life
🎨 You’re an artist looking add exciting new layers to your practice
🌍 You want to share creative connection with people around the world
👁🗨 You’re seeking fresh perspectives on life
Sound like you? That’s because - You Are A Quester!
It’s a one off payment of £30 to join the whole month experience.
Workshops, guest talks, challenges, private community, IRL meet-ups - the lot!
If this isn’t accessible to you at the moment but you want to join the adventure - drop me an email (sam@channeltwelve.co.uk) and I will send you a Pay-What-You-Can link.
🔮 2024 - the creative year of…
We are hosting a free 2024 creative visioning workshop on Sunday 7th Jan @ 6.00-7.30pm GMT.
A gentle and playful 90 min session to connect with your creative intentions and fellow curious souls for 2024.
We'll guide you through a mix of:
⏮ short reflective exercises on the year past
👁🗨 tools for reinvigorating your creativity in 2024 (based on our unique Questing method)
🔮 casting ourselves into a creative future where things went right
A round up of our top Quest discoveries from 2023
😁 What went right in 2023 via Positive News
Storytelling / May 2023
💌 Letters of Note is an online museum of correspondence which has been celebrating the humble letter since 2009.
⚽️ Everything is Alive. Imaginative, often funny, interviews with inanimate objects.
🔶 Kurt Vonnegut on the 8 “shapes” of stories
🎧 A Storytelling-themed Quester-curated mixtape
Bring Your Own Theme / July 2023
🌳 Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns. (via Melanie’s Tree Quest)
💧 Ocean Lessons: What I learnt through swimming a marathon in the North sea (via Sam’s Water Quest)
📞 Peptoc Hotline features pre-recorded life advice and encouraging messages from the students at West Side Elementary a K-6th public school in rural Healdsburg, California. (via Becca’s Happiness Quest)
🙅♀️ Design out loneliness from our cities (via LV’s Connected Quest)
Light / October 2023
💡 The Power of Light is a community art project and film about how access to light transforms the lives of settlements in Sierra Leone.
✨ A free e-book of Light themed poems from National Poetry Day
💛 In the age of distraction, honouring the light within.
🎧 A Light-themed Quester-curated mixtape
Finally…
2023 was our first year for gathering IRL!
Whether you joined us on a month-long Quest, came to one of our live events, or read this newsletter every time I hit send - I am truly so grateful.
The space we have co-created for exploration, connection and creative exchange is a magical force. Thanks for making the unknown feel so exciting.
I hope to meet many more of you in 2024.
Big love and see you on the other side!
Sam x
Quest Guide / Founder
@saaamfurness
THE QUEST DIGEST by Creative Quests is a treasure chest of ideas & stories exploring what it means to live an illuminating, creative life. Delivered when inspiration and creativity strike. Subscribe to receive each issue or send to a friend in need of a creative boost.
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