Kick off 2024 with creativity, community and connection.
Sign up for January's Quest is open ✨ The final Quest of this chapter!
Dear Questers,
Sam here 🖖 As we hurtle toward holiday season we have one more treat for you!
Our next Creative Quest, kicking off in January, is now open for sign ups.
It’s the only Quest like this that we are running in 2024.
🗓 16 Jan - 13 Feb
💸 Cost: £30
✋ Sign ups close: 10th Jan
*if the sign up fee is inaccessible to you - just email me at sam@channeltwelve.co.uk
”This experience was mind expanding and once you do it you can’t stop thinking like a Quester.” - Ana, May 2023
”For anyone who wants to develop their creativity through a collective exploration, to see things in a new way and learn from the bright minds of others from around the world. 10/10 - would recommend.” - Hannah, Oct 2023
”Creative Quests are like a trip beyond the realms of reality that manages to reconnect you to your world. A treat for anyone looking to expand their scope on life.” - Carl, Oct 2023
If you don’t know the drill… here’s how it goes down.
🌐 We convene a global, intergenerational, multidisciplinary group of the most curious, lovely humans you’ll ever meet.
🧭 As a crew we all creatively explore a theme together for One Month. It becomes our way of seeing the world.
⚡️ During the Quest there are workshops, conversations, creative challenges and meet-ups.
👍 You leave with: more ideas, more friends, more inspiration, more connection, more creativity!
🍿 This video explains it all in 2 minutes :)
When are the live sessions?
We have two types of virtual gatherings. Both last 1 hour.
💡 Inspo Sessions: Tuesdays @ 6pm / 1pm EST.
Workshop style activities + guest speakers. Consider these are the ‘main sessions’ - where we guide you through the process.
🔥 Campfires: Thursdays (various timings - see schedule below)
More intimate space to get to know fellow Questers better via guided conversation.
This Quest is going to be a very special one for 3 reasons:
🎂 It will be our 3 year anniversary.
🍀 It’s Quest number 12 in the series. (12 is our lucky number)
🏁 It’s going to be our final Quest of this chapter.
It’s definitely not the end, don’t worry. Just time to evolve in a substantial way that only comes with creating space and time to do so.
I can say pretty confidently that there won’t be another virtual Quest hosted by us in 2024. So if you have been thinking about Questing but not signed up for one yet…
This is your sign!
A round up of illuminating discoveries from our world…
✨ The wonderful Benjamin Zephaniah passed away this week. A poetic giant whose name and words is etched into the mind of anyone who went to school in the UK (and beyond i’m sure!). He said these beautiful words on the importance of poetry.
💿The team at Metalabel are up to greatness again with their incredibly intriguing ‘Release’ platform - a new space for releasing, selling, and exhibiting creative work.
🍭 Kim Keever creates mesmerising abstract imagery through photographing paint in water
🔮 Our friends from the future RADAR - dropped their incredible new report on the present and future of Humans and AI: Our Centaur Future.
🪑 The danger of minimalist design (and the death of detail)
🎙 I could listen to Questlove and Andre 3000 talk about life and creativity all day
🚶How to take the internet for a walk
Finally…
Three years ago, almost to the day, we launched the sign up for our pilot. The unknown of the pandemic, the endless lockdowns were still our every day.
Our pilot was a beautiful experiment to see if we could creatively connect people around the world in a bizarre time. The format has not changed all that much since then.
11 Quests / 1200+ Questers / 100s of projects later… and the world is a different place once again.
We have amassed a frankly insane amount of ideas and insights. Not only on each of the 11 themes we’ve explored, but on peoples creative lives around the world in general.
Sometimes moving forward means looking backwards.
In 2024 we will be inviting YOU - yes YOU - our Quester community to dig into the archives with us. More on that soon.
Until then - happy friday - and hope to see you in the sign ups. Let’s kick off 2024 and see out our final Quest of this chapter with a bang!
The Quest Life is the Best Life.
Sam x
🥾 Quest Guide / Founder
📲 @saaamfurness
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