Ways of Perceiving
Issue #58 👀 Lineup reveal for Sunday’s salon + our book is 48% funded + illuminating links!
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Dear Questers,
Sam here 👋
We are at half way point of our Kickstarter campaign. And we are 48% funded. 18 Days to go. This stuff is not for the faint of heart.
Can you help us get to 50% today?
There is so much on offer to fuel your creativity in 2025. Including: one time pricing for the return of our flagship community programme.
🎁 Great for gifts too! You will be able to let us know if you are gifting so we can send you a beautifully designed printable PDF for your loved one.
*books fulfilled in early Spring. Quest programme kicks off late January.
🌍 Line up reveal for this Sunday’s Salon.
In a word? It’s sensational. I cannot wait to be in this space.
Curating diverse voices around specific themes might be one of my favourite parts of steering this ship. More on how our Ways of Perceiving the world feed our creativity below…
The Modern World Needs Magic
🗓️ Sunday 17th Nov
🕰️ 4-7pm GMT / 11am-2pm EST
🌐 Virtual & Free
Join 75 others this Sunday.
**All timings GMT
4.00 - 4.15pm (Welcome talk)
🌐 Why the modern world needs magic with Creative Quests founder Sam Furness
4.15pm - 4.30pm - (Doodling as Dreaming)
🫥 Connecting to Invisible Things.
* bring things to draw with! Ideally coloured pens or pencils
4.30pm - 4.55pm (Deep listening experience)
👂 Sonic Alchemy with composer and artist Satya Hinduja
* have a pair of headphones close by
4.55pm - 5.20pm (talk + Q&A)
🌿 Wild Edges: nature, liminality and magick with nature photographer Rebecca Douglas
⭐️ Half time show ⭐️
5.20pm - 5.40pm
Poetry open mic.
Bring and share your favourite poems that evoke wonder, hope and magic.
5.40pm - 6.10pm (Talk + activity)
📡 Tomorrow Could Be Brilliant: Building (and Broadcasting) Better Futures with RADAR
6.10pm - 6.45pm (group discussion)
🏕️ Campfire Conversation: How might we enact our collective Magic? Hosted by curiosity consultant (and Quester) Hannah Singleman
6:45pm - 6:55pm (Wrap up activity)
♾️ Creating Sigils (magical symbols) inspired by our wishes for the world.
7.00pm - End
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Ways of Perceiving
We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are. - Anais Nin.
I love curating lineups. Learning how different people approach or see the same topic is a source of great fascination for me. In fact I’d go as far as saying that our individual ways of perceiving are the roots of our creativity.
When we find a way to uniquely express our perceptions - this is art.
Our personal perceptions of what the world looks like is shaped over time like a landscape, sculpted by the seasons.
Our upbringings, social circles, geographies, jobs. mental health all play their parts.
But so do our passions.
The things we do.
The things we make.
The places we love.
The stuff we care about.
The things that make you feel like you.
The world through the eyes of a dancer with restless feet is different to that of a fiction writer with a story in their heart.
The world through the eyes of a skateboarder, who sees architecture as opportunity, is different to that of a climate activist with earth & ocean coursing through their veins.
Despite our differences, creativity is an innate power that we all share. Yet it doesn’t appear the same in all of us.
Creativity is fluid - it fills the spaces we open up for it.
So what if we spent more time exploring how new forms of creativity and different worldviews could manifest in our lives?
This is a real value of collective experiences and why I feel people get so much from our Quests. Your own creative capacity expands through proximity and osmosis to other peoples perceptions.
We celebrate our differences through:
Making how other’s make.
Doing as others do.
Seeing how others see.
So I hope you will explore your perceptions with us! Be it this Sunday at our salon, buying our new book, or signing up to a Quest in 2025.
A round up of illuminating finds from Quester world.
🤖 How Tech Created a Recipe for Loneliness via NY Times
🍄 Pioneering immersive experience design school Odyssey Works are hosting their end of year show in New York on 24th Nov. Featuring our very own Sparks, an OG Quester and part of CQ HQ. Go check out and experience their end of year piece. I’ve had a sneak preview... just go :)
🍁 The Modern World Needs Magic - in video form!
🛜 Subvert are building an artist owned corner of the internet - and you can be a co-owner. Austin Robey
🛹 The designers turning offices into skateparks…
🐟 The most fun music project I have seen in a minute. Green Day’s ‘Dookie’ has been ‘demastered’. Each track released on a different, completely esoteric format. Including: a singing fish.
🎵 I just watched the Quincy Jones documentary on Netflix. It’s an incredible watch and portrays his complete laser focus on creative ingenuity, evolution and craft so well (at times to his detriment). My favourite moment is when he’s speaking to Oprah about what drives him. He says ‘we’re only here for 26,000 days…and you bet they’re gonna know we came through here’.
🤓 Mathmatically average graffiti
🔮 Every company needs a futurist in residence
Finally…
Please do check out our new book! (only 18 days left of me promoting the crowd funder!). It’s really quite good and has been made by 20 people in our Quester community (this is no small feat).
I love hearing from readers in the comments and ❤️’s always feel good.
If you enjoy I’d love it if you shared it with a friend or two; you can send them here to sign up.
Big love,
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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