C3 Programs
Holiday Party 2021
What’s an Awesome Way to Spend an Evening? C3’s annual Holiday Party! This year we’re at a cool, cozy, event space in Wicker Park with a NEW trivia game and our traditional White Elephant, libations and tasty treats to share. Our goal is to make the night fun for everyone. We will have, for the … Continue reading
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Introduction to Zen Meditation and Breath Work
Creative Health & Wholeness Covid-19 has certainly made the concept of health top-of-mind for most of us this past year (or is it decade?) and more. And the concept of health includes far more than merely the narrow medical aspect of surviving this particular virus. Our mental, emotional and financial health are tested daily. We … Continue reading
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McCormick Place Art Walk
Since 1999, Chicago Creative Coalition members have gone on an art walk in the fall to view interesting work, “share and air our aesthetic opinions in friendly company, and re-inspire and rejuvenate our creative spirits.” (Took that right out of our 1999 program description!) One of Illinois’ largest public art collections is located where you … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraMental Health Self-Care
Creative Health & Wholeness If you missed the Webinar, we have the recording here until October 21, 2021. Covid-19 has certainly made the concept of health top-of-mind for most of us this past year (or is it decade?) and more. And the concept of health includes far more than merely the narrow medical aspect of … Continue reading
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Auction for Kathleen
Chicago Creative Coalition’s immediate past president, Kathleen Kearns, is battling HER2+ cancer. Unfortunately, one of the realities of this cancer is you are never cured: you hope for long periods of remission, and each test – which are done frequently and regularly – ushers in another round of anxiety and worry. And, she has just … Continue reading
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Program Planning BBQ 2021
Live and In-Person! The best way to ensure you get something out of Chicago Creative Coalitions upcoming year of programming is to let us know what you want. And a great way to do that is to take part in our Annual Program Planning BBQ! There will be time to drink and chat and generally … Continue reading
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Passion and Purpose: Traci Asher & Warren Perlstein
Artist Speaker Series When artists create work about things that they care about, they make better art. This series aims to explore all the ways that “passion projects” emerge, evolve, develop, are supported, funded and deployed. Why do you make the work that you make, and how does it affect change? These are the key … Continue reading
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Annual Member Meeting 2021
Live and In-Person! The Chicago Creative Coalition Annual Member Meeting: a perfect time to kick-off in-person events as we invent the new “normal” in summer 2021. We will meet at the Dank Haus German Cultural Center for a networking reception and viewing of the exhibit 1 Cancer Patient. Then an in-person Warren Perlstein and a … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraPassion and Purpose: Anne Krause
Artist Speaker Series When artists create work about things that they care about, they make better art. This series aims to explore all the ways that “passion projects” emerge, evolve, develop, are supported, funded and deployed. Why do you make the work that you make, and how does it affect change? These are the key … Continue reading
Posts by: mtanimuraPassion and Purpose: George Berlin
Artist Speaker Series When artists create work about things that they care about, they make better art. This series aims to explore all the ways that “passion projects” emerge, evolve, develop, are supported, funded and deployed. Why do you make the work that you make, and how does it affect change? These are the key … Continue reading
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