World Creativity and Innovation Week. 2023.
World Creativity & Innovation Week was founded in 2001 in Toronto. This week of celebration commences on April 15th (Leonardo DaVinci’s Birthday) with the intention to grow and showcase creativity. Visit www.wciw.org to learn about the history and founder Marci Segal, engage with creative events around the world and view their ideas and offerings. WCID is on April 21st each year.
Did you do engage in something creative during Creativity and Innovation week?
During this time I completed my 100th Connecting Circle to celebrate creativity through eco-art (100 days of making), helped create the template for the first Eco-Art Zine/compilation of student art for the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, and facilitated an eco-art earth day workshop with seniors. I feel both gratitude and inspiration from these experiences!!
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“Its founder, Canadian resident Marci Segal, began studying creativity in 1977 at the International Center for Studies in Creativity, SUNY Buffalo. When the headline, “Canada in Creativity Crisis” appeared in the National Post, she was well aware of the challenges the subject presented for mainstream thinking. She thought, “Wouldn’t it be great if people knew how to use their natural ability to generate new ideas, make new decisions, take new actions and achieve new outcomes, to make the world a better place and to make their place in the world better too?” And so she set off on a journey to make a bigger place for creativity in the world.”
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“The purpose for World Creativity & Innovation Day was, and still is, to remind and encourage people to use their creativity to make the world a better place and to make their place in the world better too. April 21, the day before Earth Day, April 22, was chosen as World Creativity & Innovation Day to emphasize the importance of using new thinking to create a decent life for all on a sustainable planet. April 21 is a placeholder in time to give people a reason and opportunity to use imagination productively, to release new thinking, and to celebrate that.”
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