Conversations with Creative Women - early editions!
Image courtesy of The Hungry Workshop
As I mentioned in the newsletter last week, we're running low on stock of Conversations with Creative Women... but I have good news - when I opened the last few boxes, one was full of 'early editions', i.e. books numbered between 10-100! There's only a handful of these double-digit copies, so if you'd like one, pop on over to the shop now.
MelbourneMade magazine review
Thanks to the folks over at MelbourneMade magazine for their review of Conversations in their launch issue! MelbourneMade is a new quarterly printed publication highlighting good things made in Melbourne and profiling the people who make them. I suggest you check it out!
You're invited to our next event!
Today I'm thrilled to announce the details of our first speaker event for this year!
..................................................................................................... Date: Saturday 24 March, 2012 Time: 2pm-4pm Location: Frankie & Swiss, Ground Floor, Studio 8, 199 Toorak Road, South Yarra, Vic (enter via Claremont St laneway) Cost: $11.00 Full Members / $16.50 Subscribers & Non-members Tickets available here A portion of all ticket sales will go to support Rosa's favourite charity, The Lighthouse Foundation. .....................................................................................................
Our speaker for this event will be architect Rosa Coy.
Rosa graduated from Deakin University in 1991 with a BA in Architecture, having completed some of her studies at California Polytechnic State University.
Upon graduation, Rosa moved to Paris, France, working for five years for leading international architects Santiago Calatrava and Renzo Piano. During this period, she met future husband and business partner George Yiontis and the couple returned to Melbourne in 1994 to launch their architecture practice Coy & Yiontis.
Rosa's work both in France and Australia has been well published and award winning. It includes resiential, retail, commercial and institutional projects. At this CWC, Rosa will talk about her career and practice to date and the challenges & delights of running a creative architecture business in the competitive Melbourne market with her partner (whilst raising four children aged 5-14 years!).
After the talk, join us for afternoon tea. Seating at this event is strictly limited so please book tickets early to avoid missing out.
Hope to see you there!
New website, new features!
Visually, not much has changed - there's a bit of a menu-thing up the top there, and the sidebar has been snazzed up. Oh and as much as Blogger is a good ol' blogging platform, we're now over at Wordpress. This is all thanks to the lovely ladies at Contact Point, a Melbourne-based web development team who I've had the pleasure of working with regularly since 2008. They sure know their code.
What's new with the website
Well, for a while now I've seen the need for an online service that helps people find a creative woman to employ, collaborate with, promote, interview, write about, or engage for their creative services.
Also, I know not every creative has (or wants the expense of) a full-fledged website to showcase their work. Sometimes a gallery of images, a bio and contact details is all that is needed to illustrate to the wider (web) world what it is that you do, in a succinct way.
So, The Circle Database, a new feature on the CWC website is just that - a gallery of your work and information about how people can get in touch or find out more. It's neat and effective, and I'm looking forward to it being a way for all of you to connect with each other online and off.
A major benefit is that you don't have to be based in Melbourne to have your own page on the The Circle Database... it's open to any woman, anywhere!
A working, searchable database of creative goodness is a robust thing, and brings with it increased costs, both in time and in the technical nuts and bolts that make a website work. So, from today the CWC will be introducing three membership options: Subscriber, Full Member and Non-member.
There are various benefits to each option (which you can find out about in more detail here), but you need to be a Full-Member to have your own page on The Circle Database.
Basically, up until this point, everyone who is signed up to the CWC mailing list has been a Subscriber. So if you're happy to stay with that option, I'm happy too. But if you want the benefits of Full Membership (including The Circle Database page, discounted event tickets, and access to podcasts & member-only articles), you'll need to purchase a membership.
You also have the option to set up your page under your business name instead of your name, if that suits you better.
Different membership costs
Twelve-month Full Memberships are $77.00 (incl. GST), but as a special introductory offer if you join before Sunday 25 March 2012, you will pay only $55.00!
That's right! To build up the database this month, we're offering discounted 12-month memberships at an 'early adopter' discount. So pop on over here, become a Full Member and you can start filling your Database entry with words and images right away. You'll also have access to our podcasts page, and when our first event is announced next Tuesday, you can purchase tickets at a discount.
Subscriber and non-members of the CWC remain free of charge! Again, to see all the benefits of each type of membership, visit the Join page.
That's all from me for now - any questions, contact me.
Thanks for all your support and enthusiasm for the CWC, and I look forward to keeping the good stuff coming in 2012. tess
The CWC in Patchwork & Stitching Magazine
Just a quick post today to let you know that there is a feature article (!) about the CWC in the current issue of Patchwork & Stitching magazine! The issue also features a round-up of the last Finders Keepers market in Sydney and lots of projects and patterns as well. The issue goes on sale tomorrow from all good newsagents. Thanks to Melinda Law for the fabulous write-up!
Renovations
Hello! If you've visited the blog since Friday night you may have noticed a couple of new things around here! It's all to do with the website upgrade. There are a couple of things that still need adjustment, but once they're done I'll introduce the new features properly, so stay tuned. It's preeeetty exciting. tess
Changes to the CWC blog...
Ahoy there readers! I've some news for you today about some exciting changes we are making to the CWC blog.
1. Our new blog columnists start this week!
You may have seen my call out for blog contributors a few weeks ago, and I was thrilled to receive many excellent applications (almost 60 in total!). From there, while it was a tough job, I wittled the list down to 13 ladies from a variety of different creative backgrounds who will contribute regularly to our little on line hub.
So from this week onward, once a month, the blog will feature a post from each lady. There will be posts about women in film, creative women from history, sustainable/eco-friendly creative practice, stress management, what's new in social media, women in the world, the tools of various creative trades, and women in art; as well as book reviews, organisational tips & tricks, studio & shop sneak peeks, interviews, and content from Sydney and other Australian cities in addition to Melbourne.
Not to mention some special guest posts now and then by other fab femmes.
It's going to make for some great reading. But it does mean that...
2. For a while, we'll be taking a break from posting regular profiles, member news and weekly round-ups.
These will return in slightly different formats later in the year. But all of the past posts will remain on the blog, so have a look through our archives if you need a fix.
3. In the next couple of weeks, we'll upgrading the blog and moving it to a new platform...
...And will be announcing some super-duper extra features and resources that I think you will really like. So, if you visit one day and find the site offline, that probably means it's flying through a series of tubes from one hosty place to another (or something technical like that). But, it will return, better than ever.
Until then, look out for our first CWC columnist post on Wednesday. Hurrah!