Creativity City
Creativity City is the headquarters celebration for World Creativity & Innovation Week (WCIW). In fact, when I first got involved with the organization, Creativity City excited me the most. A week-long event dedicated to celebrating all forms of creativity on the campus that I loved - what could be better than that?
Lucky for me, I had the opportunity to be a part of the celebration for 3 years and impact the growth. 2020 was my first year on the team, which meant I was part of the team that made our first virtual celebration happen. The following year, 2021, I stepped into the leadership role and became the "Mayor" of Creativity City. My challenge then was creating a hybrid celebration, partially online and partially in person. During my final year of organizing the event, I brought it back in person full swing, increasing attendance through the years from 1,000 attendees to over 5,000 attendees.
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Below are some snippets of my Creativity City work.
Our first year back in person, 2022, came with lots of challenges. However, I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to lead and learn through that experience. Planning a large-scale, cross-campus event that was to run for an entire week was the goal. The theme that year was collaboration, which meant getting lots of people from different backgrounds involved in the celebration and working together.
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I am happy to report we accomplished a lot. We got over 25 other organizations to partner with us. We had a closing ceremonies that involved a representative from each college including the president of the university and the event was live-streamed to our international audience. Overall we had over 5,000 in person attendees.
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You can see some more photos here.
The 2021 celebration was my first year leading the entire event and it was the first year we had a hybrid celebration. For the website, I worked with a designer to create a virtual map of our campus. I created the site to be able to click into the buildings as if you were a person walking through the city online. There were interactive games, people could submit videos for prizes, and more.
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In-person, we had scavenger hunts. We partnered with local businesses to encourage their creativity as well. That we doubled our attendance to 2,000 attendees.
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To see more, check out the website here.
Creativity City 2020 the team had to quickly adapt to our new virtual world. Our solution was a website "Creativity City News" which had multiple segments - podcasts, articles, etc. I became the lead on the kid's channel, which eventually became the "Kids Creative Corner".
I created animated videos for each day of the week to teach kids about creative mindsets. Each video went along with a downloadable worksheet for kids to follow along at home.
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To check out the videos, click here.