Mary Dezember

From the Divine Studio: Creatives in Conversation
is on Hiatus. We will return.

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Creatives in Conversation is a free online live event Zooms you—while in your own “divine studio” (creative space, home or inner sense of creativity)—to meet with our featured Creative.

 Agenda for Creatives in Conversation

Date: TBA

Time: TBA

Typical Agenda:

5:20 pm MT: Zoom Divine Studio opens.

Open mic: 3 presenters of 5 min. each:
Read, sing, dance, show art, discuss your business or other creative projects.

5:35 - 6:05 pm MT: Featured Creative presents

6:05 - 6:20 pm MT: Q & A with Featured Creative

6:20 - 6:35 pm MT: Open Mic

6:35 - 6:40 pm MT: Back by popular demand! Motivational rapper, singer and educator Sean Ritch!

6:45 pm: Bye!

Featured Creatives and upcoming events will be announced on this page and in my newsletter.

In Wales, there is a place where

if you spend the night, the next morning

you will be dead, or mad, or a poet.

Spend the night with us!

(or just an hour…less risk!)

See you at Creatives in Conversation!

Mary

Press:

New Mexico Magazine April 17, 2020 by Maria Manuela

Reviews from Dr. Dezember’s View

My reviews about featured Creatives at Creatives in Conversation and about other topics in the arts and creativity, and sometimes my own poems, are below:

Recordings:

(A few Creatives in Conversation events have been recorded. You can view these on links below and you can also find these on Mary Dezember youtube channel)

Amazing Featured Creatives!

All photos courtesy of the featured creatives.

Origin of Creatives in Conversation:

It is my daughter, Elaine Ritchel, founder of Santa Fe Art Tours, that I have to thank for my innovation—From the Divine Studio: Creatives in Conversation. The pandemic hit. Overnight, Elaine had to figure out how to continue her business, which focuses on tours of art venues. She created Artist Studio Visits and Mindfulness with Art for her business Santa Fe Art Tours. Inspired by her idea, I thought of how I’d like to open up more conversation among creative and caring people to bring us together during our pandemic isolation.

With the same purpose in mind, I had already begun my newsletter and my blog, which is called From the Divine Studio—to connect us is our “divine studios,” which can be seen as our creative selves and even our creative space within our studios, offices, homes—our creative spaces or our inner sense of creativity.

Creatives in Conversation is an event featuring a creative with whom we converse, which rounds out the community-building of my newsletter and blog. Not only did I “borrow” Elaine’s idea of sharing creativity via Zoom in our studios or homes, she suggested the name Creatives in Conversation. Thanks, Elaine! 

I found the term “divine studio” from Hafiz’s poem “Theater of Freedom,” which I find inspiring about creativity.

Creating to me is divine, a term I use for an exquisiteness beyond definition.

Here is a brief explanation of why I write, and refers to the Hafiz poem and how I think of creativity and the creative self.

Creators of Creatives in Conversation:

Logo in the page banner is the logo for Mary Dezember, also for Dezember LLC, and also for the Sisterhood of Gifts (a secret group in my novel Wild Conviction).