TOPIC: CREATIVITY (74)
Noisli
http://www.noisli.comNoisli is a fantastic background noise and color generator ideal for working and relaxing.
Noisli also provides a color changing background, bringing to you the healthy benefits of the chromotherapy.
Watershed
http://www.watershed.co.ukWatershed is a cross-artform venue and producer, sharing, developing and showcasing exemplary cultural ideas and talent. We are based in Bristol, but place no boundaries on our desire to connect with artists and audiences in the wider world.
We curate ideas, spaces and talent to enable artistic visions and creative collaborations to flourish. We produce work that cuts across film, music, theatre, design, visual art, and the creative and technology sectors.
Brain Pickings
http://www.brainpickings.orgBrain Pickings is the brain child of Maria Popova, an interestingness hunter-gatherer and curious mind at large, who also writes for Wired UK and The Atlantic, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. She gets occasional help from a handful of guest contributors.
Love is Art
http://www.loveisartkit.comSimply put, LOVE IS ART is a kit that comes with everything a couple needs to safely make a tangible piece of abstract expressionistic art while being intimate with each other. What is left is a one-of-a-kind abstract painting that represents that special moment, that can then be stretched, framed and hung on the wall -- a reminder of the love that was shared. The kit also provides a unique bonding experience for the couples involved, as they work together as a team to craft their own unique masterpeice.
Let it Ripple
http://letitripple.orgLet it Ripple: Mobile Films For Global Change is a new short film series by The Moxie Institute (the team behind the feature film Connected) that provides inspiring, impactful films and media for nonprofits all over the world to use to further their reach and impact. For free.
Design Thinking for Educators
http://www.designthinkingforeducators.comDesign Thinking for Educators is a creative process that helps you design meaningful solutions in the classroom, at your school, and in your community. The toolkit provides you with instructions to explore Design Thinking.
TED-Ed
http://ed.ted.comTED-Ed’s commitment to creating lessons worth sharing is an extension of TED’s mission of spreading great ideas. Within the growing TED-Ed video library, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which represent collaborations between talented educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform. This platform also allows users to take any useful educational video, not just TED's, and easily create a customized lesson around the video. Users can distribute the lessons, publicly or privately, and track their impact on the world, a class, or an individual student.
INSTANT Gallery
http://www.instant-gallery.comWe are a collective of photographers offering limited edition prints of our Instagram images. For every print sold, we donate 50% of the profits to a charity. The charity changes each month and is selected by one of our photographers. In this way, we hope to encourage making a difference for a variety of causes.
Creative Mornings
http://www.creativemornings.com/CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types held in major cities internationally. Each event is free of charge, and includes a 20 minute talk, plus coffee!
Outer Urban Projects
http://outerurbanprojects.orgOuter Urban Projects (OUP) is a bold not for profit performing arts organisation that collaborates with young people and their communities in Melbourne’s culturally diverse, artistically starved, ‘hardcore’ outer northern suburbs. OUP specialises in producing and presenting high calibre arts projects that seamlessly combine street, cultural, contemporary and classical forms. OUP is driven by the vibrant cultural mix and stories of the outer northern suburbs and the racial, social and class inequities that challenge our young people.
AHA!
http://ahasb.orgAHA! (Attitude.Harmony.Achievement) is an educational program promoting social emotional learning, peace building, and joy through creative expression. AHA! is committed to transforming the world by empowering teens to create peaceful and connected communities.
Dreaming Tree Foundation
http://www.dreamingtreefoundation.orgDreaming Tree Foundation's mission is to transform the lives of young people through encouraging, fostering, and actively involving them in the field of creative arts. Dreaming Tree Foundation (DTF) provides teens with hands-on experience in the creative field of filmmaking. Through various programs geared towards teens, DTF gives youth the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the filmmaking industry, while gaining skills they will need in the workforce, such as decision making, time management, critical thinking, and teamwork.
The Imagine Project
http://imagineproject.orgThe Imagine Project, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, was founded on the principle that there exists within each child a creative energy which must not lie dormant. Eventually, as with all sources of power, it must either extinguish itself, excel or explode.
Brooklyn Robot Foundry
http://brooklynrobotfoundry.comWe are two friends that joined forces to inspire and motivate kids by teaching them about the fun of building. We love the idea of learning and coming together through making things. We believe in the DIT—do it together— mentality and the importance of building a community around this common goal.
People United
http://www.peopleunited.org.uk/index.phpPeople United is a creative laboratory. We explore how the arts and creativity can inspire kindness and social change. We commission artists, create imaginative new work, develop research and support new social initiatives. From beach huts and bingo halls to high streets, schools and offices; our work links artists, academics, policy-makers, community leaders and the general public in exploring how to grow a more caring society.
