As I continue my journey to discovering the hidden insight that is creativity, I next ventured into the local Gainesville community. I made a pit-stop at the most relevant place I could think of, the Haile Village Farmers Market. This is an independent farmers market that is owned and operated by local farmers. When you [...]
Could you live your life without creating any waste? This seems like a daunting task for most Americans considering we each create about 4.4 pounds of waste daily, as reported by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, the zero-waste movement has spread across America and made its appearance in Gainesville on February 1st at [...]
Art, words, and acts as refreshing as water flowed throughout the Civic Media Center on Saturday for the interactive art event No New Planet. The event hosted by North Central Florida indivisible urged the community to come together to support our Mother Earth! Huge thanks to all the involved organizers and volunteers that helped make [...]
In layman’s terms, creativity can be defined as the “transforming [of] ideas, imagination, and dreams into reality.” I wanted to know if this definition translated across various cultures, ethnic groups, fields of study, ages and genders. 352Creates asked students and community members of Gainesville a simple question: What does creativity mean to you? I picked [...]
The Civic Media Center hosted Averted Vision, an interactive art experience for November’s #CreateInPlace event. A special thanks for Civic Media Center coordinators, Jojo Sacks and Em Arnold, and the volunteers that made this event possible! This event was free and open to the public. The event was part of the 352Creates’ [...]
Gainesville Fine Arts Association hosted October’s #CreateInPlace activity! The event was organized by Dia Flores, GFAA Gallery Assistant. The event was free and open to the public. Participants were able to create a “zine,” short for “magazine,” and are in fact just shorter magazines. It is a small-circulation self-published work of [...]
352Creates wants to wish you a Happy Earth Day by encouraging you to try these creative ways to be sustainable. Earth Day is a day where we can celebrate the beautiful planet we live on, and also learn how we can take steps to preserve our planet and move to a more sustainable lifestyle. By [...]
Library Partnership hosted a rock painting activity in their Teen Lounge on the second Friday of the month for 352Creates! Librarian Cindy Dorfeld Bruckman organized the after school activity which was free and open to the public. The activity was part of the 352Creates movement and encouraged participants to de-stress and express themselves through creativity. The [...]
This past Friday, 352Creates partnered with Spoon University for a food demonstration and cooking lesson at Whole Foods Market. Spoon University is food community at the University of Florida that allows students to express their love for food through writing, managing social media and organizing campus events. The demonstration aimed to help college students create [...]
Active Streets + 352Creates 2019 celebrated creativity and movement for health and wellbeing on Sunday, February 24th! Over 35 organizations and groups gathered in Depot Park to lead free, participatory events for the Gainesville community. Events ranged from storytelling and dancing to yoga and painting. Thank you to all the people who made the [...]
