​Creative Encounters

​✨ Includes one drink + creative conversation cards ✨

​About the Series

​Creative Encounters is a conversation-led project and podcast that explores creative purpose through dialogue. Created and hosted by Art Gallivant, the series invites artists, creatives, and makers into candid conversations about the futures they imagine, the histories they carry, and the work of world-building through art.

​Facilitated by Chibuye Changwe, each gathering uses the work of artists as conversation starters—entry points that invite reflection and introspection. The host introduces the artist and their practice, and then opens the space for the creatively curious to dive in together, exploring questions that unfold through dialogue.

​This series invites us not only to ask the questions we have about art, but also the questions we have about ourselves.

​Why Join?

• ​Discover new artists in an approachable way—no prior knowledge required

• ​Take part in an open conversation shaped by the group

• ​Use a creative conversation card to spark your own reflections

• ​Connect with others in a space of reflection and connection

• ​Enjoy a drink included with your ticket

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​**Photo: 'The Artist Is Present', Marina Abromovic

​Upcoming Sessions

​Part I: On Process and Purpose
September 26th
What drives us to create, and how do our processes reflect our purpose? In this opening conversation, we trace the daily rituals, chance encounters, and deliberate choices that shape artistic practice. Together, we consider how creative work becomes not only a means of expression but also a way of grounding, questioning, and positioning ourselves in the world.

​Part II: On Resistance and Imagination
October
Art has long been a site of refusal and reinvention. This conversation explores how resistance and imagination work hand in hand, challenging inherited narratives, creating new possibilities, and making space for voices at the margins. Here, imagination is not escape, but a practice of envisioning worlds otherwise.

​Part III: On Collaboration and Encounter
November
The series closes by turning toward others, toward the spaces of meeting, exchange, and co-creation. Collaboration and encounter remind us that art is rarely solitary: it emerges through relationships, through the friction and generosity of working together. This conversation asks what becomes possible when we create with and for one another.