Musing x Anti-Rot: Staying Creative When It Becomes a Business

Three creative practitioners to talk about what it takes to stay creative when work becomes a business with clients, deadlines, and repetition. The programme:

5-6pm Networking
6-6.30pm Mouza Al Hemrani (illustrator and multimedia artist) What I Do on Purpose to Stay Surprising – how she sustains a creative practice alongside a full-time job, the specific habits she returns to in order to avoid creative autopilot, and what it costs and produces to keep making work on her own terms
6.30-7pm Aqib Anwar (photographer) – reflections on the move from freelance photography into building Rice Middle East as a business, the work he almost did not keep making, and what changed when he committed fully
7-7.30pm Speaker tbc Staying In It Without Burning Out or Selling Out
7.30-8pm Q&A / discussion