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Day 35 of the 26 Day Big Shut Up: unsilencing the future.

The 10th and final globe sculpture on our journey of discovery is “From Roots To Fruit”, created by Jarvis Brookfield (theme: Reimagine the future).

It’s been an eventful journey for us all afternoon and it’s pleasing to know that we have seen all the globes in situ, before they all get moved to their final resting place outside the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery in New Walk.

It’s been a new walk for all of us; if not individually then certainly collectively.  Eventful but silent: we undertook the whole experience muted although it was evident all day that whilst we had adopted a vow of silence, our communications were irrepressible. Whether this be through our sombre genuflections at some of the globes, our facial gestures of concern, of pleasure, or of hilarity; our hunched bodies in the cold autumn air or our physical responses to the questions that members of the public directed towards us, or our imagined conversations between historical and cultural figures, we couldn’t help but communicate what we were experiencing throughout the journey.

We may have been muted, we may have been silenced but nothing can stop our desire and innate hunger to communicate our condition in whatever context.  There’s been lots of learnings on this journey today: but for me, the main one has been that nothing can stop us communicating our histories, dreams and visions.   We may not be heard at first; but time will tell, truth will out and discoveries can never be silenced.

The Mighty Creatives staff team took part in the Mighty (UN)Mute, a day-long vow of silence, on 5th October 2022. You can check out the campaign here or donate your support to it here.

Or if neither of these is possible (and heaven knows we’re all in tough financial times right now), then anything you can do to share and shout about the campaign would be equally welcomed and appreciated.

Day 21 of the 26 Day Big Shut Up: using creativity to lift the Big Shut Down.

You’re in a meeting; it’s bumbling along; minutes are handed out and people frown and glare or pass out in the heat of the moment. There’s mutterings under breaths; there’s sighs, grunts and the occasional fart. Everyone’s been shut up and the meeting’s been shut down.

But some bright spark says ‘what we need is a creative something something something‘ and suddenly the whole room has lit up in technicolour: the sighs become shouts, the grunts become groans of delight and the farts metamorphose into sounds of rejoicing: the whoopee cushion is something we all want to sit on now the creativity cat is out of the bag.

Because make no mistake: dropping the ‘c’ word into any meeting is bound to galvanise your workforce, impress your investors and stoke up the heat of admiration upon you. It doesn’t matter what the ‘something something something’ is, the fact that you’ve introduced the ‘c’ word to your proposal is what’s fired up the meeting.

In the olden days we would have used the words ‘magic’ and the effect would have been the same. These days, ‘creativity’ replaces the word for ‘magic’ and the world becomes a far happier place as a result, if only for a short time.

So, if in future you’re feeling shut down, shut up or just stuck in an oppressive silence, just drop the word ‘creative’ into proceedings and see your colleagues grow wings and fly to the heavens. They may not last long up there as they get too close to the sun, but they will thank you for liberating them from their non-magical silent daily grind.

The Mighty Creatives staff team are going to support the campaign by taking part in the Mighty (UN)Mute, a day-long vow of silence, on the 5th October. If you want to join us on the day and take a vow of silence, then please check out the campaign here. 

Of if the thought of donating your silence for 24 hours is really too much, then you can donate your hard-earned disposable income here.

Or if neither of these is possible (and heaven knows we’re all in tough financial times right now), then anything you can do to share and shout about the campaign would be equally welcome and appreciated.

So… come and help me to shut up, once and for all. You know you want to.

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