Hello and welcome to the Kindred Creativity Club!
Some of you may recognise the community name, or its founder, Clare Dugmore, as this community started out as The Kindred Book Club, over on Clare's author page.
However, during The Kindred Book Club's first Event -- Reading With Pride, Clare participated in a networking event hosted by The Hellcat Creative Collective, and met a range of wonderful creatives -- both LGBTQA and not.
Meeting these people helped Clare realise, though they come from the bookish world, there are many creatives out there from other spheres, including artists, photographers, musicians and performers, and Clare wanted a space to spotlight those people, too!
Thus, The Kindred Book Club became The Kindred Creativity Club and Reading with Pride became Creating with Pride.
As Clare evolved The Kindred Creativity Club, they wanted a way to keep the community slightly separate from their own author website and associated social media profiles and so a second website (complete with accompanying social media profiles) was created -- The Kindred Creativity Club
Clare's mission and their vision for The Kindred Creativity Club remain largely unchanged, though. They want to create a warm, welcoming, inclusive community for all creatives, where we can come together, uplift and encourage each other, while at the same time supporting charitable causes and marginalised groups.
If anything in this post resonates with you, you'll likely to feel right at home on this creative little corner of the internet, and we invite you to join our Discord Community.
In the coming days, the blog will be updated with guest posts from some of the LGBTQA creatives taking part in Creating with Pride.
We will also be filming a video chat about LGBTQA representation in the media (specifically books) on June 27, and we hope to have the video edited and shared with you before the end of Pride.
Finally, don't forget, we are hosting a raffle via Tiltify where if you donate £1/$1 or more, you will be in with a chance of winning one of six prizes -- including signed books and a £/4 20 Amazon Giftcard.
For now, this is all we have to share with you for now, but we hope to see you again soon.
Until then, take care and stay creative!
T.T.F.N