The Big Intent
Start 2024 with creativity and clarity. In Soap’s first panel event, moderated by Sarah Huston, we’ll explore intention setting for creatives and how you can harness tools and techniques to make 2024 YOUR year.
This isn’t just about career growth; it’s about having a clear vision for your year and learning the tools to make it happen.
Our panel includes Amelia Aitkin-Deane, founder of HAPPYWRK, Aimee Davis of The Hey Mate Project, and Kirsten Devitt from Each to Own. In guided conversation with Sarah Huston, they’ll talk on conquering distractions, looking after your creative mind and how to manage the juggling act that can be leading a creative life or businesses.
Hosted in Donna Stain’s playful and conceptual warehouse space amongst botanicals and projections by local artist and writer, Tess Guinery you are guaranteed to walk away inspired and with an open mind for the year ahead.
While your there, rummage through Donna’s collection of vintage apparel with a Soap special of 20% off on the evening.
TICKETS
Tickets are ‘pay what you can,’ starting at $25, with proceeds supporting our speakers and future events. All ticket holders enter a raffle drawn on the night (scroll down to see what’s on offer)! Join us and set your intentions to make 2024 the best yet.
Tickets can be purchased on Humantix here.
The pay what you can scale looks like this:
The Creatives
PANELLIST
Amelia Aitkin-Deane / @happywrk
As the founder of HAPPYWRK, a stationary brand that creates conscious tools, her mission is to help her community unlock their potential.
With the newly launched (and sold out!) Traction Planner that comes with a 5 step module course on aligned goal setting, she’s aiming to cure distraction at it’s root. This combined with her background in social media makes her the perfect fit for our first SOAP panel event.
PANELLIST
Aimee Davies / @theheymateproject
Aimee, founder of The Hey Mate Project, blends her background in sound engineering with a diverse career in the creative industries, including opening a creative studio. She recognises the unique challenges faced by professionals in these fields and realised a gap in industry-specific mental health support. Now, a registered Counsellor with almost half a decade of experience in the health sector, Aimee runs The Hey Mate Project, providing accessible, proactive, and industry-informed creative thinking support. We can’t wait to hear about her tips on intention setting for the year ahead!
PANELLIST
Kirsten Devitt / @eachtoown
Kirsten is well known in Murwillumbah for her boutique store, Each to Own and Gallery Space, Small Works Gallery.
She’s done a lot and taken a lot of risks in 15 years. In 2024 she has a lot of intentional changes planned, that include taking a big exhale from the businesses she’s built and going back to her grass roots.
We’re looking forward to chatting with her honestly about how to build creative businesses, but also how to let them go.
PANEL MODERATOR
Sarah Huston / @thesarahhuston
Sarah’s career spans many mediums and industries. Her professional background includes working as a creative director, designer, curator, event producer, artist, and founder of the women’s skateboarding media platform, Yeah Girl. These days you’ll mostly find Sarah working as an actor, a stunt performer, or consulting for organisations and brands on all things skateboarding.
We’re looking forward to experiencing how her well rounded wealth of knowledge and experience in the creative industries shapes The Big Intent panel.
PROJECTIONS
Tess Guinery / @tessguinery
Those who tune into what Tess’ work has to say, will be struck by the treasures beneath every brushstroke and syllable. And there, amongst her outpourings, you will not only uncover Tess’ infinite inner universe but most potently, your own.
Tenacious about growth, Tess is committed to being as water as she adheres to the ever-changing phases of life choosing to embrace the creative process as a road map to all the intricacies and rhythms that life brings. She has an unwavering belief that “creative expression will forever grow and change - but her inner purpose will forever remain the same.
VENUE HOST
Donna Stain / @donnastain
Usually letting the botanicals talk on her behalf, Donna has shared words on her practise by Tess Guinery - “Donna specialises in site specific installations using flowers, plants and botanicals. Her relationship with flowers is not dissimilar to performative art, where space is given permission to be the unbound stage and the people she creates with are given full creative freedom as collaborators. Donna’s latest venture has become a creative playground for the town of Murwillumbah”. Luckily for us, it will also be home to SOAP No. 03.
Thank you to our sponsors for making SOAP No. 03 possible:
The Raffle Prizes
