LW&D
Edmonton

This month we're keeping things simple and heading off to Longroof Brewing to chat Growth. It's been a crazy two years, so we want to know: How have you grown creatively and personally? How do you know you've grown? How do you continue to grow as a creative? We're kicking it back to our original event format: Intimate small group conversations on a specific topic, so get ready to mingle and share!

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We're kicking it back to our original event format: Intimate small group conversations on a specific topic. How do you find balance in your design career? How do you make sure clients, life, projects, side projects and everything else in-between doesn't blend together? How do you set boundaries around your work, time and creativity? This month we're sharing with one another on how we best balance everything we're juggling and set healthy boundaries. 
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Join us Monday, March 8th, 2021 for casual hangouts with the LWD community as we celebrate International Women's Day! The best part: you DON'T need a ticket!
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While some creatives are generalists, others work hard to carve out a path that is unique to them and their skillset. This month we're excited to be joined by Jennifer Konanz of Konanz & Co. who specializes in traditionally hand-painted signs. Jennifer will be sharing her journey, and behind-the-scenes from her formal education in art and design to seeking out a mentorship in sign-painting and international workshops to help hone her craft.
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When you've done it all, where do you go from here? This month's speaker, Valéry Goulet from Valérydesignwrks and Méthodes is a seasoned illustrator, designer, educator and creative director that has navigated the design industry for over 20 years. She'll be sharing her personal journey and how she's managed to grow and adapt with the ever-changing design industry. She'll even be sharing some tips and tricks for seasoned designers to help stay relevant, fresh and top-of-mind as a creative.
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The holidays are looking a little different this year but that doesn't mean we can't mingle with our fellow creatives and enjoy a virtual holiday party of our own! Grab your fave festive bevvie and join us to celebrate and wrap up a year of events and have informal chats with amazing creative women!
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How has becoming a mother affected your creativity and creative work? How has it affected your career overall? What tough decisions have you made and what has been the most rewarding parts? How have you navigated childrearing and adapted? This month we have Jennifer Konanz, Amanda Schutz, Lianne Cawley, and Jenelle Gartner joining us for a panel discussion on motherhood and the struggles, beautiful moments and challenges it brings.
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Join us for a night of spooky stations at this month’s carnival-themed event! We’ll be gathering virtually to talk about disappearing files, monster projects, design-related Halloween trivia, and predicting red-flag situations. Each station will equip us on how to deal with future scaries so we aren't caught off-guard when the full moon rises!
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Vikki Wiercinski of Mezzaluna Studio (and Royal Bison, among other things) will be sharing some of the things she's learned since graduation. Some of the topics she'll be touching on include adapting to "the new normal", why you should build multiple revenue streams, how to stay nimble, and accommodating changing platforms or client requests.
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This month we have Amanda Wagner of The Complement guiding us through some tips and tricks on Value & Pricing. We'll be discussing how we can reframe the way we think about sales and service, talk about why pricing is so hard, consider how we can speak to value beyond price, and tips on setting price as designers!
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Join us Sunday, March 8th, 2020 at Sea Change Brewery for beers and casual hangouts with our faves Women Can Design and Womentor! The best part: you DON'T need a ticket! ⠀
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How do you manage your time to be the most productive? How do you organize your design work? How do you set goals for projects and for your self-employment? Which tools are useful and which aren't? How do you build your own sustainable structure to stay focused with ease? Let us share our experiences and practices!
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Join us and industry experts at our year-end event as we chat about industry ethics and professional practices. The event layout will be musical chairs-esque, as we switch up topics and seats every 15 minutes!
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Join us as for an eerie night of spooky stories that haunt us all! We invite designers of all kinds to share their most frightening tales: clients that send chills down your spine!
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Join us and Andy Junior (co-founder of Paper Leaf Design and freelance designer) as we chat about navigating change as a designer, the messy middle, and how it can impact us and our creative journeys.
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Join us and Jessica Fern Facette (of Fern's School of Craft) to chat about honing our craft and how we can get a little more hands-on with our creative process.
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With our guest of honour, Justine Ma, we'll be chatting about the ups and downs of self-promotion and how we can better market ourselves.
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Are you stuck? Uninspired? Creatively burned out? Are you terrified of presenting in front of your peers? Welcome to a night on battling the creative block. We will do some low stakes aggressive brainstorming and exercise our creativity to come up with some unexpectedly bad ideas. It’s gonna be great!
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Hello Edmonton creatives! For our first event, we'll be chatting about the passion projects we pursue outside our regular 9 to 5 that help keep us creative and how we find time for them.
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