• April 2, 2009 Nellie Jacob's Igniting Imagination blog talk radio show with WCIW co-founder Marci Segal. Download or listen to the program here (free iTunes option available)

• April 8, 2009 Visonary Leadership presented by Seth Kahan, at Cleveland Park Club House, Washington DC. 

• April 13, 2009, Express Your Creativity contest launched by Bayer Health Care

• April 15 - 21, 2009 AMP Sydney, Australia
• April 15 - 21, 2009  Book Launch Campinas, Brazil
• April 15 - 21, 2009 World Creativity and Innovation Week program from Italy
• April 15 - 21, 2009 World Creativity and Innovation Week celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• April 15 - 21, 2009 World Creativity and Innovation Week celebrations in Toronto, Canada
• April 15 - 21, 2009 International Center for Studies in Creativity, Alumni Forum Videos online
• April 15, 2009 Panel on Prosperity and Innovation with Roger Martin and Richard Florida - Sutton Place Hotel, Toronto, ON
• April 15, 2009 Living Like Leonardo - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• April 16, 2009 Admit it You're Creative - Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120, Toronto
• April 16, 2009 Book Signing  with Whitney Ferre' The Artist Within, A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit, Carpe Librum, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Knoxville, TN
• April 17, 2009, 1001 Friday Nights of Storytelling - Creativity Stories Innis College Café, 2 Sussex Street, Toronto

  (corner St. George, one block south of Bloor St. W. St. George Subway - St. George St. exit)

• April 16 - 23, 2009  Ontario Public Service (OPS) celebrates World Creativity and Innovation Week 2009 with its employees. 
• April 17: AMPLIFY-The Album, as part of Creativity Tapas offered to AMP Employees in a world first corporate YouTube Symphony style online creative collaboration to create an Album for our company. Creativity Tapas will be followed by Sydney's first Cup Cake Camp on 25 May, then a story workshop on 5 June and in July, the Zine Scene - all part of the AMPLIFY Innovation & Thought Leadership Festival for AMP's 3500 employees. 
• April 17, 2009 Second Life Event at the virtual International Center for Studies in Creativity
• April 18, 2009 Mindcamp Idea Tasting - Verity Club, 111d Queen St. E., Toronto, ON
• April 19, 2009 Facilation for Idea GeneratorsCentre for Social Innovation, Toronto, ON
• April 19, 2009 Dr. Edward deBono launches social networking site to coincide with World Creativity and Innovation Week
• April 20, 2009 What’s Next: Creating Our Future  ...- ICA Associates and Council for the Arts in Ottawa (CAO), Micaela Fitch Boardroom, Arts Court, Ottawa, ON
• April 20, 2009 epoca Creative Photo Shoot, Toronto, ON

• April 20, 21 & 22, 2009 Creative Leadership Conference - A Youth - Business Collaboration, Syracuse, NY

• April 21, 2009 Creative Spirit Conference, organized by CIF (Creative Industries Finland), Tampere, Finland

• April 21, 2009 Creative Problem Solving Institute Viral Campaign
• April 21, 2009 Idea Safari @ Kingston, Ontario
• April 21, 2009, World Creativity & Innovation Week by Azim Pawanchik in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• April 21, 2009, Hermitage Students Celebrate Creativity Within Earth Fest, Artman and Hermitage Elementary School, Hermitage, PA

• April 22, 2009 Spritz/Share/Celebration at L'isola D'oro Pizzeria/Ristorante, Lido di Venezia, Italy
• April 28, 2009 The Artistry of Change - Edmonton Marriott Hotel - River Cree, Edmonton, Alberta
• May 8-9, 2009 Sid Parnes Tribute, Buffalo, NY

• Write your own epitaph - La Paz, Bolivia
• Creativity Expo - Universidad Bicentenaria de Aragua. Núcleo San Antonio de los Altos, Venezuela
• Travelling - off to Mexico 
• Gathering friends to share creativity from the past 12 months and to celebrate in Athens, Georgia     
• Collecting proclamations for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 - 21 from
  • Mayor Heidi Davison of Athens, Georgia
  • Dr. Andy Horne, Dean, College of Education at University of Georgia (where E. Paul Torrance was department head of Educational Psychology and where the E. Paul Torrance Center for Creativity is located with its new director, Dr. Mark Runco.) 
• Reaching out to Dr. Michael F. Adams, President of University of Georgia and Georgia Governor Sunny Purdue for additional Proclamations...encourage you do the same in your community, state, province, territory this year and plan to do the same next year and beyond.
• Add your event here         

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Who is Proclaiming Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 - 21?

• Mayor David Miller, Toronto, CanadaTorontoMayorMillers2009proclamation.pdf
• Mayor Heidi Davidson, Athens, Georgia
• Dr. Micheal F. Adams, President, University of Georgia wcic adams.pdf
• Dr. Andy Horne, Dean of the College of Education, University of Georgia
• Dr. Mark Runco, Director of the Torrance Center and Torrance Professor of Creative Studies, University of Georgia
• Dr. Gerard Puccio, Chair and Professor, International Center for Studies in Creativity, State University of New York College at Buffalo World Creativity and Innovation Week endorsement ICSC.pdf
• Add your proclamation here

 

 

What you can do?                                                                    

• Submit your activities, events, and conversations on this wiki, and...
• Follow WorldCreativity on Twitter: twitter.com/WorldCreativity (hashtag #wciw)
• Follow what others are saying about #wciw on twitter
• Join our facebook group: World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 - 21
• Webstorm questions you'd like to ask the world http://wciw.brightidea.com/ideas
• Add your story of a time when you felt really creative: Creativity and Innovation Stories
• Photos if you add photos to Flickr, Picasa etc., please tag them with wciw so they can be searchable

 

 

Who's Talking About World Creativity Week?

 

http://creativeliberty.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/don%E2%80%99t-miss-world-creativity-and-innovation-week-april-15-21/

 

http://beingthechangeiwishtosee.com/40/today-is-creativity-and-innovation-day/

 

http://globalvoicesonline.org/calendar/

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ArtyEm/2009/04/09/Creativity-Cafe-Volume-1

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Igniting-Imagination/2009/04/02/Meet-CIW-co-founder-Marci-Segal-Lets-Keep-the-Conversation-

Going-

 

http://womenembracingcreativity.com/blog/2009/03/24/share-your-creative-ideas/

 

http://www.creativityland.net/Content/content.aspx?link=e46c6995-45a5-4991-a1dc-0efce7b9507e&p=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&sid=vDyg1IxaloklLL/CraAVSQ

 

http://www.fuzz2buzz.com/en/mind-events/2009/04/15/world-creativity-and-innovation-day-april-15-21

 

http://wx.toronto.ca/festevents.nsf/RSSAllCurrent/452FCCBB5B9E202C85257589004F8475

 

http://www.macri.com.my/node/161

 

http://brainzooming.blogspot.com/2009/04/world-creativity-and-innovation-week.html

 

http://creativeperch.com/2009/04/15/world-creativity-and-innovation-week/

 

http://brainzooming.blogspot.com/2009/04/world-creativity-and-innovation-week_16.html

 

http://teresamallenstudio.blogspot.com/2009/04/creativity-and-innovation-week.html

 

http://creativeliberty.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/feed-me-15-creative-people-to-follow-via-rss/

 

http://callistasramblings.blogspot.com/2009/04/world-creativity-and-innovation-week.html

 

http://www.idea-sandbox.com/blog/2009/04/world-creativity-and-innovation-week/

 

http://mikebrownspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/04/world-creativity-innovation-week-eight.html

 

http://www.irishpressreleases.ie/2009/04/19/eu-ambassador-for-thinking-dr-edward-de-bono-launches-new-%E2%80%98thinkers%E2%80%99-website-wwwdebonosocietycom/

 

http://taniamccartney.blogspot.com/2009/04/calendar-international-creativity-and.html

 

http://brainzooming.blogspot.com/2009/04/world-creativity-and-innovation-week_20.html

 

http://www.janetbarclay.com/2009/04/21/unleashing-your-creativity/

 

http://brainzooming.blogspot.com/2009/04/world-creativity-and-innovation-week_21.html