5 Amazing Courses to Spark Your Creativity

According to the dictionary, creativity is "the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work." We also know that "creativity" is more than just an artistic expression but also, a way to recognize ideas that can help in solving problems.

Can creativity be taught? For sure! Even if you think you are the most creative person, creativity can be taught and be extremely useful not only for your work but, for your personal life.

To help you out, we have selected 5 online courses to spark your creativity this year. Here are them:

1. Find Your Style: Five Exercises to Unlock Your Creative Identity by Skill Share

“You don’t find your style, your style finds you.” Discouraged by the words of his art professor, Andy J. Pizza spent years following trends and feeling inauthentic in his art, waiting for his style to show up. Spoiler: it never did. So Andy set out to find it himself, a journey that led to experiments, breakthroughs, success as an illustrator, podcaster, and speaker, and ultimately this class.

Check it out here

2. Spark your Creativity & Imagination & prevent getting stuck by Udemy

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to always have plenty of new ideas bubbling up on the inside of you? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to never run out of creative gas? Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could be in charge of the flow of your creative juices?

Guess what – that actually is within your reach! You can train yourself to make that happen. You do not need to be a victim of creative blocks. You have the ability to break out of those. Or even better, you can prevent them from happening.

Check it out here

3. Ignite Your Everyday Creativity by Coursera

Creativity is an essential skill for the 21st Century that is innate in all people and can be nurtured. We constantly need new and better ideas for almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives. The goal of this course is to help you recognize, develop and act upon the creativity that you already possess. We will accomplish this using three methods: b aware, b inspired, and b creative.

Check it out here

4. Jumpstart: Ignite Your Creativity for Profit, Innovation and Reinvention by Maria Brito

You will learn to ignite and unleash the power of new ideas and your creative thinking to make more money, innovate in an industry, job or field, or reinvent yourself professionally into someone new.

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5. Exploring Play: The Importance of Play in Everyday Life by Future Learn

This course from the School of Education at the University of Sheffield will encourage you to think differently about play.

We’ll discuss definitions of play and current debates about how the nature of play changes. Does play help us to learn? Can it prepare young people to be successful in the adult world? Are all forms of play good for us? You will learn to ignite and unleash the power of new ideas and your creative thinking to make more money, innovate in an industry, job or field, or reinvent yourself professionally into someone new.

Check it out here

The Fat Lady - Film

Hi! This is Rita Avellar here, CEO of Avellar, LLC, and the creator and writer of The Fat Lady film. I want to share a quick story and some news about this short film project with you.

Here is a video and you can also, read it below.

Since last year we've been posting about the short film project The Fat Lady here and there and how exciting this project is to me, as a writer and newbie filmmaker, but also, to everyone involved somehow and in different ways. As I mentioned once, it takes a village to raise funding for a film, even if it is a short film.

As we were approaching the funding party to raise the money to make a great film with the quality and care I always wanted for this story written in 2013, I received the news nobody wanted to receive, breast cancer. And then, everything went upside down in my personal life and of course, in my professional life. That was in June this year and since then, I started the treatment, which is expected to finish the whole process in March 2023.

When I was sure I will need to wait to finish the cancer process to continue with this dearest project, here comes a person that took my hand and said "hey, let me help you!". This person is my friend Taisa Mundy. She is a hands-on executive producer that likes to be involved in every step of the filmmaking process and has a long experience in different areas of the entertainment industry. Taisa started getting together other fierce women like her, to help me make this project happen. Because of this movement, a website dedicated to this short film project was created to concentrate all the information, news and of course, a way to donate to the film. You go here to learn more about each person in this powerful crew, that believes in the main message of this film: respect and acceptance of the different!

Feel free to share it with your friends! More news to come! Thank you!!

And don't forget! Please, donate now to our film!

10 L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ Movies and TV Shows to Watch and Celebrate Pride Month

June has just started and with it, the Pride Month! Here we curated 10 new and old movies and TV shows to watch and celebrate this colorful month. Share this list with friends and family, especially with those who need to open their minds and understand that love is love (you know what we mean, right? ;) ).

Grab your popcorn and enjoy!

1. Love, Victor on Hulu and Disney+

Set in the world of the original 2018 film “Love, Simon,” the series follows Victor, a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him navigate the ups and downs of high school.

Season 3 premieres on June 15.

2. The Chi on Showtime

Jake, Papa, and Kevin must confront the harsh reality of how the world views young, Black men in the aftermath of an act of police brutality. As the three friends reckon with a broken system, the aftershocks ripple across the South Side.

Season 5 premieres on June 26.

3. The Book of Queer on Discovery+

From trans-Indian warriors to gay Roman emperors, these colorful and often titillating tales give history a much-needed, head-to-toe makeover.

4. First Kill on Netflix

Based on series creator V.E. Schwab's short story, this romance drama with bite stars Sarah Catherine Hook and Imani Lewis.

Premieres on June 10.

5. This is Going to Hurt on AMC+

This Is Going to Hurt, is based on Adam Kay’s award-winning international memoir of the same name with episodes dropping weekly. It follows Whishaw’s Adam, a doctor finding his way through the ranks of the hospital hierarchy. While he’s junior enough to suffer the crippling hours, he’s also senior enough to face a constant barrage of terrifying responsibilities. Adam clings to his personal life as he is increasingly overwhelmed by stresses at work: the 97-hour weeks, the life-and-death decisions, and all the while knowing the hospital parking meter is earning more than him.

6. Tangerine on Netflix

Tangerine focuses on a transgender sex worker who, after getting out of prison, finds out her boyfriend has been cheating on her. She decides to storm through Tinseltown with her fellow friend to confront him.

7. The Way He Looks on Netflix

Set against the music of Belle and Sebastian, Daniel Ribeiro's coming-of-age tale, The Way He Looks is a fun Brazilian movie with a tender story about friendship and the complications of young love. Leo is a blind teenager who’s fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school. Looking to assert his independence, he decides to study abroad to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. When Gabriel, the new kid in town, teams with Leo on a school project, new feelings blossom in him that make him reconsider his plans. Meanwhile, Giovana, grows jealous of this newfound companionship as tensions mount between her and Leo.

8. The Death and Life Of John F. Donovan on Hulu

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

9. Portrait of a Lady on Fire on Netflix

Marianne is hired to secretly paint a portrait of a noblewoman's soon-to-wed daughter, who refuses to pose but soon reciprocates the artist's gaze.

PS.: If you live in Indianapolis, IN, and surroundings, Kan-Kan movie theater is showing this film from June 20 to 30th. Get your tickets here!

10. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert on Amazon

Of course, we weren't going to leave out this classic queer movie! The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian road comedy film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot follows two drag queens, played by Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce, and a transgender woman, played by Terence Stamp, as they journey across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named "Priscilla", along the way encountering various groups and individuals. The film's title references the slang term "queen" for a drag queen or female impersonator.

PS.: If you live in Indianapolis, IN, and surroundings, Kan-Kan movie theater is showing this classic from June 2 to 8th. Get your tickets here!