So the app Clubhouse is my new favourite thing ever. I am desperate to get going on and learn about this platform. Anything that combines panels and podcasts I’m totally down for! I listened to a particularly helpful chat about Start-Ups with some interesting panelists including Kate Goodall the CEO of Halcyon Incubator, co-creator of By The People International arts festival in partnership with the Smithsonian, co-founder of the WE Capital (which invests in women-led companies) and my childhood fashion icon (she was my sister’s best friend as teens and there was a particular trip to Camden Market where Kate sported knee high stripey socks that was pivotal to my ten year old brain!!)
But anyway, there was some really insightful stuff in this chat and particularly the stuff about work life balance as well as risk taking and patience that was all very helpful. Was also great to hear from the founder of Artjamz, which is an online art class company, about their journey pivoting through the pandemic from IRL classes to online. It also led me to the Feminist Art Collective ‘Hilma’s Ghost’ (named after the incomparable painter Hilma af Klint) but they deserve a whole post of their own as they are a collective I would love to make workshops for !
I think there is potential in Clubhouse for those of us that would love to make a podcast but aren’t potentially as production savvy and I like that it actually cuts out all the “branding” potential by being very minimal in the visuals department. If I could have led The Minefield onto this platform when I initially lost my meet-up space it would have been amazing. I still could of course. I am definitely interested in investigating participation further.