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The January Challenge is an invitation to use creativity to spark confidence, conversation and connection. It's a fun, free and accessible experience designed to set your mind on an adventure and brighten up the coldest, darkest month of the year.
Throughout January, we will deliver an imaginative prompt to your inbox each day. This prompt will invite a moment of creativity into your day and take you somewhere new.
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The January Challenge is a free way to explore and celebrate your unique creativity for one month. 31 creative prompts in 31 days. Join thousands of people opening a creative prompt daily throughout January and see where it leads you!
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Questions and answers
The January Challenge is an annual campaign to connect all parts of the UK through 31 days of creativity. Each year different Creativity Champions provide a creative prompt for you to explore throughout January. It's fun, free and accessible to participate.
Together, we've proved that creativity is closely linked to our levels of wellbeing and connection to ourselves and others. You can read our most recent Impact Report here.
You can join in however you like. You might want to open our daily emails in January and let each challenge inspire thoughts. Each challenge will be a unique creative prompt inviting you to do something, reflect and perhaps share with those around you or online.
You can learn more about how to join in here.
The January Challenge is completely free for everyone!
Creative prompts can be done alone, with friends and family or as part of a teaching plan, library event, team engagement at work or in any community setting. You can build a little community wherever you like to share what you create with others or join ours online by joining our Facebook group or posting on social using the hashtag #TheJanuaryChallenge.
Anyone can be a Creativity Champion, including you.
Creativity Champions are:
- spread across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
- sharing their unique perspective on what creativity means to them and how it shows up in their lives and those around them
- using The January Challenge campaign resources and (with the full support of 64 Million Artists, including training, access support and regular check-ins) establishing spaces for their groups to get together and get creative.
- creating tailored spaces for communities with diverse lived experiences with plans for group activity in local community centres, cafes, libraries, parks, and TikTok
- setting one creative prompt each in January
This January, we have 31 featured Creativity Champions leading a different creative prompt a day throughout January.
You're free to dip in and out of The January Challenge as you please. It's there for you. You might do all the challenges, you might do one challenge, you might do none, it's totally up to you. You can be a part of it purely by searching the hashtag and seeing what others are creating (though we promise you'll have more fun if you have a go yourself!)
Got another question not answered here? Send it over to [email protected] and they'll be happy to answer you (no question is too big, small or silly!)
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