The project aim:

Creativity

The project gives anyone, regardless of age or ability, the framework and permission to get creative.  It challenges you to pick your creative outlet and relies on your willingness to work to achieve a creative boost. 

These past few years, as a society, we have faced and continue to face unprecedented global challenges. There are so many amazing people in the world, I am so very grateful; as we can lose sight of that sometimes. Though many creatives and healthcare practitioners have known this of old, commissioned research* shows the health and wellbeing gains creativity and engagement with the arts can elicit. Creativity is also a powerful tool for social activism, political resistance, or for the simple act of spreading joy and optimism.

I engage in creative practice for many reasons, but one is that it is good for my mental health; as a project participant and as project lead, the positive feedback I have heard from participants tells me I am not alone in finding this within this project.

Building a community through creative daily practice, a community who encourage and inspire one another, is one of the most rewarding benefits of this project. I look forward to doing this again this year.

*Creative Health Inquiry Report 2017 - Second Edition

The 2025 project will begin on June 1st!

Huge congratulations to all who took part last year, your endeavour was awe inspiring as always!
We could not get a space to exhibit in the Edinburgh College of Art since the end of the 2023 project, and though I have been in discussion with the ECA events team, it is a challenge to find the space we need - but the hope is, that sometime this year, we can all come together and celebrate the 100 Days participants - as soon as I know more, I will let you all know.

Until then, let’s chat about the 2025 project!

I plan on running the Daily Count again in 2025, to count you through 100 Days in the hope you will join me in this amazing annual challenge, to access and exercise your creativity. I will however be spending less time on Social Media (for that all important mental health I mentioned above) so will be setting up a NEW Participant Page where we will announce all of our signed-up participants, and link to where you can find and follow their endeavours. We will then have bursts of social media and web based activity (once I have managed to galvanise a team of community volunteers to help with this!) and will spotlight some of the daily creativity.

If you are interested in taking part, you can register here.

2 SIMPLE RULES

The Project is wonderfully simple, and deceptively challenging.

It's that simple, and that difficult!

Choose one creative 'exercise', and then repeat it every day for 100 days. Record each daily effort and see what evolves in the work and in the self over time.

The project gives anyone (regardless of age or ability) a framework and the permission to be creative. It challenges you to dig deep into your creative reserves, to rely on your readiness to work in order to achieve creative breakthrough.

It can be an end to procrastination, and the development of resilience. It takes a lot of energy, and yet the rewards can resonate for a long time after the 100th Day is over.

You do not need to have any creative or artistic skill to take part in the project and you can participate from anywhere in the world.