The Refinery TALKS: Creativity w Lila Theodoros & Karina Sharpe

Our first event for 2022, The Refinery TALKS Creativity, brings together Lila Theodoros (Muse Muse, This is Paradiso) and Karina Sharpe (Image Up Club) to discuss how they apply creative thinking and processes to solve business problems and harness market opportunities.

Individually, these women have built highly successful businesses, artfully transforming ideas. Hear how they use creativity, while working with purpose, vision and remain true to their values.

Together they will reveal their inspirations, the search for beauty, the joy of design and how they use their creative practice as a force for good.

Tickets include wood-fired pizza as made onsite by THAT PIZZA GUY (from 5.45 – 6.30pm).

The Bar will be open for purchases hosted by The Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance with proceeds going towards their local arts projects and initiatives.

Doors open 5.30pm for a 6.30pm start at the MET, Maroochydore City Centre.

The Refinery Talks: creativity is presented by The Refinery as a part of the 2022 creative business incubator program, an initiative of the Sunshine Coast Council, SunCentral & the MET, Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance, sponsored by Walker Corporation and delivered proudly in 2022 by IMPACT BOOM.

Huge thanks to our proud Refinery Talks event sponsor Study Sunshine Coast.

A little about the speakers....

Lila is the Founder and Creative Director of Muse Muse, an Australia based creative branding and editorial studio bringing beautiful design, woven with purpose and story to motivated lifestyle, fashion, design, food and publishing brands around the world. Founded by Lila in 2012, Muse Muse has been working with local and international clients to develop identities, clarify purpose and create clear and beautiful visual stories. Spanning almost 20 years, Lila’s career has taken her from Journalist of industry publications to Art Director of an Australian pop culture magazine to launching her own branding and editorial studio. In 2017 Lila also CoFounded This is Paradiso, a custom publishing house. The first in-house title, Paradiso, is a creative street press magazine based in Northern NSW. Having just released issue 20, the bi-monthly publication is an editorial mix of food, fashion, lifestyle, the arts and travel, celebrating creative people and places, locally and internationally.

Karina Sharpe is a Conceptual Artist and creative leader committed to using creativity for good. She started her career in Melbourne as a product design engineer turned jewellery designer before devoting herself to imagery. For the past decade her commercial practice has been centred around image production. For 8 years she operated under her own name, until launching her new company and studio, Image Up Club, in 2020. Located in Moffat Beach, Image Up Club is a tight-knit team intent on magnifying purposeful venues through imagery. Karina is a true creative optimist, believing that positivity and beauty have the power to unlock a brighter future.

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