MAY DENTON CREATIVES MIXER VIDEO


Remember when we all gathered in the hot sun at the end of a long Monday at Oak st. Drafthouse and listened stories about a bunch of the creative things happening in town? You probably shook enough hands to make your palm sore. Maybe you finally met that one dude you've been following on twitter for years? Hopefully, you remember. If not, maybe that Twitter threw some Rohypnol in your beer. 

This was the 2nd of the Creatives Mixers started by District 1 city councilman,Kevin Roden. The encouragement from city leaders for a different kind of business in Denton has been increasing more and more ever since the first of these gatherings. This last one was hosted by Maker Space and featured speeches from the likes of the Denton Community Market, The Dime Store, Pan Ector and Triple Threat Press

Thankfully Fisboy (AKA Eric Michener) caught the whole thing with his camera and made a handy dandy highlight video of the evening so you can re-live it over and over. Zoom and enhance to find out if Twitter dude was anywhere near your drink. If you weren't there, you're in luck. You can watch the footage and have the opportunity to hear helpful advice from a few recent Denton business ventures without having to sit in the heat and stare directly into the sun. If you were there, you may now click through and see what you look like squinting and sweating. 

 

 

DENTON CREATIVES MIXER

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​Tonight, Heather Gregory and Tristan Bynum of Maker Space (read our Maker Space Denton Intervieware teaming up with recently re-elected city councilman Kevin Roden and the brains behind the Denton Community Market to host the second Denton Creatives Mixer. If you missed the first one last October at Oak Street Draft House, we suggest not making that mistake again.

Our fine friends from Triple Threat Press, The DIME Store, Pan Ector, The Denton Community Market and Maker Space ​will be sharing their unique perspectives of starting a creative business in Denton. Each of them have their own set of challenges they've faced and their own set of challenges in their different fields. We love that through this mixer the creative class can come together and celebrate the progress in this city - which is so beautifully strengthened by its diversity. 

​We recommend making your way down to Oak Street Draft House tonight at 5:30, grabbing a Quakertown Stout and chatting it up with the other creatives in our city. Children are apparently welcome at Oak Street until sundown, so if you're unable to get a sitter, it's time to introduce your son or daughter to the game of cornhole. Make sure to come prepared, though. Have your business card in your sweaty little hand and gel disinfectant at the ready. There will be lots of hands to shake. Who knows - maybe you'll meet just the person you've been looking for to launch your next endeavor. At the very least you can hear Kevin Roden tell you why, "Denton is a woman," or buy some endive off of Pete Kamp.