Emergence Creative Festival 2021

After the shutdown of events across all industries in 2020, we were encouraged by the creative community and stakeholders to regenerate Emergence Creative Festival this
year to help rebuild events in the region.

However, with the recent incidents of COVID-19 in the West Australian community and the subsequent restrictions that have followed, there has been a significant flow-on
implications and impact to our plans for Emergence Creative Festival.

After taking into consideration all elements involved to deliver the Festival in the current
and on-going environment, including the health and safety considerations, potential on-
going restrictions and financial risks associated to deliver the Festival, a decision has
been made to cancel the event for 2021.

It is not a decision that The Creative Corner Board came to easily, and whilst we
understand many people, including delegates, speakers and partners will be
disappointed in this outcome, as we all are too, we feel we were left with no choice
under the circumstances.

The Creative Corner is a non-for-profit, community organisation with a heavy input from
volunteers, the risks involved with proceeding could have crippling implications
extending beyond the event itself.

The decision today will ensure our plans for Emergence will forge ahead when the
events and tourism industries have more stability, in addition it may also involve some
changes to meet the modern environment.

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TESTIMONIALS

Lee Hunter

"When I say that the Emergence Festival was inspiring chaos, I mean that in the best way possible. It's the mashing of marketers, filmmakers, musicians, creatives and more, meeting in one of the most beautiful places you can imagine, and producing amazing talks, hacking together music videos, improvising freestyle art and other random, beautiful things which leave you creatively inspired, and happy to have met such a great bunch of people. Just go."

Kylie Robertson

"Emergence was mind blowingly creative and jam packed full of inspired ideas. The setting, the people, and the calibre of talent were world class. Can't wait for next year!"

Rich Bullock

"It's actually depressing living the rest of the year outside the temporary bubble of wonder, waves, wine and chinwaggery. It's creative stoke in its purest form."

Christian Van Vuuren

"Emergence is a total cluster-fuck of creative good vibes in the best way possible. I didn't know where I was supposed to be or what I was supposed to be doing at any given point in any given day, but I learned heaps, met a whole bunch of creative legends, and they let me say cunt in my presentation"

Ben Akers

"Emergence is like a church of creative inspiration. Where the commandments are: pushing creative boundaries. Where the gods are living and walking amongst you. And where the wine floweth like water. Once converted you will always want to return to worship."

PJ Bloom

"Emergence is an inspirational brain trust of some of the most influential, creative and forward thinking entrepreneurial minds in business today held in one of the most picturesque places on the planet!”

Carolyn Miller

"Emergence is the only creative festival I've been to where ideas, and not sales pitches, are the true heroes of the event. Unique, intellegent, and above all, extremely good fun!"

Eddie Codel

"I feel especially grateful to have been part of this fantastic creative festival here in Western Australia, now in it's 4th year. It reminded me of what I appreciated about the early days of SXSW Interactive; the camaraderie of meeting your peers, cross-discipline learnings, creative excursions, serendipitous run-ins, and of course, the parties. You know what was NOT here? Giant megacorporate sponsored 'activations'."

Ram Castillo

"The beating heart of a creative can only be fed by curiosity, and expression – through the act of creation itself. At times, the beat can be drowned out by the noise of 'busy'. It's incredibly rare to find a serene place in the world that hosts a cross between a creative conference and a creative retreat to recalibrate. I came to the Emergence Creative Festival to share the power of putting people over profit. To my delight, I was gifted in exchange by an awakening; inspired and recharged by all types of creatives from all over the world."

Jarrad Seng

"My virgin Emergence experience involved dangling by rope over the side of a cliff face whilst shooting a topless ukulele wielding songstress whilst a drummer banged out the beats overhead. Wait, what? Yeah, only at Emergence. A wonderful collision of creative minds in the most beautiful part of Western Australia."

Nick Macfarlane

"They've bottled the perfect blend of inspirational talks, relaxed atmosphere, fun people and plenty of partying. I came away buzzing from the good vibes that can only be found at Emergence Festival, Margaret River."

Glenn Urquhart

"In two decades of attending industry conferences and workshops all over the world, Emergence stands out as the biggest shot-in-the-arm i've ever had. It's the anti-conference. An eclectic menagerie of imps, intellectuals and incredibly talented nut-jobs flinging ideas around and making cool shit in paradise. I walked away from it ready to change the world. I also walked away knowing 100% I'd be back. "

Adam Barrell

"Emergence... disrupting the idea of a 'traditional conference'. A place where inspiration flows like the local wines, as creativity and networking merge (#creatworking?) over stunning scenery."

Jonathon Kneebone

“Technology allows us to feel like we're connected to what’s going on in the world and feel that we're up to speed. But the Emergence Festival gives a totally different experience. Spending time with people at the cutting edge of their own worlds makes the idea of learning and exploring suddenly very tangible and real. To summarise, I’d call it creative cross pollination. You can’t do that from a laptop."

Eric Phu

"Emergence bills itself as a Creative Festival, but that's like saying that the sun is kinda warm. It's more like an absolutely crazy collision of great people, amazing location, inspiring speakers and brilliant events. It's nothing short of a spiritual awakening to get your juices pumping."

Christy Dena

"Emergence ended up being an event that gave back to me more than I expected. I was drawn to the mix of speakers from different creative perspectives, unified by the joy creativity brings. The speakers, staff, and attendees, ended up being wholly great people too. We shared wisdom, ate exquisite meals, drank beautiful local wines, looked over the beach, saw local art and bands, and danced through the night. Emergence is a temporary world that everyone leaves better than before."