Creative Mornings Tampa Bay Monthly Speaker Series Connects, Inspires Creative Community

TAMPA BAY, FL — Since 2017, the Creative Mornings Tampa Bay breakfast series has connected and supported the area’s creative community through free monthly presentations, each one focused on a different theme and serving coffee and a light breakfast.

“This is not your normal networking event or breakfast series,” host Bree Tramontana told Patch. “It’s about inspiration and connection. Every time people come out to this, we want them to walk away inspired.”

This month’s presentation takes place Friday, 8:30 a.m., at Vertical Ventures in St. Petersburg.

August’s speaker is Carrie Boucher, the founder/director of NOMADstudio (Neighborhood-Oriented Mobile Art + Design Studio), with the appropriate theme, Nomad. Her studio operates out of a bus that travels throughout the region to bring art into places like juvenile detention centers, children’s group homes and neighborhoods impacted by poverty.

Creative Mornings Tampa Bay launched as a St. Pete chapter in 2017 before rebranding to include the entire region in 2023 after the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept has chapters around the country.
With that rebranding, Tramontana took over as the Tampa Bay chapter host. It made sense to expand the group’s reach at the time, she said.

“We already had a lot of people from Tampa coming to St. Petersburg events,” she said.

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Organizers were worried that if a new, separate chapter launched in Tampa the two groups might compete for an audience.

“We didn’t want to steal from each other,” Tramontana said. “We thought it would be best to be one entity.”

There are also a number of creative companies and individuals in Tampa, she added. “It makes a lot of sense just moving across the bay. We find there’s a lot of crossover.”

Creative Mornings Tampa Bay hosts occasional presentations at Hotel Haya in Ybor City.

Everyone, even those who don’t work in creative industries, are invited to attend the breakfast series.

“Our motto is, ‘Everyone is creative and everyone is welcome,’” Tramontana said. “It’s really about how we embody creativity … We push the limits of what creativity is.”