Join us at “Creating Change” to drive this global as a community and global business tool. CID/Idea Week is promoted by creative people all over the world. It embraces the creative human quest for innovative solutions to global challenges for individuals, communities, and business.

Admit it. You're Creative. Being involved is really EASY!

Choose to use your creativity to make the world a better place and to make your place in the world better too. April 15 – 21 each and every year. Help spread the word that innovation and ideas need nurturing and stimulus in order to become realities for business, educators, communities and individuals.

What are the Benefits of Participating? Corporate exposure Employee engagement Cultural and skills interactivity Capture the Innovative Ideas generated Opportunities to reward people’s input Media interest - profile your organization and it’s goals Enhance geographic, cultural, professional connections FUN

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Creating Change have brought together a team from business, non-profits, government and the arts ready to help you easily participate. We are creating a media kit to help you gain publicity – not only for the wonderful initiative of but also for your own participation and achievements.
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An International Event

CID events can start on April 15th and can run any time over the seven days. Make sure they are captured in the media! This is known as Idea Week. April 21 is Creativity and Innovation DAY This is an evolving story. Be sure to make your company or organization a part of it …

A Brief Background

The "Idea" of Idea Week
Initial research for the idea resulted in a discovery. Leonardo Da Vinci's birthday is celebrated on April 15. With Da Vinci as an icon of creativity, this seemed a natural point of reference.
The idea came from Windsor Ontario, in Southwestern Canada. An industrial city of 180000 people, it is focused on building automobiles and auto parts. It is also home for over 50 patent holders and has world class mould making shops, artists, an excellent symphony orchestra, theater, a university and a college. The team had an opportunity to celebrate its creative citizens under the guise of Creativity and Innovation Day. So the committee began a plan…

Getting Started
The aim was to organize a weeklong celebration of creativity. The six days would be filled with activities, community lectures, and other events culminating with a “big” event Sunday April 21, which is Creativity & Innovation Day.

International Creativity and Innovation Day was Born on June 1, 2001
“Admit it. You're Creative. “ This belief is central to the vision of the day and the intent of the celebrations - to let people know they can choose to use their creativity to make the world a better place and to make their place in the world better too.

Where the Seeds for Creativity and Innovation Day were Sown:
Background to the Founding Players:

Marci Segal of Toronto Canada studied at the International Center for Studies in Creativity with an undergraduate major in Cultural Anthropology after attending her first CPSI (Creative Problem Solving Institute) in 1977. In 1982 she returned home from completing her Masters in Creative Studies to be told by her member of parliament that no one in Canada knew how to use her creative thinking attitudes and skills. More…
Jacynthe Bédard of Quebec City, PQ Canada also studied at the International Center for Studies in Creativity and began attending CPSI in the early 90's. The inkling for an international celebration of creativity emerged during the 1994 International Creativity and Innovation Networking Conference in Quebec City. More…
In 1994, Paul Rousseau, introduced a new structure to organize the concurrent Extending Program sessions into 10 "pathways,” to capture the multidimensional and many faceted nature of creativity. One of the pathways was "Global Creativity," and he asked Jacynthe Bédard to convene the planning of More…
In 1996, John Sedgwick, a CPSI Leader since the 1970’s of St. Catherines, Ontario, became the Coordinator of CPSI's Home Base Program - intensive focus in specific areas of applied creativity such as: business and industry, personal growth, creativity tools and techniques, social architecture, health and well being, personality styles and so on. At that time Jacynthe Bédard and other CPSI leaders living outside North America, proposed an International Home Base was accepted by John. More …

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