Musing x Anti-Rot: Staying Creative When It Becomes a Business
About this Event
02.07.2026
This Musing brings together three practitioners to talk about what it takes to stay creative when the work becomes a business, through deliberate practice, honest reinvention, and the mechanics of sustaining a creative life over time.
6:00 – 6:20 pm
What I Do on Purpose to Stay Surprising
Mouza Al Hemrani
Mouza Al Hemrani shares how she sustains a creative practice alongside a full-time job, the specific habits she returns to in order to avoid creative autopilot, and what it costs and produces to keep making work on her own terms.
6:20 – 6:40 pm
The Moment I Went All In
Aqib Anwar of Rice Middle East
Aqib Anwar reflects on the move from freelance photography into building Rice Middle East as a business, the work he almost did not keep making, and what changed when he committed fully.
6:40 – 7:00 pm
Staying In It Without Burning Out or Selling Out
TBC
7:00 – 7:30 pm
Q+A and discussion
Itinerary//
5pm Doors Open
5-6 Networking
6-6:30 Speaker 1
6:30-7 Speaker 2
7-7:30 Speaker 3
7:30-8 Q&A and discussion
Food + Drinks provided
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