CreativeMornings is a free monthly breakfast lecture series designed for creative communities. In 2008, Tina Roth-Eisenberg founded the lecture series in Brooklyn, New York as an ongoing, accessible event for New York's creative community. The concept was simple: breakfast and a short talk one Friday morning a month. Every event would be free of charge and open to anyone. Lecturers include professional creators, designers, photographers and illustrators.
CreativeMornings now hosts events in 207 cities worldwide in 65 countries. Their events are run by approximately 1,500 volunteer organizers. Kerry Skiles of Wilmington, North Carolina has taken the lead on hosting the local chapter for our Port City, and has invited yours truly — James Tritten — to be the first guest speaker for CreativeMornings Wilmington's inaugural event taking place on Friday, September 27th at Thalian Hall from 8:30-10:00am.
- Register for your free ticket here: https://creativemornings.com/talks/james-tritten
- Learn more about CreativeMornings here: https://creativemornings.com/pages/about
About the speaker
Fort Lowell Records’ James Tritten has spent the better part of his life dedicated to two major efforts: creating and supporting good music and giving a damn about the people and places around him.
Working (and playing) his way from Jacksonville, FL, to Boston, MA, to Tucson, AZ, to Raleigh, NC, and finally, to Wilmington, James and his wife, Tracy, launched Fort Lowell Records in 2009 to promote and release music for artists they love – paying back the kind of support they received as young musicians. They also wanted to give back to their now-hometown of Wilmington, and do everything possible to help nurture its soil, and establish deep roots for a long lasting, music-filled future.
To that end, in 2020, Fort Lowell released a compilation album of Wilmington indie rock bands called “GROW,” as a way to raise money for New Hanover County’s chapter of the NAACP. And since then, the couple has started a vinyl series called “This Water is Life,” which not only highlights new hip hop and indie rock artists from the region, but also provides a platform for environmental organizations — like Cape Fear River Watch and the Coastal Plain Conservation Group — to help spread the word about GenX contamination in the Cape Fear River Basin and the fight for clean water.
Bringing together his love for music and a desire to strengthen his community, James and Fort Lowell Records are using creativity to not only shine a light on deserving hip hop and indie artists, but to also make a real difference for the health and well-being of Wilmington.
