Recurring creative challenges
Created by Stefan Bohacek. Learn more about this project or browse challenges below.
Monthly events
January
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Fun-A-Day: Pick an art project, do it every day in January, and show your work in a group art show in February.
#art#drawing#painting
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GENUARY: Write code that makes beautiful things.
#art#coding
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Jamuary: Create and share a song every day.
#music
February
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Hourly Comic Day: Draw a comic every hour during February 1st.
#art#drawing#comic
March
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March MODOK Madness: Spend the month of March making art tributes to the Marvel Comics supervillain MODOK.
#art#drawing#painting
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March Meta Matters Challenge: Annual event every March dedicated to archiving fandom metacommentary.
#writing#fandom#archiving
April
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PleinAirpril: Paint and share one plein-air ('outdoors') painting a day.
#art#painting
May
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Mermay: Month-long celebration of creativity, community and above all… mermaids!
#art
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WeblogPoMo: Choose a guiding topic for the month, something that will help you feel propelled to post on your blog.
#writing#blogging
June
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Junited: A fun little blogging adventure that's all about sharing.
#writing#blogging
July
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5090 by FAWM: Write 50 songs in 90 days, from July 4 to October 1.
#music
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July Reply: A follow-up to Junited: Instead of just passing “secret notes” to each other, let’s build relationships.
#writing#blogging
August
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Blaugust: Write a blog post every day, and other challenges.
#writing#blogging
September
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Communal Creators: Band together to help each other start, work on, or finish a project in September and October.
#general
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Finish What You Started: Finishing existing works in progress from September 1st to October 31st.
#general
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SeptemBest: A challenge where quality comes first – and only.
#writing#blogging
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Small Web September: Make progress on your small web projects.
#web#coding
October
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#Crawltober: A flexible creative challenge for appreciators of creepy crawlies and spooky critters.
#drawing#painting#art#photography#writing#poetry
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Hacktoberfest: A month-long celebration of all things open-source.
#coding#opensource
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Inktober: A challenge to improve your inking skills.
#drawing#inking#art
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LOLtober: Write a single post about a special Halloween or “spooky season” memory.
#writing#blogging
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Looptober: Make a music loop every day.
#music
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Mathober: Explore math concepts through different mediums.
#math#coding#art#writing#poetry#video
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RetroChallenge: Do something fun or interesting with vintage tech and let the world know.
#retro#computers#hardware
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Weird Web October: Try and make a website every day of October.
#web#coding
November
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#30DayMapChallenge: Create maps based on daily themes.
#maps
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Codevember: 30 days of creative coding challenges.
#coding
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Mapvember: Draw fictional maps for roleplaying games.
#maps#drawing#art
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NaBloPoMo: Writing a blog post every day for a month.
#writing#blogging
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NaBoMaMo: A month-long celebration of non-commercial botmaking.
#bots#coding
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NaNoGenMo: Write code that generates a novel of 50k+ words.
#coding
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National Solo Album Month: Write, record, and release a whole album in November.
#music
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Novembeat: An informal challenge to record one piece of music every day in November.
#music
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Writing Month: A writing challenge focused on values and community.
#writing
December
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Advent of Code: Small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels.
#coding
Weekly events
Monday
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Makeover Monday: Weekly data visualization challenges.
#data#dataviz
Tuesday
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Tidy Tuesday: Learn data science in the real world.
#data
Wednesday
No events.
Thursday
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Disquiet Junto: Weekly, fast-turnaround projects to compose, record, and share new music.
#music
Friday
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Music Weeklies Challenge: Compose a brand new original song in keeping with the theme and constraints.
#music
Saturday
No events.
Sunday
No events.
Ongoing events
- #100DaysOfCode: Spend at least an hour coding for the next 100 days. #coding
- 100 Days To Offload: Can you publish 100 posts on your blog in a year? #writing#blogging
- 36 Days of Type: Challenging participants to design a letter or number each day for 36 consecutive days. #typography#design#art
- Glitch Code Jams: Create web projects based on a monthly prompt. #coding
- IndieWeb Carnival: Blogging about topics related to the IndieWeb. #writing#blogging#internet#indieweb
- Pixel Dailies: Daily themed pixel art challenges. #art#pixel-art
- Sunday Sites: Write HTML and socialize, one Sunday a month. #web
- That Monthly Zine Project: An inclusive community of zinesters making monthly zines. #zine#art#writing
- The DS106 Daily Create: Small daily creative challenges in photography, drawing, audio, video, and writing. #photography#drawing#audio#video#writing
- Weeklybeats: Year-long music project in which artists compose and publicly release 1 song a week. #music