Creative Arts Side Quests Hub

Hands-on creative quests that get you making, performing, and expressing yourself in the real world—from street photography to guerrilla art installations.

This is your launch pad into the creative arts side of IRL Sidequests—a collection of real-world making, performing, and expression challenges that pull you away from the screen and into tactile creation. Whether you're shooting street photography in downtown alleys, wheat-pasting guerrilla art at 2AM, or building a contact mic to record the sounds inside a radiator, these quests prioritize doing over theorizing. The creative arts hub spans visual arts (photography, painting, street art), performing arts (busking, improv, experimental music), making and craft (zine production, garment upcycling, sound design), and creative writing in physical spaces. Every quest here is designed to be actionable within a day—no MFA required, no permission needed. You'll find quests for total beginners (like taking a single roll of black-and-white film through your neighborhood) alongside intermediate challenges (building a portable field recording rig or organizing a pop-up gallery in a laundromat). What ties these together is the commitment to analog, real-world creativity. You're not posting process videos or building a portfolio—you're making a thing, sharing it in physical space, and experiencing the awkwardness, thrill, and satisfaction of public creative expression. Start with any quest that sparks curiosity. The messier, the better.