At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
When Community Gathers: Black History in Chicago
When we reflect on Black history in America, we at Catalyst Ranch can’t help but recognize the importance of the spaces where Black joy, creativity and community thrive; the spaces where Black culture [...]
Good Work, Good Space: Rainforest Action Network
One of our favorite parts of the meetings industry is being inspired by clients who come to use our creative environment. It’s all the more rewarding when those clients think highly of Catalyst [...]
Food for Thought: Reflection on Pantone’s 2024 Color of the Year – Peach Fuzz
At this time last year we pulled you into the straight-up party that was Pantone’s Viva Magenta. But for their 2024 Color of the Year, the Pantone color experts have predicted a year of [...]
The Catalyst Ranch 2024 Wall Calendar
We hope your 2024 is full of creativity, play, imagination and DANCING. Even if you’re not here at our space (in one of our rooms named after dance styles), look to this wall calendar [...]
Casserole Potluck: An Uplifting Team-Building Activity
The creative life of our social media pilot Bryan, like that of many other Ranch staffers, goes well beyond the Catalyst confines. He shared with the Creative Juice Blog an inspiring team-building activity [...]
Newly 21 and Proudly Self-Possessed (We’re SUCH a Scorpio!)
Raise your glass, because today we’re toasting to TWENTY-ONE wonderful years in business! Catalyst Ranch hosted its first meeting in November of 2002, and we’ve been providing Space to Imagine More ever since! [...]
Hispanic Heritage and Filipino American History Events in Chicago
October in the U.S. isn’t just about ghouls and candy: This month also spans the nationally recognized celebrations of both Hispanic Heritage and Filipino American History. We’re always on the lookout for creative and [...]
Seize the Day of Play – Lego’s World Play Day
Now, we’re not officially sponsored by Lego, but it’s no surprise we’re big fans. Legos are so classic that they’re synonymous with childhood, and yet they are a symbol of imagination and creativity [...]
A Portrait of Summer 2023
We’ve been savoring these somewhat in-between days which happen after Labor Day and before the autumn equinox, i.e., the more scientific end of summer. But lo and behold, we're staring that milestone in the face [...]
At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
When Community Gathers: Black History in Chicago
When we reflect on Black history in America, we at Catalyst Ranch can’t help but recognize the importance of the spaces where Black joy, creativity and community thrive; the spaces where Black culture [...]
Good Work, Good Space: Rainforest Action Network
One of our favorite parts of the meetings industry is being inspired by clients who come to use our creative environment. It’s all the more rewarding when those clients think highly of Catalyst [...]
Food for Thought: Reflection on Pantone’s 2024 Color of the Year – Peach Fuzz
At this time last year we pulled you into the straight-up party that was Pantone’s Viva Magenta. But for their 2024 Color of the Year, the Pantone color experts have predicted a year of [...]
The Catalyst Ranch 2024 Wall Calendar
We hope your 2024 is full of creativity, play, imagination and DANCING. Even if you’re not here at our space (in one of our rooms named after dance styles), look to this wall calendar [...]
Casserole Potluck: An Uplifting Team-Building Activity
The creative life of our social media pilot Bryan, like that of many other Ranch staffers, goes well beyond the Catalyst confines. He shared with the Creative Juice Blog an inspiring team-building activity [...]
Newly 21 and Proudly Self-Possessed (We’re SUCH a Scorpio!)
Raise your glass, because today we’re toasting to TWENTY-ONE wonderful years in business! Catalyst Ranch hosted its first meeting in November of 2002, and we’ve been providing Space to Imagine More ever since! [...]
Hispanic Heritage and Filipino American History Events in Chicago
October in the U.S. isn’t just about ghouls and candy: This month also spans the nationally recognized celebrations of both Hispanic Heritage and Filipino American History. We’re always on the lookout for creative and [...]
Seize the Day of Play – Lego’s World Play Day
Now, we’re not officially sponsored by Lego, but it’s no surprise we’re big fans. Legos are so classic that they’re synonymous with childhood, and yet they are a symbol of imagination and creativity [...]
A Portrait of Summer 2023
We’ve been savoring these somewhat in-between days which happen after Labor Day and before the autumn equinox, i.e., the more scientific end of summer. But lo and behold, we're staring that milestone in the face [...]