The creative community for Istanbul

Istanbul is a city where history and modern creativity collide, offering a unique blend of tradition, innovation, and cultural diversity. The Creative Lunch Club brings together a vibrant community of professionals in this inspiring and dynamic city.

Our Istanbul members include Designers, Writers, Photographers, and Creative Directors, each contributing to the city’s evolving creative landscape, shaped by its rich heritage and contemporary energy.

Testimonial Júlia Mota Albuquerque

I love Creative Lunch Club because it harnesses the most human way of connecting, sharing a meal. It's an effortless way for creatives to build diverse connections and friendships across various fields and meet people they wouldn't otherwise.

Júlia Mota Albuquerque
Illustrator & Muralist, Berlin

The Idea

If you’re part of Istanbul’s creative industries, the Creative Lunch Club is your opportunity to connect with like-minded professionals and exchange ideas over inspiring lunch meetups.

Join us to be part of a thriving community in this iconic city, where creativity thrives at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. Every month, you’ll meet two new members from Istanbul’s diverse and innovative creative scene.

Creative Lunch Club is the easiest most low-key way to grow your network, maybe even make some new friends, share expertise, lift each other up, and perhaps end up working together on something.

Mara Lehmann
Illustrator & Muralist, Berlin
Testimonial Mara Lehmann

How it works

Together you set a time and a place and have lunch. There are no rules for lunch. Talk about your work, projects, what inspires you, and what you enjoy.

After lunch you can start a collaboration, become friends or see each other never again. It's up to you what you make out of it.

Testimonial Simon Morehead

Creative Lunch Club is an amazing initiative for us creatives to meet others who are like-minded. As creatives we have our friends, colleagues and acquaintances, but having the opportunity to connect and get to know other operators who are inspiring and each have a story to tell is what our industry needs more of – to feel a part of a community.

Simon Morehead
Creative Director, Stockholm
Creative Club

How you join

The membership fee of the Creative Lunch Club is 10€ per 3 months.As a member you'll get matched with two other creatives every month.

To join, just click on "Join the Creative Lunch Club", fill out the form and set up your membership.

I joined CLC a couple of months ago and have met some pretty awesome creative peeps. Every month you get paired a couple creatives from your city to plan a lunch with to talk shop. It’s a great way to expand your network - extremely great value IMO.

Lindsey Drennan
Photographer + Director, Toronto
Lindsey Drennan