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Create Dangerously

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work is a 2010 essay collection by Edwidge Danticat, published by Princeton University Press, examining art made from exile and crisis.

Creation Festival

Creation Festival was the largest US Christian music festival, founded 1979 by Harry Thomas Jr. and Tim Landis, held at Agape Farm, Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania from 1984; it ended in 2023 after 44 years. Distinct from Creation Fest in Cornwall, UK.

Creation Lake

Creation Lake is Rachel Kushner's fourth novel (Scribner, September 3, 2024; 416 pages), about ex-FBI agent Sadie Smith infiltrating the Le Moulin eco-activist commune in Guyenne, France, whose cave-dwelling mentor Bruno Lacombe emails about Neanderthals. Booker 2024 shortlist; National Book Award 2024 longlist; distinct from any other work of the same name.

Creation of the Gods I

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (封神第一部:朝歌风云) is a 2023 Chinese epic fantasy film by Wuershan, first of the Fengshen Trilogy adapted from Fengshen Yanyi; it earned 2.634 billion yuan in China and won the Golden Rooster Best Feature Film.

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (封神第一部:朝歌风云)

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (封神第一部:朝歌风云) is a 2023 Chinese mythological epic directed by Wuershan, the first film of the Fengshen trilogy adapted from Investiture of the Gods; it earned 2.634 billion yuan and won the Golden Rooster for Best Feature Film.

Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force (封神第二部:战火西岐)

Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force (封神第二部:战火西岐) is Wuershan's 2025 Fengshen Trilogy sequel about the defense of Xiqi, released 29 January 2025, grossing 1.225 billion yuan and scoring 5.9 on Douban.

Creation Records

Creation Records, British independent label founded 1983 by Alan McGee, Dick Green, and Joe Foster; released Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, and Oasis; Sony-backed from 1992, folded 1999.

Creation Society

The Creation Society was a Chinese literary society founded in Tokyo in 1921 by Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu, and others, a pioneer of romantic and revolutionary literature.

Creative Artists Agency

Creative Artists Agency (CAA), founded 1975 by five ex-William Morris agents including Michael Ovitz, is a leading Hollywood talent and sports agency. TPG held a majority stake from 2014 until François-Henri Pinault's Artémis bought it for about $7 billion in 2023.

Creative Galaxy

Creative Galaxy is an Amazon Studios animated preschool series created by Angela Santomero (Blue's Clues), premiering June 27, 2014 on Prime Instant Video; alien artist Arty and Epiphany solve problems with art across three seasons.

Creative nonfiction

Creative nonfiction (CNF), also called literary or narrative nonfiction, is a genre of true stories told with fiction's narrative techniques, spanning memoir, personal essay, and literary journalism; defined by factual accuracy plus vivid craft, with roots in New Journalism and a journal founded by Lee Gutkind in 1993.

Creative writing

Creative writing: imaginative writing in poetry, fiction, and drama, taught academically since the 1897 Iowa verse-making class and 1936 Iowa Writers' Workshop; assessed via rubrics, CAT, peer feedback; now reshaped by generative AI publishing.

Creature 3D

Creature 3D (क्रिऐचर ३ डी) is a 2014 Hindi 3D monster horror film directed by Vikram Bhatt, starring Bipasha Basu and Imran Abbas, featuring a CGI Brahmarakshas; first Indian creature feature, released 12 September 2014 by T-Series.

Creature Comforts

Creature Comforts: Nick Park's 1989 Aardman claymation short of zoo animals voicing real British vox-pop interviews, an Oscar winner that spawned ITV series, a short-lived CBS version, and the Heat Electric ads.

Creature Commandos (TV series)

Creature Commandos is a 2024 Max adult animated DC series written by James Gunn, the first DCU project, following Amanda Waller's team of monstrous prisoners including Rick Flag Sr., the Bride, and Frankenstein; renewed for season 2.

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Creature from the Black Lagoon: 1954 Universal 3-D monster film directed by Jack Arnold; scientists on the Amazon encounter the Gill Man, played by Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning, first of a trilogy.

Creature in the Black Night

Creature in the Black Night is Dayseeker's sixth studio album (Apple Music calls it the seventh LP), a horror-themed post-hardcore record released October 24, 2025 on Spinefarm Records, produced by Daniel Braunstein, mixed by Zakk Cervini, with songwriting guests Cody Quistad and Mitchell Stark.

Creature of Habit (album)

Creature of Habit is Courtney Barnett's fourth studio album, indie rock, released March 27, 2026 on Mom+Pop; written partly in Joshua Tree, featuring Waxahatchee and Flea, produced by John Congleton.

Creatures

Creatures, real name Harvey Gordon, is a Bristol, UK drum & bass producer known for dark, rolling releases, the 2021 Gonzo Transmission EP, and his 2024 debut album.

Creatures of the Night

Creatures of the Night, KISS's tenth studio album (October 1982), marked a return to hard rock with Vinnie Vincent on lead guitar, Eric Carr on drums, and no playing from cover-star Ace Frehley; a commercial flop that later became a fan favorite.

Crecer Germán

Crecer Germán is a Mexican regional singer-songwriter from Sinaloa, raised in Tijuana, known for sierreño ballads and corridos and for his 2016 charting hit "Quién Te Entiende".

Credicard Hall

Credicard Hall is a large concert hall in São Paulo, Brazil, opened in 1999 and a principal stop for international rock, pop, and Brazilian popular music.

Cree Summer

Cree Summer (Cree Summer Francks), Canadian-American voice actress and singer born 1969 in Los Angeles, daughter of Don Francks; voiced Penny, Susie Carmichael, Elmyra Duff, Numbuh 5, and Princess Kida, and played Freddie Brooks on A Different World.

Creed (band)

Creed, American post-grunge rock band from Tallahassee, Florida (Scott Stapp, Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall, Scott Phillips); albums My Own Prison, Human Clay, Weathered; 28 million US albums, 2001 Grammy, 2023 reunion.

Creed (film)

Creed (2015) is Ryan Coogler's Rocky spin-off in which Adonis Creed, Apollo's son played by Michael B. Jordan, trains under Sylvester Stallone's Rocky Balboa in Philadelphia; it grossed $174.2M worldwide, scored 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, and spawned two sequels.

Creed (soundtrack)

Creed (soundtrack) denotes two same-day 2015 albums for Coogler's film: Ludwig Göransson's WaterTower score and Atlantic's 18-track hip-hop compilation with Meek Mill, Future and Tessa Thompson.

Creed Bratton

Creed Bratton, born William Charles Schneider, is an American actor and musician, former lead guitarist of 1960s folk-rock band The Grass Roots, best known for playing a fictionalized version of himself, Creed, on NBC's The Office (2005-13).

Creed II

Creed II (2018) is the eighth Rocky-franchise film, directed by Steven Caple Jr., in which champion Adonis Creed, played by Michael B. Jordan, fights Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago, with Sylvester Stallone returning as Rocky Balboa.

Creedence Clearwater Revisited

Creedence Clearwater Revisited, also called CCR Revisited, was the 1995 band founded by Creedence Clearwater Revival bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford to perform CCR hits live without John Fogerty, surviving a name lawsuit, releasing the platinum live album Recollection, and playing 1,755 shows before retiring in 2020.

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), American swamp rock/roots rock band from El Cerrito, California, active 1968–1972; seven albums, nine consecutive top-10 singles, none No. 1; broke up 1972; Hall of Fame 1993.