This article investigates how culture is transformed via public creative endeavors in modern-day Belarus. From ethnographic observations and analyses of cultural discourses, it shows how public creative practices facilitate the conditions for social and cultural change–not necessarily change to the political regime–but change that leads to the processes of creation and adaptation, or a “banalization” of recurring daily practices. These practices can facilitate new social and cultural forms that become a part of common, everyday life. To illustrate this process of change, we highlight two instances of public creativity: a hybrid state and a grassroots event called Poetry Yard, and a public meeting at an independent grassroots event, CreativeMornings Minsk. They show how collective unity is constructed via “communication” rituals and how new cultural forms are created, maintained, and routinized.