Florida Creatives – Creating a Community of Innovation

Every month, tons of events happen in Orlando. We post lots of them on this site, and sometimes people attend. This month, our group or our members are planning some cool things:

• Florida Creatives @ Enzian FilmSLAM (2008/03/09)

  Second Sundays, Enzian has an event for local Florida filmmakers to showcase their work. It costs just $5 to get in, and you get to see a half-dozen or so new short films. At the end you get to vote on which one you think should get shown at the Brouhaha Grand Slam in December. Enzian even has food and drinks available because they don't want to hear grumbling tummies over the films.

  Then we go across the street to Copper Rocket - you meet some filmmakers, some filmmakers meet all of us, we have fun.

  FilmSlam - 3/9 1PM at Enzian
  Happy Hour - 3/9 3PM at Copper Rocket

• Florida Creatives @ OMA First Thursdays (2008/03/06)

  On the first Thursday of the month, the Orlando Museum of Art opens their galleries up late and has a themed exhibit in the front room - the theme this month is "Beat-niks & Bongos: Abstract Art". I believe admission is $9 for non-members. There are food and drinks available for additional monies. 3/6 6-9PM at Loch Haven Park

  First Thursdays are also when Dandelion CommuniTEA has their art openings, immediately following First Thursday. Dandelion is behind Colonial Photo and Hobby on Mills (they are on Thornton).

• Coworking Tuesdays

  This is a new event that will hopefully coalesce itself into tradition in the coming months. Anyone who works out of their living room is invited to work outside their living room by joining some other folks in the same boat every Tuesday... somewhere. A regular location will emerge, I'm sure. We had settled on B&S Daily Market, but Manny has admitted defeat and closed up shop. Watch this space, the Coworking Wiki and Coworking Mailing List for more details.

• Florida Creatives Happy Hour (2008/03/17)

  Yes, it comes around so quickly, doesn't it? We get together at the Crooked Bayou every month from 6-9 PM so you always have a place to meet new people and catch up with folks. It's important to our community to have these Third Places (not home or work/school) to gather and visit. If you've never been or you feel like it's been too ling since you've been around, there's never a better time to make a habit of attending.

  This is the last Florida Creatives before BarCampOrlando goes down on April 5th & 6th, so you'll want to attend if you're interested in assisting with planning activities, passing out fliers or doing any other publicity. I also believe that will be the last week to find sponsors.

A friend of mine asked me to help him make some connections to get started with a film project. He was already an accomplished film maker, but he was not familiar with the Central Florida film community. Here's what I wrote to him, and I invite others to include more information or edit this page as they wish.

TONIGHT at McRaney's Tavern (between 17-92 and I-4 on Fairbanks), there is a filmmakers meetup - 7PM I think.
http://filmind.meetup.com/267/calendar/7084702/t/nr1p_rt

I want to send a big thank you to all those who attended our February event at the Copper Rocket. We got 17 new names on the list, not counting one wife and baby who showed up. Thanks to Damien for driving out from Sanford and the new Ryan for trekking from Tampa! Ryan might be gathering support for a Tampa event, so if you're in that section of Florida, let me know and I'll get you guys talking.