Everyone who makes things needs other people - for ideas, motivation, or as patrons to support his or her creative endeavors. This website aims to act as the online means of organizing real-life meetup groups that help our members locate and collaborate with a support network. Florida Creatives Happy Hours are for professionals, hobbyists, entrepreneurs, consultants and everyone else too - no matter what your creative pursuit is.
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7 Awesome Speakers
July 23, 2010
A single day design conference focused on content, presentation and behavior.
Register Now for $129

Learning to Love Ideas: Brainstorming 101
Larissa Meek
Associate Creative Director for AgencyNet
How to Take Your Designs from Wireframes to Beautiful Finished Products
Meagan Fisher
Deputy Designer at SimpleBits
The Art of Self Branding
Lea Alcantara
Designer/Developer and Founder of LeaLea Design
Design is in the Details
Niki Brown
Front-End Designer / Developer at Metropolis Creative
CSS Organization and Workflow
Jina Bolton
Interactive Designer at Crush + Lovely
Fuel Your Brand
Come meet the new faces of Florida Creatives! Erik, Karie, Elizabeth (and more?) will be getting a lot more responsibility - taking the burden away from Ryan as the figurehead. For more info, please read and comment on this marathon post called A Community of Mentorship.
About FLCreatives Happy Hour
Whether you're a poet, an actor, a photographer, a producer, a marketer, a programmer, an entrepreneur or a combination of them all, you'll find some great conversation and new friends by attending, and coming back every month on the third Monday.
We also have a chapter in Melbourne that has been meeting for almost 2 years now with great success. If you'd like to see events like this in your town, feel free to start one! We now have Facebook Fan Pages for Orlando, Brevard, Tampa, South Florida, Southwest FL, Tallahassee and Gainesville.
Crooked Bayou has some of the best food in downtown Orlando, and drink specials for people who show up in the first hour. Monday is also when they run a special on their wings - check them out. Of course, the traditional "hot tots" and fried pickles are always a favorite.
P.S. Please bring a camera and snap some photos! You'll want to show your friends what it was like.
Likemind is before work (8AM), it happens downtown, and everyone is welcome. Bring a few friends, get some coffee, and tell us what's on your mind.
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Groups in 60+ other cities all over the world will be getting together for conversations with their community - sure, they may not have 2+ years of these events behind them, but we do.
More than 3 years ago, I heard about these two marketing guys / geeks from New York who had started an event they held on Friday mornings for coffee and conversation. The first few were just the two of them, but as they invited people and the word got out, it grew until it started getting on the radar all over the world. Now Likemind happens in scores of cities on every continent, and Orlando has been on that list almost since the beginning.
Come join us at Cinema Paradiso on July 18, 2010 from 1-6 PM for an Indie Craft Bazaar, chock full of handmade, vintage, repurposed, recycled and vegan goods!
Ain't Your Country Kitchen Mama's Crafts! We'll be selling all sorts of cute, unique and quirky goods including jewelry, hand-sewn, crocheted and knitted items, original art, vintage clothing and items, baked goods and other yummy things for non-vegans and vegans alike, paper goods, henna tattoos and more! Music, arts and crafts, food, beer and prizes! What more could you ask for!
I found this amazing video in Portuguese with English subtitles from a TEDx event in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Definitely worth checking out, and reading through it.
Roberta Faria, How a magazine can become a social project and help people