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Join us on Saturday, February 15 for the 2020 Melrose Creative Expo, celebrating the 6th anniversary of the Dorothy Lumley Melrose Center for Technology, Innovation and Creativity!  The Expo will begin with the 2020 Melrose Awards presentation, honoring the top projects created by patrons using Melrose Center resources over the past year.  Awards will be presented in six categories: Digital Media Design, Maker, Music Recording, Photography, Voice Recording and Video.

The Melrose Creative Expo also features live performances, VR, studio and simulator experiences, Fab Lab fun, photo portraits, community exhibitors and more.  It’s the perfect day to see everything the Melrose Center has to offer!

The Orange County Library System and WUCF have partnered to bring our Melrose in the Mix live recording series to TV!  Tune in to WUCF on Thursday, January 23 at 8:30 p.m. for the premiere episode featuring Orlando singer-songwriter Terri Binion.  The Melrose in the Mix series will feature a new episode on the third Thursday each month from February through June, with each episode also starting at 8:30 p.m.  The schedule will feature The Pauses on February 20, Steve Garron on March 19, AMiAM on April 16, The Vapor caves on May 21, and Beth McKee on June 18.

And of course, you can sign up to attend a live Melrose in the Mix session by completing the form at this link.

Join us on Sunday, October 13th for Technoween – a terrifyingly good time for the whole family! There will be appearances from The Tourist City Ghostbusters, a visit from The Killer Robots!, a horror movie trivia contest sponsored by American Ghost Adventures, and a children’s costume contest sponsored by SKELETONS: Museum of Osteology. We’ll also have haunting activities in our Audio, Video, and Photography Studios as well as our Fab Lab and Sim Lab. Hope to see you there!

The Orlando Public Library, Melrose Center announced the winning films of the 2019 Melrose Film Festival that took place at the Orlando Public Library on Saturday, September 14, 2019.

The winning films of the 2019 Melrose Film Festival are:

Gladiators

Trap Fishing

Jericho

Welder

The Bee Rescuer

The Fox & The Pigeon

This year the Melrose Film Festival attracted almost 2,000 film submissions. Attendees of the film festival screened documentaries, animated films and music videos submitted from around the world. Event exhibitors included the Orlando chapter of Women in Film & Television, Production Hub and Enzian Theater. The film festival also featured question and answer sessions with filmmakers and guest speakers. Thank you to all who submitted films and attended the festival. Congratulations to the winners!

The whole Melrose Center is coming together for a family-friendly Meetup of gargantuan proportions on Wednesday, July 17.  Journey through the Fab Lab, Video Studio and Audio Studio and experience the making of a giant creature feature.  Participate in a range of movie monster making techniques from a variety of eras.  Activities include old school Japanese man-in-suit style model destruction, green screen acting, foley sound effects, and modern day CGI motion capture technology.  Be sure to join us as we destroy the library and the whole city!