A twist on storytelling events! Bring your old & new photos, love letters, cards, documents, birth, death & marriage certificates, newspaper clippings, home movie clips, instruments, dolls, quilts, uniforms etc from your family archives & tell us about them! What do you know about them, the object & the people who documented, collected & lived these moments. Share your personal history through these objects. Can you imagine what we will see & share? So go search your closets, attics, basement, s …

Dramatic Adventure Theatre has a regular event called THE TRAVELOGUE where we 'meetup' at Jimmy's 43 in the East Village to share a few beers, lots of laughs, and some quality stories from the road. We are starting this meetup group in the hopes of finding new travelers who enjoying sharing their adventures. THE TRAVELOGUE is an open mic night for travel stories. This is a fun, casual opportunity to share a unique story from your travels (domestically, internationally, or even from one side of t …

Spend Wednesday evenings in good company, making maps of your own hero’s journey and writing stories about the experience. “Art, Stories and Wine” lets you work and play with paint, ink, rubber stamps and more, to create a visual record of an important moment in your life. And along with the art, you’ll have a chance to write about the moment, using games and prompts to help you tell your unique personal story. These evenings are hosted by Oralee Wachter (“Mapping Your Hero’s Journey) and Thomas …

Do you enjoy visiting museums and galleries? Do you like to explore contemporary art, and learn about post-modern artists? Do you have an interested in art history? Do you attend or would like to attend art lectures and panels held by museums and art institutions alike? Do you enjoy the film programs offered by most large museums in New York? Do you  love books, stories, and ideas? Does the life of the mind appeal to you? Would you like to listen to intellectuals, writers, and storytellers sha …

Welcome to the NYC D&D Meetup Group! Dungeons and Dragons is the most popular tabletop role-playing game of all time. The game is played with about 6 players. One person takes the role of storyteller, AKA the Dungeon Master, and narrates the story in a medieval fantasy world filled with magic, monsters, romance, intrigue, and adventure. The rest of the players take on the roles of individual fictional characters and explore that world, often becoming heroes in the story. The story is like a comp …

An ongoing 'discussion & activity' group for ANYONE interested in any aspect of mythology. Whether you seek diversion, entertainment, inspiration or timeless wisdom, join us in EXPLORING and CELEBRATING these rich stories which continue to resonate to this day! NOTE: We are the officially-recognized New York Mythological RoundTable group of the Joseph Campbell Foundation.

To gather together people who love to help people tell the story of their life. To learn from & support each others professional growth. Personal historians, film producers & multimedia artists, graphic designers, professional organizers, memoir writers, story tellers, artists, photographers, genealogists, interior decorators, bookbinders

The secret to being a brilliant writer isn’t a secret at all: write every day and get feedback from good teachers. At the New York Writer’s Intensive, we’ll get you writing in an environment that’s fun and supportive, giving you the feedback, structure, and social support to help you get started and find your rhythm. The New York Writers’ Intensive is for you if: • You want to write but you need help getting started. • You want guidance, support, and feedback. • You have stories to tell but you …

"Noumenon (/ˈnuːmɨnɒn/): A posited object or event that is known (if at all) without the use of the senses." (A good description of roleplaying, no?) Noumena is a New York City World of Darkness (and more) roleplaying group open to any and all who are interested in playing or running a roleplaying game! While focused primarily on the (old and new) World of Darkness game line, other games--especially indie or experimental games--are welcome and encouraged. Gamers of all experience levels--includi …

Who We Are Are you a reporter, producer, editor, or broadcasting professional here in NYC or elsewhere? We would love to have you join us for in depth discussions about the role of the media, new technology, production techniques, interviewing and editing skills, or just to network with like-minded professionals. New York Broadcasting Group is a non-profit organization that supports the New York media community. Our goal is to help build a sustainable media industry that drives economic growth …

8 Bit and Up Video Games has gone Zero Bit! We are interested in working together with gamers in New York City to help us build a community in the East Village and Lower East Side. Board and card gamers looking for a place to play should feel free to contact us.

Do you love live music, supporting local bands, and socializing in a club environment? This group celebrates an emerging new genre in entertainment: the theatrical concert. These shows blend together the music and concepts of rock/pop bands with the multimedia, storytelling, and stage elements of theater. Let's discover these shows together! Stand up and rock out, or stand back and drink at the bar - we want to meet you and exchange music stories.

We at Hostelling International New York are travelers. We love the road, and we love talking about travel over a beer or a movie, and inviting our awesome friends to come talk about their adventures. Sign up for our events to come hear talks from world class photographers, mountaineers, filmmakers, adventurers, writers, storytellers, musicians and many others as they share their experiences from the road, and get inspired for your next trip!

Calling all DUMBO filmmakers! Come together and rub shoulders with others like you in your community. This is a group for anyone interested in filmmaking, producing, documentary filmmaking, nonfiction storytelling, public programming and education! We want to get together once a month, in a casual setting, and learn about the people in our community who share these passions!

If your Jewish practice is more than lox and cream cheese, and if you're looking for your life partner (in addition to all the meaningful connections with others along the way), then consider joining us! The goal of this group is to provide a comfortable way for spiritually-seeking, Jewish singles to meet each other.  All Jews* are welcome, regardless of flavor or label: Reconstructionist, Reform, Orthodox, Conservative, Conservadox, Renewal, Egalitarian, Chassidic, Progressive, Carlebachian... …

Welcome this group is for creative & inventive people willing to create new stuff (works of art, writings, inventions and so on) with others instead of alone for fun and profit (to be just each member that actively participates and contributes to a given project shall receive his/her fair share) consider it crowd sourcing meets invention offline

Draw-mania! the one-of-a-kind draw-a-thon and variety show is coming to HOBOKEN! We've been going strong in Downtown Manhattan for over a year, and now we're going across the water! Draw-mania! is a Draw-a-thon where artists can come and draw from six of the top art models, posing nude and semi-nude in a variety of short and long poses. Interspersed thoughout the evening we offer live music, comedy and storytelling from some of the best up and coming performers! It's a fun, party, atmosphere gre …

Kinding Sindaw (www.kindingsindaw.org) is a cultural performance troupe that has been in existence for over 20 years and is currently a resident artist group at La Mama E.T.C. Our mission is to educate and enlighten communities about the complex history and cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines. Through the use of an artistic medium, which preserves the cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples from these regions, we seek to explore universal issues of the value of oral history …

Come to a former Speakeasy and share stories about Prohibition and Gangsters. Make a visit to our Museum of the American Gangster and our escape tunnels as well. We specialize in Absinthe, Templeton Rye, single malt scotches, and draft beers.

Not your father's startup event, the Electric Locomotive is our monthly gathering that brings the NYC startup community together to hear stories from some of the most influential names in tech and entrepreneurship. It all happens on stage at the famed Kraine Theater in the East Village. Wakefield's editor, Guy Cimbalo, interviews a different founder each month - hilarity, insight, and new connections ensue. Drinks ensue too. Past guests include: Viraj Puri, co-founder of Gotham Greens, Geoff Bar …

Bringing yoga out of the studio, not just physically but the principles as well. Various outdoor yoga locations, occasional musical guests, yoga hikes, vegan potlucks and other outdoor yogic playing. Nature will be the main setting but there may be some "urban" settings as well. A vinyasa-based asana session with storytelling and jokes and practical spiritualism will be thrown into the pot. Various workshops will also be offered.

Your business is not about selling, it's about improving people's lives through products and services that can change the world. Let's network and collaborate to develop our marketing skills. And by "marketing skills" we mean using social media, web, transmedia and storytelling to engage your community, so they can better see how your products/services can help them in their daily lives.

We facilitate meaningful media making by partnering with local and international NGOs and non-profits. Sometimes called advocacy journalism, citizen journalism, humanitarian media, or just simply documentary film and photography. Our members create stories to help cause positive social change by helping the small organizations who are solving the world's biggest problems and injustices. These meetups serve the purpose of collaborating, educating, socializing, networking, awareness building and …

This is a group for writers who want to master powerful strategies to write better. The organizer, Charles Euchner, is a former teacher and administrator at Yale and Harvard and the author of a number of acclaimed works on politics, sports, civil rights, and more. The approach: Euchner has developed what he called a "brain-based system" for writing well. What's that mean?  It means that if you understand how the brain works -- how the brain gets engaged or confused, what makes it excited or bore …

NYC Fearless Beauty Healing Circle is dedicated to empowering women to embrace their unique beauty and free themselves from limiting beliefs about her appearance that keep her from realizing her full potential. This healing circle is a sacred space for women of all ages to share, release, and transform her body, mind and spirit and align with her soul’s purpose. Our commitment is to share time-tested principles of meditation, storytelling, journal exercises, yoga, breath work and so much more to …