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Next NYC Event Organizer Meetup on Tuesday, May 19th at 7-9p. We’ll be hanging out late afterwards this time with a DJ but show up early to ask our hosts Qs and share any puzzles you’ve been working on. More details in your swipe through, and RSVP at the link in bio.

Wanna find some of the most experimental, DIY, and exciting art, music, and activist events in your community? Our discovery features make it easy to explore the hundreds of upcoming events, highlight the hottest tickets & coolest cats, plus follow the organizers that make it all happen. Soon we’ll be rolling out new partnership features that make it easy for organizers to collaborate with one another and share communities, insights, and support. Best way to check it out is by clicking the link in the bio to see what is happening near you tonight, tomorrow, or later this week on withfriends.events If you’re an event organizer yourself, adding events is as easy as clicking Add Event. If you live in NYC, our next Event Organizer Meetup is on Tues, Oct 14th 7-9p - and we host a parallel organizer chat - for sharing resources and working to build collaboration throughout our local events infrastructure. Feel free to leave a comment or send a DM to learn more. Shout out to @darefail for all the amazing work he’s in building this new chapter of the platform. Reach out to him for all your neighborhood detective needs (no crimes) at neighborhooddetective.com

Every event is a collaboration between many different partners; the venue, promoter, artists, and so many other organizers that make it happen. Now, instead of having to choose only one of these partners to represent your event, the host can any and all partners to events on our platform. By default this gives all partners access to the attendees and their email addresses so you can all grow your communities together, but your can also choose to give partners management access to update the event page or ticket tiers, or every finance access to manage refunds and see the complete revenue breakdown. And beyond logistical benefits, this also means the event will be listed on both organizers profile pages, and the event page itself will list all the partners as presenting the event. Collaboration is key to any healthy culture, and we’re looking forward to seeing more event organizers working more easily with one another. P.S. Thanks to all the great partners working on my upcoming event that I used in this example!

Join us for the NYC Event Organizers Meetup — a monthly gathering for connecting with the venue hosts and organizers behind New York’s art, DIY, and music events. The goal is to share resources, connect across scenes, and help each other make things happen. This time we’re hosted by @dreamerswelcomeforever a beautiful artist studio loft in Williamsburg. The agenda: - Quick intros to kick things off - A few words from the hosts on their story and work - Open floor for mingling and shared problem-solving - Space for organizers to share the puzzles they’re working on with their own events — there’s almost always someone who’s already puzzled through the same thing As always, +1s and friends encouraged! ——— Past meetups have included: - Puzzle solving + tours of the @cityreliquary - Roundtables with project intros at @secret_riso_club - Breakout groups at @rub_ulad - City regulations workshop at @in_ter_comm (RIP) - History presentation at a secret DIY space (@flux_factory ) - Puerto Rico × NYC collaboration at @estudioarribaabajo pop-up - 1yr Birthday at @thecloudcity - Holiday gift swap at @footlightpresents To stay in the loop: - Join the Instagram or WhatsApp group chat (we’ll send you a link if you RSVP) - Sign up or leave your email. We’ll follow up with a recap, links, and who was there

Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or someone who just started booking shows, the new Promote feature on our events platform makes it easy to get out the word. Built from best practices sourced from our monthly event organizer meetups, and featuring our favorite event listings, you can customize it with you own promotion steps or event listings, and coordinate with the rest of your team to make sure know what’s been done and what’s left to do. Most importantly, every step generates a unique link that can be used to track how successful that step is, not only by traffic, but all the way through to the how may tickets are actually being sold. Are we missing any of your favorite steps or event listings? Feel free to let us know in the comments or with a DM. Or just give it a try by visiting the platform (linked in our bio) and clicking Promote or Share on any recent event.

Our last meetup of the year is Tues, Dec 9th 7-9p! RSVP at the link in my bio! It’s hosted by @footlightpresents at the @thewindjammer in Ridgewood. We’re going to do an organizer gift swap, so if you feel inspired, please bring something another event organizer might find useful in 2026! But feel free to come empty-handed, your presence is a gift :) These monthly meetups are an opportunity for event organizers throughout NYC to gather at a different local venue every month to share resources and work on puzzles together. We circle up briefly in the middle of the meetup for a brief presentation by the host, answer a few Qs, and then everyone present has the opportunity to share something they’re working on - so when we break back out it’s that much easier for you to find whoever was working on something similar to you. Last month, @thecloudcity hosted us, and provided us with a pumpkin pie which we celebrated our first year of meetups, followed by a toast of prosecco provided by @wondervillenyc - for those who weren’t there, we’d like to thank the 250+ event organizers that have joined our meetups and group chat so far. If it wasn’t for all the tireless work you do to help bring us together, New York would not be the same. And thank you to all the other spaces that have hosted us during our first year. Thanks @cityreliquary and @unitof for the tour Thanks @estudioarribaabajo and @pablor_d & @pablo_candela for the popup Thanks secret warehouse venue I can’t name Thanks @in_ter_comm and @temporarystateuni for presenting Thanks @rub_ulad and everyone for indulging us with a breakout group experiment ..and lastly thank you to @secret_riso_club for incubating this idea at the very beginning. Can’t wait to organize with you all in 2026!

It’s giving season! We have rolled out a lot of new features to help event organizers with their end-of-year campaigns (and help you launch one if you haven’t started yet). There is a lot to fit into this 3-minute reel, so (most of) the tools featured are listed below: - Create a campaign (for the holidays or whatever) - Set a date and a target - Highlight what the funds are for - Add a video or image to make it pop - Start from $0 or with your existing memberships - Show it off on your profile - Show it off to every attendee - Add funds you collect off-platform manually - Collect testimonials from your supporters - Collect addresses, too Out in Austin, The Museum of Human Achievement @themuseumofhumanachievement throws a legendary holiday event every year, and they use a bunch of successful strategies to launch their campaign, including: - Members-only pre-sale tickets - Special add-ons for certain tiers - Enticing discounts on tickets during checkout It’s a special time of year to celebrate your community and how they’ve supported you all year, as well as grow that community as you look ahead to next year. We work hard to help event organizers make the most of this time every year, and are happy to help share advice in the comments or with a DM. If you have something that you’ve seen work well for your community or a space you care about, please share! If you’re in NYC, the one-year anniversary of our Event Organizer Meetups is this Tuesday at a DIY theater space in Wburg called @thecloudcity where we’ll be sharing tips about the holiday season and any other puzzles that need working on. You can RSVP at the link the bio.

The next NYC Event Organizers Meetup is Tuesday, November 18 at 7PM at Cloud City in Williamsburg! The NYC Event Organizers Meetup is a monthly gathering for connecting with the venue hosts and organizers behind New York’s art, DIY, and music events. The goal is to share resources, connect across scenes, and help each other make things happen. This one marks one year of these meetups! This month’s is hosted at Cloud City, a long-running performance and rehearsal space that’s been home to experimental theater, music, and art for over a decade. Past spaces that have hosted them have included: @cityreliquary @flux_factory @in_ter_comm @rub_ulad @secret_riso_club We’ll start with quick intros, hear a few words about the space, and then open the floor for conversation, projects, and shared problem-solving. Bring a puzzle your community is facing — chances are, someone in the room has already solved it. A few puzzles from last month: - Finding venues for songwriting workshops and community events - Keeping small museums sustainable without volunteer burnout - Marketing intimate salons and gatherings - Building collaborations between filmmakers and local nonprofits - Exploring analog, offline approaches to community building We’re also putting out an open call for photographers to help document this one-year gathering and future meetups. RSVP link in bio. As always, +1s and friends encouraged.

Just announced! If you see something you like, follow them and find more like it at the link in our bio. Event Organizers listed: @atmosphericmusicalliance @mossradionyc @secret_riso_club @rhizome_dc @giorno_poetry_systems @cityreliquary @humanresourcesla @livingwaterteahouse

Experimenting with sharing a quick skim of our explore page, highlight events happening locally in NYC, as well as some Hot Events, Cool Cats, and Featured Orgs. Maybe in the future we can focus on just highlighting a few events? Then I can talk a bit more about each one. What would you all find useful?

First time trying to do this in the morning, and the golden light looks great, but I’m a bit low energy since no New Yorker wants to hear some fucking guy taking a selfie video during their morning commute.

I spent the summer between middle school and high school going to my first punk shows at ABC No Rio’s hardcore matinees. I didn’t know anything about the buildings historic lineage, or even all the other cool projects in the space. I did know that the shows felt liberating, and felt accessible in a way that none of the other culture experiences previously had felt. I started organizing shows with my friends in my parent’s basement not long after. For those unaware, like I was as a child, ABC No Rio was born out of an act of artistic resistance in 1980 in LES; an illegal exhibition called The Real Estate show full of artworks highlighting the gentrification, wealth disparity, racism, and economic violence in New York. When the city shut down the exhibition, a group of the artists negotiated for a property to continue their artistic protest. In 1997 (a few years before that summer) they bought the property from the city for $1, with the promise they would renovate it. After high school, I moved into a venue called Silent Barn that felt very familiar to me. When ABC decided that the only way forward was to demolish the building, in 2016, Silent Barn had the honor of hosting those same Hardcore Matinee shows I went to as a child - at least for the two remaining years that Silent Barn was open. Last year, ABC No Rio finally broke ground after fundraising and planning for almost a decade. In many ways I think the project changed the trajectory of my life, and I’m over joyed that it will be here again to help shift the trajectory of a whole new generation of kids, at a time when radical action and engaging deeply with the culture around us is more important than ever. They have a fundraising campaign that goes live in a week or so, and I encourage you to go follow their account to participate in it, if you have the capacity to do so.