About us
Welcome to the club for people with tabs open.
Maybe yours are about a new museum show, a suspiciously elaborate escape room, a lecture on urban coyotes, a repertory screening and an architectural style you learned about yesterday. Excellent. Bring them.
What things might we do?
A lot, deliberately.
- 🎨 Art, museums, architecture, theater and experimental performances.
- 🔭 Science talks, planetariums, history, oddball tours and opportunities to learn something extremely specific for no practical reason.
- 🎬 Indie films, cult classics, comedy, games, workshops, immersive experiences, festivals and assorted Denver weirdness.
You don’t need to be an expert. Enthusiasm beats expertise around here. Know everything about Bauhaus typography? Great. Just learned Bauhaus isn’t a hardware store? Also great.
The social experiment
Meetup is very good at giving you people to do something with on Thursday. We’re aiming for people you eventually text on your own.
No networking. No collecting strangers you once went to Meow Wolf with. Yes familiar faces, repeat hangs, and enough shared weirdness for friendship to hopefully maybe actually occur.
How to be excellent here
- 📸 Use your real name and a clear photo. Friendship (and safety) is easier when nobody has to wonder whether “DragonSlayer8472” with a cartoon portrait is meeting us outside the theatre. Profiles without these things will not be approved.
- 🧠 Bring curiosity, not credentials. Ask questions, share what you know, and nobody needs to win the conversation.
- 🫶 Make room for people. Notice who’s new. Pull someone in. Being interesting is lovely; being interested is better.
- 💬 Keep it warm. Thoughtful disagreement is fine. Networking pitches, conversational one-upmanship and unsolicited personal podcasts are not.
- 🎟️ RSVP responsibly. Small groups and ticketed events rely on people showing up—or giving enough notice for someone else to take the spot.
Finally, support keeps us going: Meetup organizers pay $360/year out of pocket to host. If you’re able, we suggest $5 per event or $20/year to help keep the adventures coming. 💖
Upcoming events
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☢️🐴 Mixed Taste: Blucifer & Rocky Flats
Location not specified yetOne cursed airport horse. One former nuclear-weapons plant. Absolutely no connection between them. Until the Q&A.
MCA Denver’s Mixed Taste pairs two experts on completely unrelated topics, keeps the talks separate, then lets the audience loose to find connections between them. This round: Paul Karolyi on Blucifer and Patricia Calhoun on Rocky Flats, hosted by poet Bobby LeFebre at the Holiday Theater.
🔥 Almost sold out! Don't sleep on tickets.🔥
- 🍸 Meetup Plan: Doors open at 6 PM; program starts at 7 PM. To make sure we can get seats together, let’s meet in line at 5:45 PM at the Holiday Theater. Then we can get drinks/snacks and have enough time to establish which of us is already carrying surprisingly strong Blucifer opinions.
- 🎟️ Tickets: $22 for non-members, non-students. Get tickets via MCA Denver.
Q: What's the RSVP policy?
A: RSVP etiquette is crucial! No-shows can throw off the vibe of the event, so we kindly ask that you shoot the host a message or un-RSVP before the event starts if you can't make it. Two no-shows may result in removal from the group.Q: How can I support?
A: Did you know that your humble organizers pay about $360 a year to bring events to you on Meetup? A tiny annual donation from you is all it takes to keep the events coming. Suggested donation is $5/event or $20 for unlimited events. Just send a Venmo/Paypal to me @mandirao (or ask me for Zelle). Couldn't do it without you!1 attendee
