About us
Are you new to the Bay Area? Do you want to make new friends? Do you want to go hiking but don't want to do it by yourself? Are you curious about the breweries?
This group is for anyone interested in socializing and staying active in a relaxed and welcoming environment. We enjoy meeting new people so feel free to check out our events! Come say hi and see where that takes you :)
IMPORTANT RULES:
- Please RSVP before showing up and update it accordingly if you can no longer make it to the event.
- Please be respectful. We do not tolerate offensive behavior and ban people who harass other members of the group.
- The organizers are not responsible for any injuries or damage that may happen to you while attending any of our events, especially when doing anything outdoors such as hiking. You are responsible for your own safety at all times.
Welcome to the group and we look forward to meeting you in person!
Upcoming events
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Tuesday Board Games in Campbell
7Stars Bar and Grill, 400 E campbell Ave, Campbell, CA, USJoin us at 7Stars Bar and Grill in Campbell for Tuesday night board games. Many of our members are board game enthusiasts who love teaching board games to new folk, no board game experience needed. You're welcome to bring your favorite games (the bar has a few, I'll bring a bunch) and we'll see you there!
Venue Details
- The bar owners have generously waived reservation fees, so we ask all attendees support the venue by ordering food or a drink.
- Tons of free nearby parking (details below).
- A five-minute walk to VTA Light Rail station (details below).
- Bar is Star Wars themed on the inside but looks like an old bank on the outside (ornate concrete facade with pillars).
- Drop in whenever you can make it! No worries if you arrive after the event starts.
Games
- Folk bring all sorts of board and card games!
- Word Games (Just One, Hues and Cues, Decrypto, Codenames, Wavelength)
- Visual Card Games (Detective Club, Mysterium, Dixit)
- Territory Building Games (Terraforming Mars, Scythe, Dune Imperium)
- Grid Building Games (Earth, Castle Combo, Happy City)
- Racing Games (Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Jamaica)
- Social Deduction Games (Avalon, Saboteur, Secret Hitler, Feed the Kraken, Blood on the Clocktower, Two Rooms And A Boom)
- Number Games (Hanabi, TEN, The Crew)
Parking
- Check out the parking area map here.
- Tons of free parking in the Second Street Parking Garage and First Street Garage.
- Free parking in the lots by Hyde Park, Khartoum, and (if you're lucky) Water Tower Kitchen.
- Free street parking spots are usually available along Orchard city drive, though you might have to circle a bit.
- More free street parking in the residential neighborhoods along North 3rd St, N 2nd St and N 1st St.
- Additional parking details can be found here.
7Stars Bar and Grill Menus
- Food menu here.
- Beer drafts and cocktails menu here.
- Non-alcoholic mocktails served as well! Ask the bartenders about the secret mocktail menu.
VTA Light Rail & Caltrains
- There's a Light Rail station a five minute walk from 7Stars, in case you've got a Light Rail station near your home or workplace.
- If you're near a Caltrains station, you can take it to downtown Mountain View and walk across the platforms to catch a Light Rail to Downtown Campbell.
- Alternatively you can take Caltrains to Diridon station in San Jose, walk a few blocks to the Light Rail "San Fernando" station in San Jose and ride that to Downtown Campbell.
32 attendees
Golden Hour over Mountain View -- Shoreline Sunset, downtown dinner
Palo Alto Shoreline Scenic Lookout, South Adobe Creek Loop Trailhead, Adobe Creek Loop Trail, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA, Palo Alto, CA, USThis is event one of 3 events evolving around Mountain View Art & Wine festival in the Sep 12-13 weekend.
Have you visited the Adobe Creek trail located at the shoreline between Palo Alto and Mountain View, or have you been there during the golden hour? The sky turns into a canvass, encompassing everyone in this natural wonder every day.
The Golden Hour walk is meant for people to meet their social neighbors, to experience the magic moment of day turning into night together. Break the ice by a social walk in a local place of interest, then group dinner together to open the weekend.
Downtown Mountain View is also having an Art & Wine festival over the Spe 12-13th weekend, we organize this Golden Hour session around the festival weekend, on Friday Sep 11th.
https://www.mvartwine.comThe walk is also meant for local community builders, who are willing to take actions, to experience such an effort to do so, and join us. We plan to build local team across regions, so you can partner up, and hold such social walks in cities nearby to you, in rotation. You get the chance to work with different partners, at different locations, across town. A different builder type social.
The Adobe Creek trail extends deep into the bay. It is a well known hiking trail, with rich marine life on the sides. To the west you can see sunset over the rolling dunes of Palo Alto's Byxbee park. To the south, you can see the Santa Cruz mountains, and get how Mountain View gets its name.
You will also see people setting up booths for the coming festival in downtown, there will also be festival volunteers joining us for the social before group volunteering in the festival. For that, you can check out our festival volunteering event. We would host a festival social mixer on Sat afternoon.
https://www.meetup.com/townflame/events/313120689
https://www.meetup.com/townflame/events/316321592We will take the same trail to and back. So if you arrive late, just meet us on the trail. Or join us in group dinner social in downtown. Friday evening's downtown is nice, a good stroll down Castro street.
Schedule:
Location: Shoreline Scenic Lookout, the wooden deck by the road side. Adobe Creek Loop Trailhead
5:45pm Meet & greet
6pm Heading out.
7pm Back
7:30pm Starbucks, Downtown Mountain View group dinner socialParking:
Casey Forebay Street Parking
2629b Terminal Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043
Or Park in the parking lot of Shoreline park, then walk over by the lake.Image credit to Kelly, taken during our last Golden Hour walk on bay trail, Sunnyvale.
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Liability Waiver: Participation in TownFlame events is voluntary and involves social interaction in public spaces. Activities are designed to be inclusive and respectful. Participants assume all risks and release TownFlame, its organizers, volunteers, and affiliates from liability for injury, illness, or damages, except in cases of gross negligence or intentional misconduct.
By attending, participants acknowledge that photographs, audio, and video recordings may be taken during events, and grant TownFlame the right to use such media for promotional and marketing purposes, in any format or platform, without further consent or compensation.
5 attendees
Flower Power -- Young Professionals Festival Mixer, Arts & Wine, Mountain View
Starbucks Bike Parking, 750 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041, USA, Mountain View, CA, USEvent 2 of the Mountain View Art & Wine festival events series.
-------Flower Power -- A new way of Attention Interaction.
Come to experiment another social format with us, young professionals mixer in community festivals.
"Attention is all you need", which is also true in the mixer connection business.We as a community org has been deeply involved in community affairs. We have attended almost all major festivals in SF, and local ones. Our Golden Hour walk footprints are extending from Stanford to Mountain View, to Sunnyvale & Santa Clara, and beyond. In connecting up these social neighborhoods on the ground, we have seen all kinds of active social people, lively with different characteristics at each location.
So there are great opportunities out there, waiting for you to explore, to find and be found. Attention could be received, far and beyond, besides this small event, across the wide and grand community space as well.
So in this mixer, we are going to introduce a new format of "attention" social, for all those that are willing to try out, while building this "social neighborhood" with us across different cities.
-----------In our golden hour walks, we ran into a lot of people fresh in town. In our other events, we also came to know that a lot of our alumni are single.
Most of our members are working professionals, who would be busy with career all day, so social occasions could be limited. Thus we are trying addressing this issue by experimenting with social mixer in community festivals, for young professionals, our version.We are not the professionals in this domain, so we won't guarantee gender ratios etc.. What we can is to provide you an interaction rich environment, by our experience organizing festival social in the city, and golden hour walks in local, in a vibrant festival setting. You will have a good chance to get familiar with other participants, and enough occasions to chat with people you are interested, both individually and in group settings.
Bonus round is that we also have a large volunteer body active in the festival, as you can see from our event listing. So at the end of the program, you also have chance to have group coffee / dinner with the volunteers, extending your social circle once more.
And our program doesn't end with the festival, see all the events we organize? You can invite your new acquaintances to attend follow up events together, so further opportunities to get to know each other better. Of course, we would always welcome you to volunteer or lead walks with us. Imagine that, leading a troop side by side, doing good, be the center of the attention, time & again. Your fate, your call.
As we noted, Mountain View Arts & Wine is the largest around, 160k people in two days. And afternoon 3-5pm would be the busiest hours. Come to enjoy a great civic scene if not to make friends.
So here is the schedule:
Location: Starbucks, Castro street, downtown Mountain View
3:45pm Meet
4pm Let's walk & chat, along the golden hour route.
4:30pm 2nd round of networking
5pm Walk back, visit the festival in your freshly formed groups.
6pm Optional regroup
7pm Optional group coffee or dinner with festival volunteers.We may also play some fun flower games, by what we learned from fund raising volunteering in Stern Grove festival. Check that out on site.
Join TownFlame, Make Life Happen.
Liability Waiver: Participation in TownFlame events is voluntary and involves social interaction in public spaces. Activities are designed to be inclusive and respectful. Participants assume all risks and release TownFlame, its organizers, volunteers, and affiliates from liability for injury, illness, or damages, except in cases of gross negligence or intentional misconduct.
By attending, participants acknowledge that photographs, audio, and video recordings may be taken during events, and grant TownFlame the right to use such media for promotional and marketing purposes, in any format or platform, without further consent or compensation.
1 attendee
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