Socialize and Make Friends with Common Interests

Columbus Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. People of all skill levels attend, and we love it that way. Many people (optionally) bring projects to work on, and many other people (optionally) socialize the entire time. It's entirely up to you! **What to Expect at the Intro Circle** \~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~\~ Near the beginning of the event (1:30 pm), we do a standup: * Organizer announcements, updates, and logistics Round 1 - (7 secs max): * Your name * What you're working on * What you can help others with Round 2: * Community events you wanna plug. If none, that's cool too. Round 3: * Job opportunities you're hiring for OR announce that you are looking for one. If none, that's cool. After the introduction circle, everything is self-organized! Feel free to work alone, pair up, attend one of our workshops/presentations, or mingle!

We're joining another group for a giant game of hide and seek at Otherworld! If you've never been, Otherworld is a massive immersive art experience filled with surreal rooms, hidden passages, and interactive exhibits. It's pretty much the perfect setting for an epic game of hide and seek. We'll be playing classic hide and seek with multiple seekers, exploring the venue, and trying to find the best hiding spots without getting caught! When: Saturday, November 21 at 7 PM Where: Otherworld, 5819 Chantry Dr, Columbus, OH IMPORTANT: Limited Spots! This event is being organized by another group, and there's a limited number of people who can participate. You MUST buy a ticket to otherworld, and preferably you would sign up through the Partiful link below to secure your spot. RSVPing on Meetup alone does not reserve your place. [https://partiful.com/e/BDpgRMpXLVwo1MNH89fp?c=GvkwWZDf](https://partiful.com/e/BDpgRMpXLVwo1MNH89fp?c=GvkwWZDf) tickets: https://www.otherworld.com/main/tickets-and-hours Come ready to hide, seek, and have some fun!

This day is joyous even if we can't be in France. ***Liberte, Egalite, et Beajoulais!!*** Beaujolais Nouveau celebrates the first fruits of the 2026 grape harvest. Delightful, fresh and vibrant, the Gamay grape, when young, produces light red fruit flavored wine perfect for cheese, appetizers and wood fired pizza. Best served slightly chilled. Come and find out about ***Carbonic Maceration Magik!!*** Join us at **House Wine** for the 2026 harvest in Worthington. Arrive when you can and we'll have a table for gathering. Feel free to bring your own food as it is welcomed at this local gem or order from Dewey's, Everest, Jet or The Whitney. Each person pays their tasting fee, typically $15, and gets their wine glass, then approximately five pours of the varietal being served. **Parking is tough**. Try the second lot behind House Wine accessed by the land by the back parking lot or the municipal lot one block north of House Wine.

**Let's Eat, Drink and Be Thankful for the wonderful friendships we've made in the group!** **GRAZING**: Grazing is a more casual way to share snacks, making a large snack board. ***Bring along a fall / thanksgiving snack to share.*** I'll provide plates and napkins and serving trays/utensils. [ZAFTIG](http://www.drinkzaftig.com/) is a brewery on the north end and I like their flavor combos and funny names for brews. You won't want to miss their holiday releases: I Believe in Santa Holiday Ale or Bourbon Barrel Aged BamBaLam Breakfast Stout. *They now serve cocktails, too.* **PARKING**: There's are spaces all around the brewery.

Join us for a warm and welcoming Vegan Friendsgiving Potluck. Organized by Columbus Animal Advocates and Project Animal Freedom — a chance to meet other vegans, make new friends, and share delicious plant-based food with people who share the same values. 📅 Date: Saturday 11/21/25 ⏰ Time: 1pm to 5pm 📍 Location: It’s all natural temple store Bring a vegan dish to share and post in the group what you’re bringing so we can avoid duplicates. Please include a post it if it has any of these major allergies: Soy, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame or wheat Come hungry, come friendly, and come ready to connect. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

Come and visit Echo Spirits Distilling Co. in Grandview and get to Know Your Distiller! Visit an active craft distillery and learn how they make award-winning local spirits (esp. rum & bourbon)! Includes a tour and extensive tasting. THE TOUR BEGINS PROMPTLY AT 6:30PM **COST: $10.00 This is a** **ticketed event and reservations must be made beforehand**! **I have booked the time slot for our group** **and pre-paid for the EventBrite tickets + fee.** **NO REFUNDS**. If you have to cancel, consider your ticket a donation to the Snack fund. *Distillery Notes*: Spend a little over an hour with us as we take you through the distilling process and how Echo Spirits came to be. We'll guide you through an optional tasting to help you become a better spirits taster and introduce you to our products. The goal is to have you come out of the tour more knowledgeable about spirits and to have a good time! Make sure you remember that this is an active manufacturing business and wear appropriate attire. It's hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and you need to watch your step. **AFTER TOUR**: After our tour and tasting, we can order a drink from their eclectic menu, sit and chat. **PARKING**: Around back of the building and on side streets. **FOOD:** You can *bring in your own* or get takeout from Buffalo Wild Wings (next door) or Five Guys (across the street). NO FOOD ON TOURS. Must be consumed before or after tour.

**WEAR** your most show-stopping sweater, and come join us for LIVE music, beer and food trucks! **WHERE:** We'll casually meet n greet at one of their long gathering tables and grab a brew and some food truck eats. **[ZAFTIG](http://www.drinkzaftig.com)** is a brewery on the north end and I like their flavor combos and funny names for brews. You won't want to miss their holiday releases: I Believe in Santa Holiday Ale or Bourbon Barrel Aged BamBaLam Breakfast Stout. They now serve cocktails, too. **NOTE:** Non-beer drinkers can order soda from the food truck. Also, bring along your own take out food if you like.

Let's Wander the downtown lights and "spirits" of the season! **START**: ***HAPPY HOUR at [Buckeye Bourbon House](https://www.buckeyebourbonhouse.com/)*** (5-6:30pm). Select small plates and cocktails are about half price. **STOP 1: WANDERNIGHTS** **@ Columbus Commons**: Make your way through a kaleidoscope of color to check out the 40-foot lit tree, over 150 lighted trees, decorated garden beds and an illuminated tunnel made up of glowing archways, complete with a snow globe photo-op. The Commons feature seasonal beverages, food trucks, FREE hot chocolate, live music, and carousel rides. This year, warm up and shop for holiday gifts at the indoor market! **STOP 2: TROLLEY RIDE -** hop on and off the FREE trolley and explore the lights around Downtown! Stops include Columbus Commons, the Scioto Mile Fountain, Lazarus Galleria and the Nationwide Children’s Hospital butterfly light show. **STOP 3: CITIZENS TRUST** (back to Gay Street) - **Miracle** is a Christmas-themed pop-up cocktail bar that serves holiday cocktails in the most festive and nostalgic setting in the city - [CITIZENS TRUST](https://www.thecitizenstrust.com/). Featuring wall-to-wall Christmas décor and a whole lot of Christmas-themed cocktails! *(note: Citizens Trust does not serve food, just cocktails)* **PARKING:** Metered street parking is available. There is also a public pay garage next to Citizens Trust (Metropolis). Late arrivals can park at Cols Commons garage on Rich street or underneath the Commons. **AFTER PARTY:** Lounge hop High St (Hank's) or move to the Short North for late night bites/drinks.

Join us for our December book club gathering where we will come together to discuss Espíritu by Aiden Thomas in a safe and welcoming environment. Make new friends who share your passion for books and connect with fellow LGBTQ book enthusiasts.

Let’s check out Smark Park the day before Thanksgiving. Smash Park has all day drink specials as well as half-price arcade games. If people are interested there is Friends trivia as well.

We’ll meet at Pins before the run, then group up based on pace so everyone has people to run with!

Join the Columbus AI community for our quarterly gathering — a casual, community-focused evening where everyone has a chance to share, learn, and connect. These open mic–style events give anyone in the community up to **5 minutes** to present a project, share a tool, pose a question, or offer a perspective on the evolving AI space. No slides required — just a welcoming space to exchange ideas and keep the local AI conversation moving. If you’d like to take the stage, message the organizer with a **title and short description** of what you’d like to share. Whether you’re deep in the field or just getting curious, come connect with others building and exploring AI in Columbus. Sponsored by [Transform Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/transformlabs/)

🍂 Join Soft Life Society for a special November gathering with Decadent Skin! We’re bringing women together for an opportunity to enjoy self-care, meaningful connections, and a beautiful experience this season. Come meet new friends, connect with other women, and enjoy an experience centered on community and taking time for yourself. ✨ SPECIAL GROUP DISCOUNT Use code SLS10 for 10% off eligible group tickets! 🎟️ Tickets are available through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/115583795331?aff=ebdsshios Please purchase your tickets through Eventbrite. RSVPing on Meetup does not include admission. We can’t wait to see you there! 🤎

Whether you've never done improv before, or you've done it for so long you were quoted in *Truth in Comedy*, or anywhere in between, come join us! Swing by *VHS Social Club* for the **Columbus Improv Comedy Meetup**! The idea behind improvised comedy is to create entire scenes from scratch. A suggestion is taken from the audience and laughter is built on the spot. This can be done in game form, like *Whose Line Is It Anyway, Make Some Noise,* or *Wild 'n Out*; it can also be done in a longer way, to tell a complicated story, like *TJ & Dave*. Our meetup, which is central Ohio's longest running (and FREE!) weekly comedy event, brings the games for you to play in a safe, supportive, and compassionate environment. Afterward, many members will hang out in *VHS Social Club* itself and get to know each other. Not only is this a lot of fun, but you get to work on thinking faster on your feet, your public speaking, plus it's an excellent way to meet new people and build relationships that will last a lifetime, and you do that while laughing your butt off! Ask yourself if you want to join the **Columbus Improv Comedy Meetup**, and say "*Yes, And*" that you'll have a blast!

Join us and work remotely together with like-minded UX folks. Kicking off the fall/winter with the classic [Junto](https://thejuntohotel.com/)! Plenty of seating is available. We will be sitting near the book wall out front of the coffee shop Maudine's on the right side of the lobby. I will be there 10-3. Feel free to come and go anytime during the day, and don't forget your laptop charger and headphones! There is parking on the street, at COSI, and behind the hotel for a small fee.

This event is a fun speed networking social where you will be paired off with another participant and each person is given a question. You'll be put in a "Zoom Room" where you can get to know the other person, find commonalities, and create valuable connections. Contact the organizer Angel Hicks at Angel@EvolveWomensNetwork.com for more information. [Join the Call](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://zoom.us/j/7894682064&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw127u1EMKvrsjTOPRaLUJ51)

▶ To attend, register on Member Hub — an RSVP here does NOT give you the Zoom link. Registration takes a moment, and the Zoom link is emailed to you and shown there: https://members.crossingpartylines.net/events/cmw5fr09b0024m3e7yq4w4wkg?src=meetup Are you ready for Thanksgiving? All the feasting, family and political talk? Join us to learn how to bring the Crossing Party Lines experience to your dinner table. We will: • Explore ways you can keep your conversations civil and respectful. • Work through a Turkey and Politics Cheat Sheet • Discuss random topics (whatever members choose) with a partner so you will be better prepared for talking politics with relatives who may hold views that are very different from your own. IMPORTANT: Before the workshop, please download and print the [workshop handouts. ](https://crossingpartylines.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/CPL_01_2020_Turkey_Day.pdf)Have the printouts and a pencil or pen handy at the workshop. We'll be using the documents and making notes during our workshop exercises. ABOUT CPL Workshops Get the training you need to effectively cross party lines. Crossing Party Lines provides a series of FREE classes teaching the skills we use to talk across differences. We teach proven, science-based techniques to foster curiosity, invite listening, and connect across differences. We designed these techniques based on recent discoveries in such fields as cognitive science, neurobiology, and evolutionary psychology. Because understanding the partisan brain is central to the work of Crossing Party Lines, our workshops cover both the skills and some of the basic science behind them. Please do your best to arrive at the beginning of the workshop – once we into the meat of the workshop, the meeting doors close to new arrivals. The breakout rooms open (and the doors close) approximately 15 minutes after the hour. We would love to hear your thoughts on our social media pages. Don't miss topic announcements, updates, news! Follow us on: • Instagram @crossingpartylines • Twitter @crosspartyline • Facebook @crossingpartylines

Agenda: * Everyone is encouraged to share investment insights. * The stocks that have served participants best. * IPOs in Ohio. * Investment tools. * What's coming? * Open forum on agenda topics. * Future Desired Subjects. The Dayton Microcomputer Association, Inc. (DMA) is a 50-year-old, 501c(3) Non-profit, All-volunteer, Social Service Organization, most commonly known as a Computer User Group. Founded in April 1976, the DMA is one of the oldest continuously meeting computer user groups in the world and is the oldest in Southern Ohio. The DMA's mission is to promote interest in and knowledge of all facets of computer technology, to encourage education in computing technologies, and to provide a medium for communication between individuals, product developers, and the public. The Dayton Microcomputer Association, Inc. (DMA) holds an online/in-person monthly General Meeting on the last Tuesday of each month (except in December) about various technology topics. For more information about the DMA, please visit our website--[http://www.dma1.org.](http://www.dma1.org./) Information about our Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings and events may also be found there. In addition to our Monthly General Meetings, many other DMA meetings are offered in a hybrid format. All DMA meetings are free and open to the public. There may be admission charges for some events in which the DMA volunteers participate, either as presenters or as guests. The Dayton Microcomputer Association, Inc. (DMA) is a member of The Association of Personal Computer User Groups, Inc. (APCUG), an International organization whose mission is to facilitate communication between computer user groups, the community, and the technology industry.

Join us (Katie/Lilli) for some chill time with games on Ludio! we are fun I promise :D To join the event, go to: [https://www.ludio.gg/play/ladies-night](https://www.ludio.gg/play/ladies-night) and click “Join today’s hosted event”. We play many different party games, word games, drawing games, bluffing games, card games, and more. We pick a few games and teach you all the rules - we try to play a few different games each time. Think Codenames, Hearts/Spades, pictionary, taboo, Mafia, etc. - something for everyone! It’s totally fine to take breaks within the game night, join a bit late, or leave when you have to … all the games we play are short, easy, and chill! We advertise this event in multiple groups so RSVPs are not indicative of how many people will show up - we always get a good turnout! Requirements: * You will need a microphone to participate in the games, and a webcam is highly encouraged

Dear LCAA and Community Members, You are invited to the Licking County Apartment Association (LCAA) Whether you are a current or past member, a new investor, or a member of the community looking to meet some new faces, we invite you to join our meeting, network with local landlords and investors, and consider joining our group! Guests, friends and family are welcome! dinner at 6 Speaker starts at 6:30 We will have a Guest Speaker \~ 25 minutes Group Discussion \~ 25 minutes !!NEW LOCATION!! We will meet in person at True Core Federal Credit Union located at 215 Deo Drive., Newark Ohio. Please enter the door facing KOHL's. **Attend in person or contact us to attend via Zoom.** **Also check out our new website!** [www.lickingcountyapartmentassociation.org](http://www.lickingcountyapartmentassociation.org/) or our Facebook [Licking County Apartment Association | Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/501578698136310) (Your first 2 meetings are free before you have to pay dues. Check out website above for details.) Our group meets once per month and engages a different guest speaker at each meeting, followed by an invaluable discussion session about a variety of topics that pertain to the rental industry. Whether you are an established property owner or a novice investor, we encourage you to join one of our meetings to learn more about our group and membership opportunities. **Join Zoom Meeting** Licking County Apartment Association is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting [https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85388494753?pwd=MVdXOUhSbUMreGtQUWFtQklwaUFIdz09](https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85388494753?pwd=MVdXOUhSbUMreGtQUWFtQklwaUFIdz09) \-\-\- One tap mobile +13052241968,,7893060467#,,,,\*018506# US +13092053325,,7893060467#,,,,\*018506# US \-\-\- Dial by your location • +1 305 224 1968 US • +1 309 205 3325 US • +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) • +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) • +1 646 931 3860 US • +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) • +1 507 473 4847 US • +1 564 217 2000 US • +1 669 444 9171 US • +1 689 278 1000 US • +1 719 359 4580 US • +1 720 707 2699 US (Denver) • +1 253 205 0468 US • +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) • +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) • +1 360 209 5623 US • +1 386 347 5053 US Meeting ID: 789 306 0467 Passcode: 018506 Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kh0C9zevD [lickingcoapartmentassociation@gmail.com](http://mailto:lickingcoapartmentassociation@gmail.com/)

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Join us (Katie/Crystal) for some chill time with games on Ludio! we are fun I promise :D To join the event, go to: [https://www.ludio.gg/play/ladies-night](https://www.ludio.gg/play/ladies-night) and click “Join today’s hosted event”. During Paint and Sip we play drawing games like Pictionary while sipping on a beverage. It’s totally fine to take breaks within the game night, join a bit late, or leave when you have to … all the games we play are short, easy, and chill! We advertise this event in multiple groups so RSVPs are not indicative of how many people will show up - we always get a good turnout! Requirements: * You will need a microphone to participate in the games, and a webcam is highly encouraged