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Harbour After Dark

Harbour After Dark

Fri, Jul 3, 8:30 AM
From Sydney's Social Connections
4.6

# **Harbour After Dark 🌆** ### **Where meaningful conversations, genuine connection, and new friendships begin.** Step into a different kind of Friday night. Set in the heart of Darling Square at Novotel Sydney DARLING SQUARE, Harbour After Dark brings together professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners, creatives, and people who are intentional about how they live, the people they surround themselves with, and the kind of conversations they enjoy. In a world of Zoom calls, remote work, endless scrolling, and busy schedules, many of us are craving something more human again. A chance to step away from the screens. To unwind after the week. To meet new people naturally. To have conversations that feel easy, real, and energising. Over the past few years, Harbour After Dark has grown into a well-established social gathering where people come to expand their social circles, reconnect with familiar faces, and meet new people in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere. Many of our guests have been coming for years and often bring friends along, while new faces are always joining, making it easy to feel welcome whether it’s your first evening or your tenth. My goal has always been to create a room where people can genuinely relax, connect, and enjoy being around good people. Every change I’m making is with that experience in mind. ## **📌 Before you attend** To help us create the best possible experience, there are now two simple steps to attending: ✅ Mark yourself as ATTENDING on Meetup: https://meetup.com/sydney-socialconnections?member_id=150220512 ✅ Complete the registration form: https://forms.gle/2xWtk83zu3PSdM8n8 Knowing numbers in advance allows us to prepare the room, create the right atmosphere, and ensure everyone can be comfortably accommodated. Places are limited, so I encourage you to register early. If your plans change after registering, I’d really appreciate you letting me know by emailing info@aimforthestars.net.au so we can manage numbers and offer your place to another guest if needed. ## **✨ A dedicated space for Harbour After Dark** From July onwards, Harbour After Dark has its own dedicated private room inside Novotel Sydney DARLING SQUARE. Having our own space allows us to create a more intimate atmosphere, enjoy conversations without competing with loud music, and provide a more consistent experience for everyone. ### **Finding us is easy** Enter through the main entrance of Novotel Sydney DARLING SQUARE. • Reception is on your left. • The bar is on your right. • Walk past the bar and you’ll find our private Harbour After Dark room in the breakfast lounge area. If you’re unsure where to go, simply ask one of the hotel staff for Harbour After Dark, and they’ll happily point you in the right direction. **⚠️ Please note:** There are multiple Novotel hotels in the Darling Harbour precinct. Our event is held at Novotel Sydney DARLING SQUARE, not Novotel Sydney Darling Harbour**.** ## **✨ Dress code** Elegant smart casual. We encourage guests to make an effort with their appearance, as it helps create the warm, welcoming, and elevated atmosphere Harbour After Dark is known for. Please avoid activewear, gym clothing, shorts, thongs, and overly casual attire. 🍸 Drinks, cocktails, food, tea, coffee, and light meals are available for purchase throughout the evening. **📅 Friday, 3 July** **⏰ 6:30pm – 9:30pm** **📍 Novotel Sydney DARLING SQUARE** **17 Little Pier St, Darling Square NSW 2000** ## **🚆 Getting there** **•** Exhibition Centre Light Rail – approximately 3 minutes walk • Paddy’s Markets Light Rail – approximately 5 minutes walk • Central Station – approximately 12–15 minutes walk • Town Hall Station – approximately 15 minutes walk ## **🅿️ Parking nearby** • First Parking Darling Square – approximately 2 minutes walk • Secure Parking Darling Quarter – approximately 5 minutes walk • Wilson Parking Darling Square – approximately 5 minutes walk • ICC Sydney Car Park – approximately 8 minutes walk ## **Our Standards** Harbour After Dark is built on kindness, respect, and genuine conversation. We ask every guest to contribute to the warm, welcoming atmosphere that makes these evenings so enjoyable.

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Workshop: Super Smash Bros bot tournament

Workshop: Super Smash Bros bot tournament

Sat, Jul 11, 12:15 AM
From Code for Sydney
4.7

This month we are running a workshop into creating bots for the computer game Super Smash Bros Melee. We can then face our bots off against each other in a kockout tournament to see who has built the ultimate agentic fighter! The framework we will be using is based off of the Dolphin Nintendo 64 emulator and the Libmelee Python library. Feel free to clone and start playing with it now, or we will be running through installing the dependencies and getting up to speed on the day. https://github.com/Code-for-Sydney/smash-for-sydney What will you do? \- hand craft a bot to use Jigglypuff's powers to her full potential? \- write a bot that randomly smashes buttons? \- port the SmashBot code over to this framework? \- get an LLM to write a bot from your natural language instructions? PR's to improve the framework are also very welcome as it is is very bare bones right now. Also please do join the discussion on Discord [https://discord.gg/wPmp25Xnm5](https://discord.gg/wPmp25Xnm5) Code for Sydney is a collaborative coding club where tech meets real-world impact. We gather to solve meaningful problems, experiment with code and explore the possibilities of AI. Join us to learn, build and connect with Sydney's tech community! Networking with fellow software engineers, designers and student/s welcome! If anyone would like to present a quick talk or propose a project idea, do talk to us! By attending this event, you consent that you may be photographed and recorded on video. These photos and videos may be used for marketing and promotional purposes in the future. If you have any concerns please let the team know upon arrival.

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Harbour After Dark

Harbour After Dark

Fri, Jul 3, 8:30 AM
From Sydney's Friends and Connections Events Group!
4.7

**Harbour After Dark 🌆** **Where meaningful conversations, genuine connection, and new friendships begin.** Step into a different kind of Friday night. Set in the heart of Darling Square at Novotel Sydney DARLING SQUARE, Harbour After Dark brings together professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners, creatives, and people who are intentional about how they live, the people they surround themselves with, and the kind of conversations they enjoy. In a world of Zoom calls, remote work, endless scrolling, and busy schedules, many of us are craving something more human again. A chance to step away from the screens. To unwind after the week. To meet new people naturally. To have conversations that feel easy, real, and energising. Over the past few years, Harbour After Dark has grown into a well-established social gathering where people come to expand their social circles, reconnect with familiar faces, and meet new people in a relaxed, welcoming atmosphere. Many of our guests have been coming for years and often bring friends along, while new faces are always joining, making it easy to feel welcome whether it’s your first evening or your tenth. My goal has always been to create a room where people can genuinely relax, connect, and enjoy being around good people. Every change I’m making is with that experience in mind. **📌 Before you attend** To help us create the best possible experience, there are now two simple steps to attending: ✅ Mark yourself as ATTENDING on Meetup: [https://meetup.com/sydney-socialconnections?member_id=150220512](https://meetup.com/sydney-socialconnections?member_id=150220512) ✅ Complete the registration form: [https://forms.gle/2xWtk83zu3PSdM8n8](https://forms.gle/2xWtk83zu3PSdM8n8) Knowing numbers in advance allows us to prepare the room, create the right atmosphere, and ensure everyone can be comfortably accommodated. Places are limited, so I encourage you to register early. If your plans change after registering, I’d really appreciate you letting me know by emailing [info@aimforthestars.net.au](mailto:info@aimforthestars.net.au) so we can manage numbers and offer your place to another guest if needed. **✨ A dedicated space for Harbour After Dark** From July onwards, Harbour After Dark has its own dedicated private room inside Novotel Sydney DARLING SQUARE. Having our own space allows us to create a more intimate atmosphere, enjoy conversations without competing with loud music, and provide a more consistent experience for everyone. **Finding us is easy** Enter through the main entrance of Novotel Sydney DARLING SQUARE. • Reception is on your left. • The bar is on your right. • Walk past the bar and you’ll find our private Harbour After Dark room in the breakfast lounge area. If you’re unsure where to go, simply ask one of the hotel staff for Harbour After Dark, and they’ll happily point you in the right direction. **⚠️ Please note:** There are multiple Novotel hotels in the Darling Harbour precinct. Our event is held at Novotel Sydney DARLING SQUARE, not Novotel Sydney Darling Harbour\*\*.\*\* **✨ Dress code** Elegant smart casual. We encourage guests to make an effort with their appearance, as it helps create the warm, welcoming, and elevated atmosphere Harbour After Dark is known for. Please avoid activewear, gym clothing, shorts, thongs, and overly casual attire. 🍸 Drinks, cocktails, food, tea, coffee, and light meals are available for purchase throughout the evening. **📅 Friday, 3 July** **⏰ 6:30pm – 9:30pm** **📍 Novotel Sydney DARLING SQUARE** **17 Little Pier St, Darling Square NSW 2000** **🚆 Getting there** **•** Exhibition Centre Light Rail – approximately 3 minutes walk • Paddy’s Markets Light Rail – approximately 5 minutes walk • Central Station – approximately 12–15 minutes walk • Town Hall Station – approximately 15 minutes walk **🅿️ Parking nearby** • First Parking Darling Square – approximately 2 minutes walk • Secure Parking Darling Quarter – approximately 5 minutes walk • Wilson Parking Darling Square – approximately 5 minutes walk • ICC Sydney Car Park – approximately 8 minutes walk **Our Standards** Harbour After Dark is built on kindness, respect, and genuine conversation. We ask every guest to contribute to the warm, welcoming atmosphere that makes these evenings so enjoyable.

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Heal your body with Fascial Maneuvers

Heal your body with Fascial Maneuvers

Fri, Jul 10, 12:00 AM
From Heal your body with Fascial Maneuvers

Learn these wonderful maneuvers to relieve tension, reduce pain and stiffness in a 3 hour workshop. Email eveolutionbalmain@gmail.com for full details of the event. Wear comfortable clothes for movement, a mat if you have one and water.

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Human hearted community of practice (COP)

Human hearted community of practice (COP)

Sun, Jul 12, 1:00 AM
From Human Hearted Sydney
4.7

**Event summary:** The monthly human hearted community of practice (COP) is both a support group, and a mutual encouragement group, for people who want to explore living a more human hearted life. The COP is part of Human Hearted Sydney's goal of building community. Please feel free to join us for a session if you're interested. **Who is the COP for ?** The COP is for people who dislike the alienation and emptiness of our modern finance driven society, and are looking for a new form of community - one based on the reality of our human social capacities such as sympathy and friendship, rather than based on returning to religion and other traditional practices. If you would like to be part of building a supportive community for living out socially positive values in today’s world we encourage you to come along and check it out. **Some background: The meaning problem modern society faces -** The development of modern society has seen the destruction of earlier systems of meaning, like religion and tradition. They have not been replaced by a new set of ethics or community, but by market values and hyper individualism. This has created a world of material wealth in which far too many people feel insecure, alone, and unlikely to succeed. We now live in an atomised society in which each person suffers alone and there is no form of community, or meaning other than material wealth, to sustain them. This has led to substantial increases in loneliness and mental health issues like anxiety in modern society. Now there is even a category called ‘[deaths of despair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair#:~:text=The%20three%20disease%20types%20are,%2C%20West%20Virginia%2C%20and%20Delaware.)’ that refers to people whose reliance on drugs, alcohol etc. to numb their isolation from society leads to their early death. **More background: The solution we will look at -** The obvious solution to the collapse of values in modern society is to build alternative forms of community. Many groups try to achieve this by calling for a return to religious values, or building new religions. As humanists we do not turn to religion but the best of the human potential to provide a foundation for community groups. [Human heartedness](https://web.archive.org/web/20240109160949/https://areomagazine.com/2022/05/05/a-human-hearted-modernity/) is an approach to life which sees humans as inherently social beings. It is backed both by many famous thinkers of the past, and by the findings of recent neuroscience and evolutionary studies which show the path to human happiness and fulfillment is more dependent on building good relationships and positive social connection than on competition and being purely ‘rational’. So one part of the solution to the existential emptiness of modernity is for people to build small communities; groups of like minded people who want to live in a more human hearted way, and support each other to live better in the face of modernity’s onslaught. There are other parts of the solution of course. However in relation to this event our focus is on setting up a COP to support each other to practice living in a more human hearted way, and to provide communal support generally in today’s disenchanted world. **Basic structure of this meeting:** The meeting will be facilitated by a member of the Sydney humanist community and will involve a brief talk explaining human heartedness and the problems of modernity. Then we will proceed to conduct our regular COP meeting. The meeting will finish with a Q/A and discussion period, followed by a lunch and more informal discussion. **Donations:** While this event is free, we would be grateful if you chose to make a [donation](https://www.humanistsaustralia.org/donate) to sustain Humanists Australia which would help it to continue delivering events that serve the community in Sydney. **Please note Date Time and Venue:** In July 2026 the meeting will be held on the second Sunday of the month (July 12th) at 11:00AM. The venue is level one of Darling Square Library. The room we'll be in is called Idea Space 2 **Directions:** The venue is a ten minute walk from both Town Hall and Central station. The Darling Square Library is part of a hive-shaped building called The Exchange. The Idea Spaces are on level one of The Darling Square Library which is accessible via elevators facing towards Darling Square and stairs which are on the other side of the building. Please ask the library staff if you need assistance finding where we are in the library.

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OVERCOMING ANXIETY - Free Coaching Session

OVERCOMING ANXIETY - Free Coaching Session

Mon, Jul 13, 9:00 AM
From MOTIVATECommunity Sydney Personal & Professional Development
5.0

**This is 1:1 call. After RSVP, someone from our team will contact you and send you calendly link for scheduling meeting** This is a free coaching session as a part of our promotional activity, created for individuals who are experiencing anxiety and want to regain a sense of inner balance and control 🌿 In this session, we will explore what anxiety means for you - what triggers it, how it shows up in your thoughts and body, and what keeps it active. You will be guided through a supportive conversation that helps you understand your inner processes more clearly, without judgment or pressure 🤝 The focus is not only on awareness, but also on practical steps. You will learn simple and effective techniques that can help you calm your mind, reduce tension, and respond differently in challenging moments. We will also look at how your patterns of thinking and emotional responses influence your experience, and how small shifts can create meaningful change over time 🔄 This is a safe space where you can openly share, feel heard, and begin building a more stable, grounded, and confident version of yourself 💬

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