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We playtest all sorts of games - strategic, silly, creative, or whatever. Some games are almost done. Some are very early ideas. We test anything that will fit into 90 minutes. You don't need to bring a game - we always love to have new playtesters! Please let us know in the comments when you plan to arrive/leave and whether you are bringing a game or not. This helps us to plan the day better. The schedule is: 10am onwards - gathering, chatting 11am sharp - playing for 90 min ('slot 1') 12:30ish - break for food/chat 1pm sharp - playing for 90 min ('slot 2') 2:30ish - break for food/chat 3pm sharp - playing for 90 min ('slot 3') 4:30ish - finish up Often, we might hang around afterwards, to play some already-published games. We are strict on timings, so please try to arrive a few minutes before the session to limit disruption. You can just come for part of the day if you wish. The reason we have fixed timings for the 3 'slots' is to make it easier for folk to do so. Designers of all levels of experience are welcome! But if it's your first time, we ask that you don't bring a game and just spend some time learning how the group works. The group works based on reciprocation. If you expect to test your own game, make sure stay for long enough to play other games. As a general rule of thumb, you can expect to play one of your own games every third 90-minute session. So if you stay a whole day (3 sessions), you can expect to have one session to play your game(s). A good rule of thumb is that if you come all day, you will have one 90 minute session with two other playtesters in which to test your own games. It is sometimes possible to test games with more players. If your game requires 4 or more, please note that as standard you will be allocated half of a session (45 minutes). Pre-covid, we were getting unmanageable. As a result, we may have to limit attendees. This is a free-to-use venue, and we have to be mindful that other folk want to use the same space. Please note: This is an adults only event. We look forward to seeing you!

This month's tasting is a deep dive into 2 of the best Greek grape varieties, Assyrtiko and Agiorgitiko. You can see 4 of the wines we will taste in the photo. Assyrtiko originates from Santorini where it produces world-class wines from very old vines and we'll taste a couple of these. This grape variety is now grown all over Greece. and we'll taste 3 other Assyrtikos from Northern Greece and the island of Evia. The region of Nemea in the Peloponnese is one of Greece's 2 best red wine regions and the wines are made exclusively from the Agiorgitiko grape (roughly translated as St. George!). We'll taste 4 high quality examples from top producers in Nemea. Numbers will be limited to 12 people seated round one table, so almost a bottle of fine wine per person. During the tasting a selection of fine cheeses, pates, and other food will be served. **WAITLIST:** If the event is fully booked and you would like to join the ‘waitlist’, post a comment to let me know **REFUNDS:** The 'ticket price' for this event is £39 including £3 for paypal/meetup fees. If you cancel by Tuesday 19th latest AND there is someone on the waitlist who pays for your place you will get a refund of £36. **Please note that Meetup charge an additional fee to attendees on top of the price which the Organiser sets. This fee is paid direct to Meetup and is beyond our control.** Cheers, Christos

Location: Ark Walworth Academy Shorncliffe Rd, London SE1 5UJ There will be 24 hours cancellation policy. If you can't make it please update your RSVP 24 hours before the session. Anytime under 24 hours and you will be responsible for paying for the session. The session fee is £15 per 3 hours make a payment to: Monzo Personal account Alvin John Rompe Sort code: 04-00-04 acct number: 29786770

This a new walk, and is well worth doing, and is 6 miles approximately. We will meet at 11.00 am, for a hot drink at the cafe in Clifton Nurseries near Warwick Avenue Undeground Station. (This is a lovely Garden Centre and well worth visiting.} After our hot drink at 11.20 am, we will walk along The Regents Canal and to The Ice Wharf for a lunch {or bring our own}. With Camden Town Underground less than 10 minutes away. For those that would like to walk further, we can walk to Kings Cross and have a drink in The Parcel Yard in the station. £ 7 meetup fee required {please have the right change}. You will OK to wear trainers on this walk as it a concrete towpath. If you need any more info, please ring or text Paul on 07530 675739 {This is not a smart phone}

**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/48977 **Game Description:** Mixed height net ✅ Games to 15 ✅ 5:1 Rotation ✅ **Rules** 1️⃣Kick things off - 🤾🏻‍♂️Warm up and hitting lines. 2️⃣🏐Games (5:1 rotation)

***Overview:*** **Intimate Candle Lit: Mandala Painting, Meditation & Live HandPan Music** A 90-minute immersive experience of live handpan music, mindful mandala painting, and deep relaxation in an intimate candlelit setting with a take home mandala journal to continue the mindfulness practice at home. Check out our instagram page @zennmeditationart for more details. **🕯️ Step Into Stillness** Surrounded by soft candlelight, you’ll enter a calm, intimate space where sound, creativity, and mindfulness merge. At the centre, Amy Naylor an accomplished hand-pan performer creates a flowing, meditative soundscape. while you’ll quietly paint your own pre-drawn mandala on a premium round canvas—guided not by rules, but by rhythm and presence. Perfect for a quiet solo experience or bring a friend (or two.) **🎨 What You’ll Experience** * A live handpan sound journey designed to calm the nervous system * Your own pre-drawn mandala canvas (round format) + beautifully designed take travel mandala journal to continue your practice at home * Access to premium paints / markers * A candlelit, low-light environment for deep focus * Individual soft lighting for your personal painting space * A small, intimate group (max 15 participants) * Tea and Light Snacks **\*No experience needed—this is about process, not perfection.\*** **🧘 Why This Is Different** This isn’t a workshop. It’s not a class. It’s a meditative environment where: You slow down You disconnect from noise You reconnect with creativity The handpan acts as a live, evolving meditation, guiding your attention inward while your hands move intuitively. **📍 Location** SOMA YOGA, Wandsworth - Battersea rise A peaceful, tucked-away river side facing yoga studio designed for reflection and mindfulness. 👥 Who This Is For Creatives & non-creatives alike People seeking calm, mindfulness, or reset Couples / solo attendees Unique date night or reflective solo experience ⚠️ Important Notes Limited to 15 spots only All materials included Please arrive on time to preserve the atmosphere This is a quiet, mindful experience (minimal talking during session) See Photos from our previous event at the London Buddhist Center's Mandala Cafe

Every week is a badminton academy for improver/intermediate/advanced standard. I also run thirteen teams that play in leagues out of the academy. Unfortunately this class does not cater for beginners! Wanting people who wish to enjoy and improve with games and advice with a coach who has played county and national level badminton, and has also played for England. Just come along, bring a racket, very friendly atmosphere! Class from 7.30 - 9.30pm weekly, £14.00 per session or £35.00 for three sessions t be paid up front and must be used within six months, payable by cash only. I have coached players from beginner to international standard. Please message me with any questions. Thanks

A Rabble session is 1 hour of fun and social team games. Each game disguises high-intensity intervals within the rules, giving you an effective, all-body workout without even realising it. We play a bunch of different games at each session (like British Bulldog, Capture the Flag, Dodgeball, Frisbee and many more), and every class is different. Sessions are open to all, no matter your sporting ability. Each game is explained before we start, so there's no need to have played any of the games before. Come solo or bring friends! And stay at the end for the social part! Who knew getting fit could be this fun? **TO BOOK**: It's essential that you book onto sessions via our website, using the link below; due to restrictions on games and preparation times we cannot accept walk-ins, or late arrivals. [https://joinrabble.com/locations/london/](https://joinrabble.com/locations/london/) Use the code **FREEPLAY** to get your first game free! *** We play every: * Monday in Finsbury Park (19:00 - 20:00) * Tuesday in Shoreditch Park (19:00 - 20:00) * Wednesday in Elephant & Castle (19:00 - 20:00) * Saturday in Southwark Park (10:30 - 11:30) * Saturday in Finsbury Park (11:00 - 12:00) * Sunday in Clapham Common (12:00 - 13:00) We hope to see you playing soon! PS. We have a group of dedicated regulars, so numbers are usually much higher than Meetup might suggest. Book your place here: [https://joinrabble.com/locations/london/](https://joinrabble.com/locations/london/) **Love Rabble**

Come along to the Maxilla to enjoy a drumming workshop open to all levels, whether you're beginning or an advanced drummer, you can learn how to play the authentic afro brazilian rhythms with Marcos Santana all the way from Salvador de Bahia! £10 Any queries call Marcos on 07772 470198 As featured in Time Out's "1000 things to do in London for under £10"! http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/7/f/8/c/event_243632652.jpeg

This walk is much more than the fascinating history of Clapham itself its a walking tour taking us through the wonderful open space of Clapham Common, once considered south London’s Hampstead, where the rich and famous fled the crowded city. Where the grand victorian houses overlooked the open spaces and the air was crisp and clear, yet still only a short journey back the the smoke and poverty of London town. Your guide Barrie knows the area very well as this was where he went to senior school back in the early 1960’s . For four years he was told stories of the heroes of Clapham though much of it went in one ear and out of the other as other teen age pursuits seemed more important at the time. Researching for this walk therefore has been a reawakening for Barrie as he shares with us what he never really took in all those years ago So come with him to hear stories of ‘The Clapham Sect’ and Clapham's; victorian splendour but also how Clapham became “Claaam” and has become a cool and trendy place to live right up to this day This tour takes a little over two hours and costs £14 cash on the day Contact barrie for bookings and queries on 07860 911393

**Please make sure you get a ticket** **only RSVP won’t count**- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indian-professionals-in-london-ai-bootcamp-tickets-1988464324322 AI Bootcamp: Practical AI for Everyday Work A Hands-On Meetup Experience About This Session Whether you’re running a startup, leading a team, or looking to work smarter — this session shows you how to practically implement AI in your work. Real use cases, live demos, and hands-on building. No fluff, no theory overload. Duration: 3 Hours Format: Interactive + Hands-On Level: Beginner to Intermediate What We’ll Cover • What AI Actually Is — Cut through the hype. Understand what AI and automation can realistically do for your business or role today • AI Across Industries — Use cases from startups, operations, HR, finance, sales, marketing, and customer success • AI Automation in Practice — Where automation fits: workflows, lead handling, content pipelines, internal ops, and more • Live Demonstrations — Watch AI tackle real business problems — from generating SOPs to summarising data to drafting investor-ready content • Build Your Own Use Case — Map one challenge from your business or job to an AI solution and build your first working prompt or workflow • Group Sharing — Peer learning across founders, operators, and professionals from different industries • Safe & Smart AI Use — Governance, limitations, what needs human oversight, and how to build AI into your team responsibly • Your 30-Day Implementation Plan — Leave with a clear starting point: one use case, one tool, one action What You’ll Leave With • A mapped AI use case specific to your business or role • A working prompt or automation blueprint you built in the session • A 30-day plan to implement AI in one area of your work • Practical frameworks for evaluating AI tools and workflows • A network of founders and professionals building with AI Who Should Attend • Startup founders exploring how to use AI to scale without scaling headcount • Team leads and operators who want to automate repetitive processes • Professionals looking to use AI to do higher-quality work, faster • Anyone serious about moving from curious about AI to actually using it Bring your laptop. Come with one business problem in mind. Leave with a plan to solve it.

**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/45593 **Game Description:** Come and play in a 2 hour full court men’s basketball scrimmage 🏀 This is a lower-intermediate & above run so if you’re a beginner please don’t book to this session 🙌 **Directions:** 📍New City Fitness - Hoxton. Enter via Redvers Street 🚶‍♂️3 min walk from Hoxton overground station 🚿 Showers and changing rooms available **Rules** \- 3 teams of 5/6 \(1 sub per team\) \- Games first to 7 points \(1s/2s\) or 7 minute clock \- Max 3 games in a row \- Call your own fouls\, be honest and respect the call\. Shoot for it if there is a disagreement\.

**BOOK HERE**: https://sportas.co.uk/games/47960 **Game Description:** We are back after a long summer of refurbishment at the New City College for some more Basketball😎🏀🎊🥳 Come and play in a 2 hour full court mixed level basketball scrimmage 🏀 All abilities all gender are welcomed. Please check out a video from my previous session to have a rough idea of level of play below. https://youtu.be/DfLOW5N8DM8?si=HC50JEJjxPcJPCEM Video of the session will be posted on YouTube Join my WhatsApp group for future updates and join the community of 600+ ballers below. https://chat.whatsapp.com/EtHAq8ycmea9EwtvgTsQPo **Directions:** 📍New City Fitness - Hoxton. Enter via Redvers Street 🚶‍♂️3 min walk from Hoxton overground station 🚿 Showers and changing rooms available **Rules** \- Maximum 3 teams of 6 \(1 sub per team\) \- 4 minute clock\. Winning team earn 2 pts\, losing team got zero\. Tied game will see each team awarded 1 point\. \- Max 2 games in a row \- Call your own fouls\, be honest and respect the call\. Shoot for it if there is a disagreement\. \- The team with the most points will play in the finals\. \- 2nd seed will face 3rd seed team in a knock out style “Play in” game\. 2nd seed will have an advantage against 3rd seed so every win matters in the group stage\. \- two 4 mins final games\, 1st seed to start the ball with the game\. \- if after two games there is a 1:1 tie\, we play the last game\- the final game\. I will explain the rule should we reach this ultimate stage 😎

**Please read the whole description before signing up.** TF Clapham is a friendly environment of people looking to play casual, free football. We welcome all genders, ages(over 18), skill levels etc.. It doesn't matter if you are semi-pro or have never played a day in your life, everyone is welcome. WhatsApp group chats are where we share locations. When you sign up for your first game, an Organiser will sent you a message with links to the WhatsApp chats. The day before the game, please make sure you check meetup and join the chat. **PLEASE READ:** Terrible Football always has a wait list for Clapham. We have a lot of regulars who have been enjoying our group for years. If you sign up and can not make it, you must drop out by 9pm Saturday. If you drop out later you will be taken off any games you sign up to play the next week. If you cannot make it but are on the waitlist, please drop out before midnight aswell. If you are put through to play and dont show up, the same rule applies. We are strict on these rules as we like the games as even as possible, plus someone else could have made it off the wait list! We usually play between the skate park and band stand. **Set up**: Clapham Sunday is set us as one pitch, 11 aside game. We try to make the teams as evenly as possible skills wise and play a full 90 minute game. **GAME RULES:** 1. Rotate keeper every 10 minutes. Everyone must go in 2. No slide tackles. 1 warning only. This is due to it being casual and varied in skill level. 3. Be inclusive. Pass to everyone and be positive. Anyone who says anything rude to another player will be warned once and then asked to leave. We recommend you wear plastic studs(metal are not allowed) or AstroTurf boots. Shin pads are optional but most people don't wear them. We have colour bibs so please wear what you want in those regards.

Join other experienced and aspiring agile coaches and professionals to: * develop and practice your coaching skills in a peer-to-peer environment * share current successes and challenges in your work environment and get support from each other * learn together, build better relationships and experiment with new ideas

Most people use AI like a search box: they type one sentence, hope for the best, and get frustrated when the answer is generic, wrong, or useless. But getting better results from tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI systems is not about memorizing magic prompts. It is about learning how to give the AI better context. In this beginner-friendly session, we’ll break down how to make AI dramatically more useful by improving the way you communicate with it. You’ll learn how to give clearer instructions, provide examples, set constraints, ask for better output formats, and use follow-up questions to turn a mediocre answer into a genuinely useful one. We’ll cover practical techniques you can use immediately for work, learning, writing, coding, planning, research, and everyday problem solving. We’ll also touch on why these same ideas show up in more advanced AI systems, including RAG, agents, evaluations, and AI workflows. No technical background required. Bring your curiosity, your questions, and maybe one real task you wish AI was better at helping you with. **What you’ll learn:** * Why “better prompting” is really about better context * How to structure requests so AI gives more useful answers * How to use examples, constraints, and output formats * How to iterate when the first answer is not good enough * How these skills connect to more advanced AI workflows This meetup is for anyone who wants to move beyond basic ChatGPT usage and start getting more practical value out of AI. LOGISTICS AND PARKING: The talk starts at 7:00 PM. The first half hour is reserved for everyone to get set up and mingle. Free pizza and drinks! The cheapest parking option is to find street parking, which will only cost you a few bucks. Otherwise, park in the nearby veteran's museum lot for $8. It's highly recommended you avoid the nearby $15 garage parking.

**Important time note:** Please plan on arriving between 5:30 and 6:00 as the elevators lock after 6 and you'll need to message us and we'll need to come get you. The building address is 4450 Bridge Park The entrance is 6620 Mooney St, Suite 400 You will need to scan your ID at the door to get a visitor badge. **Abstract** Like it or not, AI agents are now capable of turning a quickly written paragraph of requirements into a pull request that is ready to be integrated into real-world production applications and it's now our responsibility to make sure AI doesn't go rogue and take down prod - or corrupt our data by misunderstanding the requirements or our existing schemas. In this session we'll explore strategies to protect our codebases through unit and integration testing, documentation, and code review along with additional ways of providing context and guard rails to our AI agents as they carry out the work we've assigned them to do. By the time we're done, you'll have a firm grasp of the problem and understand some helpful options for protecting your codebase from vibe coding mishaps getting YOLOed into prod. **YouTube Link** TBD

PLEASE NOTE!!! This event will be In-Person for our very 1st Improving collab! If you know the [Columbus Unity group](https://www.meetup.com/columbus-unity-user-group/) location, we'll be at the same place. This is our 1st event and are doing a soft launch with limited attendance. 1st come 1st serve. If you want to be there and we fill up, please email me at [info@thecogg.com](mailto:info@thecogg.com) and I'll be in touch. All street parking is free on Sundays but you can also pay to park in any of the local garages. See image of [parking map here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mr9_LFIggbs-0_Zd3AJTGNqEhgMf2TzQ/view?usp=sharing). \-\-\- On the last Sunday of the month, we're having our usual end-of-the-month social gathering with our GameDev Meetup meeting. There will be announcements and presentations followed by some social networking Let's continue the conversations with good vibes and friends. All are welcomed from all ages and backgrounds to this public event. If we can, we'll be streaming or uploading the video later via our COGG YouTube channel here: [https://www.youtube.com/@TheCOGG/streams](https://www.youtube.com/@TheCOGG/streams) (Also please do subscribe if you have not done so!) No game development experience required! If you are interested in doing a 20 minute game development related presentation, please fill out our form online here: [https://goo.gl/forms/lVdTJZiNJewlPJuj1](https://goo.gl/forms/lVdTJZiNJewlPJuj1) Or e-mail us at info@thecogg.com with the following: Your Name, Company/Affiliation, Name of Your Game/Topic, Description, Tech Needs, and Your Contact. Be sure to check out our Discord for real time news updates: [https://discord.gg/NrBhuNQ](https://discord.gg/NrBhuNQ)

Join us for Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn! Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the unsolved murder of a preteen girl and the disappearance of another. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story-and survive this homecoming.

Christians in Tech is a community at the intersection of faith and technology. Our meetups are designed to spark meaningful conversations, promote knowledge sharing, and encourage growth—both in your career and your spiritual walk with God. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting your tech journey, CIT welcomes you. Our Website [https://linktr.ee/citcbus](https://linktr.ee/citcbus) Sponsors and Partners * Improving (Venue Sponsor) * Bethel World Prayer Center (Fiscal Sponsor) * Fruits & Roots (Coffee Partner)

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