About us
Are you thinking of making friends and extend your social circle by going volunteering, learning things, or doing good together? You are looking at the right place.
If you dig deeper, you will find us actually a social org :). For volunteers, community builders and working professionals.
The things we do are very simple, meaningful things in beautiful settings, so connections happen naturally, from shared purpose and experience.
Friendship through civic engagements and shared learnings. That is us - an aspiring volunteer community that runs events.
Send us your new in towns, the young professionals, the transplants, the job seekers, the singles, all those that could use new connections.
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We believe in people's self determination, we also believe in community builders' group collective power, as well as volunteers' active engagement in changing the social context.
We root our activities in local community events, we cooperate with orgs, businesses and individuals that are doing good. We provide social ladder roles that people can try, stages they shine on, resolving their social needs, also bringing others along.
We participate local community events, as attendees, as volunteers, civic, outdoor, professional or more. We organize local regional social infra walks, so to receive people incoming, so they can launch their social life again.
We build up connections, and belongings. We believe all good deeds should be rewarded, in relationship, if not in finance. We believe in stateful social, thus relationship compounds, thus community.
We started as festival volunteers wanting social, and expanded to organizing social in community events, our current mission is to be the receiving end of local community social. We believe people & social skills can be picked up, as we did. So no charisma required to participate, help yourself, then others. A warm heart, a willingness to try will do. Come to meet your fellow community builders.
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And our goal? A gateway to local community social, a connection layer to community events, a student activity center for post-college life, a social engine for connections, a town square for working professionals, a community builders' shared space. Oh, have we mentioned some salt? :)
Build with us, then socials would follow.
At the end of day, we want to show up a human face that greets you -- "Welcome here."
So, Welcome aboard :)
Visit us at: https://www.townflame.org
Upcoming events
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Golden Hour over Sunnyvale: Bay Trail Walk, Dune Sunset, Downtown Tour
Sunnyvale Bay Trail, 327 W Caribbean Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, Sunnyvale, CA, USFriday evening, another weekend. Looking for something to do, and group intelligent discussion over the downtown open air dinner table? Follow us to event 3 of our mini Golden Hour cohort series, Sunnyvale visit.
Our first event visited downtown Mountain View for the city civic scene, our 2nd event is to visit Stanford for campus view, the 3rd is for natural scene in Sunnyvale. The purpose of this series is to give people the chance to see each other in different contexts, add understanding to each other, and possibly form mini cohort to do things together, in civic engagements, as participants, or as hosts.
The dune on the bay side, by the Park Run Sunnyvale site, is possibly the highest point in Sunnyvale, beyond buildings. It has wooden stairs all the way to the top, a great place to spend the golden hours.
The golden hour has the magic of light, possibly the best time to take photos. People open up, always colors to marvel, to remember.
The plan:
Location: Sunnyvale Bay Trail ParkRun
1. 6pm Meet at Park Run bay trail, under the foot of the wooden stair.
2. 6:15pm Walk along bay trail toward the west.
3. 7:15pm Back and climb up the dune, watch the day turn into night.
4. 7:45pm Leave for downtown.
5. 8pm Tour downtown Murphy street, find a place for group dinner. Optional.You may have heard that we are growing our team. So if you like leading such walks, a temporary break from our daily life, or sharing with others the beautiful natural or civc places in your city, talk with us. Let's be teammates :)
Collecting Panel Talk ideas and proposals. Plus, we are also collecting ideas for panel talks and proposals, for a panel talk discussion format we are going to host soon, for people to exchange thinkings in addition to social.
Parking: Street parking along the Caribbean drive.
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.
38 attendees
Journey of Arts - from Stanford Cantor Center to downtown Festival, Palo Alto
Cantor Center of the Arts, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA, USThis is a journey of Arts, from a tour of the Cantor Center of Arts located on the beautiful Stanford Campus, to the Festival of the Arts at historic downtown Palo Alto.
Are you new in town or transplants, want to explore more of the local scene? Are you young or single professionals, expect to meet more people? Or you are simply thinking of switching career/jobs, want to know some others that are working in the field you are interested. Welcome to attend TownFlame's another community engagement social event.
Summer welcomes another new crop of graduates in town. And Palo Alto happens to have its Festival of Arts around late August. So we are holding this community social events, helping people to meet each other, over local community gatherings.
For this one, we are going to borrow the Road To format we formulated in SF festivals, by having people walking side by side, chat with each other, while visiting some place of interest, in this case, the beautiful campus of Stanford. So when people actually get to the festival, they are already connected, not strangers any more.
Stanford happens to have free tour of its Cantor Arts Center on Saturdays at 1pm, and we are going to take advantage of that, attend the tour together and then go to the festival at downtown.
https://events.stanford.edu/event/copy-of-public-tour-cantor-highlights-1-pm-4356So come to see Arts, see people, see Stanford & Palo Alto downtown, and meet some new faces.
Schedule:
Location: 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA 94305
11:45am Meet in Cantor center of Arts Cafe
12:15pm Walk around the Oval and the Quad area
12:45pm Back to Center of Art
1pm Guided tour of Cantor Center of Arts
2pm Palo Alto downtown group lunch
Then form into groups, and visit the festival together.The festival of arts in Palo Alto is attended by 60k people every year. It is a nice time to stroll down university ave..
Parking usually is free during the weekend on the Stanford Campus, except residential lots.
Plus, we are expanding our team, if you would like to know more people while working in teams to help people get connected, in our programs like Golden Hour walk, Discover SF etc., let us know.
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.
55 attendees
TownFlame Reunion -- Ferry trip to Angel Island
Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA, USReturning alumni only — this is intentionally capped as a reunion for people who have joined our previous events.
-----------------------------From our first SF event -- Pillow Fight in Embarcadero on Valentine's Day, it has been half a year already.
We have been growing from a small meetup of about 200 people to current size, we have walked many cultural parades and festivals, and volunteered in many of them, left our footprints across town, from Chinese New Year to Carnaval, from Embarcadero to Stern Grove.
For the coming next half year, we expect to start more localized regular programs, the Golden Hour walks, the Volunteer Parties, and at least one more format we are experimenting, and cross region activities as well. So people can meet each other more often, from different angles of life, familiarity and shared purpose birth relations.
So does our team, we expect to expand, on top of our current volunteer base. We have seen a lot of warm hearted people from our events, so we plan to grow our team, have more people involved, and do a builders' social internally. This is supposed to be a more intense and tighter version of the participant social we are having now. More regular gatherings, doing things together, team retreats etc, out of shared mission, on top of already established connections.
Time to reconnect again, pick up the topics you left in the group outing last time, refresh some familiar faces, and make some new plans. Peek over the event and time lane, find new opportunities. This is your chance, on the beautiful Angel Island, in the center of the bay.
So the reunion would be done via a ferry trip to Angel Island, from the Ferry Building, on the last Sat of this month, right before the Labor Day long weekend.
More details will be sent to our WhatsApp group. This is supposed to be a closed event, for our returning alumni and their friends only. We will mostly do a Partiful invite. If you are not in the WhatsApp group, let us know. We will update you.
Location: Ferry Building, Gate B
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.
11 attendees
Celebrate San Jose: Silicon Valley Pride Parade & Festival
Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park, San Jose, CA, USInfo Post for Silicon Valley Pride 2026, to be held in San Jose, with Sat night and Sun festival, and Sun morning parade on Aug 30th.
https://www.svpride.com/The festival:
- Location: Plaza Park, Downtown San Jose (Google Maps)
- Night Festival: Saturday, August 29, 2026 | 6 PM to 11 PM
- Parade: Sunday, August 30, 2026 | 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
(Downtown San Jose – Julian Street & Market Street, to Plaza de César Chávez Park) - Day Festival: Sunday, August 30, 2026 | 12 PM to 6 PM
Different from SF Pride, the festival at San Jose is a paid entry, so you need to buy a ticket to see the shows.
Volunteer Sign Up:
https://turnoutinc.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/?id=116685
It comes with free entry to the festival, T-shirt, lunch etc..It has a solid parade volunteer program, the festival volunteering part, you need to read the description, depending on what kind of shifts you like.
We are checking interest in the event, may organize one if enough people interested.
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.
3 attendees
Past events
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