People enjoying horror movies is proof they will enjoy ‘horror events’
Would you enjoy this one?
Many horror events are possible, like Intentionally Awkward Flirting
Party where avoiding eye contact = JAIL
The purpose is like that of horror movies: to feel (pain).
Truly a reliable way to get interesting people together!
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Events in the last year
No talking party:
Ugly dance party:
wrote a whole post about how this event was planned here.
Authentic relating without the authentic relating junkies:
The first intentionally awkward soirée:
Preparation for the eye contact party: How do you make everyone genuinely comfortable making 100% (unbroken!) eye contact?
wrote a whole post about the eye contact events here.
wrote a whole post about the dog massage event here.
(Incomplete list.)
Effects
Others have copied these events, run series of their own, and even found love.
~1500 hours of my events have been experienced.
Other events were inspired in San Francisco (Socratic Society), New York City, Toronto, Oxford, London, and probably elsewhere.
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Pitch me on an event
I can run arbitrarily niche events and have interesting people show up. Pitch me on an event, I can get you people and a space in SF. Tell me what you want to run, what its structure will be, and why you want to run it: chris@chrislakin.com
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Shailen, Archana, Barak, Skye, Alyosha, Shaul, Leo, Maeby, Hattie, Gytis, Asuka, Luke, Max, Pranab, Jinny, Adam, Myles, Elena, Lika, Georgia, Doug, Lulu, Shiki, Stag, Ethan, Kipply, Kishan, Space, Soryu, The SF Commons, Banu, Jason, and more for helping make these events awesome.
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@ChrisChipMonk. What I’m doing now: chrislakin.com/now