Meet and mingle with fellow "gothic and lolitas" of the growing fashion movement and culture. From the Classic lolita to the ever-popular Gothic lolita style and the eye-catching Sweet lolita, all Lolitas are welcome! If you are wanting to try the style out come to one of our meets ups and meet some other newbies and the local veterans. The Lolita style began in the 1970's with brands such as Milk and Pink House making outfits that resembled Canada's Anne of Green Gables (which is widely loved i …

Do you always have to catch the latest scare flick alone because your friends think you are insane to watch this stuff? Do you get strange looks when you start to rave about '2001' or 'House of 1000 corpses'? Are you counting the days until 'The Hobbit' will be finally released? This is your group :) (... and if your friends don't think you're insane please bring them along ... ) We are a bunch of friendly people with an offbeat taste in films, with emphasis on Horror, SciFi and Fantasy. I h …

Join us for discussions on an eclectic mix of fiction and non-fiction books. We meet once a month - usually the evening of the third Thursday - at a member's home mid-Peninsula. The book for each month is chosen by a mixture of voting and consensus. Our discussions include both the book itself and the issues it raises. They are lively, informal, and respectful of everyone's view. Here are some books that we recently read: - "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley - "The Haunting of Hill House" by Sh …

Party with Travelers, International Students, Au Pairs & Locals in San Francisco! FREE membership, just join us for some fun! This group is for people who are either living or traveling in the SF Bay area and are looking to have some fun in the city! Come socialize with us and meet other locals, students, au pairs and travelers from around the world! When you attend an event, often you'll feel like you've just landed in Europe, Australia or South America without even leaving the city.  We head …

Love to sing?  What's stopping you? The Organic Women's Chorus is ready to help you start again. We are an informal and welcoming group of women who love singing together in community.  Our weekly meetings are part singing, part support group, part family reunion, and another part singing! The Organic Women's Chorus started in April, 2009 with a group of women who met at Women Making Music camp (more info at www.womamu.org) and wanted to sing together more regularly and locally. We sing a variet …

Join fellow Reiki practitioners and animal lovers for group healing sessions for animals in need. Together we will create a warm, sensitive, powerful and supportive environment to offer on-site and distant healing to rescued animals and causes that alleviate animal suffering. This group is for emotionally healthy healers to come together in a quiet and safe environment to offer love and healing to animals in need. Many of the animals have been neglected, traumatized or are grieving, and they d …

Who: Anyone who wants to create a real “Cashmere Mafia” or circle of friends as close as Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda. (and who is tired of making only superficial connections via meetup) You may be new to town and maybe wanting to make new set of friends or maybe you’ve been here for a while but never had the time or made the effort to do so. What this group will be about: About having a good time and establishing solid relationships. As females, it generally may seem much easier …

This is a meetup group where music fans can meet and get together with other like-minded music lovers. Any member can suggest concerts to go to, and it 3 or more members indicate that they're interested, it becomes an official meetup. Note that the organizer (Joe) does not coordinate every meetup - the members do it for the shows they're interested in. Join, suggest some upcoming shows you'd like to see, and have fun. Some bands we like: Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Arctic Mon …

DJ's, Producers, Live EDM Performers, welcome to SFDG Presents! We are building a community that has something for every level of DJ, from the bedroom turntablist to the club-loving pro. If you're new to the game, come on down and meet a great group of people. Feel free to ask any question you want to help get started. We'll show you around the booth and maybe be able to help you decide what platform you might be interested in persuing, be it Vinyl, CDJ or Midi - We have DJ's who play them all! …

Get Your Dance On is the new way to party where all styles are encouraged and everyone is family.

We are a community of moms desiring to build friendships with other moms in the East Bay and provide regular playtimes with our little kiddos. We are mamas with kids born between 2006-2012, and would love to make new friends in the East Bay. If your kids are older or if you're expecting, you are certainly welcome to join this Meetup group. We like exploring and finding fun and free places to hang out with our toddlers and infants in 4 cities in the East Bay - Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, and …

We are a group of house concert enthusiasts in the Bay Area. This group is created as a resource so that house concert hosts can find additional audience, artists can make friends with hosts, and music lovers can discover interesting house concerts in their area. Don't be scared off if a show only has one or two RSVPs, because most of our hosts get most of their audience from their own series regulars who may not RSVP here. Here is how it works: Each event you post will automatically become an o …

[color=green][b]WELCOME![/b][/color] Our events are for all us singles who want to GET OUT and have some FUN! Not that we don't love our couple friends too, but they always have to leave early (or can't come at all) because of the kids, the house, etc.  This group is for those of us who have more free time and want to make some new friends while having some FUN! There are more of us single people in the bay area than you think, so leave all your friends who are couples at home and come out to …

Greetings. There is hardly anything I enjoy more than to read a good book and discuss it among thoughtful individuals! How about you? Please join if you are interested in being an active participant in a book club focused **exclusively** on classic literature, shown on the following lists below, that has stood the test of time. If not interested exclusively in classic lit, if not willing to stick to selections from the lists below, there will not be a match with this group.  The good news is tha …

Looking to develop speaking and leadership skills? Win that job interview? Ignite your career? Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Our membership is 270,000 strong. These members improve their speaking and leadership skills by attending one of the 13,000 clubs that make up our global network of meeting locations. Membership in Toastmasters is one of the greatest investments you can make in yourself. At $36 every six months, it is also one of …

What would it be like to own your home in a thriving community, close to work and school? Cohousing is housing created with the design input of the residents, according to common goals such as sustainability, community, and simply living well by sharing more. It includes individual homes supplemented by shared facilities and common areas. Management is consensus-driven and done by the residents. There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the Bay Area to date, and it’s about time to bu …

The purpose of the SF Chapter of the Passive House Alliance is to Share information and provide continuing Passive House (Passivhaus) technical education amongst Bay Area and SF Passive House Consultants and interested professionals; Support the adoption of the Passive House standard in the United States both publicly and municipally through high quality research, education and implementation; Serve as a resource for building owners, developers and building professionals investigating the use o …

These days, most of the dance clubs and social meetup groups are focused on music from the 80s and later, from hair metal to house to hip-hop to funk/R&B to DJ mashups and the like. What is missing is a group with an emphasis on live band music from oldies rock and roll, to classic 60s rock (the British invasion, beach music, folk and acid rock, etc.) through the more popular 70s rock (Eagles, Doobies, etc.) You know the kind of music I am talking about! Well, THIS IS IT! Dancing to live mus …

Electro Swing is a phenomenal sound with all the beats of house and the bounce of swing! If you haven't heard it before, give it a listen by starting the music sampler at the top of our website... but be warned, you should prepare to fall in love!

I would like to organize a build of a 120sq ft tiny home in the East Bay. No building experience but I have a van and a lot of enthusiasm to lead this project. Also no where to build... As far as knowledge, been reading up quite a bit and will be taking a Tumbleweed Tiny House weekend course in early October and would like to organize a group build there as well with fellow class members. As I do not have much experience our meetups needs to be mostly individuals that can contribute directly wit …

This group is for the people who are interested in House Music. This is for the party people and the people with adventurous spirits. This for the drinkers and the dancers, people of culture and those who want a break from normality.

Hi! My name is Zita and recently moved from Chicago to San Francisco. I love electronic music but crave more then regular mash ups, electro house and radio tunes.  Sound and Machine is a group for those who want to support some of the lesser known music genres and /or interested about the technical side of DJing and producing. The "Sound" part of our group focuses on tech house, progressive house, deep house, techno, dub tech, progressive techno music.  Nick Warren, Hernan Cattaneo, Adam Beyer …

This group is for anyone interested in hiking, biking, outdoor adventure, and good wine. All skills levels are welcome and there will be activities geared for various fitness/skill/endurance levels.  Being an orgainser for several other groups I've decided to start my own, so we can combine more activities and have more fun.  I currently lead either a hike or bike ride most Saturdays, along with the occasional music event, summer white water rafting trip, house party, summer barbecue, or other a …

A friend bought this gorgeous mansion in Berkeley and I am forming a community there! There's a lot of work to be done on the house so move-in will be sometime this Spring, maybe April or May. This community will focus on celebrating diversity, creativity, and Spirituality of all different sorts. It will be a truly ecumenical community. We will do some spiritual practice together twice a month but practice that speaks to folks from many different backgrounds. We will share music together and gro …

Currently in the House of Representatives there is one representative for every 700,000 of the population. Let's discuss the mechanics of how we might restore what was meant to be a small-d democratic branch of our government to a more human scale with one representative for every 10,000 or 5000 or whatever makes sense with current technology and political common sense. The goal is to craft wording for a call for an Article-V convention limited in purpose, as required, to the proposal of amendme …

Welcome, all those who appreciate the wonderful architecture of the past! Anything from Victorian, Queen Anne, Edwardian, Shingle Style, to early 20th Century styles like Craftsman Bungalows, Mission, Storybook, all the way up to Mid-Century, Eichlers, and everything in between. We are blessed to have plenty of these beautiful old buildings here in the Bay Area, so let's get out and SEE them and learn about them. We can do anything you can imagine around this topic, from going on a House Tour …

The mission of Passive House California is to educate the public about the Passive House building performance standard to help create healthy, comfortable, durable, energy- and resource-efficient buildings and communities.

lets meet together to make some good friends and enjoy our souls with our truly music passion.this group is for truly music lovers of acid jazz music most of them are uk groups from the 90s ( carleen anderson,incognito,the brand new heavies,lisa stansfield....)garage house funky music,elegant soulful house music,smooth jazz music,R&B oldschool from 80s and 90s and some quality good ones from nowadays like the amazing kem for example.this is going to be a community group with activities every wee …