Bay Area Active & Social - 20s, 30s & 40s

Tuesday Board Games in Campbell

Tue, Aug 18 · 6:30 PM PDT

7Stars Bar and Grill, 400 E campbell Ave, Campbell, CA, US

Join us at 7Stars Bar and Grill in Campbell for Tuesday night board games. Many of our members are board game enthusiasts who love teaching board games to new folk, no board game experience needed. You're welcome to bring your favorite games (the bar has a few, I'll bring a bunch) and we'll see you there!

Venue Details

• The bar owners have generously waived reservation fees, so we ask all attendees support the venue by ordering food or a drink.
• Tons of free nearby parking (details below).
• A five-minute walk to VTA Light Rail station (details below).
• Bar is Star Wars themed on the inside but looks like an old bank on the outside (ornate concrete facade with pillars).
• Drop in whenever you can make it! No worries if you arrive after the event starts.

Games

• Folk bring all sorts of board and card games!
• Word Games (Just One, Hues and Cues, Decrypto, Codenames, Wavelength)
• Visual Card Games (Detective Club, Mysterium, Dixit)
• Territory Building Games (Terraforming Mars, Scythe, Dune Imperium)
• Grid Building Games (Earth, Castle Combo, Happy City)
• Racing Games (Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Jamaica)
• Social Deduction Games (Avalon, Saboteur, Secret Hitler, Feed the Kraken, Blood on the Clocktower, Two Rooms And A Boom)
• Number Games (Hanabi, TEN, The Crew)

Parking

• Check out the parking area map here.
• Tons of free parking in the Second Street Parking Garage and First Street Garage.
• Free parking in the lots by Hyde Park, Khartoum, and (if you're lucky) Water Tower Kitchen.
• Free street parking spots are usually available along Orchard city drive, though you might have to circle a bit.
• More free street parking in the residential neighborhoods along North 3rd St, N 2nd St and N 1st St.
• Additional parking details can be found here.

7Stars Bar and Grill Menus

• Food menu here.
• Beer drafts and cocktails menu here.
• Non-alcoholic mocktails served as well! Ask the bartenders about the secret mocktail menu.

VTA Light Rail & Caltrains

• There's a Light Rail station a five minute walk from 7Stars, in case you've got a Light Rail station near your home or workplace.
• If you're near a Caltrains station, you can take it to downtown Mountain View and walk across the platforms to catch a Light Rail to Downtown Campbell.
• Alternatively you can take Caltrains to Diridon station in San Jose, walk a few blocks to the Light Rail "San Fernando" station in San Jose and ride that to Downtown Campbell.

Golden Hour over Sunnyvale: Community Builders walk & chat along Bay trail

Fri, Aug 21 · 6:00 PM PDT

Sunnyvale Bay Trail, 327 W Caribbean Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, Sunnyvale, CA, US

Friday 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 the mini cohort series we are running, Sunnyvale visit, after Mountain View downtown & Stanford campus walk.

Meanwhile, we want to run an experimental session within this experimental series. We would like to invite the community builder type, who have volunteered for community before, or who are thinking of doing something for the community, to walk with us. So we can meet each other fellow builders, discuss ideas, and may make plans for the future. Yes, we get quite some plans, relationship with many local orgs., we also want to hear your proposals.

As usual, we will do a walk along the bay trail at golden hour, see the marsh life and animals around, then climb up a dune by the bay to see the sunset view across bay together. Followed by an optional downtown group dinner and more chat. So a themed activity.

We as a community volunteers run social org has organized social in many community events, and volunteered in many. We hope to do more, together as a team, addressing each other's concerns, help resolving the connection & belonging problem collectively.

Yes, this is a cross post. You would see a similar event in the social volunteering group. Come have a nice social at the magic moment if not a nice group discussion.

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.

Parking: Street parking along the Caribbean drive.

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GIRL TALK: First in my Bloodline + Denim Studding & Patches 👖

Fri, Aug 21 · 7:00 PM PDT

Hayward, CA, Hayward, CA, US

UPDATE: Please RSVP on Partiful!

🩸 What is "First in my bloodline"?
So many of us are living firsts without ever acknowledging it. Many of us are children of sacrificing immigrants who had to grow up faster than we should have, who had to learn to navigate this world without help, or moving away from unhealthy dynamics for the first time.

This is my love letter to the girls who are the first in their bloodline.

First in my bloodline...
To live alone.
To travel alone.
To go to college.
To be financially independent.
To not rely on a man.
To break free from abuse cycles.
To work full-time outside the home.
Etc etc.

I want us to talk about it, to build about it, and to wear it proudly on us like badges of honor. Breaking generational barriers should be celebrated.

🛠️ What are we actually doing?
We will have several activities going:

1. Some variation of journaling and chatting about our stories
2. Creating charms with friendship bracelet materials (pins, chains, etc. to stick onto your jackets or jeans)
3. If you have patches you'd like to iron on, we will have a station!
4. Meditation Room—Adrianna has a sensory friendly meditation room we can use if things get overwhelming
5. Studding station—BYO clothes!
6. May or may not be some other stations open depending on donations and capacity—there’s a sewing machine and press so we can make tees 👀

Michelle from It's Our Hub will be setting us up for success!

🎨 Where are we doing this?
My friend Adrianna has graciously shared her precious space The CoLab with us. The CoLab is not open to the public and usually serves neurodivergent youth ages 14-24—if you know anyone who would love that, send them Adrianna's way!

I will also be asking everyone to donate to CoLab if you can—this is a huge kindness of Adrianna to share her space with us! It is gorgeous inside and everything is super clean and sensory friendly.

🤷🏽‍♀️ What do I bring?

• Denim or other items you would like to patch or add things to
• The patches you would like to iron on (you can find them around markets, online, etc.)
• Any crafts you'd like to share
• Any snacks you'd like to share

🛠️ This is amazing! How else can I support?
Please help us by bringing supplies or snacks OR with supply fees for this event! I would love a sliding scale donation of $10-$20 for this to help cover craft costs and give a little back to Adrianna. If I am able to get a little extra, I can bring some snacks the day of. If you are in financial hardship, please contact me separately and we can work something out!

Venmo: @Claudia-Chen
Zelle: theclaudiachen@icloud.com

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A little about GIRL TALK:
When I first moved to the Bay Area a little over a year ago (for work, like many of us do), I was confused. I walked the streets and explored the same way I did back home, but it didn't feel the same. If I complimented a girl on her outfit while I was out, half the time she would reply with a flat "thanks" or not say anything at all. Women watched me get harassed on the street and said not a word, they left judgmental stares in place of support. I felt like I lost the bubbling sparkling energy and casual camaraderie that I had with other girls in LA: the hyping each other up followed by loud laughs in the bar bathroom, checking in on each other if we were walking alone at night, the fast friendships and shared values and solidarity.

I learned that a lot of people here don't value friendships the same way, or see them as mostly transactional. I knew that in order to survive here, I had to find my people and I'm grateful to have an outlet like this Meetup group to gather people with. At the same time, I dearly missed my life back in LA (that I will one day return to! Hopefully sooner rather than later) and had so much longing that I needed to turn into be-longing 😜

These events are little love letters to my friends, old and new. They're sparked by fond memories and deep convos I used to have with my friends back home—my talented skate friend who helped me tie my skates the first time I got on them, late night convos on the couch with my bff, invitations to group dinners where you can feel the care in each bite, my friends that I can always call up for a last-minute errand run. Life feels so much fuller with my friends who check on and spend time with me when I feel down, who dream big with me, whose accomplishments I get to celebrate. Through these gatherings, I hope to find good friends and good moments again.