Creative Groups Los Angeles

Easy Origami: Fold, Create & Have Fun!

$12 per person. Cash, Venmo or Zelle will be accepted at the event. Come, relax, fold and have fun with us😻💖🎉 We’ll make some fun and easy origami together. No experience is needed - beginners are very welcome! Origami paper and supplies will be provided. Please purchase a drink or something from the Village Bakery to support our lovely host venue. All ages are welcome! Come join us for a fun, creative afternoon!

Creative Tech & Visual Arts Mixer

Network with LA creatives working at the intersection of art, technology, media, and production. Creativetoolkits is a community of 3D artists, fabricators, animators, VFX artists, TouchDesigner visual artists, software engineers, post-production professionals, videographers, directors, music producers, designers, creative coders, and more. Our goal is to create a space for people using creative technology to meet collaborators, exchange ideas, share projects, and build community. Whether you’re an industry professional, hobbyist, student, or just curious about how technology is being used in creative fields, you’re welcome to come hang out. Each week we have open sign ups for individuals who want to pitch an idea, showcase a project, or a present a topic. At the midpoint of the mixer event we will gather everyone for a short session for presentations with breakout sessions afterwards to network. Each presentation should last around a 1/2 minutes with a short Q/A session afterwards where requested. Sign up here! [https://forms.gle/FrH7MQhjTWwZphVm8](https://forms.gle/FrH7MQhjTWwZphVm8) **📍 Where:** Smalls LA \| 4149 W Pico Blvd \#103 Los Angeles\, CA **🗓 When:** Every Saturday! **🎟 Tickets:** Free Entry, but consider buying a drink as a 'thank you' to our local record store/coffee shop. **What to Bring:** **Yourself + what you’re working on:** Come ready to talk about your projects, tools, workflows, experiments, or ideas. **Support:** If we’re meeting at a local venue, please consider purchasing a drink or snack as a gesture of appreciation. **Get More Involved:** Eager to contribute? We’re looking for people interested in hosting project showcases, lectures, seminars, workshops, demos, creative hackathons, installation events, and collaborative meetups. Join the Discord and help shape the future of LA’s creative technology community. **Connect with us** Discord : [https://discord.gg/WemVunqCwS](https://discord.gg/WemVunqCwS) Instagram : [https://instagram.com/mycreativetoolkits](https://instagram.com/mycreativetoolkits)

Dinner with Creatives

Hey Creatives! Up for a dinner meetup with 4-6 members? This is a chance for an intimate hangout to connect with potential collaborators and new friends. Each outing is held at a different restaurant. Reservation info shared only with those who sign up. 18+.

Creative Recharge ⚡️ 11/11/26

Join us for our November event in Pasadena! Give yourself a dose of creative play to boost your energy & wellbeing this month! As high-achieving adults, we often spend so much time focusing on all the things we need to do that we never make time for the things we want to do that just sound fun. Let's change that! This is a space to connect, create, have fun, & recharge with each other together in real life. :) * BYO craft or use art supplies provided * BYO food & non-alcoholic drinks * Zero artistic skills needed * Adults only (18+) * Suggested donation $5 per person ([donate here](https://account.venmo.com/u/playtronus)) See you there? ❤️ Kat . . . 🌴 Founder, Playtronus LLC *** ACCESSIBILITY NOTE: This event is being hosted in a historic building with accessibility limitations. If you are unable to walk up a flight of stairs, but would like to attend the event, please contact Kat (katpineda@playtronus.com) by at least a week prior to the event so we can make arrangements.

First Holiday Mixer of the season & Potluck @ Hollywood Sculpture Garden

The Hollywood Sculpture Garden is really a neat place . . . AND WE GET TO VISIT AND HAVE A SOCIAL THERE!!! It's located on private property and not normally open to the public. So it is indeed a special thing for us to go. (for free) Now . . . About this event: It is outdoors in a super-funky, pretty and cute location of The Hollywood Sculpture Garden. **This is intended as a "New To Meetup Mixer." Meaning if you are new to Meetup, or new to the group, been in the group for a while but not attended an event or even just new to the city, . . . then come.** A perfect way to meetup some quality people over some even better wine. **And very perfect if this is your first meetup ever!! Come join us.** If you are an existing member, . . . then you are equally welcome. After all . . who will be the welcome wagon for all the new people? Now . . . A little bit MORE about this event: Sunset is expected for 4:55 PM 4 PM Event STARTS 4 to 5 PM . . . General arrival window. 4:55 PM . . . . Sunset (if all goes according to plan) 6:00 PM . . . . The light show begins 4:0 PM to 8:59 . . . General socializing & art appreciation over food and drinks. 9:00 PM Event Ends 9:01 onwards . . . the night is young. Head off to other cool places with new friends. Oh!!!!!! One other thing **It's Pot-luck/Drink-luck.** Your ticket for entry is a dish or a drink. Bring anything that is good to share for serve 10 people. Or a nice bottle of wine, or dozen beers (if cheap beer), 6 pack of craft beer. We will provide the tables, dishes, plastic-ware, cups, napkins, etc. **Frist:** RSVP **SECOND**: Be sure to Fill out the Attendees Form so have name on guest list [https://forms.gle/oPv6oB7gmV6wL8Pf9](https://forms.gle/oPv6oB7gmV6wL8Pf9) **Third**: Pick up a dish or drink to bring to the event. **Fourth**: Show up (at the event) with your best self and be ready to be social and have fun. I know what you are thinking . . . * will this be fun? * is this a cool place? * will there be people as cool as me there? * or even . . . . I'm not cool & I am shy/introverted . . . * will I be able to fit in and enjoy too? ***And the answer is yes to all.*** **[WATCH THIS!!!](https://youtu.be/xm3TLYKLHqI) Here is a vid from an actual event we did there.** It was summer of 2021. Watch the whole thing and you will see the food/wine . . . the place, . . . where we hang out and how. As well as what it looks like at day and nite. AND . . . you get of feel of the people, place and vibe. (reg link to the vid) [https://youtu.be/xm3TLYKLHqI](https://youtu.be/xm3TLYKLHqI) And to see pix from past visits. [https://photos.app.goo.gl/dGoqMzDfCuFT4NDJA](https://photos.app.goo.gl/dGoqMzDfCuFT4NDJA) ***The Plan:*** * ***Event Starts 4:00 PM*** * ***We socialize . . . Catch Sunset.*** * ***Then more socialize and the the lights will go on.*** ***Question:*** Tell me about this socialize thing? ***Answer:*** It's a Potluck. Bring a dish. OR bring Merlot. Then social happens from there. Question: ***The cost for all this?*** Answer: ***FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE. And bring a dish or drinks.*** PARKING: Parking is tight to non-existent the location. The Google Form will used to make sure you have ALL the best parking info. This event is cross posted to several meetup groups. So there will be plenty of folks. Some goals for this event . . . * To make new friends. * To make more friends. * To go to new places. * To be more social (in real life). NOTICE: For our events we do not discriminate by Age, Race, Color, Religion, Ethnicity, National Origin, Political Affiliation, Relationship Status, Gender, Gender Preference, or even Belly Button Lint. We welcome all, . . . and that includes you.

Drink and Draw @ Stories Books & Cafe | Thurs. Nov 19th 2026

Join us at [Stories Books and Cafe](https://www.instagram.com/storiesbooksandcafe/) (1716 Sunset Blvd) on **Thursday November 19th 6:00pm-9:00PM** for our monthly drink and draw. Paper and markers will be provided but guests are encouraged to bring their own supplies too. Sessions are uninstructed and creative exploration is encouraged. The event takes place on the back patio, seating is first come first serve, guest are allowed to draw inside the cafe as well. Free. Open to all skill levels. Bad Artist Welcome. Follow us on Instagram @[bringyourownpen](https://www.instagram.com/bringyourownpen/) or visit [www.bringyourownpen.com](https://www.bringyourownpen.com) for more info and photos from past events **\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-** **Nearest Public Transit lines.** 2, 4, 92, 93, 204 Street and paid lot parking available nearby, there are two lots behind the cafe on Lemoyne and Logan St.

Collab for NOVEMBER - LA's Best monthly Art Salon & Creative Networking Party!

Where can you go to hang out with over 100 awesome LA creatives, makers and doers every month? Where can you see amazing artists, performers, DJS and speakers while enjoying drinks and food? Collab of course! **What is Happening This Month at Collab?** **We are putting together another great line-up for November, and we'd love for you to be a part of it! Message us if you'd like to speak, screen, present, do live art, perform or DJ this month at Collab!** **GUEST SPEAKERS** **T**BA **PERFORMERS** **T**BA **LIVE ARTISTS** **T**BA **DJs/all night musical guests** **T**BA **FOOD + DRINKS** COME HUNGRY! **Chef Sion** is serving delicious sliders in all your favorite styles! Have one... or two or three! And his delicious signature potato wedges! Mmmmmmm!!! And as always, the **sodas and wine are free** at Collab! **PLUS:** Grab a seat at our (soon to be) famous **OneStoolBar** for a unique drink experience! **WHAT IS COLLAB?** **Expect a room full of:** **Artists · Designers · Filmmakers · Builders · Entrepreneurs · Musicians · Creative Technologists · And people doing things that don’t fit in a boxReal people building real projects share what they’re working on—and what they need.** **It’s not just inspiration… it’s collaboration in real time!** If you’ve been looking for your people in LA - this is where they are.Collab is part art salon, part creative mixer, part idea incubator. For 20 years, it’s been a space where artists, founders, makers, and curious minds come together to connect, collaborate, and spark what’s next. **Want to showcase your work?** Email to collab@collabproject.org to be included! **First Time?** Perfect. Collab is designed to be easy to walk into—even solo. People are open, curious, and actually talk to each other here.Collab works best with new faces, so if you can, bring a friend! **Details** $5 minimum suggested donation (but we ALWAYS welcome larger donations! Your generosity is what helps us keep Collab going!) **Dystopian Studios II** **341 South Avenue 17, Unit A** **Los Angeles, CA 90031** **TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10th** **7:30 PM – 11:30 PM** Keep the Momentum Going November 10 - topic TBA December 8 - topic TBA Follow us to stay in the loop.

Monthly Meetup with creatives from film, games, and the digital arts

Greetings! We hold this Meetup at IDLE HOUR, a classic North Hollywood roadside landmark, a registered LA Historic-Cultural Monument that has been restored by the same folks who manage our previous locations, Harlowe and The Formosa. Meetups will always be the FOURTH MONDAY of every month. IDLE HOUR is on Vineland Ave, just off Lankershim Blvd and Camarillo St: [4824 Vineland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 91601](https://maps.app.goo.gl/hXynb9pxoQvufKRz5) This event is open to professionals and enthusiasts alike, so whether you're an experienced or novice musician, game designer, VFX artist, writer or a budding independent filmmaker, come mingle, share insights, and build connections with others who share your passion for creativity. Don't miss this chance to meet new friends, collaborators, and potential business partners in the exciting worlds of film, music, and media. We will meet on the patio out back next to the giant pipe-smoking bulldog! There's easy street parking all around, and the Metro Red Line NoHo station is about a 20 minute walk.

Let's make a short film.

Let's make short videos/ Feature films that are both narrative and documentary. This group develops both short films/feature films. We will help each other with our own projects. We provide feedback and can help with crew for each other's productions. We call ourselves Lettuce Film Production. Join our vibrant filmmaking community in Los Angeles, where your ideas can come to life! Everyone is welcome to collaborate and create. Don’t miss out—check out our next meetup! We create movies for free; we exchange skills and time! The only thing we ask is that you subscribe to our channels before attending. Thanks [https://www.youtube.com/@LettuceFilmProduction/videos?app=desktop](https://www.youtube.com/@LettuceFilmProduction/videos?app=desktop) [https://www.instagram.com/lettuce_film_production/](https://www.instagram.com/lettuce_film_production/)

Beer Night in Arts District

Music Production and Industry Mixer

Network with LA creatives and find your next collaborator. Audiospace is a community of creatives in across industries like music, engineering, design, and more. Our goal is to create a space fostering collaboration, community, and provide opportunities for creatives/brand owners to showcase their work. We host a range of events from studio sessions, beat battles, and showcases from artists and brand owners in our community! **📍 Where:** Temple Grounds \| 1650 W Temple St\, Los Angeles\, CA 90026 **🗓 When:** Every Saturday ( More details in the discord ) **🎟 Tickets:** Free Entry, but consider buying a drink as a 'thank you' to our local record store/coffee shop. **What to Bring:** Support: Please consider purchasing a drink or snack as a gesture of appreciation for our venue. **Get More Involved:** Eager to contribute? We're always on the hunt for hosts, mentors, and volunteers. Join us and help shape the future of our musical community! **🌐 Connect With Us:** Discord Server : [https://discord.gg/eFTE8fsDSx](https://discord.gg/eFTE8fsDSx) Instagram : [https://www.instagram.com/audiospacehq/](https://www.instagram.com/audiospacehq/)

The Great LA Walk 2026. We join this yearly. Come and be part of the happening

(this event (as a meetup) needed to be moved. It's complicated m Event still occurring on Nov 22 2025