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Show up alone. Leave a regular.

A free list of groups that meet on a regular schedule and welcome people who come by themselves. Run clubs, jazz jams, board game days, choirs, volunteer shifts. Pick one, go once, then go again.

New in town, newly retired, between friend groups, or just tired of scrolling? This is for you.

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Every group is checked with its organizer or its own website before it's listed. New groups are added every week.

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How it works

Friendships usually grow out of seeing the same people, week after week, doing something you both like. This site helps you find that something.

  1. Find something weekly

    Every listing meets on a regular schedule, so there's always a next time.

  2. Go by yourself

    Every group here is fine to join on your own. No partner, no team, and most need no experience.

  3. Keep going back

    By the third or fourth visit, people start to know your name. That's the whole idea.

Why this exists

Home is your first place. Work is your second. Everyone needs a third. Sociologist Ray Oldenburg called it the third place: somewhere you see the same faces week after week, simply because you want to be there. This site started with that idea. More on third places

Most of us spend more time on screens and less time around other people than we used to. The fix is simple and a little old-fashioned: find a place where the same people gather every week, put the phone away, and keep showing up. The research backs this up.

20 minutes

A day spent in person with friends, on average, in 2020. In 2003 it was 60 minutes.

U.S. Surgeon General's advisory on social connection, 2023
50%

Better odds of survival for people with strong social ties. That finding comes from 148 studies of more than 300,000 people, and the effect is about as large as smoking's.

Holt-Lunstad and others, PLOS Medicine, 2010
About 50 hours

Of time together to turn an acquaintance into a casual friend. A close friend takes more than 200. Weekly groups are one of the easiest ways to get there.

Jeffrey Hall, University of Kansas, 2018

That's why every group on this site meets on a regular schedule. The first visit is the hard part. The fifth is where friendships start.

Read more of the research

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  • What the group does, and when and where it meets
  • Whether it costs anything
  • What a first-timer should know
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