If you’re tired of swiping and ready for your very own bookstore meet-cute, look no further - Blink Date is hosting a Must Love Books event at The Ripped Bodice, a romance bookstore! The mixer will include a few short n’ sweet readings interspersed with mingling over book-related question prompts.

🗓️Date: Friday, July 26

🕰️Time: 6:30pm

📍Location: The Ripped Bodice, 218 5th Avenue, Brooklyn

🫂All are welcome: The event is open to all genders and sexualities! For informational purposes, most attendees tend to be in their 20s-40s

📚Book Special: If you buy two of the same book (for you and someone you’ve clicked with at the event 😉 or maybe a friend you want to show some love to!), you’ll get 25% off

About the hosts

The Ripped Bodice is an independent brick-and-mortar bookstore devoted to the celebration of romance novels that just opened its first NYC location in Brooklyn.

Blink is a dating app for busy singles who are tired of endless swiping and matches that go nowhere – they eliminate swiping and profiles, playing matchmaker and setting members up for 10 minute in-app calls.

Start your own love story - RSVP:

Join Blink and Badass Animal Rescue at Boris & Horton Williamsburg for a special Valentine’s Day mixer for dog-owning & dog-loving singles! There will be good conversation (we'll help with this!), tail wagging, and butt scritches and sniffs (dogs only for this one plz!)

🗓️Date: Wednesday, February 14

🕰️Time: 7pm

📍Location: Boris & Horton, 510 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn

🫂All are welcome: The event is open to all genders and sexualities! For informational purposes, most attendees tend to be in their 20s-40s. You don’t need to bring or have a dog to join!

💰Cost: The event is free, but attendees are asked to order something from our generous host venue

Well-behaved and social dogs are welcome 💜

About your hosts

Badass Animal Rescue is a 501(c)3 dog rescue based in Brooklyn, NY. As a leader in responsible rescue, we rescue the most vulnerable dogs regardless of their breed, age, size, and medical history from underserved shelters and communities in the United States. Fosters provide an essential lifeline to our rescue dogs. Badass does not have a shelter to hold dogs, so the number of lives we can save depends on the number of foster homes available. It takes patience, love, and diligence to help rescue dogs acclimate to city life. The work is hard but always rewarding! This Valentine’s Day, find out how you can generate more love in your life more by fostering (or adopting!) furry companions through Badass Animal Rescue.

Blink is a dating app for busy singles who are tired of endless swiping and matches that go nowhere – they eliminate swiping and profiles, playing matchmaker and setting members up for 10 minute in-app calls.

Start your own love story - RSVP:

Do you miss the games and joy of your youth? If you’re tired of swiping and ready for a nostalgic experience, look no further! Blink Date is excited to be hosting its first Must Love Nostalgia event at The Museum of Nostalgia, a museum and store with all types of toys and vintage goodies from the 70’s, 80’s, and beyond.

Find a mate who shares your childhood loves (whether it be Disney, Pokemon, the Simpsons, vintage board games, television trays, or more) and maybe even find a gift for the holidays!

🗓️Date: Thursday, January 18th

🕰️Time: 7pm

📍Location: The Museum of Nostalgia, 31-27 31 Street, Astoria, NY 11106

🫂All are welcome: The event is open to all genders and sexualities! For informational purposes, most attendees tend to be in their 20s-40s

Please note: The Museum of Nostalgia has capacity limitations. If attendance exceeds capacity, there may be a wait to enter the event.

Start your own love story - RSVP:

If you’re tired of swiping and ready for your very own bookstore meet-cute, look no further - Blink Date is hosting a Must Love Books event at The Ripped Bodice, a romance bookstore! The mixer will include a short n’ sweet reading followed by mingling over book-related question prompts. 

🗓️Date: Thursday, January 11

🕰️Time: 7pm

📍Location: The Ripped Bodice, 218 5th Avenue, Brooklyn

All are welcome: The event is open to all genders and sexualities! For informational purposes, most attendees tend to be in their 20s-40s

📚Book Special: If you buy two of the same book (for you and someone you’ve clicked with at the event 😉 or maybe a friend you want to show some love to!), you’ll get 25% off

About the hosts

The Ripped Bodice is an independent brick-and-mortar bookstore devoted to the celebration of romance novels that just opened its first NYC location in Brooklyn. 

Blink is a dating app for busy singles who are tired of endless swiping and matches that go nowhere – they eliminate swiping and profiles, playing matchmaker and setting members up for 10 minute in-app calls. 

Start your own love story - RSVP:

What’s better than meeting the love of your life? Dogs.

But furreal, if you’re a dog owner or dog lover, join in for an evening of silly costumes, good conversation, cute tail, and doggo butt scritches – what more could you wish for?

🗓️Date: Wednesday, October 25

🕰️Time: 6:30pm-8pm

📍Location: Boris & Horton, 510 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn

🎃Costumes: Optional but highly encouraged!

🫂All are welcome: The event is open to all genders and sexualities! For informational purposes, most attendees tend to be in their 20s-40s. You don’t need to bring or have a dog to join!

🎟️Get your ticket: here

💰Cost: The event is free, but attendees are asked to order something from our generous host venue

Well-behaved and social dogs are welcome 💜

If you’re tired of swiping and ready for your very own bookstore meet-cute, look no further! After dozens of requests, Blink Date is excited to be hosting its very first Must Love Books event at The Ripped Bodice, a romance bookstore! The mixer will include a short n’ sweet reading followed by mingling over book-related question prompts. 

🗓️Date: Thursday, September 28

🕰️Time: 7pm

📍Location: The Ripped Bodice, 218 5th Avenue, Brooklyn

All are welcome: The event is open to all genders and sexualities! For informational purposes, most attendees tend to be in their 20s-40s

📚Book Special: If you buy two of the same book (for you and someone you’ve clicked with at the event 😉 or maybe a friend you want to show some love to!), you’ll get 25% off

🎟️Get your ticket: here

About the hosts

The Ripped Bodice is an independent brick-and-mortar bookstore devoted to the celebration of romance novels that just opened its first NYC location in Brooklyn. 

Blink is a dating app for busy singles who are tired of endless swiping and matches that go nowhere – they eliminate swiping and profiles, playing matchmaker and setting members up for 10 minute in-app calls. 

Join 1,000 Jewish all star singles in Riverside Park for the Annual Tu B’Av Party.

Details:

• MUST WEAR WHITE

• 1 Ticket gets you entrance, a matching number, and 1 free drink ticket. 

• Location: Ellington in the Park (Enter park at Riverside Boulevard & 103rd St.) 

• Directions: Take 1 Train to 103rd St Station, exit and walk west until you hit Riverside Park, walk down stairs 1t 103rd St and follow signs to TUBAV Party

• Food: Kosher BBQ will be available for purchase on site 

• What: Outdoors, under the stars, tons of fabulous Jewish singles of all ages and backgrounds ready to connect and get your number!

How the matching stickers work (optional):

• you get a #

• if you see someone you like you write their number down 

• if they write you down - we set you up on a date! Woohoo

Grab an entourage and get ready to meet someone exciting & new!  Music, madness, and an auspicious night to make your summer.

🗓️Date: Tuesday, August 1

⏰Time: 7pm

📍Location: Ellington in the Park, West 105th Street Manhattan, New York

📝RSVP: https://www.eventbee.com/v/nyc-tubav-white-party-2023/event?eid=211514432#/tickets

Join us and Autumn Dawn for a night of networking at Industry City's Building 5 (1st Floor) on July 27th from 6pm-9pm.

Come and connect with future collaborators, actors, actresses, directors, writers, AV Technicians, camerapeople and everyone else who has worked or wishes to work in entertainment and the arts or just has a nerdy affiliation.

This event will be hosted at St. Mark's Comics and The Frying Pan in Industry City. St. Mark's Comics is one of the city's best hidden gems for nerd culture, featuring a lovely gallery of vintage and used comics, toys and games. The Frying Pan is a delectable restaurant and bar serving up seafood and pub favorites. No entry fee for the event but we do ask that you purchase at least one item from either (preferably both) businesses.

The event is a creative mixer as well as a singles meetup. So freshen up those business cards, brush those teeth and put your best foot forward as you could meet the love of your life. If you already have an SO or aren't interested, no worries, you are still welcome! Just mention it upon your entrance and you'll be given a correspondingly-colored lanyard:

*BLACK for networking only

*WHITE for looking for a member of the opposite sex

*BLUE for looking for a member of the same sex

Dress to impress or come as you are and be a part of the snazziest networking event in Brooklyn. You won't want to miss it!

Autumn’s Dawn is an organization that presents the beautiful gap between the overly palatable and the overly pretentious. Did you make a movie that you’re having some trouble submitting to film festivals? A dark comedy that’s too intense for your average comedy festival? A brutal horror whose gore factor isn’t high enough? Some genre blend that makes it difficult to market? Well, we want to see it! Got a horror romance? A grindhouse film noir? A hard-R-rated parody of Teletubbies? All that and more is welcome at Autumn’s Dawn Short Film Festival. They are still accepting submissions for their upcoming festival with a soft deadline on July 28th and a hard deadline on August 18th.

🗓️Date: Thursday, July 27

⏰Time: 6pm

📍Location: Industry City's Building 5

📝RSVP : https://www.meetup.com/autumns-dawn-presents/events/294857808/

👑 I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START WITH THIS I'M SO EXCITED 👑 It's a drag brunch. With Nancy Nogood and Emi Grate. At a tiki bar in Bushwick. During 🏳️‍🌈 Pride month 🏳️‍🌈. With a fully non-alcoholic menu. Including bottomless mimosas and bloody's. We'll be popping bottles 🍾. Throwing dollar bills 💵. There will be lip synching. Opera singing. All the shenanigans of an NYC drag brunch, just none of the booze. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR.

🎟️ There are two ticket options:

1. Bottomless (brunch dish + unlimited mimosas or bloody mary's)

2. Brunch dish + 1 drink.

You can purchase additional food and drinks (specialty cocktails!) a la carte. The tickets also include the show and 20% gratuity for the bar staff.

⏰ Seating and food service starts at 2pm, show starts around 3pm and runs through 5pm. SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVED. We are not doing table reservations, so PLEASE come on time if you're trying to get a good spot and/or want to seat a big group. Some tables may have slightly more limited visibility. COME EARLY.

💵 Bring cash to TIP THE QUEENS. That's how it works. Dollar dollar bills y'all.

🍹 Unlike some of our other events, the brunch will be held at a regular bar (Dromedary Urban Tiki Bar in Bushwick) that sells booze. We'll only be serving the fully non-alcoholic menu during the event, but, well, it's a bar with booze on the shelves. Just a heads up.

🍼 We believe the show is prettttyy family friendly (Nance and Em are angels 😇) and we've had kids as guests, but there will MOST LIKELY be some swearing and uuuhmmm suggestive dancing 😆 Use your own judgment when bringing kids. And please make sure they're well behaved.

📝RSVP here

Join us and The Brooklyn Loft for a Queer Figure Drawing class!

Some deets -

• The class starts at 7 and will run until 8:30

• Please arrive 10-15 minutes before the start of the class

• All supplies will be provided however if you would like to bring your own materials, you’re more than welcome to do so

• We will have an instructor to host the class and a model from the neighborhood

• A complimentary glass of wine will be provided but please help support the bar by ordering food and any other drinks :)

📝RSVP here

Want to find your forever teammate? Why not start with a game of 7 Wonders, Codenames, or Exploding Kittens to see how they hold up under pressure, handle competition, and navigate losing? 😉

Bring a friend or fly solo for an afternoon of games, good times, and connections!

Date: Sunday, June 4
Time: 1pm
Location: e’s Bar, 511 Amsterdam Avenue 
Cost: The event is free, but there is a $15 minimum from the bar (food or drinks)
RSVP: here

In order to attend the event, you must download the Blink Date app!

Join Blink Date, Brooks, and Fleet Feet NYC on Monday, May 22, for a special edition MUST LOVE RUNNING event offering for single runners to meet other single runners of all experience levels!

Brooks will have free demos of their latest models for you to try out during a nice chill run around Prospect Park and back—4 miles, all paces welcome—and afterward you'll be treated to free shoe raffles and drink specials at a local bar (to be announced) while you wind down and mingle!

***Must reserve your spot here for entry!***

Where: starting at Fleet Feet Park Slope

When: Monday, May 22 @ 6:30pm

What: Singles run & mixer, along with free shoe raffle!

All paces welcome!

Come out for an evening at Now or Never Coffee After Hours to enjoy delicious cocktails featuring two traditional Korean liquors, soju and makgeoli. Learn a bit about how each liquor is made while mixing and mingling with folks at this popular Soho coffeehouse that encourages people to embrace the moment and fosters connections through community.

🗓️Date: Thursday, May 18

⌚️Time: 6pm

📍Location: Now or Never Coffee

🥃Now or Never Drink Duo: $15 for 2 drinks (one soju cocktail and one makgeoli cocktail) if you prepay 

🎟️Tickets : https://nowornever.eventbrite.com

**Space is limited, but purchasing the Now or Never Drink Duo ticket guarantees entry** 

Folks without the Now or Never Drink Duo can order drinks on site.

Join us for trivia at Heavy Woods – enjoy cocktails, beer, and New Orleans inspired bar bites over a game of trivia with the Trivia General! We’ll be offering a raffle prize, so you have a chance to win even if your brainy friends don’t join!

RSVP so we can make sure we have a large enough space for our group (if you don’t, you may have to play solo… and we all know that’s sub-ideal for trivia)

🗓️ Date: Wednesday, May 17

⏰ Time: 9pm

📍 Location: Heavy Woods

📝RSVP : here

NOTE: Attendees should plan to cover their own tab for whatever drinks / food they order.

Want to find your forever teammate? Why not start with a game of 7 Wonders, Codenames, or Exploding Kittens to see how they hold up under pressure, handle competition, and navigate losing? 😉

Bring a friend or fly solo for an afternoon of games, good times, and connections!

Date: Sunday, April 16
Time: 1pm
Location: e’s Bar, 511 Amsterdam Avenue 
Cost: FREE, but guests are encouraged to purchase drinks and food from the bar!
RSVP: here

In order to attend the event, we ask that you download the Blink Date app 💜