I don't know about you but I've been really missing hanging out with groups of people for non-work related reasons. As someone that lives on my own and works for myself, I don't really have much of an opportunity to connect with groups of people and I thought, why not create an experience to bring people together over a glass or two of vino?!

That's when the idea of 'An Authentic Affair' was born. A mixture of mingling with strangers online and doing something fun on a Friday night rather than binging another Netflix show and eating my bodyweight in chocolate. I mean why not watch some real entertainment and drink your bodyweight in wine instead?!

What's the deal?

The evening will be split in 3 parts:

1) The conversation: Here we break off into break out rooms with one other person (yes, super intimate) and I share with you a question to answer, you each take it in turns to answer honestly. As this part progresses you will be swapped around (a bit like speed dating) and the questions will gradually get deeper (it will be fun I promise!)

2) The entertainment: This part has me SO exctied. I'm planning to curate these weird and wonderful online experiences that will get you wondering, laughing, creating, dancing, you name it! But, you wil never know what is going to show up that evening, only I will *insert evil cackle*.

If there are pre-requisites for the entertainment, I will let you know a few days before

3) The mingling: You know like when the party is over on a Friday night and there's the last few stragglers chilling behind (you know who you are), yeah it's that bit . You're more than welcome to leave after the entertainment but if you want to stay behind and do some more mingling, I won't stop you (at some point I'll want to go to bed just FYI).

Duration

The evening will last for about 3 hours in total but you are welcome to leave at any point if you can't join the whole shabang.

Important info

If you decide to do this as a household (family, partners, room mates...etc.) please please please buy the relevant amount of tickets per person not per household. The reason I have to stress this is the entertainer is booked per person and if someone doesn't pay then I end up out of pocket, I trust you'll make sure to book the right amount of tickets.

Lastly, these are paid events and not everyone has access to pay to join especially with redundancies, so if you are in a fortunate position and feel inclined to buy an extra ticket for someone else then please do so (by purchasing an 'invite a stranger' ticket) and I will distribute them out. I'm sure there's many that could do with the connection and distraction :)

If you can't make this one, I'll be running it every two weeks so be sure to follow my event organiser page on Eventbrite further down below to be notified when tickets go live.

Can't wait to hang with y'all!

P.s: I have no clue how this is going to pan out (it will be either brilliant or absurd)

Come find out,

Alex x