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🍭 - Sugary Sweet - This is an event organized and produced by me or is directly affiliated with our community somehow (i.e. speaking engagement).

✨ - Trusted Source - I either know the person(s)/organization(s), hosting the event and/or have attended the event personally. This recommendation comes from first hand knowledge in one form or another.

🎲 - Roll of the Dice - I have not personally attended the event and/or I do not know the organizer…However, it looks interesting to me and if I had the time, I would personally take a chance and attend it to see what it was about.

🎟️ Admit 1 - This is a ticketed event and is NOT free (but we do try to get preferred pricing for our community when we can).

Monday 🍬 6.2

6:00pm (Tribeca): Soirée by Spring Place 🎲 - Join us for an elevated evening of drinks, conversation, and connections at our next all in all Soirée—a night designed for founders, investors, and industry leaders to mix, mingle, and unwind. RSVP HERE

Tuesday 🍬 6.3

12:00pm (Soho): The Future of AI in Fashion and Ecommerce hosted by Shopify and ImagineCreate AI 🎲 - We’re bringing together fashion brands and tech leaders to explore how AI is helping accelerate product launches, test creatives, deliver personalized content, and increase conversions at scale. RSVP HERE

6:00pm (Nolita): Shaping the Experiential Economy by Karia ✨ - In this era of hyper digitalization, we see a parallel, seemingly paradoxical consumer demand for real-life experiences. This dichotomy actually makes a lot of sense. The more our lives move online and our interactions get mediated by machines, the more we miss and crave physical interactions with other humans and the world around us. RSVP HERE

6:00pm (Dumbo): NYC Civic Fair by NY Politics 101 & Locally Sourced NYC ✨ - Looking to get more involved in politics at the local level—but not sure where to start? Join us for a Civic Fair connecting New Yorkers with local organizations tackling the city's biggest challenges—from housing and transportation to elections and streetscapes. Think of it like a career fair, but for community and civic impact. RSVP HERE

7:00pm (Soho): Science of Olive Oil by DeSciNYC 🎲 - Discover the compelling scientific evidence linking olive oil to increased lifespan and vitality. Dive into the molecular secrets of this ancient superfood, understanding how its unique compounds combat aging, inflammation, and chronic disease. RSVP HERE

7:00pm (Union Square): MCM Union Square Stages Grand Opening by Squalor & MCM 🎲 - An Open Bar Mixer to celebrate the new MCM Union Square stages and SAG-AFTRA Foundation private screening of Sundance ‘25 winner, RICKY! MCM Creative 873 Broadway, 2nd FL, New York, NY 10003 NO RSVP NEEDED

Wednesday 🍬 6.4

6:00pm (Flatiron): Sick and Dirty by Michael Koresky with Isaac Butler by Rizzoli Bookstore 🎲 - Join us for a conversation with the brilliant film historian and curator Michael Koresky to launch his new book, an erudite and surprising account of how queerness persisted (and even flourished) in Code-era Hollywood cinema. RSVP HERE

6:30pm (Brooklyn, NY): A Mindful Singles Event in NYC by The Feels 🎲🎟️ - ‘the feels’ is a 3-hour evening that includes an 80 minute facilitated experience. Level 1 experience guides you through pairings that include meditations, prompts, positive reflections, and somatic elements like eye gazes + hugs. RSVP HERE 

Use code “sugary” for preferred pricing

6:30pm (West Village): Standup Comedy by The Perry Club ✨ - We're unleashing hell on Wednesday 06/04th with a lineup so diabolical, our last show's guests are still in therapy! With a slew of special guests, both on and off stage, we're talking show after show of merciless comedy with the industry's best. RSVP HERE 

7:00pm (Fort Greene): An Evening of Poetry & Creativity by Lauren Ducrey & Ross Guttler ✨🎟️ - Come (re)discover the playful, generative power of poetry + creative arts with Ross and Lauren. Let your brain relax and your senses take over. RSVP HERE 

7:00pm (Brooklyn Heights): Opening party: Pied-à-Terre by Alex Yudzon by Byline Magazine 🎲 - Two celebrations in one. Join us to celebrate opening of Alex Yudzon’s exhibition and a teaser for Byline’s two years Anniversary. RSVP HERE 

Thursday 🍬 6.5

4:00pm (Tribeca): Social Architecture Mainstage Talks by DEMO2025 🎲 - Experience emergent culture at DEMO2025, a festival celebrating explorations in art, design, and technology from NEW INC, the New Museum’s Incubator. RSVP HERE

5:00pm (Chelsea): Tammy Nguyen in Conversation with Naomi Fry by Lehmann Maupin Gallery 🎲 - The talk will take place directly before the opening reception of Nguyen’s first major solo show in New York, A Comedy for Mortals: Paradiso. Naomi Fry is a staff writer at The New Yorker and co-host of the magazine’s Critics at Large podcast. RSVP HERE

6:00pm (Nolita): The Premiere of “God Won’t Come (to plant flowers)” by Velvet & Vinyl and Maya Shaw 🎲🎟️ - An evening of music, film, and feeling wrapped in red velvet and vintage glow. RSVP HERE

6:30pm (Midtown East): Faith in AI by Christians in Tech ✨ - ​Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way we live, work, and connect—but how do we ensure it's used for good? ​Join us for an inspiring evening of conversation around AI, ethics, and the role of faith in shaping technology for human flourishing. To help us tackle these big questions, we partnered together with Gloo, the biggest name in faith‑tech, (yes, the one Pat Gelsinger now leads tech on). RSVP HERE

7:30pm (Tribeca): TriBeCa Rooftop Party by Living Room Cinema Club 🎲 - ​Come through for our rooftop after party as we celebrate this year’s festival with an amazing crowd of fellow creatives, artists, and friends. RSVP HERE

Friday 🍬 6.6

9:30am (Dumbo): Community Builder Breakfast Club: featuring Ruthie Berber by Fabrik ✨ - Join us for the Community Builder Breakfast Club, a unique morning event designed to energize your day and create meaningful connections with fellow builders. RSVP HERE

8:00pm (Williamsburg): PETTING ZOO: LIVE COMEDY WITH LIVE ANIMALS by Cloud City 🎲🎟️ - This is the world’s only comedy show featuring live exotic animals. New York’s top comics have to perform while holding snakes, birds, lizards, bugs, and other cool creatures. Between sets, you can interact up-close with the animals and learn from Ranger Eric Powers and his team of professional nature guides. RSVP HERE

Saturday 🍬 6.7

11:00am (Tribeca): Break The Plates by Laura Alcantara 🎲🎟️ - A symbolic act of letting go, we’ll break the plates and craft transformative art from the pieces using gold leaf, resin, and paint, celebrating the beauty that emerges from what was once broken. RSVP HERE

4:00pm (Midtown West): For The People by Finding Your People & Q Wave 🎲 - Join us for an evening of dance, music, and real connection—just good people + good energy.
 No extras, just the moment. Let’s dance and move. RSVP HERE

6:00pm (Bushwick): Sip, Savor & Spa by Lizzie Renck, Dave Bour & John Lograsso 🎲🎟️ - Imagine dining under the clouds in a fantastical, indoor garden. After dinner, we head to the spa to rest and relax or continue chatting in the garden with friends, new and old. RSVP HERE

6:30pm (Bushwick): Grand Opening Party by Brooklyn Spark 🎲 - We’re celebrating the grand opening of our space! It’s been a whirlwind 5 months where we signed the lease, built out the space, and welcomed members. RSVP HERE

Sunday 🍬 6.8

2:00pm (Soho): Bookmarc Celebrates The Virgin Suicides by Marc Jacobs 🎲 - Sophia Coppola is back and she’s conducting a book signing in celebration of her tribute to the the iconic Virgin Suicides! RSVP to [email protected]

2:00pm (Herald Square): The Price of Milk Oppening Reception by Peoples.tv ✨ - Come celebrate THE PRICE OF MILK with the People's Television and XTR teams before our legendairy World Premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival! RSVP HERE

4:00pm (Bushwick): The Groovement Social by The Groovement 🎲🎟️ - Calling all live music lovers! We’re getting the community together. An afternoon and evening of groovy vibes bringing our community together to meet, mingle and find their concert crew. RSVP HERE

Use code “SUGARY” for preferred pricing.

5:00pm (Astoria): Astoria Food Crawl by Mitch 🎲 - Join me for a fun food crawl in Astoria, one of the city’s most exciting food neighborhoods. We’ll move through savory bites, and finish on a sweet note. RSVP HERE

Monday 🍬 6.9

6:00pm (Dumbo): Crafty Hour: Junk Journaling by Art Gurl ✨🎟️ - Join us for a cute evening of crafting and yapping in dumbo!!! This is your invitation to get off your screen and spend an evening creating instead of consuming. :) RSVP HERE

6:30pm (Williamsburg): Gathering Neshama | Volume 8 — National Donald Duck Day by Leandro Taub ✨🎟️ - Join us for the eighth edition of Gathering Neshama, connect, build meaningful relationships, celebrate our shared identity, and uplift our collective mission. RSVP HERE

8:00pm (Prospect Heights): Reading Series by Franklin Park 🎲 - Join us on the second Monday of each month for readings from emerging and established fiction writers, memoirists, essayists, and poets. We showcase local talent and host authors from around the world. RSVP HERE

Tuesday 🍬 6.10

6:00pm (UES): Museum Mile Festival 2025 by City of New York ✨ - A free annual event where several museums open their doors for the evening along this stretch of 5th Avenue. No cars are allowed, so the festival becomes a walker's paradise with many other attractions such as street musicians, art-related activities for children, food vendors, and more.  NO RSVP NEEDED

Wednesday 🍬 6.11

6:30pm (Boerum Hill): ‘Vegas’ Brooklyn Launch Party with Stephanie Danler by McNally Editions ✨ - Raise a glass with us as we celebrate the reissue of John Gregory Dunne's Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season NO RSVP NEEDED

Thursday 🍬 6.12

6:30pm (South Street Seaport): 175 Years of Harper's Magazine by McNally Jackson ✨🎟️ - Celebrate 175 years of Harper's!  Writers, editors, and friends of the magazine will gather to toast the publication of this special anniversary issue and enjoy short readings by contributors to its pages. RSVP HERE

7:00pm (New York, NY): Ding A Ling by Joust ✨🎟️ - Ding-A-Ling means "stupid" or "eccentric" so let's go Ding-A-Ling over some board/card and party games this summer. RSVP HERE

Friday 🍬 6.13

10:00am (Chelsea): Louise Nevelson by Pace Prints 🎲 - An exhibition of lithographs, aquatint etchings, cast paper reliefs, and sculptural multiples celebrating the decades long relationship between Pace Prints and the artist. NO RSVP NEEDED

Saturday 🍬 6.14

12:00pm (Chelsea): Pigeonfest by The High Line 🎲 - A full-day festival celebrating pigeons, urban ecology, and public art. RSVP HERE

4:00pm (Bushwick): Rooftop Party: Brooklyn Blend by Lightning Society ✨🎟️ - Get ready for Lightning Society’s one and only rooftop party of the summer — a celebration of Brooklyn pride and nostalgic reimaginings. Brooklyn Blend is a love letter to our collective Brooklyn experience. RSVP HERE

Monday 🍬 6.16

7:00pm (New York, NY): Sunset Sessions: Journaling Experience at Domino Park Square by Journaling Classes ✨🎟️ - ​Celebrate the start of summer with a special sunset journaling experience at Domino Square. RSVP HERE

Support for the Unsent Letter Project!

The Unsent Letter Mailbox is a grassroots storytelling movement creating anonymous spaces for vulnerability and radical honesty in New York City.

Over the past year, we’ve hosted 20 park installations, 8 sold-out salons, we've seen countless people in public, and received over 1000 unsent letters capturing the full spectrum of human emotion and has captured the attention of press outlets such as Secret NYC, NBC Nightly News and the Kelly Clarkson Show.

We’re thrilled to launch our pilot Curator Program, inviting like-minded folk to host anonymous gatherings in their communities. If you're keen, fill out this form!

Join The Unsent Letter Mailbox as a Social Media Intern!

The Unsent Letter Mailbox — an NYC-born art project that lives at the intersection of anonymous writing, emotional healing, and urban play — is growing FAST. We’re looking for a volunteer content collaborator who wants to grow with us.

You:

• Are emotionally fluent and creatively intuitive

• Know how to make something stop the scroll without screaming

• Love language, letters, and soft power

• Want to build something you can be proud of

We:

• Have been featured on NBC + The Kelly Clarkson Show

• Are planning scavenger hunts, secret salons, and continued urban pop-ups

• Are small, self-funded, and full of momentum

• Will give you full credit, mentorship, and future paid work if things align

This is 3-5 hours a week. Remote is cool. And vibes are everything.

If you're curious, email [email protected] or DM @unsentlettermailbox on IG! 

Connect IRL. Experience Fabrik.

Get a taste of NYC community leaders and make new friends.

Fabrik is a home for communities and where everyone has a place to belong. With spaces designed to feel more like your living room than your office, Fabrik’s 'third spaces' are vibrant hubs where you can come together in real life, explore interests, forge meaningful connections, and enjoy a sense of community.

Sign-up here to experience a day pass at Fabrik.

See weekly events at Fabrik HERE

Call To Gather

‘Call to Gather’ champions creative play as essential for health and wellness; fostering mental, emotional, and social well-being. They believe everyone is a maker, and that its through shared creative experiences human beings build trust, collaboration, and can develop a deep sense of community. Gather Artists are all highly experienced in their craft, providing quality creative sessions from a wide range industries for individuals to begin to explore their creative potential, heal, and connect - ultimately igniting personal and collective transformation in community.

Start your creative play HERE

Othership offers immersive sauna and ice bath experiences that help human beings feel good now. A sanctuary for social self-care to move you from city buzz to inner calm.

Dive into the largest performance saunas in North America, experience otherworldly ice bath spaces and connect in an intimate amphitheater-style tea lounge surrounding a cozy fire place for socializing.

Expect towel-waving performances, aromatherapy, guided breathwork, visualizations, and somatic release to help you shift your state and regulate your emotions, in a world that can’t be regulated.

The founders of Othership have gifted us a New York 2 for 1 Deal. Get yours while they last!

EMPATHY PROJECT

Support the Empathy Project by purchasing any of the items from the collection. Be a part of a unique initiative that empowers seven diverse artists to create one-of-a-kind empathy-inspired t-shirts. These shirts serve as iconography tied to our identity, promoting compassion-driven societal impact. 

Each artist picked a 501(c)3 charity of their choice to donate a portion of the sales of their t-shirt design. Your purchase also empowers voices, amplifies the message of empathy, supports charities, and elevates storytelling within our communities, all while building a network for compassion-driven societal change. Join us in making a lasting impact through art and empathy.

You can check out and purchase the 7 different empathy tees HERE

Thank you for being part of this journey.

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