Swing dancing is the perfect accompaniment to jazz. Original street dance and art, Venice beach has a long history of this retro dance. Come out, take lessons, and be apart of the new growing scene here on the westside! VeniceSwing.com

Bringing Venice entrepreneurs together and fostering the local tech community. Everyone interested in tech and entrepreneurship is welcome! Come and join us :)

Dining, Happy Hours, wine tastings and other activities in and around Venice. This is an group run group.  Any member can sponsor an event.  Simply click on the "Schedule a Meetup" on our page.  If there's something you'd like to do in the area but no one to go with put it here and find like minded souls.

We are a diverse group of flag football fanatics. We welcome novice & experienced adult players of all ages. Our motto is safety first, then sportsmanship, fun, exercise, & competition. Come make new friends, have fun, and get great exercise at the beach. No fees or donations required! FREE Gatorade & energy bars. We use high quality flags. Our wrist coaches help novices catch on quickly and simulate a real NFL game because we use real NFL plays.  Our rules GUARANTEE that men & women receive the …

We are a group of people with something in common: we are men and women who have a passion for Venice, for the array of the architecture, homes, gardens, art happenings and charitable events! We love seeing new art and new homes and gardens and we enjoy foodie happenings. We are taking the Saturday May 4,2013 Tour of the 20th Annual Venice Home and Garden Tour and we want to all meet up with one another: home owners, tour takers,artists,neighbors, visitors to enjoy the Abbot Kinney Community and …

The Hub on Venice is six separate facilities under one roof: Ohr HaTorah Synagogue Kinder Circle Preschool Venice Boulevard Community Center Beach Communities Jewish Center Institute for Spiritual Formation & Moral Psychology Sophos Cafe From parenting groups to kabbalah and psychology classes; homework and ESL clubs to poker and dancing nights; fantastic performances and celebrations to quiet transformative revelations, The Hub on Venice is a place where your mind, body and spirit can regroup …

Beach Dodgeball at its finest!  We offer open beach play for guys and girls 18 and up.  Come on out and play the game you know and love.  It's better on the sand! We will be hosting upcoming one day beach tournaments in the near future so stay tuned and get excited! Also, keep in mind that many people still come out to play regardless of how many people RSVP on the meetup group.  So don't let that be your deciding factor on joining us! Venice Pier at Washington Blvd. From 12:00pm until 3:00p …

Athletes, Novices and Newbies  looking for a group of likeminded Cyclists, Runners and Triathletes who like to train hard and socialize while doing it. We are looking to establish a group of fun people who like to workout and compete in races all over California. Weekday early am runs and rides originating from Venice near the corner of Venice Blvd and Abbott Kinney Blvd. Weekday runs of 5-8 miles, rides 25-35 miles. Weekend bricks and beers and longer more challenging canyon rides depending on …

"SHARING THE STOKE" The purpose of this group is to unite photographers who love to shoot surfing action, lifestyle, landscape, product, or portrait photography, as well as journalists who like to write about it. In short, if, on a perfect day, you have to think about whether to bring your board or your camera gear, this is the place for you! Please note that this group is not really designed to be a classroom or seminar-type meetup with lots of free instruction.  Just people who love being out …

The first concert of the Marina Venice Yacht Club Chamber Music Series will be on Sunday April 21st at 7:30 PM located in the Marina City Club West Tower (G3) on Admiralty Way in Marina Del Rey. The Strumenti Chamber Players Quartet will be performing String Quartets by Mendelssohn and Borodin in this delightful informal setting. A $20 donation will include a glass of wine, champagne & food. The ensemble includes members of the LA Philharmonic and some of the best classical musicians in LA. Join …

This meetup is for yogis interested in participating in Kirtans and who are interested in Bhakti yoga. These kirtans will be organized at Aanand Saagar, a donation based wellness center in Venice. You can find details of these kirtans as well as other yoga events on www.aanandsaagar.com. Bhakti yoga is the yoga of love and devotion. It is used as a means of liberation, as a way for the soul to connect directly to the divine. By opening the self into union with the highest ideal, the purpose of l …

This is the beginning of our second summer of Live Draw's...and our first attempt at reaching more art lovers through Meet Up. • What is it and how does it work? Live Draw is a three hour event where five diverse artists draw a nude model in front of a live audience. Audience members get a rare glimpse into the the hidden world of life drawing and become part of the creative environment. • How do I purchase art at Live Draw? Art may be purchased several different ways during the event.   Art wor …

Everyone deserves to made fun of.  Especially celebrities...including stand-up comedians.  We love also to make fun of doctors, lawyers, politicians and Venetians. Everyone should join this group.  Especially, comedy goers who want to have a good laugh. And stand-up comedians interested in performing at venues in and around Venice, California. Everyone has a right to our humor.

Meeting others in or around Los Angeles Westside (Santa Monica, Venice, Marina del Rey, Culver City, ...) who are practicing personal growth and spiritual evolution through a variety of modalities, including Deep Emotional Release Bodywork and Quantum-Theta Healing.

We are a Kriya Yoga meditation group, located in Venice, California, working in the traditional lineage of Paramahansa Yogananda. We are affiliated with the Center for Spiritual Awareness, with headquarters in Lakemont, Georgia. Our Spiritual Director is Roy Eugene Davis, a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda, and Yogananda's only living Guru-successor. Meetings are held twice per month, normally on the second & fourth Thursday evenings. We welcome anyone who is interested in meditation an …

Aanand Saagar is a wellness sanctuary located in Venice, offering Meditation, Kirtans, Asanas and Spiritual Workshops We offers a number of meditation classes on a donation basis. We practice the following meditation techniques: •Stabilizing meditation - Meditation through fixing the mind on an object (a mantra, the third eye or the breath, for example) •Analytical meditation - Meditation through reasoning and reflection. This includes: 1.Subjective meditation – meditation to cultivate a new att …

NextSpace @ Amplify is an innovative workspace & collaborative coworking community. Your Best Work Happens Here. Venice Beach is a unique convergence of art, tech, creativity and innovation. Smack-dab in the middle of it is NextSpace's 5th location on Amplify's new accelerator campus. The Amplify campus is purpose-built for working, learning and networking, and NextSpace @ Amplify will provide the perfect complement of coworking and community to the energy and talent found in the Amplify acceler …

Join the # 1 BootCamp Fitness Program in L.A.! 12 locations LA/BEACH/VALLEYS BootCamp "Morning Crunch"is a challenging, fun and effective fitness program designed to deliver maximum total body results. The class structure is suitable for people of any fitness level. We combine activities like: push ups, agility exercises, resistance training, abs, squats, speed drills, and endurance challenges to create a fun and rewarding total body workout. The program is is 5 weeks long; and classes are held …

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The Saturday Afternoon Poetry Workshop at Beyond Baroque happens every Saturday at 1:30 pm and ends at 4:30. The facilitator is Bob Foster. Poems are read and critiqued in a supportive and friendly atmosphere. All levels of expertise/experience are welcome! Bring at least 10 copies of your poem (which should be no longer than two pages). The workshop is free and meets in Beyond Baroque's bookstore at 681 Venice Boulevard in Venice, California.

We are starting this group to run pier to pier along the beach from Venice Pier to Santa Monica Pier. We will have the group meet up at the Venice Pier starting off with some positive thoughts then we will run to Santa Monica Pier and Back! My boyfriend and I do this run a couple times a week and thought it would be fun to get a bunch of like minded locals around to do this jog together and hopefully make some friends along the way! Pier to Peer run's goal is to create a place to be fit, positiv …

New to the area? or just want to make some new friends? This meetup group, is about just coming out to a local pub/club/house in West LA (Santa Monica, Venice or Marina Del Ray) area and meeting others without the uncomfortableness of the typical bar scene. Drinking with Strangers (DWS) is an incorporated non-profit for charity meetup group. Created originally for me to meet people when I moved to West LA from New York City in 2007, it has blossomed into one of LA's largest meetup groups and a …

Come drum and dance with us!! We are Los Angeles' most active, open Samba drumming group! Learn to drum and dance like they do in Rio and Bahia! Whether you are a complete beginner, drum circler, dancer, percussion student or a seasoned pro we have something for you. We hold regular classes and rehearsals. Bring your own drums or borrow ours. We focus on performing at festivals, special events and parades. There are plenty of performance opportunities! We've performed at the Hollywood Bowl, T …

The So Cal COMMUNITY IS LARGER THAN REPRESENTED BY THIS SITE & IS ON ANOTHER low volume, nonmeetup EMAIL LIST which you can join in addition to, or instead of this, meetup(info provided in your welcome email): we've added this meetup site to expose more people to these events & provide more social media options to our community so that the email-list stays low volume.  Plus our focus is around sharing experiences together in the real world, not spending time reading & typing on the internet: The …

Santa Monica Young Women's Cooking Club is a hybrid of a book club, a dinner party, and girl's night out! We are a group of young ladies in the Santa Monica area who like to cook, want to experiment with new recipes, and like sharing our food! We are a group of young women mostly in our 20s and 30s. Sorry guys, but this group is for the ladies only. Join us if you want to meet other fun, friendly women in the Westside area who enjoy cooking (especially healthy cooking). Whether you are new to th …

Newly single? New to the area? Stepping out of your cave after hibernating for a few months - or years? Want to increase your circle of friends? Looking for action without having to get on the freeway and drive for an hour in traffic? Then welcome to the group! This is one of the greatest places to live on earth, and we are going to experience it to the fullest. Join us for the hottest nights and coolest days in the South Bay all while getting to know cool local people that are in their 20's-30' …

Maybe you’re in school, maybe working, maybe just trying to figure out what you want to do with your life. The question is are you living? Take advantage of the opportunities and moments you have now. Every day I want to learn something new and cool, experience life to the fullest, meet fun people, and enjoy the communities around me. If you agree with me this is the meetup to join. Playa 20s is about providing these opportunities, as an informal social network and by connecting people in thei …

Beyond Baroque Foundation and Surfrider Foundation, through a Keep LA Beautiful grant, is teaming up to create a garden that uses 80% less water than traditional lawns, results in much less polluted runoff, creates habitat for birds, butterflies, and bees, and is FUN for the community!