Happy Friendsgiving! Launch Party + Dinner With Strangers + Special Menu
We're launching. Let's party.
We are *two weeks* away from launch! As an early Chorus user, you're invited to our official New York Launch, and trust us: it will be good.
The theme is "Make Friends and Lovers" so, naturally, it's at our favorite Brooklyn spot, Friends and Lovers. We have a stellar lineup of comedians and storytellers, including Lane Moore, host of Tinder Live and bestselling author of How to Be Alone. But mostly, it's about: You. Meeting people. Making friends... and maybe even lovers. RSVP HERE.
A Friendsgiving Menu... Of Conversation Topics
It’s time to gather around a big table full of way too much food with the people you love or are supposed to love or a little bit of both. Regardless of who you’re with, getting a group of people together is stressful. So we whipped up a special treat—a menu with a full course of conversation—everything from starters to sides to juicy mains. Enjoy!
How do we grow "Adult Friendships"?
In the spirit of Friendsgiving, we're talking about building more robust friendships. I'm obsessed with this essay from Morgan Evans, founder of Business Casual and general awesome human, for The Chorus. She contemplates what we mean by "Adult Friendships," and how we should push ourselves to take these as seriously as we take any other relationship.
An excerpt from Morgan's essay:
"How wild would it be if we took a break from a regularly scheduled group Happy Hour hangs to sit down one-on-one with a friend (new or old) and ask each other deep, zoom-out questions like this:
What’s your favorite way to keep in touch? Do you like a constant stream of contact or are you more into sporadic outreach?
Do you generally prefer group hangs or 1 on 1 meet ups? When does your preference change?
What could I do to make you feel most supported when you are feeling really bummed out? (Leave you alone, whisk you away on a trip out of town, show up at your home with takeout and watching movies together all night?)
What makes you feel celebrated? (Going out to dinner? Getting a handwritten card? Having a big party thrown for you? Flowers?)
One reason that this questionnaire exercise might make you squirm is that it is hard to answer these questions for ourselves! It requires a level of self-reflection that few of us delve into regularly. It’s aggressively un-chill, and friendships should be chill, right?
It depends. Sometimes having a chill time with friends is exactly what we need. But when I think about the last time that I was wholeheartedly grateful to a friend, it was for something like letting me sleep on their couch when I was going through a hard time at home. Or meeting me at the bar and buying me a drink while I wept. Or reading over my shoulder a scary email and helping me press send. The friendship rubber hits the road with the messy, dramatic stuff and we should line our friendship containers accordingly.
There’s something radical about getting what you need from your friends. Fulfilling friendships are fundamentally transgressive to the culturally sanctioned path of life that is paved with heteronormative, monogamous, capitalist, Hallmark-holiday milestones."
Share your Friendsgiving with us! We want to hear it.
Post a photo of your friends, your meal, whatever floats your boat, and tell us about the conversations around your table. We're sincerely curious—maybe we'll even use it in an upcoming Dinner With Strangers. Tag us at @get_chorus on Instagram or Twitter and we'll share the love!
See you at the launch party*,
Emily
@emjsmith
CEO & Founder
*West coast parties coming in Feb. Email emily@getchorus.co if you want to help organize or know performers / DJs / local vendors down to collab!