Kickin' It Old School
About this Event
Remember when making friends was as easy as sharing your snack at lunch? We’re bringing back that recess energy, for grown-ups.
Join We Met in Miami at Dear Eleanor on Saturday, Nov. 14, from noon to 9 p.m., as we kick off Give Miami Day with nostalgia, play and new connections.
Drop in or stay all day:
🍪 📚 Bake sale and book swap (12–3 p.m.): homemade treats, coffee and a white elephant swap of books you read in school
🪑 Musical chairs (3–5 p.m.): last one sitting wins, with a DJ spinning
🪩 disco dance class with Nina Osoria Ahmadi (5–6 p.m.)
🕺 Dance Through the Decades (6–9 p.m.): then music from the ’80s, ’90s and ’00s, with spiked punch, costume contests and dance-offs
Get your Hall Pass
Make a Give Miami Day donation of $25 to get a Hall Pass, your ticket to the best parts of the day.
It includes:
- a seat in musical chairs
- 5 tickets to spend all day
Spend your tickets on:
- baked goods: choose from salted tahini cookies, blueberry crumb cake and herbs de Provence baguettes and more, while supplies last
- costume contest entries: prizes every hour, and you can enter more than once
- dance-offs: challenge someone to a showdown featuring the song of your choice from that hour’s decade
Additional tickets are $5 each.
No Hall Pass? No problem. Anyone can swap books, watch musical chairs, take the disco class, dance all night and sip the spiked punch for free.
Why we’re fundraising
We Met in Miami is run by the nonprofit We Met Community Connection, which works to overcome loneliness in South Florida. Give Miami Day is our biggest fundraiser of the year. This annual giving campaign opens Saturday, Nov. 14, and runs through Thursday, Nov. 19. What we raise helps Miamians find friendship, love and a place to belong.
Looking for a new friend or romantic spark?
At our events, we wear wristbands that show others who we are and what we’re looking for (choose one, two or all three):
💚 green for love
💙 blue for friendship
🌈 rainbow for members of the LGBTQIA+ community
💌 if you meet someone special, we’ll help you reconnect after the event
About the venue
Dear Eleanor is a Wynwood space building authentic, accessible, low-key community for Miami locals and creatives.
Free parking is available in an adjacent lot located at 120 NE 27th St. Street parking is limited nearby. Ride share and public transportation are encouraged.
Class Schedule
12-3 p.m. Bake sale and book swap
12-1:30 p.m. Bake sale. Check in, choose your wristbands, make your name tag and pick up your Hall Pass. Grab a treat and a coffee.
1:30-2:30 p.m. White elephant book swap. Bring a wrapped book you read in school, or we’ll cover it in a paper grocery bag like your old textbooks. Unwrap, steal, trade, repeat.
2:30-3 p.m. Class photo. Say cheese! Then find the person who got your book, or whose book you got, and compare notes.
3-4:30 p.m. Musical chairs
3-3:30 p.m. Take your seats. Check in for musical chairs.
3:30-4:30 p.m. Musical chairs. The DJ spins, the chairs disappear and only one champion remains.
4:30-5 p.m. Class photo and mingle. Catch your breath and make a connection.
5-9 p.m. Dance Through the Decades
5-5:30 p.m. Punch is spiked. Check in and get your dancing shoes on.
5:30-6 p.m. Disco dance class with Nina Osoria Amadhi. Learn a few moves before the party starts. No experience or partner necessary!
6-7 p.m. The ’80s. Big hair, bigger hits. Costume contests and dance-offs all night!
7-8 p.m. The ’90s. Scrunchies, butterfly clips and boy bands.
8-9 p.m. The ’00s. Low-rise jeans, flip phones and one last dance.
9 p.m. Final bell. Meet someone cool? Drop your Connection Card into the Matchbox. If the feeling’s mutual, we’ll reconnect you.
Where is it happening?
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