New Friends Speed Dating

Schedule

Wed Sep 02 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00
Location

Sidebar | Denver, CO

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Meet new people fast and have a blast chatting your way to potential new friends!
About this Event

🤝 Find Your People: Friend Speed Dating

15+ Conversations. One Night. Meet Your Next Best Friend.

Making friends as an adult is weirdly hard.
You meet someone cool, say “We should totally hang out sometime!”… exchange Instagrams… and then never see each other again. 😅
We're changing that.

Find Your People: Friend Speed Dating is a fun, structured night designed to help you meet people you might actually want to become friends with.
Think speed dating — but completely platonic.
No awkwardly standing around wondering who to talk to. No spending the entire night talking to the one person you came with. We'll get everyone talking, laughing, and meeting new people.

⚡ HOW IT WORKS

You'll have a series of 6-minute Friend Dates with different people throughout the room.
And don't worry — we're not making you have the “So… what do you do?” conversation 15 times.
Each round will feature a fun conversation prompt designed to help you figure out whether you actually click.

You might talk about:
🌎 Your dream vacation
🎶 The concert you'd buy tickets to tomorrow
🥾 Your ideal Colorado weekend
🍻 Your favorite places to go out
🎲 Hobbies you're obsessed with
🍜 Restaurants you're dying to try
✈️ Trips you need a travel buddy for
😂 The random thing you could talk about for an hour

After every conversation, you'll privately make a note of who you'd like to see again.
❤️ Definitely want to hang out
👍 I'd be down to hang out
Nice person, probably not my person
No one sees your answers.

🎯 FIND PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY WANT TO DO THE SAME THINGS

When you arrive, you'll also complete:

“I need a friend to…”

Maybe you need someone to:
🥾 Go hiking with
🍹 Try new happy hours
🎤 Go to concerts
🌮 Hunt down Denver's best food
✈️ Travel
🎲 Play board games
🏋️ Work out
🏈 Watch sports
💃 Go dancing
☕ Grab coffee and talk about life
🏔️ Explore Colorado
🎨 Try random new hobbies
Because finding someone you like is great.
Finding someone you like who actually wants to do the same things you do is even better.

💕 THEN WE MATCH YOU!

At the end of the speed-friending rounds, you'll choose the people you'd most like to hang out with again.
If you both choose each other… IT'S A FRIEND MATCH! 🎉
We'll help make reconnecting easy so “We should hang out sometime” can turn into:
“Want to grab tacos Thursday?”

🥂 THEN THE REAL FUN STARTS

After the structured rounds, we'll open things up for a Second Chance Mixer.
You've met a room full of people.
Now go find the person you only got six minutes with and say:
“Okay, we definitely need to finish that conversation.”
Grab a drink. Exchange numbers. Make plans. Introduce your matches to other people you met.
You might leave with one new friend.
You might leave with five.
You might accidentally find an entirely new friend group.

🫶 COME ALONE!

Seriously.
This event is specifically designed for people who don't already have someone to come with.
Coming alone isn't awkward here — it's kind of the point.
Whether you're new to town, your old friends moved away, you've outgrown your current circle, you're newly single, you work from home, or you simply realized you'd like more great people in your life…
you belong here.
You don't need to be the most outgoing person in the room.
We'll handle the introductions.
You just have to show up.

🤝 Come meet strangers.

😂 Have some surprisingly good conversations.

❤️ Find your people.

Your next best friend could be six minutes away. See you there!

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Where is it happening?

Sidebar, 3463 Walnut Street, Denver, United States

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Tickets

USD 12.51

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