Gatherings so bold you can't help but be yourself
For people seeking authentic connection and who are dissatisfied with small talk.
For creative event hosts who love to experiment with how we come together.
For community builders who are passionate about real connection and sustained community.
Arc is a platform for intentionally designed gatherings that foster natural connections and memorable experiences, eliminating the need for forced interactions or guest effort typically found in casual social events.
What is Arc?
Arc is an open platform to design, host, or attend bold gatherings.
We believe that EVERY gathering should blow you away and allow you to easily open up and connect with others in ways you wouldn't otherwise. This is what gives gatherings lasting impressions. Unfortunately, we find most gatherings/events to be boring, generic, forgettable, unfulfilling, or just okay, leaving it up to the attendees to make the best of it. That's a sad reality for us, and we think people deserve so much more.Most gatherings focus on logistics, how things come together. What makes Arc different is that we focus on how people come together. Every gathering on Arc is built on proven guidelines for gathering people in ways that they will remember.Join us as we change the norm and allow more people to experience gatherings whose impressions last for years—not days, weeks, or months.
Design
Only the unforgettable
Each gathering starts as a design that is curated before it goes live. All designs are open to the public for feedback and co-creation.Start a gathering design from scratch or find an existing one on Arc to modify and make your own. Invite the public to help you create and iterate on the design with open collaboration. Anyone in the world can see the gathering design before and after it goes live.
Host
What inspires you
Live designs are open to the public for anyone to implement (host). Host a gathering design privately or publicly.Use an existing design or the one you've just (co-)created. If you choose to make the gathering private, you can invite friends and family to the gathering page on Arc. If you choose to make the gathering public, anyone in your area may join.
Attend
What moves you
Find a private or public gathering in your area, attend in person (there are no online gatherings in Arc), and experience something that blows you away.If you're searching for generic "game night", "happy hour", or "come mingle" gatherings, you won't find these on Arc ;).
Coming Soon
Sign up to be part of our free beta program before we launch, whether you plan to create or attend. If you are a gathering designer or host, then we will provide designs from the most memorable gatherings that we've hosted. If you just want to attend, then you can attend gatherings that we'll host, starting in Colorado Springs and Denver. We will never sell your information or spam you.
We are working hard to make sure that each experience on Arc is unforgettable, a term we don't throw around loosely. Bear with us as we make this a reality.
Early Access
The table below is a preview of the gatherings on Arc. The full list continues to grow as gatherings are added by our team and eventually, Arc users. See the links below to see more gatherings or request early access to a gathering design. This is available to you for free whether you sign up for our beta program or not.
| Purpose | Name | Category | Interested User |
|---|---|---|---|
| To connect personally first so that business connections become deeper and last longer. | The Anti-Networking Experience | Professional Networking | Professionals |
| To bond with new people or friends at the limit of our wildness. | Bar Crawl Scavenger Hunt | Bar Crawl, Scavenger Hunt | Strangers, Friends |
| To increase university student retention through unlikely student bonds. | Unlikely Bonds | Retention | Students |
| To bond dads to their families and others through hyper dad stereotypes. | Ultimate Dad Competition | Competition | Family |
For a limited time: As we continue to build our gathering database, we are taking requests for our team to create new gathering designs. Use the contact button below to make this request. Be sure to list a specific purpose in your request. We will contact you if we decide to add your gathering idea to the Arc database.
Contact Us
Reach out with any comments, questions, or stories of gatherings that left a lasting impression on you!
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Thank you!
You will be notified when the beta program becomes available and when we launch!