I recently went to a "crafternoon" hosted by these Couchsurfing folks in Brooklyn (for those of you who don't know what couchsurfing is; Google it, it's cool). On the website the events said something along the lines of "arts and crafts in Bushwick".
SO my friend and I went, not knowing what to expect, and came to this giant old building in the middle of a dead factory neighborhood. The place was huge, and filled with random furniture, tens and tens of bikes and just a bunch of random shit everywhere. We walked up to the second floor, where we had been directed by couchsurfers smoking outside the front door, and came into a room with a few people sitting down gluing fabric and drawing. We stayed for about an hour and a half just artsing and crafting with a bunch of total strangers, some of whom were really cool and interesting, many of whom were traveling the world.
It was a lot of fun, I'm hoping to go back in the next few weeks. But it was definitely weird.
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