By invitation
Off
Hours.
For people devoted to their craft and curious about everyone else’s.
An invite-only dinner series bringing together 12 to 18 people from three different worlds: business, hospitality, and arts and culture.
Three worlds. One table. People you probably wouldn’t have met otherwise.
People outside your usual orbit.
Off Hours brings together 12 to 18 people from business, hospitality, and arts and culture. The mix is intentional, with roughly a third of the table coming from each world.
Most gatherings start around a long table. Sometimes someone opens a door into their world: a kitchen before service, a studio between shows, a lab after hours, a site before it opens.
The hope is simple: meet people you would rarely encounter in your own world, spend enough time together to actually know one another, and see what grows from there.
How it works.
12 to 18 people. Roughly one third business, one third hospitality, and one third arts and culture.
We gather every few weeks. Most gatherings are dinners. Others might take place inside someone’s world: a kitchen, studio, stage, lab, workshop, newsroom, showroom, or somewhere harder to categorize.
One opening question sets the tone. Usually something like, “What can’t you stop thinking about lately?”
Invite-led, by nomination.
There are no panels, pitches, forced mingling, or weird name tags.
The room matters.
Each table is built for range. We look for people who are excellent at what they do, generous with their curiosity, and genuinely fun to sit next to.
Different disciplines and perspectives make the dinner better. The common thread is having a real body of work and being interested in people whose lives look very different from your own.
You might belong at Off Hours if...
- You are devoted to your craft.
- You have made, built, led, cooked, written, researched, performed, designed, shipped, or shaped something you care deeply about.
- You are curious about people whose work has very little to do with yours.
- You can talk about more than work.
- You have strong opinions and good questions.
- You are generous in a room.
- You are genuinely fun to sit next to.
- You might have a world you’d enjoy opening to the group one day. Hosting is optional.