BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Sober Curator - ECPv6.18.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thesobercurator.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Sober Curator REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T210000 DTSTAMP:20261001T200039Z CREATED:20261001T195849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T200039Z UID:10004980-1791482400-1791493200@thesobercurator.com SUMMARY:Befriend your scaries: An exploratorium of emotions DESCRIPTION:Befriend your scaries: An exploratorium of emotions\nOverview\n\n\n\n\nThis Sober October and Halloween\, don’t ghost your emotions — meet them with curiosity and compassion in a cozy\, supportive environment. \n\n\n\n\n👻 No tricks\, pressure\, or ghosting emotions. Enter our space to breathe\, feel\, and be kind to yourself. \n✨ Join hosts Bar Nun and Sprout Society for a two-part exploratory journey to build genuine human connection through vulnerability\, play\, and somatic processing in an inclusive\, substance-free space.\n\n🧘 Four incredible facilitators will lead immersive\, guided small-group experiences and discussion.\n🖌️ Use behavioral tools and self-expression to unmask and alchemize real feel “scaries” we often carry alone (anxieties\, unsaid thoughts\, conflict\, awkwardness\, and heavy feelings like shame) into emotional honesty\, safety\, self-trust\, humor\, and creativity.\n🥂 Enjoy non-alc beverages while exploring the hard things together in a respectful\, judgment-free zone.\n🧛 Get in the spirit and don your fave Halloween costume! Also no pressure if you come as you are.\n\n🎟️ You can register for one or two sessions\, please sign up for both dates if you intend to attend both. \n💖 Leave feeling lighter\, seen\, and anchored within community.\n\n🧩 Gentle on-ramps: Warm hosts and fun\, low-stakes prompt cards or game will make breaking the ice effortless.\n👥 Small-group pairings: Every workshop is built around pairs or intimate circles so you build rapport without feeling put on the spot in front of everyone. Our exercises help attendees leave with new friends.\n🤝 📲 Connection time: Whether solo or with a friend\, sober\, sober-curious\, or just seeking good company without liquid courage\, you won’t just sit and listen\, you will have opportunities to connect! We dedicate breaks throughout for open mingling and contact swaps.\n\n🎟️ Donation-based with RSVP\nRecommended minimum donation is $15 (without fees) per event and helps support our continued community work. \n‼️ Note: Even if you can’t make it\, RSVP for free to be notified first of our upcoming events. \n🗓️ Program Breakdown\n🎭 October 8: Unmasking and belonging\n\n🦹 Jennie Kogan\, LCSW of Bravely Belong guides us through a small-group exercise to meet our dark or hidden side — give your beloved angsty\, judgy\, badass part permission to feel\, speak\, and be in a safer than usual way and get to a space of clarity on the other side.\n🤡 Sasha Raskin of A Beautiful Mess transforms social fear through the liberating art of clowning. Through interactive play\, red-nose energy\, and lighthearted exercise\, she guides us in stripping away shame\, embracing failure\, and discovering how delightful it is to lean into awkward vulnerability to build trust.\n\n🧘 October 22: Expression and stillness\n\n🎨 Rachel Long of Buzzkill NYC leads a playful\, low-pressure creative exercise designed to help us connect through shared self-expression and arts-inspired conversation. You’ll build courage in channeling and sharing emotions within community.\n🔔 Trish McCormick of Yule Glow Wellness draws experience from the Khmer concept yŏl (“to understand”) in providing a choice-centered sound meditation and breathwork journey. Together\, we celebrate our progress and observe what we carry without judgment. Share a collective breath to wind down for the evening.\n\n\nAbout our hosts\n\n🌱 Sprout Society is a nonprofit community hub + DIY space in Bushwick for creativity\, community\, and care. Drop in\, co-work\, gather\, host\, take a class\, find your people. Anyone is welcome through our doors\, regardless of what they’re going through or what they can afford.\n🍹 The Bar Nun Life brings people together through non-alcoholic experiences focused on wellness\, art\, technology\, and vegetarian dining.\n\nAbout our non-alcoholic drink sponsors\nBased on product availability\, get excited to try: \n\n🧪 All the Bitter are small batch\, award-winning cocktail bitters made with organic herbs designed to easily provide depth and balanced complexity to drinks.\n🌾 Asahi 0.0% Super Dry delivers a crisp\, hoppy\, and flowery beer for the familiar\, light\, and refreshing experience that Japan’s original No. 1 beer is known for.\n🍄 High Ground Elixirs are low calorie\, vegan\, fruit-flavored sparkling beverages inflused with adaptogenic mushrooms for mood balancing without the mushroom taste.\n🍷 Jøyus offers a range of award-winning de-alcoholized wines grown in the Pacific Northwest that are vegan\, gluten-free\, and low calorie.\n🌊 Pentire Drinks is a UK-based certified B-corp that naturally distills whole plants to create coastal flavors inspired spirits and canned cocktails.\n🍸 Per Se was founded by a couple looking for sophisticated ready-to-drink options that were entirely juice and tea-based to support modern\, active lifestyles.\n🥃 Roots Divino offers award-winning vermouth proudly crafted with Greek ingredients for unique notes of wormwood\, lemon\, and Mediterranean herbs.\n🥂 SemiPlume is an elevated\, dry champagne-like sparkling that features sencha\, yuzu\, fig\, and other complex tea and juice flavors. It’s also all natural\, no added sugar\, vegan\, and gluten-free.\n🪵 The Pathfinder offers a fermented hemp and root spirit and ready-to-drink cocktails that deliver earthy\, bittersweet intensity inspired by ancient apothecary elixirs with a modern\, edgy twist.\n🌿 Three Spirit offers functional spirit elixirs and wine alternatives designed by plant scientists and bartenders to enhance your mood\, rhythm\, and mind throughout the day and night.\n\n🛡️ Space and safety commitment\nThis is a beginner/introductory experience. All identities\, emotional states\, and experience levels are welcome. Come exactly as you are—whether energetic\, quiet\, nervous\, or tired. There is no pressure to share more than you are comfortable with. \nTo hold a brave and welcoming environment\, all participants are required to respect others\, their boundaries\, and their personal space. We are dedicated to maintaining a conscious\, consensual\, and supportive community space for all participants. \nDisclaimer: Speakers\, activities\, and sponsors are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances\, including weather conditions\, transportation issues\, local events\, etc. By RSVPing\, you acknowledge that you are attending voluntarily and assume all risks associated with this event. \n\n\n\nLove what you read? #sharesobriety\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on Reddit (Opens in new window)\n Reddit URL:https://thesobercurator.com/event/befriend-your-scaries-an-exploratorium-of-emotions/2026-10-08/ LOCATION:Sprout Society\, 26 Scott Avenue\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11237\, United States CATEGORIES:New York ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thesobercurator.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Befriend-Your-Scaries-2.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261006T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261006T200000 DTSTAMP:20261001T200918Z CREATED:20261001T200918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261001T200918Z UID:10004983-1791309600-1791316800@thesobercurator.com SUMMARY:NYC Founder Social with Soft Bar DESCRIPTION:NYC Founder Social with Soft Bar\n\n\nStartup CPG is coming back to New York City: \nJoin us for an evening of mingling with CPG founders from around the NYC area\, hosted at Soft Bar! Founder Carl Radke (you may know him from Summer House) will be in attendance along with other VIPs excited to meet you and try your products! \n\n\n\nCome hang out\, taste some great products\, and meet other founders building in the CPG space. \nApply to sample at this event! All categories are open to sample at this event except for alcohol.  \nAnyone can bring their products to share what they’re working on — no pitch decks\, just good product and good conversation\, but in order to have a formal sampling table\, you must apply and be accepted by Startup CPG. \n\nCome meet our featured guests:\n\n\nMishka Aminov – Director of Business Development @ Gold Coast Distributors \n\n\nBill Schultz – Partner @ Beliade \n\n\nLisa Li – Senior Investment Associate @ Rocana Venture Partners \n\n\nJannik Buddenberg – Senior Investment Associate @ Guild Capital \n\n\nDaniel Casiero – Principal @ Prelude \n\n\nLauren Mamuska – Senior Category Manager\, Babies/Kids/Pets/Cereals and Granolas @ Thrive Market \n\n\nJosh Mandell – Director of Marketing\, Sales & Analytics @ Key Foods Mandell\, Holiday Farms Gemstone \n\n\n\nSophia Dodd – Principal Investor @ Equal Ventures \n\n\nGlenn Cunningham – Senior Director of Center Store @ Village Supermarkets (Wakefern) – Fairway\, Gourmet Garage\, ShopRite \n\n\nMike MacCombie – Venture Partner @ NextGen Venture Partners \n\n\nMaurice Ng – Managing Director @ Tings Capital \n\n\nMadison Pascual – Principal @ Verlinvest \n\n\nAmanda Amos – Investor @ Collaborative Fund \n\n\nElina Batt – Investment Associate @ Enlightened Hospitality Investments \n\n\nMaxine Lopez – Category Manager\, Bread & Bakery @ FreshDirect \n\n\nJacob Afriat – Managing Partner @ Great Circle Ventures \n\n\nElizabeth Brown – Investor @ Provenance Consumer Fund \n\n\nAndrew Watman – Contributor\, Innovation in Food & Beverage @ Forbes \n\n\nBrandon Alster – Founder @ Sling Ventures \n\n\nAlexis Kline – Senior Associate @ CAVU Consumer Partners \n\n\nNicole Atamian – Vice President @ Scoop Ventures \n\n\nTiffany Tan @ Happier Grocery \n\n\nNina Roberts – Writer and Editor @ Various Publications (The Guardian US\, Fortune\, Marketplace\, etc.) \n\n\nJane Arbogast – Category Manager\, Alcohol @ FreshDirect \n\n\nFatoumata Barry – Associate Category Manager\, Grocery\, Snacks @ FreshDirect \n\n\nJonathan Deeter – Founder & CEO @ Pickle Advisors / Deet’s Eats Media \n\n\nSloane Kraftsow – Founder @ The Shelf \n\n\n\nCheck out our featured sampling brands:\n\nAfternoon Toast is a roasted barley and ginger tea\, bottled to support digestion and hydration without caffeine or sugar.\n\nCabu Latte is the world’s first latte powered by cacao butter instead of dairy/nut/oat milks. \n\n\nCroots makes bold-flavored\, crunchy sourdough snacks\, starting with croutons made for snacking straight from the bag. \n\nDisco Fizz is All Boogie\, No Bullshit: a functional non-alcoholic drink with green tea caffeine\, sea salt electrolytes\, and nothing artificial.\nDoosra makes sweet & savory Indian snack mixes.\nHow Tea makes bold\, adaptogenic sparkling teas that bring a little edge to the non-alcoholic beverage space.\nMODA Mocktails is a premium mocktail brand founded by a MOther and DAughter team crafting mocktails with thoughtfully selected ingredients and bold flavor.\n\nMTK Mocktails is an adaptogens free line of non-alcoholic beverage that is inspired by the many flavors of Montauk.  Carefully crafted 12 oz slim cans that are true virgin mocktails and our first flavor is the Montauk Mule.\n\n\nNuMuti Social Tonics makes an alcohol alternative created with authentic South African roots and unique African flavors.\n\n\nRally makes 2 oz electrolyte-packed pickle shots for fast cramp relief & clean hydration.\n\n\nRiver Kitchen Company is a mother-son-founded natural food brand creating a different kind of granola\, built around nuts instead of oats. \n\n\nS’NOODS\, born from winning Netflix’s Snack vs. Chef\, isn’t just another chip with a bold flavor claim but the comfort of noodles with the crunch of a chip.\n\n\nSticky’s mission is to make maple syrup better—pure\, authentic\, thoughtfully made\, and rooted in Vermont’s forests and traditions\, with a fresh\, playful spirit. \n\n\nSt. Buena Vida makes premium non-alcoholic sparkling wine from organic\, single-vineyard Chardonnay\, crafted for the same occasions as a great bottle of wine. \n\n\nTangry Shrub Spritz bubbles their shrub for a vinegar punch to the gut biome or as a booze-free way to RAGE.\n\n\nTea Jams reinvents jam with chef-crafted\, tea-infused organic fruit spreads featuring less sugar\, bold flavor\, and an innovative squeeze bottle made for more than toast. \n\n\nVeggie Underground is the only vegan cheese made with real veggie purees – carrot\, parsnip and red bell pepper – and melts and tastes just like dairy cheeses.\n\n\nVYQRA brings King Coconut from Sri Lanka into everyday moments through a canned beverage rooted in origin\, culture\, and simplicity.\n\n\nZZAI brings West African drinking traditions to the American soda aisle\, four craft sodas made with real cane sugar and nothing artificial.\n\n\nMore coming soon!\n\n\n\n\nLove what you read? #sharesobriety\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on Reddit (Opens in new window)\n Reddit URL:https://thesobercurator.com/event/nyc-founder-social-with-soft-bar/ CATEGORIES:New York ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://thesobercurator.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Soft-Bar.avif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T220000 DTSTAMP:20260905T215100Z CREATED:20260905T215100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260905T215100Z UID:10004926-1791050400-1791064800@thesobercurator.com SUMMARY:Dopeycon: The Game Show Experience! DESCRIPTION:Dopeycon: The Game Show Experience!\nCOME ON DOWN! \nPresented by Mountainside Treatment Center! \nGeneral Admission: $65  \nPatreon Admission: $50 \nhttps://buytickets.at/thedopeyfoundation \nWhat is DopeyCon the game show edition? \nCome Find out because you might be in it! Where a Dopey Style Costume and your odds of being in the show increase! \nFor the past 7 years (give or take) we have been holding Dopey Conventions to bring our community of addicts and alcoholics together to have a laugh\, remember our lost friends and show that we can have fun in recovery! \nDopeyCon:The Game Show Edition is our newest Dopey Event! Imagine if The Price is Right had group sex with Alcoholics Anonymous\, Narcotics Anonymous\, MTV Unplugged\, Def Comedy Jam\, The Moth and Katz’s Deli all at once! Intrigued? So are we:) \nThe night kicks off with a 6 PM reception featuring ½ pastrami sandwiches from Katz’s Delicatessen\, Plus delicious vegan and vegetarian options. \nThere will also be sober celebrities\, and local artists hanging out and shmoozing with the crowd. \nCome hang. Play some games! . Meet some people. Eat some pastrami. Join the Dopey Nation. It’ll be fun. \nCome in Costume and get a free Something! \nFeaturing: Hank Azaria\, Carl Radke\, John Joseph\, Abbey Fickly\, Erin Khar\, Zac Clark\, John Joseph\, Rachel Slocum\, Brian Murray from Dogs in a Pile\, Jerry Stahl\, James Frey\, Kevin McEnroe\, Jeannine Coulter\, Ray Brown\, Alan\, Linda\, Handsome Evan\, Lenny from the Beach. The Great Cormac\, Alexis Haines\, Shane Enholm\, Ben Croxton\, Amanda Crossly\, Sara Clark\, ‘Nobody Cares’ Anthony\, LJ Ruggiero\, Matt Lieb and more! \nLove what you read? #sharesobriety\n Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)\n Facebook\n \n Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)\n LinkedIn\n \n Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)\n Pinterest\n \n Share on X (Opens in new window)\n X\n \n Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)\n Tumblr\n \n Share on Reddit (Opens in new window)\n Reddit URL:https://thesobercurator.com/event/dopeycon-the-game-show-experience/ LOCATION:SVA Theatre\, New York City\, NY\, 10001\, United States CATEGORIES:New York ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thesobercurator.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Dopeycon-game-show-experience.avif END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR