If you are homeschooling in Marin County and its surrounding areas (or considering it,) this is a way to connect with other families for information, support, and activities. Members have many resources available to them -- a current family roster, an in-depth message board with forums covering several topics, and a calendar filled with field trips, classes, social gatherings and other events. We are a diverse group and welcoming of all families, regardless of homeschooling style, and we do not …

Come Join us!  "We Just wanna Have FUN" is a Marin County social group for girls and guys in their 30s and 40s. This group is all about making new friends and doing activities like, happy hour, going to the movies, getting together for brunch, triva and and much much more mainly within the Marin area. Cheers! Lisa

LAST MINUTE POST --- We did SantaCon YountVegas last year, now let's hit San Fran SantaCon with its naked challenge. Join us around 2:30pm in Washington Square Park (Columbus and Washington in San Fran's Little Italy area). We are the official photographers for the event. We can create ad hoc photo set-ups in the park so bring flash and smaller portable studio lighting. We'll 'invite' the best Santas and elves to pose. SantaCon is a massive pub crawl with loads of photo opportunities. It's a com …

Annadel State Park is host to some of the best mountain biking terrain in the entire state, with its mixture of technical rocky climbs, screaming downhill descents, and over 40 miles of pristine single track to explore it's no wonder this park is known worldwide for its mountain biking. If you have been looking to ride with other avid mountain bikers in challenging terrain, want to be safer and be able to push yourself a little further knowing that someone else is riding with you or maybe you're …

OUT & ABOUT SANTA ROSA is a group for LGBTQ folk and their friends. We host scheduled social events and activities in parks, bike and hiking trails, homes, restaurants and other venues throughout Santa Rosa and greater Sonoma County. We add events and activities regularly to enhance the entertainment and cultural life of the LGBTQ community of Sonoma County. Our goal is to host events, as well as to publicize LGBTQ events of other social groups, in addition to activities in the broader community …

I am a first time mom to a super active little guy-- we are always looking for new and fun things to explore as well as frequenting our "regular" spots! Joining friends, old and new, makes even an routine trip to the park more fun, right? If you are looking for playdates, friends to meet for outdoor activities, rainy day creative activities, mom's night out, shared support and information-- please join! Looking forward to meeting little people and parents too!

The Robert Ferguson Observatory (RFO) is Northern California's most active public observatory. We are located in the ( Sugarloaf Ridge State Park ) in Kenwood , CA . Just 10-minutes east of Santa Rosa ! Robert Ferguson Observatory offers educational classes in both solar and night sky observing, along with use of our three different telescopes: a 24-inch reflector, an 8-inch refractor, and a 14-inch CCD. If astronomy interests you; or you’re an astronomer yourself, please consider joining the Ro …

The Marin Film & Foodies is a group of like-minded men and women who enjoy a wide variety of movies. Whenever possible, we try to match the ethnic cuisine of the film, but otherwise the goal is just to share a good meal and conversation before or after a movie. We primarily watch movies in Marin County. We regularly patronize the Rafael Film Center, but also visit mainstream cinemas and other local venues. Very rarely we will venture outside Marin and go to a specialty cinema in the East Bay, Sa …

We Are Excited to Offer Several Painting Groups Within The Creative Freedom Painting Sessions. One Tuesday a Month- 6PM - 8PM Sundays for Teens (3/24-5/26): 3PM - 6PM Sundays: 12PM - 3PM We will meet to paint together and generate creative play and awareness. We will use the "process" arts method, inspired by Stewart Cubley and Michele Cassou. We will focus on the process of our creative experience, rather than the product.  This requires us to let go of our agenda and attachments to what will …

Weekend hiking with the canine companion(s) and socializing with other hikers in the community. One doesn't have to be a dog owner to be a member; just someone who likes hanging around dogs and the outdoors. Since I'm still learning the area, I will be posting dog-friendly hiking trails from www.bahiker.com, but other suggestions are welcome and encouraged. My partner and I have a senior Corgi, so most hikes will be low-key and fall within beginner-to-intermediate levels. The majority of the hi …

For the get togethers we look forward to starting the day early with both a discussion about the month's book and a walk.  The discussion may be at a cafe or park immediately before or after the walk. This meeting is once a month for an early weekend morning walk around, for example, Spring Lake, in Santa Rosa.

This is a group for lovely lolitas of all shapes, genders, styles and sizes to come and meet and make merry! We lolitas in the Sonoma County area (including Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park, Windsor, Petaluma, Sebastopol, etc etc) hope to make this group fun and joyful for both experienced and new lolitas. We're a friendly little group that would love to make friends with similar passions! Sonoma County is a beautiful place where a beautiful common interest can bring wonderful people together to share i …

At our monthly meetings, Lyme patients and their loved ones can gather to discuss the challenges faced in diagnosing, treating, and coping with Lyme disease and other tick-borne illness (including babesiosis, bartonella, and erlychiosis). The important thing is that our meetings offer a safe and supportive place where Lyme patients and their friends, families can learn more about this disease in a supportive and compassionate group setting. It's a safe place where you can tell your story, learn …

A collective of residents in the general Gerstle Park area of San Rafael who are interested in connecting as a community through potlucks, gatherings, events in the Park (yoga, tai chi, meetups), share skills & resources (tools, books, garden beds, or the simple last minute egg you don't have on hand for a recipe). We are about creating a strong community and embracing all ages, genders, races, relationship statuses, faiths, beliefs and economic brackets. Let's celebrate our awesome community to …

This is a group that loves to Dance, take dance classes or just dance. We will be offering beginning classes in Jitterbug and West Coast Swing starting Thursday, January 3rd.  Check out www. Justdanceswing.webs.com/ for more info. Meet at Kick's Studio 1426 Mendocino Ave near Pacific, across from SRJC parking garages next to Music Biz

Napa can be a wonderful place to live. It's weather is perfect to a fault (there are no seasons!), which means you can do just about anything you want that doesn't involve snow. Unfortunately, many activities in Napa do involve either fancy -and expensive- dining and/or alcohol. The purpose of this group is to allow those of us who are in the beginning stages of life --either new family, new career and/or new business-- to get out and socialize or be active without spending so much. This group i …

Jack London State Historic Park offers a wide variety of free Sunday morning hikes. The hikes are led by volunteer docents and are designed for people that want to explore the park with a friendly group of fellow hikers. Hikes range from short nature walks, medium hikes to the Ancient Redwood and long hikes to the park summit plus many others. Check our website for the times and dates of upcoming hikes at www.jacklondonpark.com.

This Meetup group is for mobile computing Entrepreneurs and App Developers that live and or work in the North Bay. The technology focus of the group is iOS & Android developer centric while the intention of the group is to create opportunities for both networking and education in Sonoma County. The group’s primarily venue is Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, or Cotati/Rohnert Park and surrounding area residents. This group could be of interest to all; Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, and Marin County residents th …

This is a new Wing Tsun/Escrima meetup group in Sonoma County – Class in Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa! Also check us out at bmmasc.com Wing Tsun, 詠春, is a Southern Chinese martial art originated over 300 years ago during the Qing dynasty. Wing Tusn is a "soft" style that does not counter force with force but instead recycles energy and employs a sophisticated method of response using trained reflexes. Chi-Sao ("sticky hands") training is used to develop and hone these reflexes to specific …

COME ONE COME ALL - KNITTERS and CROCHETERS! Let's sit and knit/crochet on Thursday evenings, at Cast Away Yarn, in Railroad Square. This is an amazing time and place to meet other crafters and work on our projects. Use this meetup to socialize with others who also love yarn, knitting, crocheting, talking and laughing! Lets get together and share ideas, projects, techniques. patterns, etc. Bring your project bag, pick-up a coffee or tea and lets meet on Thursdays from 5-8 (drop-in during any par …

Sonoma County Explorers is an environmentally conscious group of really fun and friendly folks who like to create outdoor adventure activities combined with interactive learning, education, and awareness. We are four explorers who have camped in Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Morocco, Vietnam, Morocco, Australia and throughout the United States and Canada over the last 25 years - and never found anywhere more pleasant to be outdoors than in Sonoma County. We have decided to enjoy what surrounds …

This group assists Pt Reyes National Seashore staff in removing invasive exotic plant species. Park Service staff leads groups one Thursday each month and one Sunday each month, and additional days can be scheduled. Invasive exotic plant species displace native plant species and can change entire ecosystems. Examples include Scotch Broom and Cape Ivy.

The hikes are led by volunteer Hike Leaders from the Mt. Tamalpais State Park, (MTSP) volunteer organization, called "Friends of Mt. Tam". Hikes take place every Sat.& Sun. year around. Meeting at 10:00am sharp. If you are five minutes late you may miss the start of the hike. Go to mttam.net, Hiking section for the Hike Schedules and trailhead meeting locations. Mileage to be expected, etc. is listed there. All hikes take place in, and/or around Mt.Tamalpais. There are also Wed. evening (starts …

Get outdoors! This is a group for people who want to hike, paddle, and/or do volunteer trail work and habitat restoration in the Lake Berryessa area of Napa County. We'll do a mixture of short, easy hikes in parks at the lake for families with children, strenuous hikes of 14 miles with a 3,000 foot elevation gain, nature hikes with interpretive park rangers, paddles around the islands or in the moonlight, trail building in wilderness areas, hard work removing invasive species and easy work plant …

Trans*Actions Sonoma County is for trans* folks and our families who are interested in getting together to socialize, eat, walk, talk, hang out, mobilize, exercise or get organized in Sonoma County. Trans* (trans with an asterisk) includes binary and nonbinary trans gender identities. Our meetup group will be as active (or quiet) as its members, so please schedule as many (or as few) meet ups as you like. Maybe you love hiking and want company, or you enjoy picnics in the park with other familie …

Looking to find a group of freelance or work at home creative's or entrepreneurs who want to get out of the house and share space with others of like mind. Share ideas but mostly combine our power of income generation to have a space in the Novato, Petaluma, Rhonert Park area. Working alone can be great, but having a group of other creative, energetic people around is much more fulfilling for a working day (IMHO). Maybe we are just 3-5 people who share a large space. The other aspect of this mee …

This is a new club for British car enthusiasts but most important,  "Current owners" of a British car. We welcome all makes and models of British cars. Let's get together and show off our beauties and develop friendships in the process. The time committment would be 2 hours on a Sunday morning, once a month. We'd ideally, parking in an area that has a large, well paved parking lot such as the large parking lot at Vintage Oaks in Novato off of Rowland.  As the founder of the group and one that li …

FEMALE A CAPPELLA SINGERS WANED REAL WOMEN, REAL HARMONY, REAL FUN! Have you been thinking of doing something good for yourself in 2013? How about joining our award-winning, dynamic and fun chorus of 'a cappella' singers. In April, we won the 1st Place, Mid-Size Chorus Division award at our annual competition and we are looking for new members who are looking for a group of fun, accomplished and dedicated women who love a cappella music. We don’t just sing, we dance too!! We are a diverse group, …