We run small social events — usually somewhere between ten and thirty people, who arrive together, sit down, talk to each other for a couple of hours, and drink while they do it. We are looking for rooms, and we do not pay for them, because we are not asking you to sell us anything.
A room full of people who arrive together and stay two to three hours, on an evening it would otherwise be half empty. Turnout varies — ten some months, thirty others — and at €12–20 a head that is somewhere around €150–500 across the bar, from a booking that costs you nothing and needs no staff beyond whoever is already pouring.
We run two, and they want quite different rooms. Most places can host one of them. Tell us which — a no on either is genuinely fine.
Everyone on their feet, with a number on their phone. Every few minutes the numbers change, people find whoever is showing the same one, and talk. Over a couple of hours everybody meets everybody. Then it settles into an ordinary evening and they stay.
Needs: floor space where people can stand and move about — a back area, a mezzanine, a balcony, high tables. No chairs, no layout, no setup. Noise is fine and honestly helps, because people are talking to one person at a time.
Everyone facing one speaker for about ninety minutes, with questions from the room. We film it. Smaller than the other one, typically.
Needs: somewhere quieter and more separate — no music in the room, and not too much noise coming in from the bar. This is the harder one, and far fewer places can do it.
Three of these questions decide whether a room can run the format at all, so they are worth answering honestly — a no does not disqualify you, it just tells us what the evening would look like.