Special Event:
New York City Opera: Puccini Celebration – Bryant Park – 5^th Friday, May 31 7:00PM-8:30PM
https://bryantpark.org/calendar/event/new-york-city-opera-puccini-celebration/2024-05-31

Bryant Park between 5^th & 6^th Aves and 40^th & 42^nd Sts in Manhattan NY 10018
Q238+CP New York

Rules & Regulations – Bryant Park
https://bryantpark.org/the-park/rules-and-regulations

Bryant Park Corporation
1065 Avenue of the Americas Suite 2400
New York NY 10018 -0667
+1 (212) 768-4242
info@bryantpark.org
@bryantparknyc

City of New York, Department of Parks & Recreation
Arsenal Central Park
830 5th Ave
New York NY 10065-7095
+1 (212) 639-9675
https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bryant-park
@nycparks

• Location is subject to change for weather. Check website calendars and Meetup pages for various groups for updates and changes.
• No alcohol permitted! Bring food, soft drinks, and fabric only blankets. Free admission.
• Meryl is the Point of Contact, reachable at +1 (929) 251-3570.
• Meet at the Bryant Park Lawn Blanket Zone, likely South East corner. Check Meetup pages for exact location. Stragglers and lost people call Meryl.

Closest Transit:

7: 5 Av
B,D,F,M: 42 St-Bryant Park
N,Q,R,W,1,2,3,A,C,E: Times Sq-42^nd St
4,5,6: Grand Central-42 St
M42: W 42 St/6 Av

Our friends at various groups are cross-posting this event. Some groups have after-parties.

Drinking Inquisitively
Center for Inquiry – NYC Branch
https://cfi-nyc.org/
https://www.meetup.com/cfinyc/

Humanist Happy Hour
The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism
https://citycongregation.org/events-calendar/

FTI: Thinkers Multi-group BYOB potluck
Free Thinkers Institute
https://www.freethinkerinstitute.org/events/
https://www.meetup.com/freethinkerinstitute/

Live DWA
Gotham Atheists
https://gothamatheists.org/
https://www.meetup.com/GothamAtheists/

Humanist Happy Hour
New York Society for Ethical Culture
https://ethical.nyc/events
https://www.meetup.com/ethicalnyc/

NYC Atheists In-Person Meeting
https://nycatheists.org/calendar/
https://www.meetup.com/nycatheists/

Cross-group Happy Hour at Ethical Culture
Secular Humanists Society of New York
https://www.shsny.org/events-calendar
https://www.meetup.com/shsny-org/

RULES for In-Person Meeting:

1. GROUP PROMOTION: Each group may bring flyers or posters advertising membership, donations, and meetings.
   2.DRINKING: Bring your own booze should be limited to beer and wine, no hard liquors. Everyone should drink responsibly and don’t get sloshed. Save the hard drinking for the after parties in outside bars.
   3.    RESPECT FOR DIFFERENCES: While there is overlap among the groups, not every group is the same and thinks the same. Respect each other’s differences and different ideologies. Look for common ground not for things to hate. We’re all friends here, treat each other as such.
   4.    ARGUMENTS: Listen to each other’s opinion completely in good faith. Ask questions about other’s points instead of immediately dismissing. Approach taboo subjects–such as sex, religion, and politics–with strangers cautiously; back out if getting heated. Agree to disagree and walk away if necessary.
   5.    RESPECT FOR THE MEETING HOUSE: Use appropriate trash/recycling cans and clean up after yourselves. Leave the Meeting House better than you found it. Respect the neighborhood, don’t act foolishly on the streets when entering and leaving or loitering.
   6.    NO ELECTIONEERING: Due to tax restrictions for many groups being §501(c)(3) tax-exempt, do not discuss, promote, denigrate, or leave/display/hand out materials for any candidate, campaign, party, or proposition on any upcoming election. No electioneering during the event. Other activities prohibited by tax-restrictions are also not allowed.
   7.    SELF-RECOGNITION: Try to speak from your own experiences and own your intentions and impacts. Recognize your own privileges and different backgrounds.
   8.    CONFIDENTIALITY: Meetings are private despite being open to the public. Recordings are prohibited. You may share what you learned, but not direct quotes and identities.
   9.    MEETING MODERATION: The organizers, hosts, co-hosts, moderators, and discussion leaders will use various methods available to ensure compliance with the rules and maintain decorum.

Attending any meeting or event implies agreement with the above rules.