Social
A tradition started in our first year, XOXO Social is a day of meetups, parties, and special events around town — a chance to make new friends while exploring Portland.
XOXO Slack Meetups
The physical manifestation of the XOXO Slack, with dozens of channels self-organizing together in real-life.
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Join us for a 5-mile run on a route tracing a giant "XO" through Buckman and Ladd's Addition, starting at XOXO registration.
Meet at the registration area for a morning bike ride. Need a bike? Electric bikes are available through Biketown.
Join us at [Portland Rock Gym] for a morning climb. $22 for a day pass, $10 for rental shoes, harnesses, and chalk. Pre-sign a waiver here.
Join us to drink tea together. You’re welcome to bring loose tea or teabags to share, but not required.
An XOXO tradition, grab a hot drink and do the Tim Tam Slam with a variety of flavors hard to find outside of Australia.
Join us at a picnic table for a casual hang, and optional show-and-tell of your favorite journal spreads and/or stationery items. Bring your destash to buy/sell/trade/share!
Where better to talk about co-ops than Workers Tap, a worker-owned cooperative coffee house, beer bar, and meeting space?
Come out to Rogue Eastside's massive outdoor patio to talk everything fediverse, Mastodon, and the independent web.
Picnic in the park with the women, genderfluid, genderqueer, non-binary, and trans folks of XOXO. Grab something from our carts or bring your own lunch.
Join organizers from the Freelance Solidarity Project, Kickstarter United, and the Alphabet Workers Union at this charming worker-owned co-op cafe/bar built in a 1904 Victorian only six blocks away.
Zine swap! Bring any zines or stickers you want to give away. Look for a cute sign on a picnic table in the park.
Come hang out with fellow creative coders before Art+Code. Limited outdoor table seating.
Grab a drink with other musicians and music makers.
Meet up with fellow knitters & crocheters to show off your WIPs and FOs. Bring a project for some chill crafting time!
A low-key hangout with other trans attendees in the park.
Take the elevator up to the roof deck to connect and commiserate with others still taking covid precautions in their daily lives.
Podcast creators and fans alike are welcome to join us on Bauman's large outdoor patio. Their taplist includes 20 ciders, along with their house-made non-alcoholic beverages.
After visiting Hopscotch, head one block west to join immersive game designer and Planning Your Escape author Laura E. Hall for drinks on Rogue's huge shaded patio.
We've reserved a space at Sincere Studio and will have some materials for little projects. Feel free to come with something you've sewn you'd love to talk about.
James Beard-award winning Italian restaurant Nostrana invites you to visit l'Orto Nostrano, their sprawling kitchen garden and shaded patio across the street from the restaurant, for a wine tasting event with PDX Wines, exclusively for XOXO attendees in the garden and on their shaded patio.
Opened in 2001, Crush is the East Side's oldest LGBTQ+ bar, after an employee saved it from near-closure during the pandemic, one block from XOXO. Join us for drinks on their outdoor patio.
Bring art supplies and we'll make some art, or just come hang out with other artists and illustrators on A Roadside Attraction's shaded patio. Cash only!
Come meet other singles at [Lil' America], a diverse and inclusive food cart pod only two blocks from XOXO, with the adjacent Fracture Brewing for cocktails and beers.
Grab a drink from Martha's downstairs and head up to the roof for the best view on the eastside.
Poppy, clacky, or thocky? If you have strong opinions about mechanical switches and keycaps, this might be the meetup for you. Feel free to bring your favorites to show and tell.
Come get your city-building geek on. We'll grab a table at the pod of 21 food carts at 10th and Madison. Urbanism(s), transportation (parking! bikes!), policy-wonking, spatial justice — bring your stories, let's have snacks.
XOXO's BIPOC community comes together on Hungry Tiger's huge outdoor patio for good drinks and corn dogs. Happy hour until 7pm, with pool and pinball inside.
We've reserved the whole outdoor patio at one of Portland's best craft cocktail bars.
Video games, tabletop, puzzles, or escape rooms, it doesn't matter. Bring out your prototypes to share!
Join us for a short photowalk, a loop starting at 4:15 heading west on Stark, then left on Sandy to Morrison. If you're at another meetup, join us anytime up to this point.
Writers of all kinds, from journalists and bloggers to authors and creative writers, are welcome to join at ENSO, our neighborhood winery and wine bar.
Join filmmakers, YouTubers, animators, and other video creators at Schilling Cider House, which boasts the largest selection of draft ciders in the country and a completely gluten-free kitchen.