Your first
Field Trip
We handle all the little details: buying the tickets, finding a restaurant, making the intros. You get the rare New York luxury of simply showing up.
show up solo
of 12
personally hosted
No plus-one needed
Field Trip is for people who want more of New York's art and culture in their lives, and more people to experience it with.
Booking for one isn't the exception here. It's the default setting. You don't need an encyclopedic knowledge of theater or contemporary art, or the kind of personality that can work a room. A free evening and a little curiosity will do.
Here's exactly how a trip goes.
How a Field Trip works
From “maybe I should” to “see you there.”
Pick something you want to see or do.
Broadway shows, Off-Broadway plays, museum exhibitions, gallery tours, and the occasional thing that defies category. Some trips are buzzy. Some are strange. Some are both, which is usually a good sign.
Groups are intentionally small, usually 10 to 12 people, so trips fill quickly. If one's sold out, join the waitlist. Spots open more often than you'd expect.
Show up already in the know.
A few days out, your Field Trip host sends the full rundown: where and when we're meeting, how to find the group, and how the evening will flow, down to the details. You'll also get photos and short bios of your group, so you can put faces to names before you've left the apartment.
There's a little Extra Credit provided in advance too: interviews, podcasts, and stories about what we're seeing and the people who made it. Read all of it, read none of it, or skim it on the train. You'll have plenty to talk about either way.
Meet the group before the main event.
We usually start at a spot nearby about an hour before we head in. Your first drink and some snacks are covered, but the real point is meeting everyone first. (For some events, we do this after the main attraction. You'll get instructions one way or the other!)
A Field Trip host will be there to welcome you and introduce you around. You'll know who to look for, and your host will know you're coming. Nobody hovers at the edge of a conversation waiting for an opening. Making sure of that is the host's whole job, and we take it seriously.
Experience it together.
Then we head in as a group. At shows, we sit together in hand-picked seats. At museums and galleries, we take it in at our own pace without ever being far from the group.
There's something different about experiencing art a few feet from people you just met. The intermission chatter comes easy: shared references, strong reactions, and people who actually want to hear yours. No more standing around with a take and no one to tell.
Get a little closer to what you saw.
Some trips include something a ticket alone can't get you: a private Q&A with the cast or creative team, a conversation with an artist or curator, a guided tour, a look behind the curtain.
Not every trip has one, but when it does, we get to go well past “so, did you like it?” and hear directly from the people who made the work.
Leave with more than a ticket stub.
Afterward, the conversation keeps going on its own: under the marquee, on the sidewalk, over one more drink for whoever isn't ready to call it.
No forced bonding exercises. Just a small group of people who chose the same interesting thing on the same night. Sometimes that becomes a spirited argument about the second act. Sometimes it becomes plans for the next trip. Often it's both.
The group is small on purpose. That's the point.
Field Trips are capped at 12 people. That's enough to meet several new faces and few enough to actually finish a conversation with them.
You won't spend the evening circulating through a room of 50 strangers repeating your own introduction. You'll recognize everyone by the end of the night, and the group will feel like a group, not an audience that happened to buy the same ticket.
The goal isn't to meet as many people as possible. It's to meet a few you'd actually want to see again.
The honest FAQ
The questions you'd ask a friend who's been.
Yes. Most people book their first Field Trip solo, and every trip has plenty of people hoping to meet someone new. Bringing a friend is welcome too. Either way, you will never be the only one who booked for one.
A note from Matt
I started Field Trip because I loved going to theater, museums, and cultural events around New York, but too many great nights ended with no one to talk to about what I'd just seen. I suspected I wasn't the only one.
Nearly 1,000 members later, my favorite part is still the same: watching two strangers meet over a drink and end the night happily arguing about a second act on the walk to the train.
Your first Field Trip is the hardest one to book. After that, you'll know exactly why people keep coming back.
Pick something that interests you. We'll take it from there.
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Small groups, hosted nights, and the best of New York culture with people who actually want to be there.
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