What we’re about
To find events—both online and in-person—go to our website https://www.finding-female-friends-50.com/about
FFF>50 is an all-volunteer community where women >50 come to connect, make friends, and share their passions and expertise. Please, become a member and use us. As soon as you join, you are able to attend, create and host events (no size too small or too big).
This is our San Francisco Bay area chapter. It's for finding, attending, and hosting in-person events. If you want to attend and create online events, you'll also need to join our National chapter. You can find all our locations on our website: https://www.FFF50.org
Once you become a member, just use one or both of the links below to become a host. If you want help doing that (whether brainstorming ideas, or using the MU event creation page, or anything else) just reach out to me, Dale, at [email protected]
➤IN-PERSON HOSTING FORM
https://forms.gle/7wduJQWHTC4FryaU6
➤VIRTUAL HOSTING FORM
https://forms.gle/bvvcKvR1Eysc5WeJ9
If you're a member of any of our local chapters, I have a great way for you to meet other members who live nearby. I call them 6@6, meaning 6 members at 6:00—or 10@1, 8@12:00, etc. You just fill out the form below, and I will post your get-together for you. Nothing could be easier!
➤6@6 FORM
https://forms.gle/XtDoVeZXV5L8TXiw9
This is an announcement, not an event (unless you make it one)!
We're in a loneliness epidemic, which is affecting not just our emotional, but our physical well-being. Don't believe me? Listen to the advisory of the U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8pa506BFk4
I started FFF>50 in 2016 out of my own challenge in finding friends as an older woman. FFF answered the call. Let us help you! At the click of a button, you can make a gathering where local members can connect in person. Don't worry about the tech, you provide the specifics, and I will post your event for you!
6@6 HOSTING FORM
https://forms.gle/XtDoVeZXV5L8TXiw9
These intimate, local gatherings are called 6@6 (meaning 6 guests at 6:00). But they can be 4@10, 10@2, or whatever you want.
Here's what LA member, Toni, said about hosting her first 6@6:
"At first I was nervous. But as soon as everyone got there, it disappeared because everyone got along so well. Being the host gave me permission to introduce myself and strike up the conversation. So my usual inhibitions didn't get in the way. At the end, everyone thanked me. They even asked if we could do it weekly!"
Just click here to start one. You will be helping others along with yourself.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Livien Yin Exhibition at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford UniversityCantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Let's begin our day at Tootsie's At The Cantor located on the First Floor for a Meet & Greet. Map of Cantor Arts Center
At 12:00pm we will attend the Curator Talk | Livien Yin: Thirsty with Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander. Museum and Talk are Free but please Register Here.
At 1:00pm we will be free to explore the Museum. It may be helpful to download the Cantor Digital Guide on Bloomberg Connects, an arts & culture app. You can use this digital guide even before you come to the Cantor.
Special Exhibit Information:
Livien Yin: Thirsty is the first museum solo exhibition of the work of Brooklyn-based artist Livien Yin, a 2019 Stanford MFA. This single-gallery exhibition showcases new and recent paintings by Yin and their sensitive, researched-based approach to creating scenes of contemporary subjects alongside historical Asian Americans and their environments. In their paintings, Yin often casts their friends as models, collapsing the distance between the past and present to create new connective threads between Asian Americans across generations.
Yin’s recent paintings are fictional scenes inspired by the Chinese-born “paper sons and daughters” who entered the U.S. during the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882–1943) by obtaining forged documents that stated they were children of American citizens. The artist draws from historic photographs of Chinese immigrants and stages imagined vignettes in the absence of visual records, using the gaps in these archival sources as fertile ground to envision possible realities.##### PLEASE NOTE: PARKING PAYMENTS ARE CONTACTLESS AND MANAGED THROUGH PARKMOBILE. Tips for Parking
- San Francisco City Guides Tour: Fisherman’s Wharf: A Hidden HistoryGhirardelli Square, San Francisco, CA
Let's explore San Francisco's Fisherman Wharf with SF City Guides Tours.
We will meet at 10:45am at the Mermaid Fountain, Ghirardelli Square Courtyard for the 11:00 am tour given by Rachel B.DESCRIPTION From the SF City Guides site:
It may not look like it now, but underneath the sleek, commercial facade of today’s redeveloped Fisherman’s Wharf, hundreds of Italian immigrants built an entire industry on the backs of Dungeness crab. Dive into the tremendous history of a world-famous shore front. Hear stories of the lateen-rigged feluccas sailed by the city’s fishermen. We’ll talk about the bay and the courageous souls who’ve gone for a swim in it and if we’re lucky we’ll spot a harbor seal or sea lion.
Not everything on this tour happens on the water. We’ll look at Ghirardelli Square, once the factory of San Francisco’s most beloved chocolatier, and later an early adaptive re-use project. As we pass the Hyde Street Cable Car Turnaround, we’ll spend some time discussing the distinguished history of San Francisco’s cable cars, the last manually operated cable car system in the world. For something truly unique we visit the Musée Mécanique, a completely analog arcade.
But San Francisco has always been a seaport and we’ll explain the stories of many of the historic ships anchored at the Hyde Street Pier, the largest in-water ship museum in the world.
Discover a new side of the Wharf, featuring stories of the Bay that locals themselves don’t know.
***Please bring cash for donation to our tour guide. The site suggests $20 per person.
Please only sign up if you truly intend to come. I have a reservation for 6 (these events do fill up). If you must cancel I request doing it no later than 48hrs so someone has a chance to fill the spot.
Optional lunch following walking tour.
- Let's Mahj & Mingle in Oakland!Dimond District, Oakland, CA 94602, Oakland, CA
Come join us to play this fun and exciting tile game.
MahJongg (or Maahj, as it is often called) is a fascinating, rummy-like game played with tiles rather than cards.
We will be playing the American MahJongg. The National MahJongg League publishes the American version of the rules. It also Supplies the Official Standard Hands and Rules Cards which change each year beginning in April. The rules of the game rarely change, and the way hands are described (i.e., colors, letters, numbers, format) stays the same. The changes are in the shapes and patterns of the hands. A very small amount of time and effort is required to become familiar with the elementary principles of the game.
Don't forget to bring your 2024 Official MahJongg Card. You can purchase the card at NMJLeague Website . (I have never ordered the card via Amazon but they also list them here Amazon - NMJLeague.)
***Please feel free to pack and bring your own lunch and drink of choice.