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National Coffee Day giveaway ☕️🎨 — free watercolor workshop ticket + drink in Washington Heights

Happy National Coffee Day, neighbors! ☕️

We’re giving away one ticket + a drink for our Watercolor Happy Hour this Thursday at Buunni Coffee in Washington Heights.

We’ll be painting coffee-inspired watercolor art with local artist Tamila Dubas. All materials are included and beginners are welcome!

If you’d like to enter, head over to our Instagram and comment your favorite coffee or café drink on the giveaway post: https://www.instagram.com/lalalu.nyc/reel/Dd4BJSOtsZa/

Entries close tonight at 9 PM ET, so it’s a quick one-day giveaway for National Coffee Day. ☕️💕

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u/LaLaLu-NYC — 16 days ago

Interested in trying watercolor or a new creative hobby in Washington Heights? 🎨

We’ve recently added a few new creative workshops at Buunni Coffee in Haven Plaza this fall! 🎨☕️

This Thursday after work, join us for a creative hour to paint & sip a cozy Cinnamon Bun Latte with local watercolor artist Tamila Dubas. It’s beginner-friendly and all materials are included.

We also have longer Saturday watercolor workshops coming up, plus a landscape painting workshop with a new local artist later in October. 🏞️

Early bird pricing for some workshops ends soon — including Thursday’s, which is $30 through tomorrow at midnight.

Also in the works: a beginner-friendly costume-making workshop for parents/caregivers who want to make their kids’ Halloween costumes 🎃🧵 Would anyone here be interested in something like that?

More workshops + dates at lalalunyc.com/upcoming-events

p.s. our first kids workshops will also be announced soon!

u/LaLaLu-NYC — 18 days ago

Update: we hosted our first Uptown watercolor happy hour — and just added another one 🎨

Hi everyone! I posted here recently asking for feedback while I was working on bringing more small creative workshops to Uptown, and I wanted to come back with an update.

We hosted our first LaLaLu x Tamila watercolor happy hour at Buunni in Washington Heights this week, and it went really well. It was such a nice feeling to see people come together, paint, talk, and take an hour to do something creative.

Thank you to everyone here who commented, encouraged the idea, or shared feedback, it genuinely helped.

We’ve now added another watercolor event with Tamila, this time at Bird in Hand for the 21 and over crowd, and we’re continuing to build out more creative programming around Washington Heights / Inwood / West Harlem for all ages.

The goal is still the same: small, approachable events where you don’t need to consider yourself “an artist” to participate, just a reason to make something, get out of the house, and connect with people locally.

If anyone is interested, the new Bird in Hand workshop is here:
https://lalalunyc.com/product/tamila-x-lalalu-watercolor-sip-paint-at-bird-in-hand/

u/LaLaLu-NYC — 1 month ago
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Building a small creative shop and workshop series in Uptown NYC 🎨

Hi! I’m Cassandra, founder of LaLaLu NYC. I recently launched a small creative shop focused on art, handmade goods, creative supplies, and in-person workshops in Uptown Manhattan.

I’m starting with watercolor and other relaxed creative events, and I’m also building out family-friendly and kid-friendly programming, including creative activities for young children and workshops families can enjoy together.

The next event is a fall watercolor happy hour at Buunni Coffee, and over the next few months I’m hoping to add more workshops, local artist collaborations, family programming, and creative events for both adults and kids.

I’m new to posting on Reddit as a business, so I’m mostly here to listen, meet other local creatives and families, and learn what kinds of creative events people actually want in the neighborhood.

If you’re in Uptown NYC, what kind of workshop or creative event would you actually be excited to go to, either for yourself or with your kids?

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u/LaLaLu-NYC — 1 month ago