Green Flag or Red Flag? Coffee, a Pastry & a Very Honest Game

Replies within a minute, every time. Wants to meet your friends by date three. Tells you about their ex on the first date. Green flag, red flag, or just beige? Settle it with a small table of women, a drink and a pastry, and find out how your instincts compare with the room's.

WHO WE ARE

We're Dorsa and Mehran, a couple who met on Hinge, and we're new to Vancouver too. We're not therapists, coaches or experts of any kind. We love relationship podcasts, we've learned a lot from our own mistakes, and we'd like to meet women who enjoy talking about love honestly. That's the whole credential.

ONE THING TO KNOW FIRST

This is an afternoon for women. Mehran is the only man in the room. He joins later in the afternoon to tell our story and answer your questions, and he steps out while you work on your profiles. You're welcome to sit out any part.

YOU LEAVE WITH

✓ Honest feedback on your red flags, must-haves and dating profile (if you have one), from the table and from both of us

✓ One man's honest view, straight from Mehran

✓ Our one-page Hinge playbook

✓ A note of who offered to think of someone for you

✓ A table of women you've already had coffee and laughed with

THE ESSENTIALS

• When: Sunday, November 1, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

• Where: Guffo Cafe, downtown Vancouver. The full address is on this page and in your ticket email.

• Date and location: both are subject to change, and a change of date or location is not a reason for a refund. The location will always stay in downtown Vancouver. We'll email every ticket holder as soon as anything changes.

• Price: $20 per person, fees included. It includes one drink (medium size) and one pastry of your choice from Guffo Cafe. There are no extra costs: nothing else is required. A second drink or pastry is not included and is on you if you want one.

• Included: one drink (medium size) and one pastry per ticket, from Guffo Cafe.

• Who: women, roughly 24 to 38. This afternoon is for women. All women are welcome, including trans women.

• Size: a small table of 4 to 10 women.

• Hosts: Dorsa and Mehran

• Allergies or dietary needs: tell us in the ticket form and we'll check with the cafe.

• Coming with a friend? Use code PAIR10 for 10% off when you buy two tickets.

• If fewer than 4 women have signed up by Thursday, October 22 at 6pm, we cancel and refund you in full.

Come as you are. Leave knowing a few more people in Vancouver.

Info: Arrive at Guffo Cafe, collect your drink (one, medium size) and your pastry (one, your choice), both included. Introduce yourself: Name, age, and occuaption.

Info: Green flag, red flag, or beige (harmless, just odd). Women only, and a lot of laughing.

Info: Our Hinge story. Mehran joins. We show our two real profiles, the first messages that worked and the ones that flopped, the first date, and the mistakes we made. It's one couple's story, not a method.

Info: Each person shares their biggest red flags, must-haves, and dating profile, if they have one. We then give them our honest thoughts, feedback, and suggestions.

The key is that they also get to hear what Mehran thinks. His perspective as a man adds another dimension to the conversation, giving the participants a chance to understand how their dating preferences, profiles, and behaviours might come across from the other side.

Info: Each woman says in 30 seconds what she's looking for (qualities, not looks). If anyone in the room, or Mehran, might know a good man for her, they say so in a sentence, with no names. An introduction only happens if he says yes first, and it's made privately by the person who knows him. There is no guarantee anyone will know anyone. The point is to learn from each other and to connect.

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