About Lamppost

Finding your people in a new city is hard.

Everyone talks about the magic of meeting someone on a park bench or striking up a conversation at a café. But in real life? That kind of connection takes work. And courage. And a little bit of luck.

When I first moved to Victoria, I didn't know anyone outside my roommates. Same with Simon. We both wanted that feeling of belonging—the kind that goes beyond one-off conversations or surface-level acquaintances. We wanted friends. Community. A circle of our own.

So, we started trying to get out to events. It felt like the obvious place to start meeting people. But what we didn't expect was how hard it would be to even find the right events in the first place.

We'd spend hours scrolling through listings and Instagram posts, clicking onto broken links, bouncing between a dozen different calendars and still wondering, "Is this the kind of thing I'd even want to go to?"

And half the time, we'd miss the good stuff anyway.

That's why we built LampPost.

We built it because we needed it, and so did the community. It's for anyone who's ever felt like making friends in a new city shouldn't be this hard. It's for the ones who've gone to an event alone and felt awkward, or skipped something entirely because the whole process felt too exhausting.

Now, finding your people in Victoria is easier than ever. No more bouncing between scattered event sources or outdated calendars - just check our website, browse online, or subscribe to our twice-weekly newsletter to find everything happening in Victoria, all in one place.

From underground shows to art nights, volunteer meetups to run clubs & other communities you can join for regular hangouts - it's all here. Curated, easy to navigate, and built for you.

But LampPost isn't just about knowing what's going on. The real difficulty is finding the people you want to go to events with and surrounding yourself with a community.

Sometimes it feels like technology has disconnected us, isolated us in small siloes where it's easier to doomscroll TikTok than to get out into the community. This isn't that - we're using LampPost to get people back out and experiencing everything Victoria has to offer.

What started as a small, love-of-the-game project in our Victoria, BC basements has since expanded to Vancouver & beyond. So Whether you've just arrived in your community or have lived here for years and still feel like something's missing, we hope LampPost helps you find your place; because we've been where you are, and that's why we built this for you.