The freshers guide · IE University
Everyone is selling every event like it is the only one. We picked the nights actually worth it, planned the days in between, and found you people before you even land.
We are students. We have done this exact week, and we make nothing off you. So instead of selling you everything, we fixed the three things that actually go wrong.
A hundred group chats. A thousand flyers. Every event pitched like it is the one, all of them taking a cut.
One curated lineup. The handful of nights actually worth it. Go to these and you miss nothing.
The nights take care of themselves. It is the afternoons in a new city where you end up doing nothing.
A plan for every day in between. The spots that normally take people a year to find. They drop in the app.
Unless you cold-DM strangers all summer, day one starts alone. And the party starts day one.
Tell us where you study and when you land. Before day one you are in a group chat of five, all arriving the same week you are.
The coloured nights each carry a talks. activation. The days in between get plans from us inside the app. Every night is signed up for in one tap.
Lineup can shift. Final times, tickets and every in-app sign-up live inside talks. First Week Out is an independent student guide, powered by talks., in collaboration with Pandemonium.
Every time we take over an event, it gets its own colour and its own activation, running live from your phone. Here is what you are walking into. We are not telling you everything.
Opening night · @ Liberty
At midnight every phone in the room lights up with one of four marks. A quarter of the room is holding yours. They are an arm's reach away.
tap to join in the app before midnight to get pulled in
Midweek · @ Victoria
The first room at Victoria is a time machine to the 80s. Take your picture there. Every caption is a request straight to the DJ, three each, and the room ends up playing itself.
tap to join and your requests go in from the app
The big one · @ Hipódromo
The biggest crowd of the week and a booth with a lever. Drinks. Merch. A band that walks you past the line. The first spin is free, and there are ways to earn more that we are not printing on a website.
tap to join then find the booth to spin
One night only · @ Todos Santos
A real confessional in the middle of the loudest Monday of the year. You pull the curtain and hit record on your own phone. Nobody is on the other side. Whatever you say in there is yours until you post it.
tap to join and the booth is yours when you get there
Late week · @ Rubicon
Five photos each, disposable-camera filter baked in. No do-overs. Minutes later they are on every screen in the room. Try not to become the wallpaper.
tap to join and your camera loads with five
Anyone can point you at a club. The hard part is the afternoon in a city you do not know yet. So the days without an event get a plan too, dropped in the app the morning of. No colour, no booth, just the moves that usually take a year to find.
Each plan drops in the app the morning of. Exact spots stay off the internet on purpose.
We hand out merch at the booth on the activation nights. GTA-style tees, stickers, hats, fans. We cannot pour free drinks all week, so we bring the drip instead. It goes fast, so get there early.
Sign up in talks. before you fly. Before day one you are in a group of five from your degree and campus, arriving the same week you are. First names on, because these are the people you will actually walk in with. The rest of talks. stays anonymous. This does not.
All ten days live in one place inside talks. It is where you sign up, where the plans drop and where the photos land, so the whole first week documents itself while it happens.
Sign up for any night. That tap is what pulls you into the activation.
One thing worth doing, every single day. Tap it, go.
Every symbol, spin and photo from your week, collected as you go.
Your group chat. Your campus. Everyone else out the same nights.
Download talks. and pick your nights. Get in early enough and you are in the pre-week online mixer too, meeting people before you even fly. Land already knowing where you are going and who with.
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