Latest news with #Eventbrite
South Wales Argus
5 days ago
- South Wales Argus
Llwyn Celyn farmhouse to open to public for rare weekend
Llwyn Celyn, a Grade I listed building in the Black Mountains, will welcome visitors from July 25 to 27 for a rare opportunity to explore its historic grounds. The Landmark Trust, a leading building restoration charity, has organised the event, which will feature creative writing and wellbeing activities. Celebrated poet Clare E Potter will lead a free creative house tour on Saturday, July 26, from 11am to 12pm, followed by a Writing for Wellbeing workshop from 1pm to 2pm. Tickets for the workshop are £6.13, including the booking fee, and can be pre-booked via Eventbrite at The farmhouse, typically reserved for holiday guests, is one of Monmouthshire's most atmospheric historic buildings. Set in the picturesque Llanthony Valley, it is only open to the public two weekends a year. Visitors can look forward to a free general entry, learning about the building's journey from ruin to restoration, and engaging in creative writing activities. Restored by The Landmark Trust, Llwyn Celyn was recently featured on Channel 4's Historic House Rescue series. The event is open to all, family-friendly, and refreshments will be available. Dogs are also welcome on site. Llwyn Celyn is approximately a 15-minute drive from Abergavenny, with accessible parking on site and general parking in a neighbouring field. Pre-booking is preferred via the Landmark Trust website. This rare event offers a chance to discover a slice of history in a stunning natural setting.
Axios
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Axios
A new Houston audience goes all-in on mahjong
Mahjong is making a major comeback — and the tile game is now trending with a younger, diverse audience. Why it matters: The centuries-old Chinese strategy game often associated with older generations in the Asian diaspora has a new wave of players in Houston who are making it their own. Stunning stat: Between 2023 and 2024, mahjong events on Eventbrite surged 179% nationwide and a staggering 867% in Houston, per the online platform's data. Among the nine major cities analyzed by Eventbrite, Houston ranked third for most events last year, behind New York and San Francisco. State of play: While longtime players continue their regular games, a new crowd is reshaping the hobby — drawn in by post-pandemic social appeal, and, of course, all the new pretty tiles in the market. Houston - and Dallas -based tile companies now sell sets that run upward of $300. Houstonian Amanda Commons discovered mahjong on a bachelorette trip about three years ago and, along with her friend Nicole Cottone, joined a group of HISD moms in West University who had a Google Sheet of roughly 100 players. In November 2023, Commons and Cottone launched That's aMAHJzing, a company offering $60–75 lessons to help people start their own neighborhood groups. They also host $50 open plays, tournaments and kids camps. "I think it's people craving connection … and I think people like to get involved with beautiful trends," Commons tells Axios. Making an old game "bougie" and slapping "a big price point" also makes more people want to play, Commons adds. The big picture: As demand grows, many instructors now regularly teach the American version of mahjong in collaboration with tile companies. While many new players are white women, the resurgence is drawing people of all ages and backgrounds — including those reconnecting with the game through their cultural roots. Flashback: Originally Chinese, mahjong was embraced by Jewish women in 1930s New York, shaping the American version still played today — including at the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston. Versions like Cantonese, Taiwanese and American each have distinct rules — all played by four people, often with gambling elements. Zoom in: The Chinese Community Center in Houston is seeing a rise in mahjong participants, too. After a successful AAPI Heritage Month game event in May, the center began hosting monthly beginner meetups using the Taiwanese version and is now adding bimonthly club sessions for more experienced players, CCC development manager Jo Truong tells Axios. The most recent meetup hit capacity with 40 players across 10 tables — only four of whom were CCC members. Entry is $35, and the event gained traction through a "very active" Facebook mahjong group sharing the invite. What they're saying: Lynn Chou, who started playing at age 6, now teaches alongside friends at the CCC and says attendees have ranged from young children to a 100-year-old.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Eventbrite's CEO is using AI to analyze personality compatibility with colleagues— it helps her decide who to promote and hire
Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz tells Fortune she uses AI to complement her emotional judgment in hiring and promotion decisions, leveraging personality tests and data-driven insights to reduce bias and better understand team dynamics. She credits AI with helping her identify development gaps, improve coaching, and make more consistent decisions—enabling the company to cut reliance on expensive recruiting firms. Fears are rife that AI will be the reason for job losses, but one CEO is doing precisely the opposite—she's using it to figure out who she should be hiring and promoting. Like many of her contemporaries, Eventbrite's CEO Julia Hartz is embracing emerging technology for the efficiencies and insights it can offer. She's also using it to balance her emotional, human reactions with the rationality of tech. Hartz founded the events management and ticketing business with her husband Kevin, and the company's founding technical architect Renaud Visage in 2006. The company now has a market cap of more than $225 million. Hartz took over the top job from her spouse in 2016, as the pair had agreed to switch roles after 10 years of running the company. With the Hartz family treating the business like a sibling to their daughters, teamwork and emotional investment has been built into the DNA of the brand. But with AI rapidly improving seemingly by the day, Hartz is using the technology to match the 'human emotional mind' with relatively unbiased decision-making. Hartz explained she's utilizing AI through personality tests, preferring the Hogan method to establish how complementary her style is with teammates and candidates. Speaking to Fortune in an exclusive interview in London, Hartz explained: 'The Hogan series is pretty in depth, and is about how you react to certain landscapes shifting. And then I'm actually able to draw a through line between my Hogan test to a candidate's Hogan, and using AI can assess the places where it's going to cause friction, and where are we not going to show up great together?' Of course, one of the major questions about AI at present is how accurate its results are, and how much of the inputter's assumptions it absorbs in its analysis. That being said, studies have demonstrated that AI can draw fairly accurate conclusions about personality traits—to some extents even more so than a person's family and friends. Even a decade ago, before most people had even heard the phrase 'large language model', researchers at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University discovered AI could draw very accurate personality conclusions about an individual based on their digital footprint. Indeed, using Facebook 'likes' alone, the AI reached judgements similar to those of the individual's nearest and dearest, with the milestone being described as an 'emphatic demonstration' that the technology could discover an individual's psychological traits through data analysis alone. While accuracy when it comes to relationship analysis may lie in the 'eye of the beholder,' Hartz adds, it's been incredibly beneficial in helping her overcome certain habits, she explained: 'When you think about how you relate to other people, I actually see that there's a big opportunity here to not judge a book by its cover, to actually not be biased, based on 'I like this person.' There's a really interesting way to relate to people in a much deeper way.' Identifying mentoring gaps At present, Hartz is using AI as a tool to help assess people for different roles and see where she can help develop them, as opposed to incorporating it more widely into her everyday decision-making at the San Francisco-based company. She explained: 'It's mostly about how I've chosen the people I've hired as of late, or the people that I've asked to step up into roles, and the insights that I have about what I'm asking them to do and and how they'll show up. 'And then it's also where I can help coach them—so much about being a good coach or mentor is assessing where the gaps might be, but also one of the things with managers is the missed expectations, particularly at the CEO level. 'So I'm really curious about how to reverse engineer the expectation to the skills and the personality of the person to help figure out how to intentionally develop them to that place where they can meet that expectation.' But the tool also helps Hartz with more consistent decision-making, she explained: 'It gives me a different perspective that is not based on how I'm feeling that day or my last interaction with that person. It has totally opened the aperture of human potential.' While the CEO added she is using AI in many different ways to automate 'little things that frustrate me', Hartz may not be taking her AI usage as far as peers. A study released earlier this year found that 74% of executives are more confident asking AI for business advice than colleagues or friends, according to research by SAP, a data and software company. But these leaders are putting their faith even more fully in the hands of the bots, with 38% saying they trust AI to make business decisions for them, and 44% deferring to the technology's reasoning over their own insights. AI 'gives me a different perspective', said Hartz, and poses questions about 'how I think 'how I should think about human potential differently, which is very interesting because it's a robot.' Indeed, Eventbrite's experiments with AI in this sense have proved so useful the business no longer needs enterprise licenses for 'fancy recruiting firms', added Hartz, because she can see the results of this research herself. 'It's not inaccessible, and I think recruiting firms are definitely on the chopping block in terms of industries that will get disrupted [because of AI],' added Hartz. This story was originally featured on Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Glasgow Times
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Bestselling author Adele Parks to appear at Glasgow events
Adele Parks MBE will appear in Glasgow to launch her latest novel Our Beautiful Mess at two Bookface Sip & Swap events on Sunday, August 31. The first event will take place at Glaschu from 9.30am to 12.30pm, followed by a second at Saints of Ingram from 1.30pm to 4.30pm. Read more: New bookshop with cheese and wine bar opens its doors Adele already has 24 bestselling novels behind her, with more than six million copies sold in English and translations available in 31 languages. In 2022, she was awarded an MBE in recognition of her services to literature. Our Beautiful Mess is described as "an emotional, high-stakes family drama packed with twists and long-held secrets." The story, which will be published on August 28, follows Connie, a woman who has built a seemingly perfect life, only to see it threatened by a mistake from her past. Fellow author Lisa Jewell praised the book, saying: "Adele Parks consistently writes banger after banger, and Our Beautiful Mess might just be her best yet. "Addictive and brilliant." During the Glasgow book launch events, guests will have the chance to meet Ms Parks, enjoy a 45-minute interview, ask questions, and purchase a signed copy of the new book. These events will also feature the popular Bookface book swap, offering more than 300 titles for guests to choose from. Attendees are encouraged to bring up to four books to swap, though it is not a requirement. Adele said: "I'm so excited to be coming to Glasgow. "The city oozes fabulous, joyful readers. "There's a real passion for reading – and for having loads of fun. "Bookface events allow for both brilliant things. "I can't wait to come and talk about my brand-new release Our Beautiful Mess." Bookface is an online community with 5000 members worldwide. Its events are considered a regular highlight for readers and aspiring writers, providing a space to connect with authors and fellow book lovers. Read more: New tournament invites Glasgow footballers to raise funds for a good cause Founded in 2020, it brings readers together to discuss books, share recommendations, and hear directly from successful writers. Past guests at Bookface events have included Lisa Jewell, Val McDermid, Davinia Taylor, John Niven, Chris Brookmyre, Fran Littlewood, Heather Morris, Alan Parks, Nikki May, and Susannah Constantine. Tickets for the Glasgow events are limited and available through Eventbrite.
Time Business News
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Business News
Discover the Best Easter Egg Hunt in Austin for 2025
Springtime in Austin means blooming bluebonnets, sunny skies, and one of the most beloved family traditions—Easter egg hunts! Whether you're a parent planning a fun-filled day for the kids or just searching for a festive community event, this guide to the best Easter egg hunt Austin experiences will help you make the most of the season. Here are some of the most popular and well-loved Easter egg hunts near you in the Austin area: A long-standing tradition in the heart of Austin, Zilker Park offers thousands of hidden eggs, face painting, live music, and food trucks. It's perfect for families looking for a lively community gathering. This event includes a huge egg hunt, pictures with the Easter Bunny, bounce houses, and a petting zoo. Ideal for toddlers and younger children. Just north of Austin, Georgetown hosts a spectacular egg hunt with age-specific zones, so kids of all ages can enjoy the fun safely. Combine your egg hunt with a delicious brunch! Several restaurants in The Domain host family brunches followed by small egg hunts and festive games. If you're searching for an Easter egg hunt near me, many churches, schools, and neighborhood associations around Austin host their own events. Be sure to check local community boards, social media groups, and even Eventbrite for listings. Some other hidden gems include: Local library egg hunts Parks and recreation center events Church-hosted celebrations with crafts and worship services Arrive Early : Hunts often start right on time and eggs go fast! : Hunts often start right on time and eggs go fast! Bring Your Own Basket : Most events require you to bring a basket or bag for collecting. : Most events require you to bring a basket or bag for collecting. Check Age Groups : Make sure the event has different time or zones for different age ranges. : Make sure the event has different time or zones for different age ranges. Stay for the Fun: Many egg hunts offer additional activities like face painting, pony rides, and live entertainment. No matter where you live in the city, there's likely a magical egg hunt Austin experience just around the corner. From vibrant public parks to cozy community churches, Easter egg hunts near me offer something for everyone—fun, laughter, and the joy of spring. TIME BUSINESS NEWS
