City Blocks Localize into Neighborhoods
Meet your neighbors
For a life of meaning, invest in deep friendships with the people who live close enough to enrich daily life.
How well do you know your neighbors? If you're like most Americans, the answer is:
NOT VERY WELL.We say we LIVE at home, but do we? LIVING is a social act done with other people.PROJECT:Localize is about building the habit of community at the hyperlocal scale.
BRING LIFE CLOSER TO HOME We at PROJECT:Localize think hyperlocal in everything we do.Our Fellowship Arcade competitions turn local strangers into teammates.Our supper clubs, neighborhood consulting services, & block parties are all carefully designed to deepen neighborly relationships.By connecting neighbors, and helping each person create friendship networks_ where they live,_ we help people include their nearby friends in their average week.Hyperlocal life creates small town trust. We call this PALEOSOCIAL.
Your best friend lives three doors down. It takes 5 minutes to go visit.
Community trust means parents feel safe allowing their kids to play around the neighborhood. Just like it was when you were a kid.
The house on the corner extends an open invitation to use their backyard fire pit
On average, you attend a couple of neighborly dinner parties per week.
Sometimes you attend a dinner party in a nearby neighborhood, and they teach you their toasts.
This is PROJECT:Localize.
Fellowship Arcade
Playful teamwork and spirited competition build teams and forge new connections.Our Fellowship Arcade competitions build teams by location, turning neighbors into teammates.Our block parties connect children in a community, so that families can grow to trust each other.
Tournament Play
Our competitions place small individual teams within broader coalitions and create opportunities for larger group victory.Ongoing registration and multi-date programming ensure folks who live near each other interact during the tournament.
Arcades with a Twist
Across 4-player air hockey, giant card games, team dice games, giant Carrom and much more, every game facilitates direct player interaction.At a Fellowship Arcade, team building and relationships are always the focus.
The Art of Bonding
From street painting to tile patterns, and whether at festivals or at our block parties, we provide crafts and activities that connect families through collaborative creation.
Traditions & Meaning
Rituals create memorable moments returned to again and again. Shared rhythms and traditions give life a community cadence.Our supper clubs cycle groups of neighbors so that folks can find the people they feel a deep bond with.Our neighborhood consulting services bind people together with unique rituals & traditions they create for themselves.
Toasts | Rituals | Holidays
We help neighbors invent and experiment with symbolic traditions and ceremonies that create a common heritage.Regularly sharing meals lends rhythm to community life.
Timeless Mysteries
The breadth of humanity shares certain mysteries across time and space.Life, fire & water, death, memories of the long passed and well-remembered, oils & incense, heraldry, etc.Our consulting services help neighbors experience these mysteries together, creating memorable shared stories.
Fellowship Arcade
Partner with us to bring multi-date team experiences to your:- corporate team building events
- apartment complex common areas
- private parties
- public festivals
- public or municipal spaces
- farmers markets and craft fairs
Meet your neighbors
Interested in bringing the full transformative PROJECT:Localize experience to your community?That's regular supper clubs, new rituals and traditions, block parties, and Fellowship Arcade competitions.Form the habit of community in your neighborhood for good.
About Us
Hi, we're Cody & Levi Snyder, two brothers who founded PROJECT:Localize to help rebuild the habit of community where we live in Southern California, and ultimately beyond.Cody was inspired in part by the desire to help foster trust between neighbors in South Pasadena, CA where he lives, so that his 3 sons can experience a childhood full of barely supervised outdoor play. Just as it was in prior generations, and can be again.
We Believe...
There are no useless members of a community, value is added from everyone within and without.Shared experiences become shared memories. Shared memories become shared stories. Shared stories become shared culture.Like a healthy human body, communities will produce energy, support growth, and heal themselves of toxicity.
Unique Experiences
Our goal is to create lasting shared impressions centered around unique and customizable experiences that create lasting bonds of friendship, camaraderie, and ultimately trust.
Locally Oriented
Our offerings will help local businesses connect with their customers & neighbors discover profound community togetherness.All at the hyperlocal scale.
Welcome to PROJECT:Localize!
We'll be in touch shortly!