upcoming events.
Friendsgiving with the Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce & Gravitate Coworking
Join us to celebrate Friendsgiving with the Iowa LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce Region 1 team. We are excited to partner with Gravitate Downtown for this event and utilize their wonderful space. This will be our last mixer of 2024, and we want to celebrate with our favorite holiday shareables. We hope you can join us for food, libations, fun and games!
National Entrepreneurs Day! (Free coworking!)
Shake up your regular scenery & come to Gravitate on THURSDAY the 19th to celebrate National Entrepreneurs Day! We’re opening our doors for a FREE coworking day all day long from 8:00am-5:00pm at all locations. Whether you're an entrepreneur, freelancer, or creative, you're invited to experience the Gravitate community.
Halloween Costume Contest
This Halloween season we will be having a Gravitate costume contest across all locations!
Thursday, October 31st put on your best costume and head into Gravitate! Snap a photo of your amazing costume (you can ask a community manager to help!) and send the photo to Taryn on Slack. All photos must be sent in by 12:00pm to be counted in the votes! Voting will take place until 5:00pm Thursday when the winner will be announced.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
The Iowa Nice Creator on Creativity: Accessing creativity in yourself and others
Join us for an afternoon chat with Paul Benedict of The Discerning Lens, the creative mind behind Iowa Nice!
Paul will share insights from his journey and reveal strategies for maintaining a creative mindset. Discover how to keep your creativity flowing and accessible, no matter your field. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of Iowa's own content creators.
Hosted by Elevate Digital Solutions, Gravitate Coworking and The Des Moines Downtown Chamber
September Pretzel Day: Cory & Austin
Join us over the lunch hour for this month’s Pretzel Day! This month, we’ll hear from two of our Downtown members Cory who will be sharing about speed skating & Austin who will be sharing about the cello during this member show and tell. We’ll have plenty of snacks for you to enjoy, including those delicious soft pretzels!
See you there!
1 Million Cups @ DMACC Urban Campus
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
Crokinole Tournament with Capital City Gaming Con!
Come join us with our friends at Capital City Gaming Con for our third tournament of the year!
We're going to bringing back our crowd favorite- Crokinole! This year, we're running it as a singles tournament - head to head, no worrying about your partner this year! The tournament will start at 3pm - but we'll have boards and other games going starting at 2pm! Feel free to bring your own beverages and snacks - and we'll have a great time!
Crokinole is a spectacular light dexterity game that is a mix of curling and darts that is easy to learn! We'll have Crokinole boards at events running up to the tournament, and we'll have boards set up early on the day of the tournament so you can have time to practice!
We're going to run this as a single elimination tournament - but as singles, not as doubles! The winner of each table will advance to the next round - and the grand champion will get a free pass to Capital City Gaming Con!
Community Drive
In July 2024, the DMARC Food Pantry Network assisted a record number of individuals, highlighting a critical community need. Gravitate is partnering with DMARC to collect non-perishable food items at all locations, anticipating even greater demand this fall. We will SIMULTANEOUSLY be hosting a clothing drive for Commonlove's pop-up shop, offering free gender-affirming clothing to trans, non-binary, and queer Folks. Your clothing donations will help foster inclusivity and support to those in need in our community.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
Brat Summer
Hot dogs, Brats, Beers for a lunch party? What could be more Brat Summer than that?
Join us Tuesday August 13th at the Downtown Gravitate for lunch!
International Coworking Day
Celebrate International Coworking Day at Gravitate Coworking!
Enjoy a FREE day pass at any of our locations and enjoy complimentary coffee, tea, sparkling water, printing, scanning, etc. Come work with us and elevate your productivity!
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
Summer Favorite's Midtown Potluck
Behold the feast of the summer! It’s just like your typical midwestern family potluck except you don’t have to eat overcooked burgers and aunt Diann’s weird salad.
With the main dish provided by community manager Syd, all you have to bring is a side! We can’t wait to see you & all the summer favs!
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
Gravitate presents Pretzel Day! Member show & tell
Another month, another Pretzel Day!
On the Docket: Tune in as Brian H. shares his laid-back experiences from years of attending the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, and Hope Wood talks about training her certified Canine Good Citizen, Herc the English Lab who just celebrated his 7th Birthday.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
1 Million Cups Des Moines
Every week, entrepreneurs present business ideas to the local community and learn how those around them can support their business in its growth. Your local 1 Million Cups (1MC) community gives you the opportunity to refine your elevator pitch to a diverse audience, access training programs, and engage with a network for support.
Gravitate presents Pretzel Day! Member show & tell
Another month, another Pretzel Day!
Want to learn about pickleball or making friends online? Take a lunch break Thursday at 12 in the Stairitorium to hear from Midtown member, Bryce, and Gravitate owner, Geoff about their intriguing topics - and to eat pretzels of course!
(edit: this is actually just a ploy for Geoff to get you to play pickleball with him)
