The Offline Club started in Amsterdam in 2024 with a straightforward premise: organise events where phones aren’t allowed and see what happens. What happened was a community. It now has chapters in cities across Europe and beyond, each running its own version of the same idea — get people into a room together without a screen between them.
The format varies by event. Reading raves where everyone brings a book and sits in comfortable silence. Craft nights. Dinners with strangers. Rooftop days. Community hangouts with no agenda. The throughline is a phone hotel at the door – you hand it in when you arrive, you get it back when you leave. Inside, the expectation is presence.
The people who show up tend to be locals, expats, and digital nomads who’ve noticed that most of their social life is mediated by a device and want to remember what it feels like when it isn’t. Events are open to everyone — no membership, no commitment, just a ticket.
The Lisbon chapter is one of the more active ones. Events rotate across different venues – cafés, rooftops, studios, creative spaces – so there’s no fixed address. The best way to follow what’s on is their Luma calendar or Instagram.