Think of something that interests you and search newspapers and Internet resources for local get-togethers of like-minded people.
A group of 300 locals got together to put on the pageant, with real animals, son et lumière across the chateau and fireworks.
At the Ebel Festival, locals get together to rejoice in the fact that different types of apple can be used for different purposes – for juice, cider, cakes, brandy, vinegar, snaps or art.
"Before the yearly rains that follow, the locals get together and re-coat the entire building with clay from a dried up pond".
Accept an invitation from a local partner to attend a get-together with friends or family.
Normally, he wouldn't worry, but today he's a man on a mission, determined to arrange a get-together of local travel-networking hosts.
GLANCE around the table at East Asia's annual security get-together for locals and interested outsiders, in Manila on July 27th, to see the damage done to the region's delicate balance of power by a year of plummeting currencies, simmering discontent and rising nationalism.
The theater group came into existence when parents, appalled that their children were lip-syncing to Britney Spears songs as a form of "theater production" in local schools, got together and founded the Stepping Stone Players to offer real theater experience to local children.
The get-together has robust local roots as well as thespian ones; the Royal Hall was originally known as the Kursaal, a name changed on the outbreak of the First World War because of anti-German sentiment, and was the brainchild of Edward Fox's great-grandfather.
In a community project with just a slither of outside funding, local people got together to build their own sewers, contributing both money and labour.
