Forget another night at the pub. Melbourne’s latest creative social trend is putting down the phone, picking up a bunch of flowers and spending an evening learning how to make your own arrangement.
Fig & Bloom’s Flower Club Workshop has become a monthly sell-out, bringing strangers together around one long table for an evening of floristry, wine and conversation. Guests arrive with no experience required and leave with a finished arrangement, a new skill and, often, a few new contacts in their phone.
The format is deliberately simple. Fig & Bloom supplies market-fresh flowers, tools and a florist to guide everyone through the process, while guests can enjoy a glass or two of wine as they work.
It is less traditional floristry class and more creative answer to the supper club, designed around meeting people as much as learning how to arrange flowers.
“You don’t need experience, just one free evening,” says Kellie, co-founder of Fig & Bloom. “We bring the stems, the tools, the technique, and a florist beside you the whole way. The rest of the table brings itself. People arrive saying they’re not creative. They leave carrying proof that they are.”
The workshops tap into a broader appetite for hands-on hobbies and social spaces outside home and work, particularly among people looking for alternatives to dating apps, scrolling and the usual night out.
There is also something satisfying about leaving with an actual creation rather than just a blurry photo of the evening. Guests take their arrangement home, along with the skills to recreate it themselves.
Upcoming Melbourne workshops are scheduled for Thursday 3 September, Thursday 1 October and Thursday 29 October. Tickets cost $179, while anyone who has spent $100 or more with Fig & Bloom in the previous 30 days can attend for free.
