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What InstaMeets Mean to Me with @nyimaslaula

For more photos and videos from Nyimas’ InstaMeet projects, browse the #PhoenixInBandung and #InstaMeetPasarSeni2014 hashtags and follow @nyimaslaula on Instagram.

“An InstaMeet is like a game for me. It’s a fun and challenging game of meeting new people and making creative things with them, which can sometimes lead to unpredictable outcomes,” says Nyimas Laula Li-An’Amie (@nyimaslaula), a design student in Bandung, Indonesia.

A passionate Instagrammer, Nyimas has participated in numerous InstaMeets held in the country and has also organized a few herself. As one of her early projects, she co-organized the #PhoenixInBandung InstaMeet with Ryan Cordwell (@ryannealcordwell)—an event that took place concurrently in Bandung and in Phoneix, Arizona, USA. “The uniqueness of this InstaMeet is that it’s not only a one-off meet,” explains Nyimas. “Ryan and I are now organizing a second one, and the friendship goes on forever.”

Nyimas’s most recent work was the #InstaMeetPasarSeni2014 event, which took place late last month at Pasar Seni ITB 2014—a big culture and arts festival hosted at her school. As a member of the event committee, her role was to plan and lead the InstaMeet for the growing community of young, creative Instagrammers of Indonesia.

In preparing for this InstaMeet, Nyimas divided up the participants into teams with assigned leaders that went around different areas within the venue. She also made sure that the participants felt comfortable and excited about joining the meet-up by creating chat groups for each team before the event, printing special stickers for the InstaMeet and opening the event to Instagrammers for the photo walk before doors opened to the other guests.

It wasn’t until when the meet-up actually began that she understood the magnitude of her efforts. “I cried when I saw more than a thousand people gathered in front of me at seven in the morning, many of them being first-timers at an InstaMeet—and my dearest overseas friends Ryan and Dylan from the #PhoenixInBandung InstaMeet also came,” she reflects. “Being a participant and being an organizer is different because you’re not just playing ‘the game,’ but also passing on the good spirit and its purpose to the participants.”

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