Mix and Mingle

Guests at a Washington Life event could form words on a 20-foot-long movable wall of letters.

At an Adidas promotional event in Miami in May, guests used markers to color wall illustrations of the brand's shoe designs.

Partygoers could create their own artwork at a digital painting station at Art Rocks, Art Chicago's official opening-night after-party, hosted by Factio magazine in May.

The Paintbrush Ball, a June fund-raiser for Chicago art education nonprofit Marwen, incorporated a variety of art-making stations. Guests could try their hand at sculpture, video making, or graffiti on a paper wall.

At Citymeals-on-Wheels' charity tasting in New York in June, guests sat for a three-minute picnic—a timed five-course meal that included tea sandwiches, pickled vegetables, and a blueberry-pie-like dessert from restaurant Park Avenue Summer.

Washington Life's the Young and the Guest List party in April had a 20-foot-long interactive wall of letters in the lobby that partygoers could rearrange to create words.