Hey Garden(ers),
As most of y'all know, this last weekend at Bonfire, we had a facilitated conversation with GenDoc about Anti-Blackness within Black community & how it shows up in BIPOC spaces. This coming Saturday, May 24th at 2pm PST, GenDoc will be leading a workshop for non-Black POC to engage in and understand how to dismantle Anti-Blackness within BIPOC spaces. Check out this interview with GenDoc to learn more and RSVP for the session here!
Have you ever played an old school 90's arcade game? Revisit old childhood memories or see how well you can play these 2 bit games including classics like WarioLand II and Legend of Zelda in Garden's Arcade! Arcade games not your thing? Then try to solve the escape room puzzle! You can find the Escape Room and Arcade in the Game Room cottage on Garden Map.
🌿 This Saturday May 24th at 2pm PST, GenDoc will be leading a session on Dismantling Anti-Blackness for non-Black Garden members. As a Black-led, BIPOC space, understanding how anti-Blackness can show up in our communities is an important tenet of our work. RSVP for this session here.
❤️🔥 Join Mo for Garden’s Roast Wanted: A Night of Roasting, June 8th at 1:30pm PST. Let's make space for the anger in our hearts 👺 Wanna roast your homophobic relative? The concept of time? Politicians who keep fucking up your life? A celebrity you have petty beef with? COVID deniers? Hating knows no limits… but there's guidelines for this roast (we do believe in ethical hating 🤓):
☮️ No roasting Garden members.
🤐 If you’re roasting someone who is NOT a public figure, please don't use real names/pictures.
🙅♀️ No racism, ableism, fatphobia, or any discrimination. Be creative!
🥊 Punch up, not down.
⏰ Each roast should be 15mins or less.
Propose a topic here! RSVP here!
🫂 The next session of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group will be this Thursday May 22nd from 5:30pm-7:30pm PST with Chanelle! Navigating everything that comes with chronic illness can be difficult - from managing symptoms to experiencing grief over missing your pre-illness life. This is a peer support space where we can share our feelings about living with any chronic/long-term illness, including long COVID, during an ongoing pandemic.
For this upcoming meeting, we will be having a Creativity Show and Tell! Have you made something with your favorite art medium? Do you enjoy making specific food or drink recipes? Have you had to problem solve through hard conversations? Or find solutions to your care needs? "Creativity" isn't exclusive to certain people and skills. There are infinite ways to create with finite resources. Come share and celebrate together our most joyful, satisfying, and proud creations! Bring your stories, items, and photos to show on camera and/or in chat. RSVP via the calendar on the visit page. RSVP via the calendar on the visit page.
🐣 Are you a parent looking to connect with other parents? Parents Group will be meeting on Sunday June 1st at 11am PST! RSVP here!
☀️ Our 24 hour long Summer Solstice event to welcome the sun will be going down June 21st-22nd! Have a workshop idea, a shop you want to vend, a performance, a game you'd like to facilitate, a meetup, or have capacity to be a late night hours volunteer? Check the volunteer form here (please fill out by June 1st) and RSVP here! Day Passes will be available.
🫁 Want to increase your lung capacity? Come to Breathing in the Knowledge Nursery! Every weekday at 9am PST. RSVP here!
🥣 Grab your favorite cereal for dinner and watch anime & cartoons with us at Monday Night Cereal! Join us every other Monday at 5pm PST. Next time, Monday, May 26th, we're watching Yu-Gi-Oh- the second season. Your move!
💃🏾 Join Caroline for Co-Twerking on Tuesdays at 3pm PST! We will follow video(s) with a warm-up and cooldown sequence, with dancing in between. This is meant to be an aerobic exercise, so bring water and items that will provide you comfort while dancing your butt off! Video suggestions welcome. Duration: ~30 minutes. RSVP here
📔 Quiet-ish Reading Club / Connect (QRC) 💜💛📚 meets Tuesdays at 6pm PST! QRC - Garden Edition is where we chill together in mostly quiet company of 45 min reading blocks. Bring your own: book, audiobook, article, magazine, comic book, training manuals, graphic novel, paperwork/forms, poetry, etc. anything you’d like to or need to read. Most of the time will be us practicing sustained silent reading (SSR) in cozy, quiet company together. We will take occasional breaks to chat and socialize - mics optional. Learn more about QRC - Garden Edition. Like to be kept up-to-date on QRC meet-ups in Garden? Fill out this interest form. RSVP here
🎥 Name That Movie (Night!) is Wednesday at 5:30pm PST! This week's movie(s) is an animated feature that takes place in ancient Polynesia where a teen daughter is chosen by the Ocean itself for a heroic task. Think you know what it is? Come thru and find out! RSVP via the visit page.
🪷 Stretch it out as Caroline leads us in another weekly afternoon Yoga sesh Fridays at 3pm PST by streaming a yoga video from YouTube and following along. Videos will be between 25-45 minutes long between easy to moderate pace. Drop ins are always welcome! RSVP via the calendar on the visit page.
🪩Honoring Uncle Clifford's Rule #.0025 — 'Wear Y'all Mu’Fuckin Mask,' we’re keeping it safe so everyone can party in Chucalissa without leaving home! Join Deeda and GenDoc for 'Nights at the Pynk,' a 'P-Valley' virtual watch party every other The next viewing will be this Friday May 23rd at 6pm PT. Click here to RSVP!
🎨 Skyriver will be guiding us into Imagination & Creative Space, an open space and time to work on creative projects, and crafts every other Saturday. The next session is Saturday May 31st at 12pm PST. Finish an old project, start a new skill, follow the offered prompt or do your own thing. Joy is resistance. Imagination is the path to liberation. RSVP here!
😷 Hang out, chill and play games with Black folks who take COVID precautions at Bonfire in Garden is every 3rd Saturday! The next Bonfire will be a special meetup during Summer Solstice on June 21st at 5pm PST. RSVP here.
📺 Join us every 3rd Saturday of the month at 11am PT for Garden Ghibli, where we view a Ghibli movie and attempt to make our way to watch all the magical Ghibli movies! The next meetup is on Saturday July 19th. RSVP here!
🦾 Self Defense Discussion Series with Caroline will be Sundays at 8am PT. Each group includes reading, discussion and (potential) movement on self-defense principles! In these politically challenging times, it is especially important for our collective liberation and self-care to learn self-defense. RSVP via the visit page!
💻 Do you work from home and sometimes feel a little too isolated from others? Come Co-Work with us in Garden! We are a 24/7 drop in space for folks to join to co-work silently, listen to music, play a game or chat amongst each other in the chat box.
🌈 The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant is an annual grant that will be awarded to lesbians for making visionary moving-image art. The grant includes an award of $5,000, and a series of individual studio visits with Queer|Art staff members and the grant’s judges. This year’s judges include A.K. Burns, Ela Troyano, and Cheryl Dunye. Applications are due July 2nd.
🌍 Want to know more about the Interconnected Struggles of Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Cuba & Colombia? Congolese Action Youth Platform invites us all to "Solidarity Without Borders: Understanding Global Causes" 🗓️ Tues 20 May | ⏰10am-12 PM PST | 💻 On Zoom. Hear powerful voices from: 🎤 Speakers: Louise Regan, JJ Bola & more✨ Free & open to all! Register and RSVP here!
🎙️ The 19thNews Network, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy, is seeking News Product Fellows. Eligible applicants must be tied to a Historically Black College or University (HBCU) as either a recent graduate, graduating senior, an individual who attended an HBCU but transferred or did not graduate, Apply by May 30th!
🍉 Centering Palestine has a zoom every Tuesday at 5pm PST, along with other resources to show up for Palestine available here.
😷 World Health Network has a weekly call to organize community members against mask bans every Friday at 12pm PST.
🌻 We are looking to open Garden up to more community orgs who would like to share space with us here. If you are part of an org that may benefit from office/event space here, please email info@meetatgarden.com
💌 Don't forget, we can design and host non-Garden virtual events too.
Until next our avatars meet,
🪄Al, 😻Gata & 🪻J Mase
PS: Have a one-time-event or a recurring event and need a place to host? Email us at info@meetatgarden.com!
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