Hey Garden(ers),
Monday was Indigenous People's Day here in the so-called US. As the government here continues its trend towards erasing the history of Indigenous peoples, we want to make space for you to find out whose land you are on and research what land back efforts exist for you to support in your area.
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🎮 Halloween Game Streams: For the month of October, Fronds will be having weekly horror themed gaming streams on Friday's from 5pm to 7pm PDT. At the beginning of each stream, they will let members know if it is eerie, thrilling or scary category of game. have fun~ RSVP
🎃 Our Halloween Weekend schedule will be sent out by the 17th! If you'd like to invite BIPOC friends to Garden for Halloween Weekend, that are not already part of the community, email us via info@meetatgarden.com for Day Passes!
🎃🍿 Sunday Scares: Friendly Ghosts Edition is coming up again on Sunday October 18th at 4pm PDT. Our Halloween movie marathon series is back! This week, join us for three faves! We’ll also have coloring sheets for anyone who wants to get crafty while we watch. Meet us in the Up All Night room. Want to suggest movies for future Sundays or help host? Message Deeda in Garden. RSVP! 🎬 FRIENDLY GHOSTS SUNDAY SCARIES LINE-UP:
👻🔫 Ghostbusters (1984)3pm PT / 6 pm ET
🍿 10-min break
👻💕 Ghost 5pm PT / 8pm ET
🍿 10-min break
👻🥳 Casper the Friendly Ghost (1995) 7 pm PT / 10 pm ET.
🫁 Want to increase your lung capacity? Come to Breathing in the Knowledge Nursery! Every weekday at 9am PT. RSVP here!
🍿 Mondays at 5pm PT, B will be hosting Black Movie Night, a now weekly movie (and show) night to highlight movies (and shows) made by, for, and about Black people. The media will generally be entertainment focused, but will also include nights where the intention is education. (Black Folks only.) RSVP Next Movie: Attack the Block
💃🏾 Co-Twerking is on Tuesdays at 3pm PT with Caroline! RSVP to get notified!
📔 Quiet-ish Reading Club / Connect (QRC) 💜💛📚 meets Tuesdays at 6pm PT! 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. 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 PT! This week's movie is a short 2014 experimental essay documentary directed by artist and cinematographer Arthur Jafa. Think you know what it is? Come thru and find out! RSVP via the visit page. This week, follow ⭐Nana to get there!
🧰 Join misha weekly for tending to our nervous (eco)system - practice sessions, a recurring group space for ongoing support in cultivating skills for navigating stress with the resilience toolkit. Thursdays at 10am PT. RSVP here 🌻(Please note that starting next week, this group will be moving to Wednesdays!)🌻
🪷 Stretch it out as Caroline leads us in a weekly afternoon Yoga sesh Fridays at 3pm PT 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.
🫂 The next session of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group will be Thursday October 22nd from 5:30pm-7:30pm PT 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. RSVP here!
✍🏽 Are you an aspiring writer? Come join The Storytellers' Anthology which is every other Saturday at 1pm PT (next session is October 24th), hosted by Louis! This group is created for writers who want feedback and constructive criticism on their unpublished literary works, especially for those looking to publish their piece, but just need an extra pair of eyes and encouragement. All genres are welcomed and encouraged. RSVP to attend here.
🎭 Places, theater nerds! At Do You Hear the Garden Sing? we watch musical theatre movies, pro-shots (and some slime tutorials) every other week. This is a space to nerd-out about musical theater, enjoy some tunes and even share some hateful takes ;) Our next watch will be Mean Girls (2024 movie), a musical movie about a girl and the A-list clique at her new school. Come join the curtain call on Saturday October 10th at 5pm PT! RSVP!
❤️🩹 Our Pain We Carry Study Group meets in the Kinship Room on the 3rd Sundays of each month (with occasional adjustments around holidays). Upcoming date: October 18th. Group begins at 2:30pm PT/ 5:30pm ET for reading and discussion. If you prefer to join after reading, we’ll begin practicing the experiential exercises together around 3pm PT/6pm ET. See Deeda for more information & materials. RSVP.
🏳️⚧️ Trans Meetup is every fourth Sunday in Garden, at 2pm PT! Come witness a day that Trans folks have made! The next meetup will be October 25th! Join us by RSVP'ing here.
😷 Hang out, chill and play games with Black folks who take COVID precautions at Bonfire in Garden! The next Bonfire will be Saturday October 17th at 5pm PT RSVP here. Topic: For Black Poetry Month we'll be celebrating Black voices through poetry, prose, spoken word, and music. Share something you’ve created or a favorite piece by a Black writer, artist, or musician...or simply come listen and enjoy!
📝 Saturday October 24th at 12pm PT join Boba for Rooted, a fun and relaxed monthly space to explore a variety of poetic forms and styles. Think of this more like an informal poetry club / co-learning space. While there will be some prepared materials and prompts, this will be a much more collaborative space: we’ll learn from and celebrate each another’s experiences, perspectives, knowledge, questions, and creative instincts. Each "session" will have a short reflective groundings/meditation, followed by exploring some texts, time to write, and a no-pressure opportunity to share our writing. (Would love to have an optional ability to create a mini Garden anthology that could live on an internal padlet as example.) RSVP here
☕ Sunday November 1st at 1pm PT, Garden will be hosting its next Social Hour series. Want a place to share your random idea, your new poetic works, to present something special, get feedback or even host at a Garden Social Hour? The format is flexible as needed, and can be a space to practice facilitation skills for those wanting a friendly place to try something new. Want to share your topic at the next, or a future Social Hour? Send us your proposals here! RSVP to attend here.
💻 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 Jason Mraz Foundation is once again taking applications for our Gratitude Grants. Tell us about a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the U.S. that you’re grateful for that aligns with our mission to shine for inclusive arts education, the advancement of equality, and food security. Our team will review the submissions, reach out to qualified organizations for more information, and award $3,000 Gratitude Grants to 15 nonprofits* that share in our mission this holiday season. Nomination Deadline: October 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM PT. Gratitude Grants will be awarded by December 15, 2026.
🌍 The 5th IAFFE Feminist Economics School will take place from June 29 to July 1, 2027, at Okayama University in Okayama, Japan. The FE School is designed for participants who have had limited access to formal training in feminist economics. The programme consists of two and a half days of interactive workshops designed to give participants a solid grounding in feminist economic thought, methodologies, and policy applications, with a strong emphasis on reflecting on their own practices and experiences. The FE School precedes the IAFFE Annual Conference, which will be held from July 2 to 4, 2027. We particularly encourage applications from individuals based in the Global South, as well as from historically discriminated groups worldwide. There is no tuition fee, and travel stipends are available for selected participants. Application deadline: 10 December 2026.
🏫 The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities Program exists to promote the practices of, and approaches to, the humanities and arts—broadly conceived—as important sites of creative and critical engagement with the major concerns of our times. Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellows in the Humanities will be engaged academic scholars, artists, knowledge keepers, practitioners or writers in the humanities and arts. Fellows will help us imagine how we can make the world we live in better through acts of world-making in the creative arts and/or publicly engaged scholarship in the humanities, in alignment with the fundamental values of advancing reconciliation and equity, diversity and inclusion, communication, coordination, and collaboration. The stipend associated with the fellowship is $25K CAD per term (no benefit) paid in two-week instalments. Apply by October 23rd.
🩺 Solace is hiring a (remote) Customer Experience Representative at $21-$26/hr. As a Customer Experience Representative for Solace, you will support our patients and advocates via phone, email, and chat. Through feedback and action, you’ll also help our team ensure people get the support they need on their healthcare journey. In this role, you will work with our clients and advocates in a variety of ways—from appointment confirmations and in-depth troubleshooting to developing creative solutions that resolve issues our clients and advocates encounter. Apply ASAP.
📰 Newsela is looking for a (remote) Director, Scaled Customer Success to join our Customer Success team. Reporting to the VP, Customer Success, you will be responsible for defining and leading the strategy, execution, and performance of Newsela’s scaled customer segments, including SMB and Schools. You will lead frontline managers, design and optimize our scaled coverage model, and ensure our teams are delivering strong customer outcomes across adoption, retention, renewal readiness, and long-term account health. Base salary: $120,000 - $144,000
🚣🏽♀️ Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We pursue liberatory culture change on a generational timeline by activating networks of people with the practices, narratives, and beliefs that support collective wellbeing. Established in 2021, we have built a strong organizational foundation. We are hiring our first full-time (remote) Director of Programs, who will build out Next River’s programmatic offerings and strategic partnerships. Compensation: $145-$155k USD. Apply by Oct 18th.
🎱 Garden(er) Yaya is looking for 4 players interested in a short campaign of a TTRPG created by a disabled collective called Killer Crips 3000. "It's set in a fantasy world where disabled people fought and won a war against an ableist regime but in the process something ripped open the seams of reality bringing nightmare horrors into the world." The game and its playable characters are inspired by the lived experiences of disabled folks. DM Yaya in Garden directly if interested!
💾 We put out a call for laptop/desktop donations for fellow Garden members and we already were able to pair someone with a donated device! THANK YOU all for your kindness and care! We are still on the hunt for 2 more laptops/desktops for Garden(ers) that need devices for their work and/or to connect with the community here in Garden. If you/your organization have a device or two to spare, simply reply to this email. 🙏🏽
🥐 If for whatever reason, you are in the US and find yourself, or someone you care about, to be food insecure, here are three sites to find food banks where you/they are: Food Finder, FindHelp and Feeding America. If these are not resources you personally need, please share with your folks.
🍉 Centering Palestine has a zoom every Tuesday at 5pm PT, 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 PT.
📢 As a follow-up to the Anti-Blackness sessions GenDoc facilitated with us a few months ago, she has graciously provided this Notes on Anti-Blackness write-up which shares some key takeaways about how Anti-Blackness shows up in BIPOC spaces and what non-Black folks can be doing to support dismantling that.
🌻 We are continuing 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
🎉Want to host your birthday, or the birthday of a friend in Garden? Check out our Birthday Guide and email us!
💌 Don't forget, we can design and host non-Garden virtual events too.
Until next our avatars meet,
🪄Al , 🪻J Mase & 🪴Nana Kwaku
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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