Hey Garden(ers),
Autumn Equinox is right around the corner, which means Halloween is almost here! Did you want to pitch an event for Halloween Weekend? Submit via the Event Proposal Form! Please note that we may reach out to adjust times to make sure we fit in everyone that would like to share something for Halloween Weekend!
⏰ Our events are generally listed in PST/PDT. Need help converting to your time zone? We recommend using World Time Buddy!
💼💖9 to 5 on 9/25: Dolly Parton Tribute & Watch Party 🎬 In honor of the late, great Dolly Parton we’re gathering on 9/25 to watch the iconic workplace comedy "9 to 5"...get it? 💖🎬 Meet us at the Game Spot (GenDoc’s bar) to learn a little more about Dolly’s life and legacy before watching her film debut alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. The movie follows three working women who plot revenge against their crummy, sexist boss. 💼💅🏾
🫁 Want to increase your lung capacity? Come to Breathing in the Knowledge Nursery! Every weekday at 9am PT. RSVP here!
🍿 Mondays, 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: Beloved
💃🏾 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 2021 revival of a classic horror movie about a Black artist whose work highlights gentrification while reigniting an old tale of a man known throughout the neighborhood for always carrying candy. Think you know what it is? Come thru and find out! RSVP via the visit page. (Please note that for the next few weeks, ⭐Nana (Kwaku) will be leading movie night, so follow them 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
🪷 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 September 24th 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 September 26th), 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 The Prince of Egypt (1998) a musical animated movie about the life of Moses and his ultimate destiny of leading the Hebrews out of Egypt. Come join the curtain call on Saturday September 26th at 5pm PT! RSVP!
📝 Saturday September 19th at 1pm 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
😷 Hang out, chill and play games with Black folks who take COVID precautions at Bonfire in Garden! The next Bonfire will be Saturday September 19th at 5pm PT RSVP here.
❤️🩹 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: September 20th. 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 September 27th! Join us by RSVP'ing here. September's session will be facilitated by Ang! Topic: How connection/compassion helps us with reducing dysphoria, increasing confidence, and overall mental health.
☕ Sunday October 4th 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 Billion Acts of Peace Changemakers Fellowship is a year-long leadership and impact program for young people, 18-30 GLOBALLY, who have already started something meaningful, and are ready to grow it. Fellows receive $5,000 along with being part of a network of impactful leaders, gaining mentorship and having skill building opportunities. Apply by October 1st.
💡 The Center for Cultural Innovation’s Research to Impact Lab is excited to announce the Work//Shift Fellowship! Work//Shift brings together 8 organizers, builders, intellectuals, and policy thinkers working across industries shaped by precarious and gig work to ask: What could a social safety net designed for everyone actually look like?
Fellows will receive:
-A $30,000 stipend for participation
-A 12-month, part-time hybrid fellowship
-Virtual programming and two in-person convenings
-Resources and support to launch or accelerate emerging solutions
-Opportunities to build relationships with a cross-sector network of people reimagining what comes next
Applications close October 26, 2026.
Learn more and apply. Questions? Email us at r2i-lab@cciarts.org.
🏫 American Montessori Society is seeking a remote Membership Acquisition Lead. You will lead our effort to grow and expand the AMS school network. Reporting to the Senior Director of Membership, you will spearhead our big-picture sales strategy to prospect, engage, and onboard new and returning schools into our global community. Working across teams, you will turn cold leads into long-term organizational partners by articulating the transformative value of AMS membership. In this entrepreneurial, high-impact role, you will directly drive membership growth while expanding the reach and vitality of AMS' services and benefits. Base salary for this role is $70,000-$80,000, with a target bonus of $20,000 at goal, and the opportunity to exceed this incentive comp based on achievement of sales goals. Apply ASAP.
💼 Instrumentl is hiring a remote Customer Support & Operations Team Lead, reporting to our VP of Customer Success, to own the systems and workflows behind a fast, accurate, and genuinely delightful support experience for the nonprofits and grant writers who run on Instrumentl. This is a hands-on player-coach role. You’ll handle tickets, billing questions, bug reports, escalations, and help-center updates yourself, while raising the bar for the team that handles them alongside you. You’ll guide one full-time support IC and a small bench of contractors, sharpen our AI support workflows in Fin, and decide where automation, self-serve, and human judgment each belong. Compensation: $95,000 – $115,000. Apply ASAP. Check out other remote positions at Instrumentl, here.
🩼 Inevitable Foundation Emergency Relief Fund: The Fund provides grants to disabled writers, filmmakers and writer-producers experiencing financial hardship. This includes creatives who work in narrative, documentary, and unscripted film and television. Need will be considered and includes but is not limited to housing costs, health impacts and medical costs, and lost employment. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and will be prioritized according to need and available funds. At present, the fund also supports disabled writers, filmmakers and producers who are students, with grants covering education-related costs along with emergency need. To qualify as a student, you must be enrolled in an accredited two- or four-undergraduate degree, graduate-level program, certificate, or in select nonprofit education and training programs. Apply ASAP.
💻 Technovation is currently hiring for 3 remote positions: US Program Manager (Compensation: $65,000–$75,000), Head of Community (Compensation: $85,000-$100,000) and Global Social Media & Community Manager (Compensation: $70,000–$80,000). They are a global nonprofit that has spent 20 years building the world’s largest technology entrepreneurship program for girls, reaching 500,000+ participants across 160+ countries. They steward one of the largest ecosystems of women in technology on the planet.
📝 The Black Youth Project is accepting ongoing pitches about how Project 2025 is shaping our lives now. Potential topics include rollbacks in health-care, food and housing insecurity, anti-trans legislation and discourse, the privatization of education, and imperialism and the American project. Submissions are open to Black youth and young adults ages 18–45. Guidelines and instructions for submissions can be found here.
🌹 GraveSite is preparing for launch and is looking for journalism, personal essays, cultural criticism, commentary, and other nonfiction writing exploring death and its many intersections with life. The publication primarily focuses on the United States, but it is open to stories from elsewhere when they have relevance for an American audience. Writers can pitch from anywhere in the world, provided they can accept payment through BILL.com or ACH. Compensation: $200-$1000 USD. Submit using this form.
🏥 The Patients Union is hiring a remote Digital Strategist. This role involves managing and growing their digital presence, creating compelling content, and working closely with organizers to develop and test new ways to reach patients, grow their membership, and create pathways for members to take meaningful action and step into leadership. Compensation: $90,000. Apply here.
🦎 Cosmic Healing and Octavia's Chariot are hosting the second annual Interlocking Systems of Liberation (ISOL) during the the first 2 weekends of October (3, 4, 10, & 11) on zoom. Find more information at the link or sign up directly here.
💾 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 & 🪴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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