Hey Garden(ers),
Last week, we had such a great time at the beach watching the first few episodes of the show we love to hate on, the Queer Ultimatum. We laughed, we cried, we discussed, we checked our cheat sheets (shout out to Gata for putting this helpful handout together) and we cannot wait to host the next watch party (to watch episodes 5-8 of Season 2) next Monday July 7th at 5pm PT/7pm CT/8pm ET. See you there!
This Sunday, July 6th is also the re-scheduled date for ❤️🔥 Garden’s Roast Wanted: A Night of Roasting at 1:30pm PST! Want to attend the July 6th festivities? RSVP here!
🫂 The next session of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group will be this Thursday July 3rd 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. RSVP here!
✨Need something else to do on a Friday night? Skip the noise and join Deeda for Salon Night Part 2: A cozy, creative evening of makeup play, self-care, and connection. 💄 They’ll be sharing *cute*, COVID-safe, mask-friendly looks and good vibes. 😷✨ Salon Night starts Friday July 4th at 5:30pm PST. RSVP here!
🐣 Are you a parent looking to connect with other parents? Parents Group will be meeting this Sunday July 6th at 11am PST! RSVP here!
❤️🔥 Garden’s Roast Wanted: A Night of Roasting is happening July 6th at 1:30pm PST! Want to attend the July 6th festivities? RSVP here!
❄️ SNOWBALL FIGHT Let's fight! The snowball scoreboard has been reset, let's see who can make it to the top on July 6th at 5pm PST. RSVP!
🎨 Craft & Yap 🦜 will take place Sunday, July 20 at 11am PST. Come hang out and make stuff! Whether you’re journaling, stitching, collaging, or just vibing, this is a space for creativity and connection. Bring a project or come to get inspired and maybe learn something new. All crafts, all Gardeners welcome! Hosted by Deeda. RSVP!
🫁 Want to increase your lung capacity? Come to Breathing in the Knowledge Nursery! Every weekday at 9am PST. RSVP here!
💃🏾 Join Caroline for Co-Twerking on Tuesdays at 3pm PST! We will follow video(s) with a warm-up and cool down 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 is a 2009 horror comedy in which a demonically possessed high school student kills her male classmates and devours their flesh in order to survive. 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.
😷 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 July 19th 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.
🖊️ Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) Writer’s Fellowship grants a prize of $15,000 annually to an emerging poet, fiction writer, or creative nonfiction writer from an underrepresented community who has not published and is not under contract to publish a book in any genre. Writers who are U.S. permanent residents or U.S. citizens are eligible. Applications are due July 18th.
😷 1Day Sooner, a nonprofit that advocates for people who participate in high-impact medical studies, is seeking a People Operations Lead to support and enhance their remote-first, high-impact team. Salary range is $70k-$90k. Applications are due by July 18th at 8:59pm PST.
🌈 Accessible Virtual Pride 2025, a collaboration between Calling Up Justice, One Free Community & MouthWater will be taking place July 4th-6th on Zoom and GatherTown! Volunteer to help make the magic happen, or register as an audience member here!
🌍 The Awesome Foundation is a global community advancing the interest of awesome in the universe, $1000 at a time. Each fully autonomous chapter supports awesome projects through micro-grants, usually given out monthly. These micro-grants, $1000 or the local equivalent, come out of pockets of the chapter's "trustees" and are given on a no-strings-attached basis to people and groups working on awesome projects. Applications for various chapters are typically open the 1st-10th of each month.
💽 The PowerOn Individual Tech Grant provides life-saving and life-changing technology (cell phones, tablets, and laptops) to LGBTQ+ individuals for personal use. If you are in need of a device, please apply! Please note: This grant requires that applicants are tied to an approved LGBTQ+ organization. The Black Trans Prayer Book (the org Garden is tied to) is an approving organization. Please contact J Mase via the info@MeetAtGarden.com email or in Garden to get set up with a recommendation. Applications are due July 10th.
🍉 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!
Garden is a free 24/7 space, but it does cost money for us to maintain it on Gather.Town. If you'd like to donate to this work, consider throwing some money in the pot here. To send donations directly through our 501c3 fiscal sponsor, email us!