Hey Garden(ers),
Our Halloween Weekend Schedule is officially up! Dress your physical self and/or your avatar up for a chance to win a cash prize of $25 at our costume contest, play games and dance the night away at the Juke Joint, decorate a virtual pumpkin, watch a screening of Hadestown or listen to a Social Hour talk about the current climate in Venezuela (and more!)
⏰ Our events are generally listed in PST/PDT. Need help converting to your time zone? We recommend using World Time Buddy!
🎮 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 has landed! 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! RSVP for individual events!
👻🍿 Sunday Scares: Friendly Ghosts Edition is coming up again on Sunday October 25th at 3pm PDT/6pm EDT. Join us this weekend for three vampire stories featuring BIPOC characters! We’re watching Black as Night (2021), Queen of the Damned (2002), and Night Patrol (2026) in Garden’s Up All Night room. 🖍️ Get crafty with us while we watch! Download the Vampire Night coloring page here. RSVP
🪫 A Totally Unserious Election Watch Party ☑️ 🫠November 3 at 6:15pm PT – You’re invited to A Totally Unserious Election Watch Party, an election-night comedy double feature for the civically engaged and politically exhausted. After you cast your vote, spend the evening with friends watching Election and Idiocracy while we check in on key midterm races throughout the night. We intend to keep things light, but we hope everyone will participate! Deeda and GenDoc put together an Election Night Prep Guide with voting information, races to watch, and public-health issues to follow. Together we’ll laugh our way through whatever unfolds and continue to hope (against all available evidence) for the end of empire. ✨ Check the schedule! RSVP!
🫁 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: Tales From the Hood
💃🏾 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. RSVP here
🎥 Name That Movie (Night!) is Wednesday at 5:30pm PT! This week's movie is a 2026 second installment of a family friendly witchy classic about magic. 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. Wednesdays 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 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 24th 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: November 15th. 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. October's Topic: [Liberated Relationship Structures] Are you interested in non-monogamy, polyamory or relationship anarchy but don't know how to approach it quite yet? Are you practicing polyamory, but still need some questions answered? During this discussion, we will go over various relationship structures and give strategies about how to map out your relationship constellation that reflects your needs and desires. Facilitator: Asha
😷 Hang out, chill and play games with Black folks who take COVID precautions at Bonfire in Garden! The next Bonfire will be Saturday November 21st at 5pm PT RSVP here. Topic: Recipes
📝 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. November Topic: Navigating Venezuela on the ground w/ Gata
💻 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.
👩🏽💻 Civic Edge Consulting (CEC) is a woman-owned communications, marketing, and community engagement company serving government agencies, nonprofits, and private companies throughout the Bay Area. WE ARE HIRING A NEW DIRECTOR. As our next Director, you will serve as a senior leader at Civic Edge, providing strategic oversight across projects, mentoring and developing staff, driving client success, expanding business opportunities, and contributing to the continued evolution of our company culture and services.● Full-time position, hybrid work schedule with one in-office day per week ● Annual salary of $100,000 with opportunities for up to $36k in additional monthly bonuses, plus annual new business bonus. Apply ASAP.
🩺 Midi Health is the only comprehensive virtual care clinic for women in midlife navigating perimenopause, menopause, and other common midlife health challenges. Midi is seeking an experienced (full time/remote) Master Scheduler to join our cutting edge healthcare start-up. This is a rare opportunity to start at the ground level of a fast-growing healthcare practice. We offer a flexible work schedule and 100% remote environment. Compensation: $30/hour, non-exempt. Apply ASAP.
🏫 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.
🌍 People Powered is seeking government and civil society leaders to join a new cohort of innovators who want to launch participatory programs that shape climate policy, with a focus on regenerative agriculture, renewable energy, and just transitions. Applications for Climate Democracy Accelerator are open now until November 27! Read below for the details. Applications are open to participants from governmental institutions, civil society organizations, or non-governmental organizations. The program prioritizes applicants from the four priority countries (Brazil, Indonesia, India, and Mexico), with additional spots available for participants from other countries worldwide, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Awards range from $10k-$25k. Apply by Nov 27th.
🌍🌱 Global Greengrants Fund (GGF) supports grassroots activists and civil society organisations around the world working to address environmental and social justice in over 160 countries. Global Greengrants Fund is looking globally to hire a committed and passionate individual who will coordinate and operationalize GGF’s program work across our three impact areas: Energy, Earth, and Equity, supporting our global Advisory Network and strengthening the systems, processes, and collaboration needed to deliver our strategy. The (remote) Program Manager will coordinate annual workplans and budgets, manage program workflows, monitor expenditure, and contribute to strategy implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Salary:USD $102,800 / year. Application Deadline: November 1, 2026
🎱 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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