Hey Garden(ers),
Do you want to release your rage? Join us Sunday June 8th at 1:30pm PST! Mo is hosting Garden’s Roast Wanted: A Night of Roasting for us to release the rage 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? Pitch a topic that you can complain about for 15 min or less by June 1st at 11:59pm PST! Here are some guidelines:
☮️ 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.
RSVP here and check out this interview on why Mo is advocating for our pettiest of selves! Need help brainstorming, or want to body double with others working on their roast, join the co-working sesh this Thursday May 29th at 5pm PST.
Thank you to everyone who came through to the first round of Dismantling Anti-Blackness in BIPOC Spaces sessions we have been having here in Garden! For those who came to the session for Non-Black folks this past Saturday, make sure to leave your thoughts (anonymously) on this padlet which will be used for future sessions.
Our 24hr Summer Solstice festival, happening June 21st/22nd, is around the corner! If you'd like to propose an event, dance party, workshop, vendor, or be one of our late night-volunteers, make sure to fill out this form before June 1st! Want to invite a BIPOC friend that isn't already a Garden member? The registration for Summer Solstice Day Passes (for Non-Garden Members) is here!
🎨 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!
🐣 Are you a parent looking to connect with other parents? Parents Group will be meeting this Sunday June 1st at 11am PST! RSVP here!
🎥In the spirit of "Nothing about us without us" the For Us By Us film club is an opportunity for Black members of Garden to watch and discuss films made by Black film makers from around the world. Join Skyriver every month starting this Sunday June 1st at 2pm PST. From comedy to documentary, horror to romance, indie to mainstream we'll share the many facets of Black storytelling. RSVP here!
🪩Deeda and GenDoc are closing out Season 2 of P-Valley with a watch party on June 6th at 6pm PST. With Uncle Clifford’s Rule #19.4 in mind, ("The Pynk don’t do basic") 💋, this is your chance to go all out! 🎀 Dress Code: PINK or your best “Pynk” energy — think Uncle Clifford, Mercedes, or your favorite character.
Feel free to bring a Chucalissa-inspired dish or drink, something bold, soulful or over-the-top. RSVP here!
🎭Lani is hosting the Next to Normal West End Pro-shoot (PBS) watch party on June 6th at 7pm PST! Content Warnings for this musical: Depictions of mental illness, grief, loss of child, mentions of suicide and abuse. 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 are available for non-Garden members here.
💒 The Queers are back at the Ultimatum, a Netflix dating show centered around couples and their marriage ultimatums. Gather around and grab your popcorn, we will watch the first two episodes of this season on Thursday June 26th at 5pm PST. RSVP here!
🫁 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. Tonight 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 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(s) is a repeat of a Garden member fan favorite absurdist fantasy featuring a primarily Asian cast and the long journey of a mother traveling through the multi-verse! 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.
🫂 The next session of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group will be this Thursday June 5th 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.
😷 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.
🌈 Familia TQLM works at the local and national levels to achieve the collective liberation of trans, queer, and gender nonconforming Latinxs through building community, organizing, advocacy, and education. Currently, they are hiring for three remote positions: Organizer, Digital Organizer and Development & Operations Manager. Click here for more information.
🩼 The Borealis Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) supports U.S.-based groups led by people with disabilities, disabled people of color, disabled queer and trans folks, building a more liberatory world free from ableism. The Disability Inclusion Fund utilizes a participatory grantmaking process. All grantees will be selected by a grantmaking committee composed of majority disability advocates and invited funders. They'll be hosting an informational webinar on June 2, 2025 at 11am PDT/1pm CDT/2pm EDT to review the application process and answer applicant questions. ASL interpretation and real-time captioning will be provided. We will also record the session for those who cannot attend. Applications are due June 25th.
📖 Authors who have served time inside prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers have vital stories to share. If you’re a system-impacted writer, the Bolt Cutters Cohort is here to support you to further your writing project. This program is fully funded for all accepted participants. Bolt Cutters Cohort, is accepting applications until July 15th for their six-week program for authors who have been incarcerated, jailed, or detained by ICE. The program will run from September 15 to October 31, 2025.
🍉 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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