Hey Garden(ers),
Common question we get: Can I go to events that I haven't hit RSVP on? Absolutely! While we encourage RSVPs to help us get a better sense of how many folks will be attending an event, if you don't RSVP for an event, please feel free to attend the festivities regardless!
⏰ Our events are generally listed in PST/PDT. Need help converting to your time zone? We recommend using World Time Buddy!
❄️ We're having a Snowball Off where the Garden member with the most snowballs thrown (as evidenced by the score board in the Space Snowball Room), will win a prize of $25. The current scoreboard has been reset and scores will be counted until Monday September 7th at 10am PDT. Where do you get a Snowball? You can get a snowball from either the snowball machine in the Lobby or in the Space Snowball Room on Garden Map! Use the spacebar to retrieve and throw snowballs! Want to up your score? Meet us on Saturday September 5th at 2pm PT where we'll have a friendly snowball fight ❄️⛄RSVP to attend here
📺 Have you been watching Diarra from Detroit? For the next 2 Thursdays at 4pm PT/7pm ET, some Gardeners will be gathering to watch the final new episodes of the season! Tomorrow we'll be checking out Season 2 Episode 7! Follow Ry to get there!
☕ Sunday September 6th 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. September's Topic: Spicy Books 101: A Tour of the Romance Genre w/ Deeda
💾 Join Helix on September 15th at 5pm PT for Digital Security Doubling! Whether it's to back up/transfer your files, take your info off certain sites, change some settings, etc., let's ~gather~ to get this done! Chatting and swapping knowledge are welcome. RSVP here
🫁 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: Bad Boys Ride or Die.
💃🏾 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 90's monster movie about creatures who venture so deep they create tremors. Think you know what they are? Come thru and find out! RSVP via the visit page.
🧰 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.
🐱 Hello Kitty Island Adventure Meet Up w/ Gata! Calling all Hello Kitty Island Adventurers and sanrio fans! We are hosting a game night (now every first Friday) to play Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Whether you're on a switch, on steam, or another playing platform, come through and hang out. We will be swapping gamming tips, visiting each others islands and more! See you there Friday September 4th at 5pm PT! (We will also be showing Aggretsuko (2018) while playing games or for folks who maybe don’t wanna play games but just wanna watch the show with us!)
📺 Join keivān bi-weekly on Fridays at 6pm PT for Hunter x Hunter (2011), an anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi's world-renowned manga of the same name. The story follows Gon as he learns that the dad who abandoned him is a Hunter: a licensed professional with superhuman-like abilities. Gon goes to take the Hunter Exam in hopes of one day meeting his dad. Along the way, he makes friends: Kurapika, the last survivor of the Kurta clan, who seeks vengeance for his people; Leorio, an aspiring doctor, who seeks a Hunter's financial benefits; & Killua, who's from the infamous Zoldyck family of assassins. Will Gon and friends pass the exam? Will Gon ever meet his father? Come find out! See content warnings. RSVP. Check it out September 4th!
🫂 The next session of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group will be Thursday September 10th 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 12th), 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 ;) Come join the curtain call on Saturday September 12th at 5pm PT! RSVP!
📝 Saturday September 19th 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
😷 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.
💻 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 Out of Office Fund is Off Worque’s microgrant program created to support creatives, entrepreneurs, and community builders with the financial freedom to step away, reset, and recharge. This fall, we’re awarding three $500 microgrants to help individuals take a meaningful Day Off Worque, a day dedicated to rest, creativity, joy, and reconnecting with themselves. Because rest isn’t something you earn after burnout. It’s part of the process. Apply ASAP here!
👥 Irreplaceable is a new organization concerned with the ways artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping economic, social, and political power. Yet the future of this technology is being driven by a small number of companies with enormous financial and lobbying influence, and incentives to race ahead. We are building Irreplaceable to amplify everyday voices on AI and mobilize a broad-based movement capable of winning federal policy that protects everyone’s freedoms, ensures everyone benefits economically from AI, and prevents the development of superintelligence that poses existential risks to humans and the planet. Irreplaceable currently has 4 open remote positions: Distributed Organizer (6-8 week contract @ up to $2k/wk; full time or part time); Senior Digital Manager (full time @ $120-$145k/yr); Organizing Director (full time @ $150-$175k); Operations Director / Manager (full time @ $130-$170k).
✒️ fourteen poems is a London-based poetry publisher, spotlighting the most exciting LGBTQ+ poets in anthologies and pamphlets. We publish our anthology of the most exciting LGBTQ+ poets around 3 times a year and we want to include you! Submissions are now open for Issue 21. Click here to send us your work by September 11th. All details are available via our submissions platform. Please note we do not accept submissions via email. We pay £30 for each poem published.
✍🏾 Lucky Jefferson is a literary and arts organization that publishes social change—generating constructive and interactive conversations around poetry, art, and publishing. We publish those who never thought they could, whose perspectives have been shunned, who came to writing later in life. We're excited to announce our annual literary contest! 10 finalists will receive publication in Lucky Jefferson's digital 365 Collection. Two finalists from that group (one poetry and one prose) will each receive $200 and publication. Submit by Sep 6th!
🌍 The Art Worker Artist Grant is for the people who sustain the art world, like preparators, conservators, registrars, art handlers, framers, fabricators, logistics workers, gallery staff who also happen to be artists. Open to entries from all over the world! Recipients will receive $5,000 AUD. Entries due by September 14th.
💾 TransWave Jamaica is seeking a creative, skilled, and innovative web developer ready to make an impact and help launch the TransLink JA platform! Qualified applicants should submit for their Website Development Consultancy. This is an opportunity to help shape a dynamic, accessible, and engaging digital platform that strengthens how we connect, communicate, and serve our communities. 📌 Think you’re the right fit? Apply now! Submit by September 11th!
💵 The Hodder Fellowship will be given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts”; they are selected more “for promise than for performance.” Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the “studious leisure” to undertake significant new work. Compensation: $93k. Applications due September 8th.
✊🏾 The Mobilize Power Fund is a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions. Apply by written application, video, or phone! The Mobilize Power Fund prioritizes organizations that are responding to specific incidents or changes of circumstances that have occurred in the last six months. This can include rapid response mobilizations, healing justice work, conflict resolution/conflict transformation, community accountability, mutual aid, direct actions, emergency safety, security, and defense needs, and more. This fund prioritizes groups and organizations who are experiencing an unanticipated incident. Apply by September 8th to be considered for this cycle, or October 6th for the next!
🪧 Proteus Fund connects philanthropy to the frontlines of social justice. We strive to advance the interconnected goals of racial, gender, queer, and disability justice and an inclusive, fully representative democracy. They are seeking a Piper Fund Program Officer. The Piper Fund Program Officer, Right to Protest leads Piper Fund and Piper Action Fund's work to protect freedom of assembly and dissent. The Program Officer builds and maintains significant expertise about the field, including monitoring trends in state and federal attempts to restrict the right to protest and dissent, strategic responses of state and national groups, and fostering relationships with key players, grantees, funders, and other leaders at both national and local levels. Compensation: $110-$133k/yr. Apply ASAP!
💾 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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