Hey Garden(ers),
As Halloween and Dia de los Muertos are quickly approaching in the coming days, we hope y'all are finding ways to connect with your people! One such way, will be this weekend at Garden's Halloween Party, where we invite you to play some trivia games, build chosen family, dance like only your avatars are watching and connect with some revolutionary history! We hope to catch you there! Remember, any Day Pass RSVP's for BIPOC friends, that are not already Garden members, must be filled out by the evening of October 31st!
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👻This weekend it's our 🎃Garden Halloween Party🎃 Saturday November 1st-Sunday November 2nd! RSVP here! Check the schedule here! Need a few Day Passes for BIPOC friends you'd like to join in on our Halloween festivities? Share this form!
📖 Join Deeda November 10th at 6pm PT as she hosts an interest meeting to explore forming a study group around ❤️🩹 The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT (and the companion workbook). The group will offer community support for addressing systemic, intergenerational, and attachment trauma through therapeutic practices. This meeting will be a space to learn more and decide together on the group’s structure (meeting frequency, dates, and focus). No commitment required. Just bring your curiosity and ideas! RSVP to attend here.
🫁 Want to increase your lung capacity? Come to Breathing in the Knowledge Nursery! Every weekday at 9am PT. RSVP here!
💃🏾 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 horror told from the perspective of a dog! Think you know what it is? Come thru and find out! RSVP via the visit page.
🫂 The next session of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group will be Thursday November 5th 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!
🪷 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.
🦾 Self Defense Discussion Series is every Sunday at 8am PT! We focus on ease of movement, light strengthening or flexibility exercises, and reading/discussion on self-defense and liberatory principles. Message Caroline with any questions. RSVP via the visit page!
📺 Based on Issa Rae's acclaimed web series Awkward Black Girl, Insecure is a show about the awkward and messy experiences of a young Black woman. Join us Friday October 31st at 6pm PT to stream and chit-chat about Issa and her crew's hilarious moments, relationship drama, bad decisions, breakups and glow-ups. Issa watch party at The Dunes! RSVP via the visit page.
✍🏽 Are you an aspiring writer? Come join The Storytellers' Anthology every other Saturday. The group will meet again Saturday November 1st at 1pm PT, 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.
☕ Sunday November 2nd at 1pm PT, Garden will be hosting its next Social Hour series. Each Social Hour will feature a 15-30 min rant// talk// presentation// performance from a Garden member on a subject of their choosing as well as time for folks to meet other members in a casual hang out space with games and activities. 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. Nov 2nd's Social Hour will be: How Assata Got Free on Dia de los Muertos (and finding your liberation) w/ Deeda & J Mase!
🗡️Join us next Friday November 7th at 5pm PT for Garden's Among Us Game nights! Join for fun, strategy, and a little bit of betrayal 🗡️ Complete your tasks (yes, even after you are killed!), look around to see who is acting suspicious and see if you can spot the Impostor before it’s too late. Whether you're a seasoned crewmate or a sneaky saboteur, all skill levels are welcome to join! 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 November 15th at 5pm PT RSVP here. (Black folks only.) November's Bonfire will be a community meal.
💻 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 2025 Black Solidarity Economy Fund open cycle is ready for applications! This fund is for Black-led and Black-serving organizations building regional solidarity economy ecosystems that are controlled and governed by the very people they serve. We fund projects from housing, schools, farms and food production, local governance structures, art and culture, healthcare and healing, to transportation. If this sounds like your work, we encourage you to apply. Applications close November 3, 2025. We are also still accepting applications for the Rapid Response Fund until December 12, 2025.
💼 Good Insight, an award-winning executive search firm focused on nonprofit leadership and is seeking a fully remote Recruiter for contract work. As a contractual supplement to Good Insight’s team, the Recruiter will provide research and sourcing support for Good Insight’s executive search engagements with nonprofits, foundations, and associations. The Recruiter will be responsible for generating diverse, high-quality candidate pipelines by using LinkedIn, Candid/GuideStar, proprietary Good Insight information, and other online research tools. This hourly, remote contractor will be part of a bench of
professionals to support projects on an as-needed basis. Compensation: $55/hour. Good Insight invites applications, by no later than November 7.
🎥 Black Film Space is awarding $3,000 to an emerging filmmaker creating their first or second short film as a writer, director, and producer. We’re looking for fresh voices, daring ideas, and powerful perspectives that will push storytelling forward. Applicants may reside anywhere in the world, but must have access to a U.S. bank account to receive grant funds.⏰ Deadline: Nov 12, 11:59PM ET.
🎞️ The Transgender Film Center's Found Footage Feature Fund, powered by Duplass Brothers Productions, is a new initiative designed to support the creation of low-budget, high-creativity feature films by trans filmmakers. The program will award a single $25,000 cash grant to fund the full production of a feature-length film that leverages the found footage filmmaking technique to create resourceful and cost-effective storytelling movies. This is not a development opportunity; it is a production grant. The selected filmmaker must complete a finished feature film within 12 months of receiving funds, using only the grant amount, with no additional development deals permitted. The goal is to offer a greenlight, not a stepping stone. Applications Close: November 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM PT.
🌍 The CatchLight Global Fellowship is for photographers, videographers, and creative leaders, whose in-depth storytelling projects might ignite social change through innovative visuals, and long-form impact. Since 2017, CatchLight has awarded $30,000 to 26 innovative visual storytellers covering a multitude of topics and come from all over the world. December 15th deadline.
🎨 Art for Palestine (AFP) is CALLING ARTISTS OF ALL DISCIPLINES! Through this campaign, we are raising funds for Excellence in International Education (EIE) — a Palestinian-led 501(c)(3) creating safe spaces where displaced kids can learn, heal, and grow. EIE provides art therapy, literature, photography, and community-led education, equipping kids and teens with tools for resilience, connection, and hope.
🥐 As the US government shutdown continues, we wanted to remind folks of some necessary resources. 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, 😻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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