Hey Garden(ers),
Have you thrown a snowball in Garden? We have two snowball machines, one located in Garden Lobby and another one on the Space Snowball Fight Room via Garden Map. Snowball fights can get pretty competitive since there is scoreboard located in the Space Snowball Fight room on the Garden map. Do you know who is 1st place? Come find out and pick up a snowball while you're here! Be sure to ask for consent before throwing a snowball at someone.


For the Horror Heads that came through this last weekend for the marathon, we got scared, laughed at ridiculous moments and questioned reality through 14 hours of horror films! What a scary good time! 😅
Below, check out the events we have panned for Black August! Each event is labeled as to whether it is open to all, or specifically for a Black audience.
😷 Hang out, chill and play games with Black folks who take COVID precautions at Bonfire in Garden! The next Bonfire will be Saturday August 16th at 5pm PST, where will have a facilitated conversation with Ohene:waa about solidarity across the African diaspora. RSVP here. (Black folks only.)
✊🏾Sunday August 17th, we'll have a special screening of The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75, at 1pm PST! (This session is open to all.) RSVP here
📽️ Saturday August 23rd, starting at 1pm PST we'll be hosting a Black Classics Movie Marathon! From comedy, to documentary, drama and horror, let's get into it! Schedule will be available on or before August 15th. (Black folks only.) RSVP here
🌱 But is it Reparations: A Deep Dive into Reparations Frameworks with J Mase & Lady Dane happens on August 31st from 1-4pm PST. What can reparations actually look like? How does the Reparations Movement intersect with other social movements and how do non-Black POC participate? What are models that currently exist? What else goes into Reparations beyond money? RSVP here (This session is open to all.)
🎬Wanting to hone in on your virtual facilitation and/or hosting skills for Garden events, Zoom or other digital meetup spaces? Come learn Best Practices for Facilitating and Hosting in a Virtual World! this Saturday August 2nd at 1pm PST. Join J Mase to learn best practices of holding space in a virtual environment! We'll be covering how to manage an online audience, tech considerations and facilitation styles among a host of other necessary components to having the best possible online experience while hosting/facilitating. RSVP!
🫂 The next session of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group will be this Thursday July 31st 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!
🎨 Let’s unlock our creative spirit together! Garden's Way a 12-week meetup where we’ll discuss chapters, share progress, and encourage each other as we move through The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. Open to anyone (writers, painters, musicians, dreamers, etc.) looking for a supportive space to grow and express themselves. 🌱 every Sunday at 11am PST through Oct 5th, hosted by Deeda & Mo & Dan. Meeting weekly at Garden and yapping asynchronously in our Signal group. DM a host to be added to the Signal group, or join us at their weekly meeting! RSVP here.
🎥 Join Nathan and Zahra on Friday August 22nd at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT / 11am AEST (Sat) as they stream the Thai BL film - The Red Envelope! Synopsis: When Menn, a super-straight mugger-turned-police spy, accidentally picks up a mysterious red envelope, he is bound by a supernatural contract that forces him to wed a ghost. Fate plays an even crueler trick on him. His "spouse" is not only dead, but a cute and unapologetically progressive gay man named Titi. Run time = 2 hours 7 minutes. We will have a 15 minute break half-way. Themes: Horror, Supernatural, Queer, Comedy. RSVP here!
🫁 Want to increase your lung capacity? Come to Breathing in the Knowledge Nursery! Every weekday at 9am PST. RSVP here! Please note that on Wednesday the 23rd, Breathing will be pushed to 10am PST.
💃🏾 Co-Twerking this Tuesday with Caroline at 3pm PST!
📔 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 the 2025 second installment of a sci-fi thriller about an AI powered doll that can take over the world. 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.
📺 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 for the next showing on Friday August 8th at 6pm PST 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.
🦾 Self Defense Discussion Series will be on Sundays 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!
💻 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.
🛞 Liberation Medicine School is hosting the fourth circle of their Decolonize Medicine series for 2025, specifically for African/Black Trans & Gender Expansive peoples across the diaspora. This session, Roots of Self Affirmation: Claiming Our Identities and Spaces invites participants into a guided kinship circle designed to deepen self recognition and collective support through gentle grounding rituals, personal storytelling, and collaborative mapping exercises. Happening this Sunday, August 3rd 2025 at 9am PST/12pm EST/4pm GMT via Zoom. Registration can be found here.
📩 Erotics of Liberation is hiring a remote Email Marketing Strategist to join their team. This role is pivotal in shaping and executing our content and organic marketing strategies, ensuring alignment with Erotics of Liberation’s overarching goals. Information on how to apply can be found here.
🌍 WePlanet (formerly Replanet) is embarking on an ambitious project to build a global community of progressive ecomodernists driving change on climate, environment, and development. We’re seeking a Senior Digital Fundraising Lead to grow our supporter base and help raise funds to advance this mission, that can be located anywhere in the world. Using science and data-driven strategies, this role will play a key part in inspiring action on some of the world’s most pressing challenges. In this exciting, fully remote role, you’ll design impactful fundraising campaigns, craft compelling content, and use automation and A/B testing to engage supporters and drive measurable results. Salary range: €75,000 to €88,000 determined based on experience and seniority, along with benefits. Apply here.
🍉 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.
✍🏾 For past attendees of Working Towards Witness (WTW) and Black QT (Queer/Trans) people in Garden, workshop facilitators Ebbie and Sun have a poll for a potential new offering. Please complete at your earliest convenience and feel free to add your email to the form for WTW updates! They hope to see you in virtual space soon! Please stay tuned for information about the next Working Towards Witness workshop.
📢 As a follow-up to the Anti-Blackness sessions GenDoc facilitated with us a few weeks 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 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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