Hey Garden(ers),
We have 10 days until our Summer Solstice Festival! Whether it is to pop in to share something on the open mic, play a game, win at the scavenger hunt, watch a performance, or attend a workshop, we hope to catch you in your time zone! Want to invite some BIPOC friends? Have them fill out the Day Passes form! There is no number limit on Day Passes. Email us if you'd like a set of day passes for a specific organization or group you are part of.
Recently, we learned that a Tech grant we have applied to for the last couple years to secure laptops, phones and tablets for Garden(ers), is not opening again this year. We have a few Garden members (currently 3), who are in need of functional laptops to be able to connect with community here and/or for work purposes. If you, a friend, or an organization you are a part of has some extra tech to possibly donate to a fellow Garden(er), please let us know! We can also make it tax deductible via our fiscal sponsor! Thank you in advance for your care!
⏰ Our events are generally listed in PST/PDT. Need help converting to your time zone? We recommend using World Time Buddy!
☀️ Our 24 hour long Summer Solstice event to welcome the sun and party down, will be happening June 20th-21st! From a Curses 101, to Taino Women Chiefs, to a Dance Party, Open Mic, Art Gallery Exhibitions, Juneteenth gathering, Scavenger Hunt and more, this annual festival is all online and inside of Garden! Garden(ers) can RSVP here! BIPOC friends of Garden(ers) can RSVP here. A schedule is here!
🛠️ Starting Thursday June 25th at 10am PT, join misha for tools for tending to our nervous (eco)system - intro to the Resilience Toolkit. This will be a 3-part series for quick, accessible somatic practices for stabilizing, reconnecting, and growing our capacity for healing and transformation. RSVP!
🦈For Shark Week (July 9th-12th, 4:30pm-8:30pm PT) we’ll be watching two shark-themed movies each day in the Up All Night room. Join us for classic, comedic, and animated sea flicks. Lineup: July 9th - 🦈 Jaws + 🌪️ Sharknado; July 10th - 🧪 Deep Blue Sea + 🐠 Shark Tale; July 11th - 🦖 The Meg + 🌊 The Meg 2; July 12th - 🚤 Open Water + 🏄🏾♀️ The Shallows. RSVP for Shark Week Film Fest.
❤️🔥 Get your haterade flavored marshmallows ready; the Garden Roast is back! 👺 You wanna roast colonizers? Your terrible boss? The concept of time? COVID deniers? Join Groovy on Sunday July 26th at 1pm PT for the toastiest Garden event of the summer.
Hating knows no limits… but there's a couple of guidelines (ethical hating, hello! 🤓):
☮️ No roasting Garden members.
🤐 If you’re roasting someone who is NOT a public figure, please don’t use personal indicators.
🙅♀️ No racism, ableism, fatphobia, or any kind of discrimination. Be creative!
🥊 Punch up, not down.
⏰ Roasts should be less than 15 minutes.
Ready to roast? Submit a topic here and check out our Roasting 101 guide for more information! 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: Is God Is
🏋🏾♂️ Movement Mondays: Need to stretch more? Commit to your physical therapy? Do some resistance training? Whatever your movement needs are, this is a weekly time to do your independent movement work, while also being around others who need to move with intention! Weekly on Mondays at 7:30pm PT w/ J Mase & Chanelle. 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 queer comedy about a scam artist who realizes being his truest self is expensive🌈💰. Think you know what it is? Come thru and find out! RSVP via the visit page.
🪷 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.
🧛♀️ Let's Rock n' Roll all Bloody Night! Season 3 of Interview with The Vampire is officially here to tell the villain origin story of the dramatic, messy and passionate anti-hero, The Vampire Lestat. Starting in June, we'll be meeting every Sunday to watch Lestat de Lioncourt’s rise as the "world’s first immortal rock star”. Follow Groovy on Sunday June 14 at 4pm PT to continue season 3🩸. *Content warnings here*
🫂 The next session of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group will be Thursday June 18th 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 June 20th), 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 Cinderella’s Castle (Starkid pro-shot), a grim retelling of the classic fairy tale filled with humor, puppetry and 12 original songs! Come join the curtain call on Saturday June 20th at 5pm PT! RSVP!
🏳️⚧️ At our first Trans Meetup, the group was unanimous in deciding that Trans Meetup will be a monthly occurrence. Every fourth Sunday in Garden, at 2pm PT will be a day that Trans folks have made! The next meetup will be June 28th! Join us by RSVP'ing here.
😷 Hang out, chill and play games with Black folks who take COVID precautions at Bonfire in Garden! The next Bonfire will be Saturday June 20th at 5pm PT RSVP here.
❤️🩹 Our Pain We Carry Study Group meets in the Kinship Room on the 2nd and 3rd Sundays of each month (with occasional adjustments around holidays). Upcoming date: June 14 Group begins at 2:30pm PST/ 5:30pm EST for reading and discussion. If you prefer to join after reading, we’ll begin practicing the experiential exercises together around 3pm PST/6pm EST. See Deeda for more information & materials. RSVP.
☕ Sunday July 5th at 1pm PT, Garden will be hosting its next Social Hour series. Each Social Hour will typically 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.
💻 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.
🎓 More Perfect University (MPU) brings students together to build community, speak truth to power, and win — on campuses, online, and in the media. MPU is hiring a Social Media Producer (fully remote)! We're looking for someone who can identify, create, and package student stories happening across the country. Salary: $80K-$85K. Apply ASAP.
👂🏽 Free Audio Description for Dance Workshops! All it takes for anyone to register for one or more workshops (they are all on Zoom and tuition-free) is an email to info@darkroomballet.com. Happening Saturdays at 1pm PDT/4pm EDT through June 27th.
🍉 HEAL Palestine is hiring! Join the HEAL Palestine team and help us expand our humanitarian work in and for Palestine.
We are looking for dedicated professionals to fill the following roles:
- Community Coordinator (US Remote)
- Office Administrative Coordinator (Ohio)
- Structural Engineer Contractor (Gaza Strip)
- Aid Coordinator Level I (Gaza)
- Education Coordinator (Gaza)
View all positions and apply here!
✊🏾 ✨The Decolonize Medicine Series (for Black TGNC folks) is back with a two part intro to its theme of the year ‘Spirit Work as Political Resistance.’ ✨Through this theme we invite our kins into a place of:
- Recognising that our connections to Afro/African/Black Indigenous spiritualityare not separate from our political resistance, and that they are in fact the resistance
- Building our spirit protection bag with knowledge from our own Spirit Activism practices and through knowledge shared within these
circles
🌱Second session: 14th June 2026
🌱Sign up here
🌈 Accessible Virtual Pride: Get ready to join us for an unforgettable experience at Accessible Virtual Pride on July 4th-5th, 2026! We're thrilled to invite you to a celebration of diversity, inclusivity, and love, uniting the LGBTQ+ community and our allies in a safe and COVID-conscious environment. Sign-up, Read More, Buy Merch, Promote! // Produced by Calling Up Justice, One Free Community, and Catalyst Consulting, our event is dedicated to promoting justice and accessibility, ensuring everyone can participate regardless of their ability to attend in person. Inspired by the story of "Stone Soup," every aspect of this event is a labor of love, with volunteers dedicating their time and talents to create something truly special. Join us in making history by supporting our Accessible Virtual Pride and helping us create a space where everyone feels seen, heard, and celebrated. Sign up to be invited, get involved in organizing, perform, share art, vend, or support us in creating this amazing Accessible Virtual Pride event. 🌈Hope to see you there!!! 🌈
🌼 Asian Mental Health Collective is hiring a Director of Development & Communications. This remote roll will lead AMHC's fundraising, communications, and audience growth efforts. They will be pivotal in helping to shape how we engage supporters, tell our story, and grow support for Asian mental health. This is a remote, US-based position with a salary range of $95,000–$120,000 plus benefits. Application deadline: July 15, 2026.
🩼 From Disability Culture Lab: Applications are now open for the 2026 cohort of the Disability Rising Fellowship! Eager to bring a disability lens to movement issues like climate, transit, housing, gender, and racial justice, and more? The Disability Rising Fellowship is for you. We will support ten U.S.-based multi-marginalized disabled leaders in elevating their media presence and advocacy work! The program involves a year of training, coaching, and support, as well as a $5,000 stipend upon completion. Submit your Expression of Interest by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 28, 2026 via the link in our bio (tinyurl.com/DisabilityRising26). Have questions? E-mail Hello@DisabilityCultureLab.org.
💾 About the Just Tech Fellowship: The Social Science Research Council invites proposals from researchers working at the intersection of technology and society for the Just Tech Fellowship. The Just Tech Fellowship supports rigorous, original, and community-grounded work that addresses pressing questions about how technology shapes society and public life. The program is designed for researchers, artists, and practitioners whose work advances thoughtful, practical, and imaginative approaches to how technology is designed, governed, and experienced in public life. // The fellowship welcomes applicants from a wide range of fields, methods, and career paths. Just Tech Fellows include artists, journalists, community-based researchers, social scientists, humanists, technologists, and others whose work expands public understanding of technology and contributes to more informed and accountable technological futures. // Citizens of any country may apply 🌍. Fellows must reside in the United States for the full duration of the fellowship year (January 2027 through December 2027). Submit an application by June 28th.
📖 The Black Trans Prayer Book, is organizing a Trans Book Fair, where we will be connecting virtually with Trans folks, and our solidarity partners, from all over the US and beyond, while also distributing physical books by Trans Authors to Trans people! If you/your org would like to support this work (attend // fund // be featured // etc), there is a form for that here! We are looking for people and organizations who would like to help us make this happen!
🥐 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!
Garden is a free 24/7 space, but it does cost money for us to maintain it on Gather.Town. If you'd like to donate to this work, consider throwing some money in the pot here. To send donations directly through our 501c3 fiscal sponsor, email us!