Hey Garden(ers),
For those who love games of deceit, thank you for coming to last weekend's Social Hour where Boba regaled us with winning strategies for Among Us 👾! Boba has generously shared the slides from that presentation here! Before seeing all this info, we thought we knew Among Us pretty well 😅 ! Interested in sharing your own random idea/art/rant/presentation/performance at an upcoming Social Hour? Fill out the form here!
Next, we have some truly exciting news to share with you all: Our new admin has officially planted themselves in Garden! Welcome to the admin team Kwaku!
Kwaku is a queer collection of African entities led by curiosity and connected by witchcraft. We explore various arts through conjuring new (for us) realities into being, and finding new ways to communicate beyond (human) language. Kwaku is a Wednesday spirit, and is passionate about storytelling, the spirit realm, and making delicious eats.
Kwaku's new office will be launching by this weekend. Send them your well wishes and greetings as they come into this new role!
⏰ Our events are generally listed in PST/PDT. Need help converting to your time zone? We recommend using World Time Buddy!
🍉 Are you ready for MO MO MO??? Join Double-E every other Friday (next session Feb 6th at 6pm PST), to watch “MO”, the award-winning comedy series about a Palestinian asylum seeker hustling to make ends meet in Houston, Texas. RSVP to attend
💔 Saturday February 14th at 7pm PST (Please note the time change) We will be bringing the internationally acclaimed tour Cupid Ain't @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement to Garden! Part heartbreak, political rants, bitter love poems and YOU, this poetry event will have various featured artists and an open mic portion. Come ready for the haiku slam if you'd like to be dubbed the Anti-Valentine's Day Slam Champion! Day Passes for Non-Garden Members will be available. RSVP
🫁 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 classic sapphic crime romance about Corky and Violet who are going to try to screw over the mob- will they succeed? 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.
🍿 Monday, February 9th at 5pm PT, BJ will be hosting Black Movie Night, a bi-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! Feb 9th's movie will be The Wiz 🥿
🫂 The next session of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group will be Thursday February 12th 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!
🎭 Places, theater nerds! At Do You Hear the Garden Sing? (Musical Theater Night) we'll be watching musical theatre movies, pro-shots (and some bootlegs) every other week. This is a bi-weekly space to nerd-out about musical theater, enjoy some tunes and perhaps even share some hateful takes ;) Come join for the next curtain call on Saturday February 14th at 5pm PST! RSVP
✍🏽 Are you an aspiring writer? Come join The Storytellers' Anthology returns to every other Saturday, Feb 14th 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.
😷 Hang out, chill and play games with Black folks who take COVID precautions at Bonfire in Garden! The next Bonfire will be Saturday February 21st at 5pm PT RSVP here. (Black folks only.)
🏳️⚧️ 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 2/22! Join us by RSVP'ing here.
☕ Sunday March 1st 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.
💻 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.
💊 Just The Pill seeks a dynamic, passionate, and values-focused (remote) Executive Director to lead our fully-remote abortion care and sexual health clinic. This role calls for a grounded, relational leader who can hold vision and strategy while delivering quality, people-centered patient care and maintaining a healthy, sustainable workplace. The Executive Director will lead with integrity and collaboration, balancing big-picture leadership with day-to-day operational oversight. The ideal candidate brings a deep commitment to reproductive freedom, experience leading nonprofit teams and systems, and a leadership style grounded in reproductive justice values. Salary range: $130k-$145k. Apply by: March 27th.
The Ben & Jerry's Foundation's National Grassroots Organizing Program (NGO) offers unrestricted, general operating support grants of up to $30,000, with an average grant size of $20,000, to small (budgets under $350,000), constituent-led grassroots organizations throughout the United States and its territories. We believe those most impacted by inequity and injustice are in the best position to develop solutions. Our intent is to achieve a better future for all by providing support to community-based, grassroots organizations confronting social and environmental injustice. We are inspired by Civil Rights icon John Lewis’ admonition, “Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” We will be accepting new applications through February 25th at 4:00 PM ET
🏳️⚧️ The Trans Justice Funding Project's 2026 cycle 1 grants are open for proposals! If you have a Trans-led project and/or organization, apply by Feb 15th!
📚 Over the next few months, join Haymarket and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction for a hybrid, weekly course focused on selections from Frantz Fanon’s four major English-language publications. Feb 4-Apr 29 5:30PM-7:00 PM EST
💌 As Gata transitions out of her admin role, to honor the work she has put into supporting Garden, please share your notes, your love, your care for her directly here.
🥐 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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