3000 Questions, Passing the Crown and Dreaming is Trans[cendant]

Hey Garden(ers),

If you are a COVID-safer artist who is seeking a safe and supportive space to create art and rest, check out the Quarantine Residency with CallingUpJustice. Artists can stay in the Bay Area for up to two weeks with their room and board costs covered for free. Our Garden Scribe, Gata just got back from attending the residency last week. Learn more about Gata's experience here, and see more about the quarantine residency here.

As you all know, for safety purposes, we carefully vet folks who enter Garden. As our little community has grown and developed, we are at a place where we wanted to officially announce that we will be offering Day Passes for special events here in Garden. If you would like to invite friends who also take pandemic precautions and identify as BIPOC, you may request a Day Pass for them to check out a special event where Day Passes are listed in the description. This will also continue to apply for birthday celebrations. You may request a pass by emailing us, and Day Passes will be emailed the day of the event.

Thank you to GenDoc & Deeda for hosting Garden Gras this past Tuesday where our first Garden Gras Monarch was crowned- Congrats to Mo!🎉

🏳️‍⚧️Join Lady Dane & J Mase in Finding the Divine Trans (Continued), a writing workshop for Trans, Non-Binary &/or Gender Expansive Gardeners about discovering our Trans stories of divinity, creation and calling ourselves into existence! Come Tuesday March 18th at 5pm PST, whether you are an experienced writer or novice. Expect to come out of this session with 2-3 new poems. We'll share more stories of Trans Divinity and give space for your radical imagination of Trans Liberation to be expanded. Make sure to RSVP!

❓Want to have spontaneous conversation with others in Garden/learn interesting facts about one another chosen by fate? Join 3,000 Questions About Me with D! This will be a 2 hour segment in which Gardeners gather to choose a number between 1-3,000 from the book of the same title. Don't want to answer the question you got? No problem! Skip it and pick another! Feel free to participate just by being there, text, talk, or video. Friday March 21st from 5PM-7PM PST.

😴Mark your calendars for the Dreaming is [Trans]cendant Festival which will be taking over Garden April 19th & 20th. 5 Black Trans Disabled Artists build an immersive world of art and performance. Come explore, feel and Transcend. RSVP here! Want to bring a BIPOC friend who is not already a Garden member? We will have Day Passes available upon request!

☀️Our 24 hour long Summer Solstice event to welcome the sun will be going down June 21st-22nd! Have an offering? Check the volunteer form here and RSVP here! Day Passes will be available.

🫁 Want to increase your lung capacity? Come to Breathing in the Knowledge Nursery! Every weekday at 9am PST. RSVP here!

🥣 Grab your favorite cereal for dinner and watch anime & cartoons with us at Monday Night Cereal! Join us every other Monday at 5pm PST. Tonight we're watching people's grandpas and little brothers get stolen for the sake of a children's card game. Your move! Read more about the event here.

💃🏾Co-Twerking is set for Tuesdays at 2:30pm PST w/ Caroline!

📔Quiet-ish Reading Club / Connect (QRC) 💜💛📚 Tuesdays starting @ 6:00pm PT . QRC - Garden Edition is where we chill together in mostly quiet company. 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. We'll be planning for two 45 min reading blocks with 15 min breaks / connect check-in time in-between.
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 a 2022 comedy horror about an AI companion robot that goes haywire. 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 next Thursday March 13th 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 via the calendar on the visit page.

🪷 Stretch it out as Caroline leads us in another weekly afternoon Yoga sesh this Friday at 2:15pm 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.

💼Severance fans, we'll be meeting every Saturday at 3pm PST until the end of the second season! Join us March 15th, we'll be watching episode 9 with a discussion afterwards! RSVP here

🦾 Self Defense Discussion Series with Caroline will be Sundays at 8am PST. Each group includes reading, discussion and (potential) movement on self-defense principles! In these politically challenging times, it is especially important for our collective liberation and self-care to learn self-defense. RSVP via the visit page!

🪩Honoring Uncle Clifford's Rule #.0025 — 'Wear Y'all Mu’Fuckin Mask,' we’re keeping it safe so everyone can party in Chucalissa without leaving home! Join Deeda and GenDoc for 'Nights at the Pynk,' a 'P-Valley' virtual watch party every other The next viewing will be Friday March 14th at 6pm PT. Click here to RSVP here!

🎨Skyriver will be guiding us into Imagination & Creative Space, an open space and time to work on creative projects, and crafts every other Saturday. The next session is March 22nd at 12pm PST. Finish an old project, start a new skill, follow the offered prompt or do your own thing. Joy is resistance. Imagination is the path to liberation.

📺 Join us every 3rd Saturday of the month at 11am PST for Garden Ghibli, where we view a Ghibli movie and attempt to make our way to watch all the magical Ghibli movies! The next showing will be this Saturday March 15th. RSVP here!

😷 Hang out, chill and play games with Black folks who take COVID precautions at Bonfire in Garden every 3rd Saturday! The next Bonfire is this Saturday March 15th at 5pm PST. This month we're having a dinner party! Bring your favorite hors d'oeuvres and an appetite for conversation. RSVP 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.

✊🏾The Be.Q.T. Fellowship is an 8-week through the Black Trans Youth Rising Collective (April-May, 2025), a funded, and paid fellowship/cohort program opportunity (approx. $1,200) for young Black, queer/trans people ages 15-25. It is an 8-week container for youth to:  Creatively engage their personal-political // stories // Build and refine their praxis // Create art and/or political campaigns. Deadline to complete application form: Pi Day, March 14th.

📞Trans Lifeline is seeking a full time (4 day/32 hrs a week/$63,000) remote Staff Hotline Operator. The Hotline team provides support to trans people across the United States who are in crisis, seeking resources, or simply need a peer to chat with. Application window opens for self-tape and resume submissions on Wednesday, March 12th at 10am Pacific/noon CT/1pm EST. This window closes Friday, March 14th by 5pm Pacific or whenever 100 applications are received (whichever is first). Intended start date for this position is April 14th.

🌍The Awesome Foundation's March applications are open from the 1st until the 10th! The Disability Chapter is a global chapter which awards $1000 each month to a different disability focused project.

🏡 Are you a COVID safer artist who is seeking a safe and supportive space to create art and rest? Apply for Calling Up Justice's Quarantine Residency. Artists can stay in the Bay Area for up to two weeks with their room and board costs covered for free. Our Garden Scribe, Gata just got back from attending the residency last week. Learn more about Gata's experience here, and see more about the quarantine residency here.

🧪It's that time again, we got a large donation of Rapid Antigen Tests that we can distribute to 20 or more Garden member households. Want some? Fill out the form 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.

🌻 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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