Hey Garden(ers),
Have you been looking for a place where medical professionals give updates on Bird Flu, Measles and more? Did you know the American Medical Association gives weekly updates on their YouTube?
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.
Get ready for tomorrow's Garden Gras event! Laissez les bons temps rouler! 🎉Gear up with your masks 🎭 and beads 📿 as we bring the vibrant spirit of New Orleans right to Garden! Mardi Gras is one of the grandest celebrations on the planet, and you're invited to join the revelry! Dive into a festive night of New Orleans-themed movies, delectable recipes, and irresistible grooves. 🎷 It is all happening at the Game Spot on starting at 4pm PST. Join anytime, we plan to party all night! Check out recipes, music ideas and submit movie suggestions here!
Special thanks to our speakers, poets and interpreters from yesterday's first ever Garden Talks event!!! We can't wait to do this with you all again! So be prepared to hit the stage with your next brilliant idea/rant/dram/art soon 🎤🎙️
🎉 Laissez les bons temps rouler! 🎉Gear up with your masks 🎭 and beads 📿 as we bring the vibrant spirit of New Orleans right to Garden for Garden Gras! Mardi Gras is one of the grandest celebrations on the planet, and you're invited to join the revelry! Dive into a festive night of New Orleans-themed movies, delectable recipes, and irresistible grooves. 🎷 It is all happening at the Game Spot on March 4th starting at 7pm EST/ 4pm PST. Join anytime, we plan to party all night! Check out recipes, music ideas and submit movie suggestions here! RSVP for the festivities!
🎨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 8th 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 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 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!
🌤️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!
🫁 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 returns to Garden on 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 2024 psychological comedy about an aspiring actor that undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. 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 8th, we'll be watching episode 8 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!
📺 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 March 22nd at 5pm PST. 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.
🌍Creative Catalyst Fellowship from the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund is due March 6, 2025. This fellowship provides opportunities for independent artists to engage the public in critical issues impacting Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) across the country. They consider a variety of art forms, such as music, video, visual arts, performing arts, poetry, and more. Up to eight artists will receive $30,000 contracts to produce work with the potential to break through mainstream media and catalyze conversations around the following three themes: In it Together, Belonging, and Voting Together. Eligibility Info: International artists may apply, but keep in mind that the project must align with one of the three themes.
🌈The National Trans & Queer Therapists of Color Network (nqttcn) is opening applications for their Mental Health Fund (MHF) for Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color (QTBIPOC) on March 17th. MHF provides crucial financial support to Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous and People of Color to increase access to mental health and healing support.
💖Bayard Rustin Residency at Penington Friends House is open for applications until March 15, 2025. This residency is envisioned as an ongoing ladder to empowerment for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) working to end systemic racism and to create a culture of anti-Racism and intersectional equality in the U.S. The residency provides up to one year of room and board to a person who demonstrates a strong project that addresses ending systemic racism and who has a necessity to be in New York City for up to one year.
🖼️Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2025 Grant for Sculpture is open for applications until May 31, 2025. The grant program encourages and supports sculptors, whether emerging or established, and writers about sculpture. In 2025 the Foundation will award a $20,000 grant to a sculptor who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to sculpture and an imaginative engagement with its materials, histories and situation.
🍉 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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