Hey Garden(ers)!
🪩 We can't wait to see y'all tomorrow (and Wednesday) at our New Year's Eve/Day party! We will have plenty of fun activities including our first snowball match of 2025, a Battle Tetris tournament (with a cash prize!), reflecting on class solidarity as we watch a childhood classic "A Bugs Life", and a special surprise performance by NeptuneMuse to close us out!
RSVP isn't required, but highly encouraged. If you don't RSVP, no worries, just show up! Also, don't miss out on any of our events and subscribe to our program calendar!
🐣The second Parents Meetup will be Friday January 3rd at 5pm PST! This meeting will be an unfacilitated casual meetup for parents and an intentional space to connect. RSVP here!
🤯Watch Party: Severance! Join for the last screening of Severance this upcoming Sunday Jan 5th at 1pm. Whether you are a die hard fan, a lover of sci-fi thrillers or just love great storytelling, come indulge with us! RSVP!
🗣️Y'all, we have some BEAUTIFUL ass proposals for Garden Talks, but we're greedy and want a few more. 😂💌 The deadline for proposals has been extended til this evening! What random subject could you explain in 15 min or less? Maybe the exciting world of bird tail feathers? The winning strategy to your favorite video game? How to advocate for yourself within the medical industrial complex? A 10 min exploration of a choreo-poem to light the world on fire? Submit to Garden Talks, a festival of ideas/dreams/rants happening here in Garden Jan 11th, 1-5pm PST. RSVP here! Proposal deadline is extended until this evening December 30th at 11:59pm PST.
🎨Skyriver will be guiding us into Imagination & Creative Space, an open space and time to work on creative projects, and crafts, on January 18th 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. You can RSVP!
🫁 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. December 30th, 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.
🎥 Name That Movie (Night!) is Wednesday at 5:30pm PST! This week's movie is a thriller comedy about a pair of amateur criminals who break into a house when their car breaks down, but soon realize they are in over their heads, as they discover the home owners are harbouring a secret. 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 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.
🦾 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!
🫂 The January sessions of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group will be this Thursdays January 2nd, 16th & 30th 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.
📺 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! 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 January 18th 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.
🏳️⚧️Comfrey Films is hosting a Black Trans Short Film Festival. Submit your film now, until February 5th, 2025.
🍉 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!
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!