Hey Garden(er)s!

It's another week in Garden 🪴 with new events and opportunities you don't wanna miss out on. From Chronic Illness/Long COVID support groups, to learning ballet, to our newest "Tiny Desk" spotlight blog, and grant opportunities 🔍

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New Events

🥳 Save the date & RSVP for Summer Solstice: June 22nd-June 23rd. Come celebrate the longest day of the year with us in Garden while we party it up for a continuous 24 hours! If you'd like to volunteer a political education workshop, a writing session, a performance, a DJ set, host an event, or lead any other activity, check out the Summer Solstice sign up form and fill it out by June 1st!

🫂Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group is starting on Thursday June 6th & 20th at 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 will be 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.

🩰Want to learn ballet in a way that is anti-racist, accessible, body positive, queer, and covid conscious? Saturday, June 29th is officially Day of Ballet in Garden, hosted by Ashley from 11am to 3pm PST 
  
Tentative schedule:
2pm - 2:15pm ET: Arms-only/sitting ballet class
2:20 - 3:20pm ET: Beginner full ballet class with choreography
3:30 - 4:30pm ET: Some form of self-defense movement class/discussion
5-6pm ET: Lecture/discussion and/or movie screening relating to BIPOC ballet histories and experiences

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Ongoing events in Garden

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

🎥 Name That Movie (Night!) is Wednesday at 5:30pm PST! This week's movie is a horror film about vengeance starring an actor whose name sounds a lot like Bickolas Page. Have a good guess? Come thru and find out!

🪷 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.

💻 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.

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Opportunities

✍🏾One early-career visual artist, writer, dancer, or musician addressing plants, gardens, or landscapes will be awarded the Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence along with a grant of $10,000. Due May 31st.

🌍The PEN/Bare Life Review Grant ($5,000) opens June 1st and supports literary works in progress by immigrant and refugee writers. Due by August 1st.

👩🏾‍💻Crips4Palestine will be hosting the webinar Disability Justice in Direct Action online for activists Sunday, May 26th, 12 to 1:30 PM Pacific. Learn what disability justice is, why does it matters and how we do it.

✊🏾Reminder: Peoples Hub is having a Resisting Covid Denialism Community of Practice series that starts at the end of this month! Register & learn more information about it here.

🎈 We are looking to open Garden up to 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

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Announcements & Actions

🍉Centering Palestine has a zoom every Tuesday at 5pm PST, along with other resources to show up for Palestine available here.

🔍 Tiny Desk Spotlight: We are starting a new series of highlighting Garden members' desks! This week we are spotlighting Imani's 70's cottage core desk area. Would you like your desk to be spotlighted in our newsletter? Message or talk to Gata next time you are in Garden, or email her at info@meetatgarden.com.

That's all for now, until next our avatars meet!

😸Gata

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 GatherTown. 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!