Hey Garden(ers)!

We are excited to share another Tiny Desk spotlight, check out our blog highlighting Garden member Sun as we learn more about them through their creativity. Wanna show us your desk for the Tiny Desk highlight? email info@meetatgarden.com.

Have you listened to the Queers Survive the Summer Surge spotify playlist yet? Check it out!

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New Events

⏲️Our events are typically listed in Pacific Standard Time (PST). Need help converting PST to your time zone? Check out this handy WorldTimeBuddy clock!

💖 Garden(ers) over 35+ can join the 35+ Meetup which has been moved to Sunday July 21st at 1pm PST! RSVP on the calendar on Garden's visit page!

🪩Also, this July 21st issa Full Moon (in Capricorn) party! Junia will be hosting the next Slooowww Dance Jam (for Black folks) at 2pm-4pm PST. Come breath, stretch, dance and slow down together (+ shake some ass too). The theme will be "Dark Femme Supremacy" as we vibe to a playlist of all dark-skinned women and gender-expansive artists. Feel free to listen and add your own suggestions here. RSVP via the visit page!

♠️ We'll be hosting a Spades Tournament Tuesday July 23rd at 5:30pm PST. Winner gets $25 and bragging rights. RSVP on the visit page! And because you all asked, we will be having a Spades Teach-In Clinic the week before on Tuesday the 16th at 5:30pm PST for those that would like some time to practice and/or learn!

🎮Saturday, July 27th at 1pm PST, embrace your devious nature and play Among Us with us! Experienced and novice players welcome! Download the app on your phone or via Steam on your laptop, and meet us for a private game! RSVP!

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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. RSVP here!

🎥 Name That Movie (Night!) is Wednesday at 5:30pm PST! This week's movie is a sci-fi thriller about a programmer chosen to participate in a series of experiments to test the human qualities of AI. Think you know what it is? 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.

🫂The next session of Chronic Illness and Long Covid Support Group is this Thursday July 18th 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.

😷 Hang out, chill and play games with Black folks who take COVID precautions at the Bonfire in Garden! Every 3rd Saturday of the month from 5-8pm PST. The next Bonfire is Saturday, July 20th and will be featuring a special art exhibit by Trans-Queer Ghanaian photographer Famehodiɛ Ɔkyeame!! 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

🎸Calling all musicians! We're looking for BIPOC musicians engaging in community care and pandemic safety to perform at our fall concert here in Garden! If you're interested, fill out the application here.

🖥️Are you looking for remote or hybrid work? We're looking to have a job fair here in Garden in the fall! If you're interested, please fill out this form here.

💽PowerOn Individual Tech Grant is once again open to LGBTQIA+ folks in need of cell phones, tablets or computers and due July 28th. The Black Trans Prayer Book, our biggest sponsor, is recommending all LGBTQIA+ Garden(ers) with tech needs, for this opportunity. Email us if you have questions!

🌿Ready to shape the future of animal advocacy? Join Unity Collective's BIPOC Organizers Cohort today which starts August 6th! Limited to 6 people, apply by July 20th!

🌍Black Trans & Gender Expansive Garden(ers) are invited by Liberation Medicine School to a July 21st session from 10am-12pm PST called Gender-Expansive Deities & Queer Embodiments In Ghanaian Traditional Religions. Isaac Bill (she/they), a non-binary and trans femme Ghanaian traditional healer of the Ga tribe, will invite us into her knowledge of the histories and queer practices of gender-expansive deities in Ghanaian* traditional religions. Limited spots, apply asap!

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Announcements & Actions

📢 Interested in brainstorming ways to support one another's self-defense goals? Many of you witnessed Caroline's self-defense principles workshop during A Day of Ballet on June 29th. As a follow-up, she would like to keep up self-defense training and is looking into following the Liberation Martial Arts curriculum ideally with a consistent group interested in learning and/or training up in self-defense. Reach out to her in Garden (Caroline (she) NY 🍉) or over Signal: username FcapitalismFwork.03 !

🍉Centering Palestine has a zoom every Tuesday at 5pm PST, along with other resources to show up for Palestine available 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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Vendor of the Week

🌱 This week, we are highlighting Treasures by Tillman. From the vendor: "Treasures By Tillman is a handmade beaded jewelry experience, making unique pieces for you! From bracelets to necklaces, anklets and waist beads, let Treasures By Tillman give you good energy." Check out their Etsy shop and custom orders form!

Close up of person with shirt unzipped, revealing iridescent beaded necklaces and bracelets.
Person wearing Treasures by Tillman.
Shiny gold long beaded jewelry laying on the same table as two black and gold beaded bracelets.
Black & gold jewelry via Treasures by Tillman.

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!

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