It felt like spring just started not too long ago, and now Summer Solstice is on the horizon. 📅 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!
🍇Need some help learning to navigate Garden and/or Gather? Join us for an Open Garden/Gather Orientation to help you troubleshoot and make sure you have everything you need to enjoy the space fully! Friday May 17th at 3pm PST. RSVP via our community calendar.
🌷Bring Flowers to Someone Day is May 15th! All Garden members with access to the build (customization) access tool are encouraged to leave flowers at each others desks on May 15th. Write a note to your neighbor, a friend or a secret crush 😻 Learn more here.
🍉Tuesday at 2:30pm PST is Watermelon Seeds (aka Reading for Palestine.) This week, they'll be reading up til the 3rd chapter of "100 Years War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi. There's a copy of it on the Palestine Bookshelf in the Enchanted Library. Please email magpiekachi@proton.me to join and for more information!
🎥 Name That Movie (Night!) is Wednesday at 5:30pm PST! This week's movie is a sci-fi film about a couple healing from the trauma of losing a child by stepping into a new dimension. 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.
🍉Centering Palestine has a zoom every Tuesday at 5pm PST, along with other resources to show up for Palestine available here.
✊🏾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.
💽PATHS is offering up to $5,000 through a grant open to LGBTQ youth and young adults studying STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) professions. Due May 31st.
🧑🏾🎨The Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists is open and accepting applications until June 30th!
📔Want to join a community of voracious BIPOC readers invested in environmental justice and animal rights? Veggie Mijas has an ongoing Virtual Book Club you can join 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
🍉 Have you visited the encampment near the beach area in Garden? If you haven't yet, come by and take up virtual space with others in solidarity with the student encampments. Some other ways to support student encampments and folks in Palestine is through monetary donations. Consider donating to Campus Jail Funds, and through GoFundMe donations to families in Gaza verified through Operation Olive Branch.
📖 Check out "Mask Up We Need You", an illustrated zine for those who consider themselves co-strugglers for Palestinian liberation, yet may not understand the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic as both a genocide in itself, and a tool of genocide that perpetuates all others.
⚖️ North Carolina is trying to pass the "Unmasking Mobs and Criminals" bill that will ban folks from wearing a mask. Please join in opposing this bill by signing this petition.
🍰 Have you joined the #BlockOut2024 yet? In efforts to disrupt business as normal, and celebrities profiting off our follows and attention, there is a movement to block celebrities who haven't spoken up nor used their platform to highlight any of the multiple ongoing genocides. This movement also aims to put pressure on those with wealth to donate their own money to support families trying to evacuate and find safety. Check out the mental health edition of the block list.
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!
