Have you ever wanted to appear in a music video? Well now’s your chance!

Come on by the Garden and appear as an extra in a music video for a song called 'Wildflower Child' which will appear on local artist Swataa's new EP coming out at the end of this summer.

We request you wear something that represents your inner wild child and think about earthy colors. Don't know what you're doing? That's okay- we'll figure it out together!

hosted by Swataa & friends

Inspired by the online meetings of Renunciation Rodeo Global Sangha, we'll gather together to explore sobriety and the habits or things in our lives that no longer serve us. All are welcome- whether you are on a journey of sobriety from substances or just curious about it. We'll explore suffering in the context of Buddhism and share our experiences to create stronger networks and practices that can help to lift us from addiction.

hosted by Sally

Come play in the garden and experience the joy of FLOW!

What are flow arts? They’re all about creative movement-based expression with props—things like juggling, hula hooping, poi spinning, staff, and more. We’ll start the evening with an open show-and-tell where anyone who wants to can show their props and their tricks. Then we’ll have some open practice time, swapping tips and learning from one another as we play and try new things.

Whether you’ve never tried a flow art before or you’re a flow master, you are invited to join! Bring your favorite flow toys or just bring yourself–there will be plenty to share.

hosted by Jacob & Cassie

All levels flow in the garden for our community donation-suggested classes with the beautiful greenery and open blue sky. Perfect for grounding and centering. Bring yourself, water, and a mat (we’ll have a few extra on hand).

hosted by a rotating group of local facilitators

Bring your journal and come connect with yourself and others during an early hours open morning session at the garden! Prompts will be provided. Feel free to bring anything you need to start your morning off right!

hosted by Cassie and Sally

Our meditation community meets weekly to re-center, connect, and cultivate intentions. With a mix of guided, silent, and relational practice, we ground ourselves in presence and compassion. All levels of experience warmly welcomed.

Hosted by regulars and guests alike, bring a practice for the circle to share.

Month Offline welcomes you to a gallery and graduation party with the members of our July cohort!

These brave doomscrollers switched to a dumbphone for the whole month and participated in weekly creative challenges related to the smartphone-shaped hole in their lives. They explored themes like Communication, Navigation, and Boredom as they time traveled to the 1990s. At this closing exhibition, the Month Offline cohort will share what their experience was like, showcase the art they created along the way, and invite you to join the next round of the program, coming in September.

This is (of course) a phone-free event—you'll be asked to secure your device in a lockable Yondr pouch. Call 1-844-OFFLINE to learn more.

hosted by Aaron, Josh, and Grant

Join Sisi SoulShine of Soul Shine Theater Garden at Temperance Alley for a playful dance workshop to move your body and connect with the nature that surrounds us.

Through dance and movement, we will listen to ourselves, actively reflect on our relationship to nature, and embody FIRE…

You will be guided by Sisi SoulShine while also having the space to generate your own unique movements through practices of self consent, boundaries, and improvisation. You do not need any previous dance experience, only the desire to explore, learn, dance, and the commitment to connect to your body. While in shared space, we will celebrate each other and embody play and joy as ways of collective liberation.

Please consider supporting Soul Shine Theater Garden with a donation at the gate.

Come get your hands in the soil with our partners at Farm the District, every Saturday throughout the growing season. Whether you’re a first-timer or returning veteran, all are needed to help tend to our shared backyard.

There’s plenty of projects to keep all hands busy, including weeding, watering, composting, harvesting, repairing, crafting, and ongoing side projects. Find a partner and choose your own adventure. And don’t forget to take home your portion of the harvest.

As always, we’ll also be giving an orientation tour for newcomers. Welcome neighbors!

Join us in the garden to simply rest.

Serving as both aid and setting, the garden will support unstructured quiet time to be and naturally settle into our bodies. Rooted in disability culture scholarship and black feminist thought that rightfully claims rest as resistance, rest club is an invitation to reclaim our individual and collective right to rest. 

Feel free to bring a friend, water bottle, sunhat, hand fan, cushion, blanket, or other supportive aid that might bring you more ease.

hosted by Shushan

Our dedicated time for reflective listening to all that’s budding within the Garden ecosystem. The rearview mirror where stories from the previous month can be shared in community. Bring a TAG story to share or discover one based on the evening’s prompts.

StoryKeeping Circles are held on the middle Monday of each month. All are welcome to participate fully.

hosted by Josh

All levels flow in the garden for our community donation-suggested classes with the beautiful greenery and open blue sky. Perfect for grounding and centering. Bring yourself, water, and a mat (we’ll have a few extra on hand).

hosted by a rotating group of local facilitators

Our meditation community meets weekly to re-center, connect, and cultivate intentions. With a mix of guided, silent, and relational practice, we ground ourselves in presence and compassion. All levels of experience warmly welcomed.

Hosted by regulars and guests alike, bring a practice for the circle to share.

Have disability, grief, or burnout shifted your ability to keep up with the demands of a full time work schedule? Were you laid off by DOGE? Are you intentionally disengaging from hustle culture? Then this is the group for you! Join us in the garden for a lightly facilitated peer support circle to share about your experiences, exchange information, and connect together. Community will get us through these hard times! Now Celebrating Disability Pride Month

hosted by Milo and Ray

Come through for Garden music and muses!

Come gather for some productive artistic time together while the garden is blooming around us. Bring a project you're working on, your instrument of choice, or just come socialize with fellow creatives. Some basic art supplies will be provided.

hosted by Cory & Creatives Club DC

A showcase/reading of Creatives Club Poetry Workshop members' pieces followed by a poetry open mic. We want to create a space for people to feel welcome to share their original work and meet other local poets/poetry enthusiasts!

hosted by Jenny and Adeline

Come get your hands in the soil with our partners at Farm the District, every Saturday throughout the growing season. Whether you’re a first-timer or returning veteran, all are needed to help tend to our shared backyard.

There’s plenty of projects to keep all hands busy, including weeding, watering, composting, harvesting, repairing, crafting, and ongoing side projects. Find a partner and choose your own adventure. And don’t forget to take home your portion of the harvest.

As always, we’ll also be giving an orientation tour for newcomers. Welcome neighbors!

Get a sweet start to the week by gathering in the garden Monday morning!

Bring plant-based breakfast foods and snacks to share, and we will have coffee, tea, and plant milks for all. 

hosted by Cassie & Alex

All levels flow in the garden for our community donation-suggested classes with the beautiful greenery and open blue sky. Perfect for grounding and centering. Bring yourself, water, and a mat (we’ll have a few extra on hand).

hosted by a rotating group of local facilitators

**Please bring your own headphones for this event and arrive on time to not disrupt the flow once we start dancing**

Ecstatic dance is free-form, music-inspired movement (dance!) in a safe space free of judgment. We practice to allow our bodies to move however they’d like (which can even include just lying down) to make space for liberating joy and a sense of embodiment. 
We will provide an optional Spotify playlist and an explanation of ecstatic dance to guide your experience.

Bring headphones, a device for playing music (a phone), comfortable clothing, and a water bottle. 

hosted by MK & Cassie

Our meditation community meets weekly to re-center, connect, and cultivate intentions. With a mix of guided, silent, and relational practice, we ground ourselves in presence and compassion. All levels of experience warmly welcomed.

Hosted by regulars and guests alike, bring a practice for the circle to share.

Come enjoy a playful evening of celebrating the wonder and beauty of queerness in nature.

Inspired byDr. Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian’s book “Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature”. 

Fungi, we learn, commonly have more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship. Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life, which stumped scientists once dubbed “the eel question.” Nature, Kaishian shows us, is filled with the unusual, the overlooked, and the marginalized—and they have lessons for us all.

The evening will be gently facilitated through a reading, interactive game, and discussion. No need to have read the book and no prior knowledge expected or required.

hosted by Maggie and Savannah

Come get your hands in the soil with our partners at Farm the District, every Saturday throughout the growing season. Whether you’re a first-timer or returning veteran, all are needed to help tend to our shared backyard.

There’s plenty of projects to keep all hands busy, including weeding, watering, composting, harvesting, repairing, crafting, and ongoing side projects. Find a partner and choose your own adventure. And don’t forget to take home your portion of the harvest.

As always, we’ll also be giving an orientation tour for newcomers. Welcome neighbors!

Are you grieving the loss of a loved one? a pet? a break up? changes to your body? or a dream that is no longer serving you? Come paint through your grief with local portrait artist Ellie.

In this workshop, she’ll provide a demo on a tried-and-true way to paint a moving portrait. This can be a self-portrait conveying how you’ve changed, a portrait of your person, or a portrait of the friends carrying you through. Interwoven throughout, she will provide reflection questions and opportunities for you to share about your grief.*

No painting or drawing experience required. Acrylic paint and primed, unstretched canvas or cardboard to paint on will be provided.  

Please come prepared with the following:

• Take time to journal. What grief is heavy on your heart now? If it is too soon to make art about it, is there another grief journey you are finally able to engage with? 

• Bring reference photos related to your grief. They can be of yourself, your person, your friends, animal, etc. It’s helpful if they are high quality and if you’re a beginner, mouth closed is easiest. 

• Any supplies you want. Especially if you want to work in another type of artistic medium.

*Ellie is bringing her perspective as an artist and fellow human experiencing loss and is not a licensed therapist.

hosted by Ellie and Sarah

Our official calendaring meeting for the month of September.

Bring any business you may have or partner with at Stump Fellow to program your submitted event ideas. Anyone can join as we discuss garden event planning, budgeting, and partnerships. Your ideas and energy are more than welcome! Come early to mingle and brainstorm your ideas before submitting.

*HouseKeeping Circles happen at the end of each month, they are the functional meetings where we calendar events for the next month of programming, approve any new spending, and can vote to change any Garden policies if needed. These meetings have official minutes that keep a record of our decisions and are shared with the rest of the U Street Neighborhood Association for transparency.

All levels flow in the garden for our community donation-suggested classes with the beautiful greenery and open blue sky. Perfect for grounding and centering. Bring yourself, water, and a mat (we’ll have a few extra on hand).

hosted by a rotating group of local facilitators

Join us for an hour of playful movement at the garden!

This session will be an introduction to contact improvisation, a dance form rooted in shared movement, connection, and spontaneous exploration.

hosted by Karishma & Cassie

Our meditation community meets weekly to re-center, connect, and cultivate intentions. With a mix of guided, silent, and relational practice, we ground ourselves in presence and compassion. All levels of experience warmly welcomed.

Hosted by regulars and guests alike, bring a practice for the circle to share.

Harvest your own creative potential!

Come gather for some productive artistic time together while the garden is blooming around us. Bring a project you're working on, your instrument of choice, or just come socialize with fellow creatives. Some basic art supplies will be provided.

hosted by Cory & Creatives Club DC

August bands to be announced soon!

While tipping the bands is encouraged the event is free and open to all. Bring a blanket to sit on and snacks to share :)

produced by Swataa & hosted by Sally

Come get your hands in the soil with our partners at Farm the District, every Saturday throughout the growing season. Whether you’re a first-timer or returning veteran, all are needed to help tend to our shared backyard.

There’s plenty of projects to keep all hands busy, including weeding, watering, composting, harvesting, repairing, crafting, and ongoing side projects. Find a partner and choose your own adventure. And don’t forget to take home your portion of the harvest.

As always, we’ll also be giving an orientation tour for newcomers. Welcome neighbors!

Bring some paper and your favorite drawing tools for an afternoon of urban sketching with the DC chapter of Urban Sketchers. An urban sketch is a drawing created on location that tells the story of a time and place. We will start sketching at 2pm and then gather to share our work around 3:45.

All styles, skill levels, and media are welcome and celebrated!

hosted by Savannah and Dani