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!

hosted by Milo and Ray

CANCELLED DUE TO MUCH NEEDED RAIN!

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 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

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 WIND…

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!

Gather in the garden to wind down at the end of a week!

Enjoy the space to simply rest, meditate, find time for a creative practice, or reflect on some prompts about slowing down into the season of fall. Open format to flow, connect and engage!

hosted by Sally

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

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.

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

Diary, notebook, commonplace book, daily pages, the record — no matter what you may it call it, let’s talk about it!

We’ll hear from each other about our journaling processes and any setbacks, as well as discuss ways to further entwine the art of writing & reflection into our lives (or for the first time).

And of course we’ll end with dedicated writing time within the beautiful Garden.

Bring something to write with and something to write on.

hosted by Shira and Cory

We’ll have a few tables set up for sharing, learning, and playing different card games together. Bring your favorites, swap stories about how you learned them, and pick up some new ones along the way. It’s as simple as that!

Hosted by Cassie & Shira

Better tech practices for a just human & non-human world are possible!

Looking for community as you establish more conscious tech practices? This group is for you! The first session will focus on ways we can break up with tech giant Google. 

What to Expect: 
– Discussion, work time, and support as we reimagine our relationship to tech.
– A worksheet with a checklist to help you stay organized and take notes will be provided. 

What you might bring: 
– A writing utensil and surface to write on
– Way to log online i.e. laptop, iPad, cellphone (no wifi available)
– Curiosity (mandatory!)

Hosted by Shushan

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

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!

To be in relationship with land is to know our role in it. In this session, we will discuss how humans and nature can be positive forces for each other and practice our stewardship by thinning overgrowth to aid ecological restoration. With the harvested plants, we will harness their gifts uncovered in previous sessions through creative art experiments. These creative experiments include making photo prints (phytograms and cyanotypes) with the Mt. Plantry Film Group and weaving with grasses. Please wear close-toed shoes and long pants if you wish to participate in thinning overgrowth. 

The Temperance Sanctuary is a new extension of the Temperance Alley Garden – a place to quiet down, to observe, and to cultivate reciprocity between ourselves and the land. Come join us in the visioning and stewardship of Temperance Sanctuary: as a time capsule of Indigenous history and stewardship, native food/micro forest to bring back native biodiversity, and an ecological classroom to foster and practice our stewardship. If you’re interested in any of these topics, we welcome you to join us in its design and execution!

Hosted by Chandan, Amy, Aaron

Join Seam & Dharma Gates for a potluck picnic with good people, good vibes, and great conversations @ the Temperance Alley Garden on Thursday, September 4.

Seam & Dharma Gates meet at the nexus of personal and spiritual development, creating new possibilities for collective transformation.

Seam is a values-based community that hosts intentional, playful gatherings and retreats. Dharma Gates is opening deep meditation practice to young adults.

Come hang with new and old friends across our two communities!

hosted by Malakha

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.

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

Reiki is a healing practice in which the practitioner channels life force energy to restore the natural flow of energy in the body, mind, and spirit. The first level attunement focuses on offering this energy healing as a gift to ourselves. 

The form of Reiki offered in this attunement was passed down through the lineage of the House of the Golden Light, which currently operates as a nonprofit healing organization on Big Island, Hawai'i. This practice uses meditation, visualizations, affirmations, and particular hand placements in order to flow healing golden light through our entire being. 

Please bring a journal, something to write with, a blanket/pillow to sit on the grass with, and an open mind. If you have a crystal or some other special item you'd like to have charged with the energy of the attunement, please feel free to bring this. Lastly, if you have an offering for the our Earth altar such as some herbs, flowers, piece of fruit, song, etc., feel free to bring this, as well. 

The attunement will be facilitated by Reverend Magdalen Rose Cammaroto, an ordained minister of the House of the Golden Light and current Vice President of the organization. This attunement is offered by donation – all proceeds directly fund the healing programs of the House of the Golden Light on Big Island, Hawai'i. You can Venmo any donations to @Patricia-Villalobos-30.

hosted by Magdalen, if you have any questions or comments, please reach out at mrc149@georgetown.edu

Join us for a Liberation Commemoration honoring the enduring legacies of Nat Turner and John Brown. This free public gathering will feature a ceremonial wreath laying and presentations from local historian Marquett Awa-Milton, Griot Elder Baba-C, and spoken poetry by Ruben Robinson. Together, we will reflect on the courage, vision, and sacrifice of these pivotal figures in the struggle for freedom, and consider their impact on our community today. All are welcome—come connect, learn, and pay tribute to the ongoing pursuit of liberation.

The Something For The People Rally & March is part of the Defend The District: PROTECT the District campaign. It will unite communities across Washington, D.C. to uplift our stories, our struggles, and our vision for a just future.

This is more than a march—it’s a movement. Together, we will:

• Demand an end to federal occupation of the District

• Stand against harmful and unjust policies

• Advance equity, accountability, and cultural preservation

• Model civic engagement and community power for the nation

Hosted by the Long Live GoGo Foundation, a member-led organization committed to building local power, resisting displacement, and protecting Washington, D.C.’s cultural heartbeat: GoGo music. Our work centers the voices of Native Washingtonians and amplifies racial equity and cultural justice across the globe.

It's Paw Paw season in the DMV!

Join your TAG friends as we “tag-along” on a foraging walk to harvest the tastiest native tropical fruit. We will meet at the garden at the end of Saturday gardening hours and collectively make our way to the secret harvesting location.

Please RSVP in the WhatsApp ahead of time so that we can help arrange transportation for everyone!

hosted by Stephen

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!

Featuring the local talents of Boy Meets Pearl and Juels Bland!

Queer-fronted and oddly orchestrated, Boy Meets Pearl sound like a carnival midway. These carousel punks offer new original songs inspired by sea shanties, circus waltzes and Victorian Music Hall singalongs!

Juels Bland is a Silver Spring based Singer/Songwriter/Person that has performed at clubs and cafes all across the Mid Atlantic and Appalachia. He plays sad songs that sound pretty. The rest is classified.

Join the Garden plants and critters for an evening of home-grown music –– somewhere between a house show and barnyard jam. While tipping the bands is encouraged the event is free and open to all. Part of the proceeds will be donated by the band to a local mutual aid fund. Bring a blanket to sit on and snacks to share :)

produced by Lucy and Swataa

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

Join your neighbors for an important U Street Community Meeting on Wednesday, August 27, from 6:30 to 8pm at the Thurgood Marshall Center (1816 12th St NW). In light of recent events in DC, we’ll share Know-Your-Rights information and hear from councilmember Brianne Nadeau with updates on what’s next for our neighborhood. Our ANC representatives will also be invited to join the conversation.

Everyone is welcome! If you’re not yet a member of the U Street Neighborhood Association or your membership has expired, visit our membership page to join or renew. We’re also excited to launch “Friends of USNA,” a new membership category for supporters who live outside our neighborhood but want to help strengthen our community and the Temperance Alley Garden.

Let’s check in, stay informed, and support one another. We hope to see you there!

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.