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.

Rachel Ellis (@curlycutieray) is new to singer-songwriting. For the past year, in her cozy apartment in Alexandria, she’s delved into the world of storytelling through music. Her current project, yet to be released, is one that expresses themes of love, loss, and self actualization during bouts of transition and change through ethereal, confessional lyricism. She’s excited to be playing all of her originals for a live audience for the first time at Temperance Alley Garden!

Mar Rose (@marbloomingrose) is a singer/songwriter born and raised in the DMV.  Mar began songwriting in their early years.  They were encouraged by their musical family to learn guitar in order to accompany their original vocal melodies.  Influenced by classic rock, folk rock, grunge, reggae, and punk, Mar established in their middle and high school years a diverse repertoire, and a sound of their own was beginning to emerge.  By the end of college, Mar had experience performing in multiple bands, duets, a cappella ensembles, and as a solo artist.  Mar continues to perform throughout the DC and Baltimore region.  

Mar has released music under "Mar Rose", their solo act, as well as with their former band, "The Feelz," and under, "Blooming Rose," an experimental self-produced project.  Mar released their first studio album in 2022, titled, "Humble Heart" and is currently working on a new record.

Join the Garden plants and critters for an evening of home-grown music! Somewhere between a house show and barnyard jam. While tipping is encouraged, the event is free and open to all. Bring a blanket to sit on and snacks to share :)

produced 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, repairing, crafting, and ongoing side projects. Find a partner and choose your own adventure. And don’t forget to take home your share of the communal harvest.

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

WFH? Work close by? Bring your lunch to the Garden and chat with folks from the neighborhood!

Open lunch hours hosted by Nina :)

A Monday music flashback.

You’ll experience music that connects with your soul like the Blackbyrds, The Jones Girls, Tom Tom Club, George Clinton, and Ohio Players. Sampling songs you could’ve heard at the Ben’s Chili Bowl jukebox from the ‘60s–’90s. These aren’t just any songs—they come with all the story.

Hosted by DJ Kat Kat, aka the soldier of U Street, Marquett Milton

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).

Wind-down the day and welcome evening’s rest.

Join local artist Naoco Wowsugi for an experience like no other. The gong's otherworldly sounds and vibrations open the door to delightful, relaxing meditative states.

Come let it wash over you – please bring a mat to lie down on and water to drink (the more you hydrate, the more you vibrate!)

Naoco Wowsugi is a community-engaged artist who blurs the lines between being an artist and an engaged citizen. As a first-generation immigrant living and working in Washington, DC, Wowsugi's cross-disciplinary projects—including portrait photography, participatory performance, sound healing, and horticulture—explore the nature of belonging and inclusive community building.

IG: @wowsugi
Website: wowsugi.com

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.

Creatives Club and open songwriting hours are back in the garden this week. 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

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, repairing, crafting, and ongoing side projects. Find a partner and choose your own adventure. And don’t forget to take home your share of the communal harvest.

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

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).

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.

Let’s break bread in the Garden’s Sukkah.

Join us for a potluck shabbat dinner to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot – the Harvest Festival. We’ll gather in the sukkah to share a meal, reflect, and make new friends. All welcome, no prior knowledge necessary!

Please bring something vegetarian to share, and please label your dish with allergens. <3

hosted by Yael

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, repairing, crafting, and ongoing side projects. Find a partner and choose your own adventure. And don’t forget to take home your share of the communal harvest.

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

The D.C. Sing-Along is a hootenanny for the digital age. Combining the communal spirit of '60s sing-alongs with a modern songbook and rawk 'tude, the D.C. Sing-Along is a heartwarming, cathartic, and analog good time.

How It Works:

• Bring an acoustic instrument: Anyone's welcome to join the “band,” from fretters to flautists of all skill levels! The D.C. Sing-Along Songbook includes chords for the musicians.

• Or just bring your voice: Musical ability is NOT required. Nobody will be able to hear you sing, so don’t feel self-conscious!

• Call out your fave song from the songbook: The Beatles, Disney, Lizzo, Whitney — the D.C. Sing-Along Songbook has something for everyone!

• Bring the kids, too: As long as you're ok with a smidge of profanity (looking at you, Alanis).

Questions? Email dcsingalong@gmail.com

🌈 Calling all hoes and fruits! We’ve got BIG news!! Temperance Alley Garden is an ally no longer—welcome to Temperance Gay Garden! 🎉 Join us for Gays’ Garden, starring the funniest queers from the DMV and beyond!

🌟 Featuring acts seen at the DC Improv, Rhizome Comedy, and the Comedy Loft: Jenny Cavallero, MP, Tarunika Anand, Laura Arago, and Grace White, with host Netanel Hutman. 

💸 Suggested donation: $10, but for $15 our unemployed gay comedians survive the winter!

Hosted by Netanel

THE ecological improvisation band from Philadelphia is coming to the Garden!

Performing aviary and environmentally inspired improvised music within the tradition of creative music, BORBS utilizes a vast instrumentarium drawn from jazz, classical music, world music, and everyday life (french horns, bass clarinet, homemade wood flutes, electric guitar). —Oh and did I mention that they play adorned in homemade outfits featuring giant painted bird heads!

Our Sunday evening special with BORBS will include a birding mindfulness lesson from 5-6pm followed by a musical performance from 6-7:30pm.

Led by Aaron Pond, BORBS has previously performed at The Discovery Center in Philadelphia, Rhizome DC, and Headlong Dance Theatre. You can listen to their music here.

Co-sponsored by the DC Bird Alliance and Feminist Bird Club DMV

WFH? Work close by? Bring your lunch to the Garden and chat with folks from the neighborhood!

Open lunch hours hosted by Nina :)

MGC – This one’s for the introverts, come and stay at your leisure. We’ll play a curated list of our favorite classical pieces as we gaze at the clouds in our big sky preserve. Fingers crossed it’s a pretty one! 🤞

hosted by Alexander

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).

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.

Creatives Club and open songwriting hours are back in the garden this week. 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 the Garden plants and critters for an evening of home-grown music! Somewhere between a house show and barnyard jam. While tipping is encouraged, the event is free and open to all. Bring a blanket to sit on and snacks to share :)

produced 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, repairing, crafting, and ongoing side projects. Find a partner and choose your own adventure. And don’t forget to take home your share of the communal harvest.

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

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 various natural elements: roots, water, fire, trees etc…

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.

An optional RSVP to our free workshop is here. Please consider supporting Soul Shine Theater Garden with a donation at the gate.

WFH? Work close by? Bring your lunch to the Garden and chat with folks from the neighborhood!

Open lunch hours hosted by Nina :)

Our official calendaring meeting for the coming month of November. 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!

*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).

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 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, repairing, crafting, and ongoing side projects. Find a partner and choose your own adventure. And don’t forget to take home your share of the communal harvest.

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

Gather in Temperance Alley Garden during the Day of the Dead for our second annual Death Cafe!

Death Cafe is a global movement facilitating thoughts and discussion about the often taboo subject of death. *please note that Death Cafe is not a grief support group*

Join us in a candle-lit, intimate, and informal gathering to discuss death while eating cake and drinking tea! There is not set agenda, objective, or specific theme — we are here to explore death together :)

hosted by Lyndsey