El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St (between Ave A & Ave B)
Sun 9/22, 11 am – 12 pm. Bokashi Dog Run [El Sol Brillante]
How to use the bokashi microbes (i.e., Activated EM or bokashi spray) to spray down a dog run to minimize odor and pests, such as biting flies.
Sun 9/22, 2:00 pm. 30-minute Guided Meditation in the Garden [El Sol Brillante]
Please join us in El Sol Brillante community garden for a 30-minute guided meditation, led by a certified meditation teacher from East Village’s beloved Three Jewels Enlightenment Studio. Seated among plantlife, we’ll focus on our breath and joy and love for all beings, using comfortable stillness and visualization techniques. It’s a free event and open to all (including first-time meditators!). We will begin promptly at 2:00 PM, so please arrive a few minutes early to find your seat. We’ll have benches and chairs, but you might like to bring a blanket to sit on in case it fills up. We hope to see you there and enjoy this beautiful moment of peace together.
Le Petit Versailles Garden, 247 E 2nd St (west of Ave C)
Sun 9/22, 12:00–4:30 pm. Tie Dye Shibori Workshop [Le Petit Versailles]
Tie dye shibori workshop. All ages. Bring your own white t-shirt or tank top. T-shirts with the garden’s logo are available. $5 Suggested donation. Communal indigo vat. Shibori and tie dye folding patterns demonstrated. (Set up at noon.)
Pancho’s Garden — Francisco “Pancho” Ramos Community Garden (9th Street Community Garden & Park), 709 E 9th St (entrance: Ave C, east side, between 9th & 10th St)
Sun 9/22, 12–6 pm. Laurie Olinder [Pancho’s Garden]
Paintings in the Garden of Earthly Delights
One Day Only
reception 4–6 pm.
ALL WEEK [Pancho’s Garden]
M’Finda Kalunga Garden, 179 Chrystie St. & Rivington St.
Sun 9/22, 1–3 pm. Inspired by Nature [M’Finda Kalunga]
Join us for an exhibition of beautiful garden themed painting, ceramic and digital work by our M’Finda Kalunga Gardeners
Miracle Garden, 194 E 3rd St (west of Ave B)
Sun 9/22, 1–3 pm. Baby Soda — Prohibition Era Jazz Band [Miracle Garden]
Baby Soda is an adabtable and ever changing group with an eclectic set of influences ranging from 30’s era swing and New Orleans jazz to early gospel and blues. Playing trumpet, trombone, clarinet, banjo, the unique one string box bass and low boy, the band has performed at some of New York’s finest venues, breathing the spirit and joy of the music into the present. babysoda.org
Carmen Pabon del Amanecer Garden, 115 Loisaida Ave (Ave C between 7th St & 8t St)
Sun 9/22, 1–3 pm. Knit and Crochet Workshop [Carmen Pabon]
Sun 9/22, 3–5 pm. Drawing Workshop [Carmen Pabon]
Community Garden Tour 1 (of 3) — Along Houston Street: starting at LaGuardia Corner Gardens 511 LaGuardia Pl (between Bleecker St & Houston St) > Elizabeth Street Garden > Liz Christy Garden > Albert’s Garden > First Street Garden.
Sun 9/22, 1:00–3:30 pm. Meet at 12:50 pm. Community Garden Tour 1 [LaGuardia Corner Gardens, Elizabeth Street Garden, Liz Christy Garden, Albert’s Garden, and First Street Garden]
Come meet the gardeners who tend these gorgeous green spaces and learn about the challenges these community gardens are facing and what it takes to overcome them.
This tour starts at LaGuardia Community Garden, LaGuardia place between Bleecker & Houston Street. Meet your tour guide Magali Régis at 12:50 pm. This tour involves walking several block; wear comfortable shoes. Email questions to: fleurdelys@mindspring.com.
Tour 1: Sun 9/22, 1:00–3:30 pm.
Tour 2: Sat 9/28, 3:30–6:00 pm >>
Tour 3: Sun 9/29, 1:30–3:30 pm >>
Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St (at Norfolk St)
Sun 9/22, 1:30–6:00 pm. Arts for Art presents Jazz
Sun 9/22, 1:30 pm. Aakash Mittal Awaz Trio [Children’s Magical Garden]
Aakash Mittal – reeds, percussion
Colson Jimenez – bass
Juan Pablo Carletti – drums
Sun 9/22, 2:30 pm. Ingrid Laubrock [Children’s Magical Garden]
Ingrid Laubrock – woodwinds
Tom Rainey – drums
Sun 9/22, 3:30 pm. L.I.P [Children’s Magical Garden]
KJ Holmes – dance
Jeremy Carlstedt – drum
Sun 9/22, 4:30 pm. Amirtha Kidambi [Children’s Magical Garden]
Amirtha Kidambi – vocals
David Leon – saxes/woodwinds
Henry Fraser – bass
Lesley Mok – drums
El Jardin del Paraiso, E 4th St (between Ave C & Ave D)
Sun 9/22, 2–5 pm. Kids Day [El Jardin]
Sun 9/22, 2 pm. Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre [El Jardin]
Sun 9/22, 2:30 pm. Son Pecadores [El Jardin]
Sun 9/22, 3 pm. Sayma Karim [El Jardin]
Sayma Karim performing The Naughty Tiger.
Sun 9/22, 3:30 pm. Show Up Kids! [El Jardin]
“Show Up, Kids!” When the main attraction doesn’t show up, the kids in the audience help create a comedy show from plot to props, characters to costumes, and set to sound. Anything can happen at Peter Michael Marino’s internationally acclaimed show!
Sun 9/22, 4 pm. Razzle Dazzle Magic Show [El Jardin]
11 BC Serenity Garden, 626 E 11th St (between Ave B & Ave C)
Sun 9/22, 2:00–3:30 pm. Swordplay [11 BC]
Come join Gotham Swords for an afternoon of swordplay at 11 BC Serenity Garden! We will be offering beginner-level fencing classes that introduce guests of the garden to the wonderful world of Historical Martial Art.
Sun 9/22, 4:00 pm. The Beyond Flute Group [11 BC]
Cheryl Pyle – C flute/alto flute
Michael Eaton – soprano sax
Gene Coleman – bass flute/piccolo
Sylvain Leroux – C flute/fula flute
Sun 9/22, 5:00 pm. MAPUTI [11 BC]
Maputi is a group dedicated to performing mbira music from Zimbabwe… with violin and Fula flute twists.
With: Nora Balaban & Susan Rapalee: mbira and vocals;
Rima Fand: violin and vocals;
Isabel Thompson: hosho;
Sylvain Leroux: qromatica, Fula flute, and vocals.
Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & Ave D)
Sun 9/22, 3:00 pm. A city-wide meeting of community gardeners to discuss the Mayor’s order for all city agencies to review city owned property for potential development. [Green Oasis]
ON THE EDGE
LUNGS’ LUCKY 13th Annual Harvest Arts Festival finds us on the edge.
Elections are looming, the weather is erratic, and the City of Yes is threatening our community gardens.
On August 21, Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order requiring all city agencies to review city owned property for potential housing development. NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue praised Adams’ order as “an important step in addressing New York City’s affordable housing crisis.”
Which makes any community gardener with a sense of history very suspicious.
It is ridiculous to consider destroying gardens to build housing. Our gardens serve multiple purposes: they provide critical free, green space for socializing, exercise, relaxation, and growing food in neighborhoods underserved by the Parks Department.
But the gardens are prizes that developers drool over.
In 1996, Giuliani was mayor, and he tried to auction off every community garden across the city to developers. The gardens were listed by the city as empty lots. Gardeners mobilized city-wide, demonstrations, pranks, and arrests followed. We lost some gardens but ultimately prevailed.
In February 2024, it was reported that at least 26,000 apartments were being warehoused by landlords. I’m not sure Mayor Eric Adams knows what he wants or what he is doing.
The garden licenses we signed with the Parks Department state, “this License is terminable at will by the Commissioner in his or her discretion at any time, upon sixty (60) days written notice, and Licensee shall have no recourse of any nature whatsoever by reason of such termination.”
We are the biggest community garden program in the country — and yet we are not safe. The past tells us we have to be proactive. We cannot sit back and wait to have our gardens listed as available. We’ve got to make some noise.
This might be a good thing. We need to re-energize, mobilize again. Covid has led to complacency. Gardens are all about renewal and resilience; now we offer resistance. We envision a green, healthy city. We must be prepared to stand up for ourselves and our community. We welcome allies and invite new blood to join us.
That is why, in the middle of our 13th Festival, LUNGS is convening a city-wide community gardener meeting to discuss what needs to be done. It is important to hear each other out and to stand together. Sunday, September 22 at 3pm at Green Oasis, 370 E. 8th St between Avenues C & D. All are welcome to attend.
CHARLES KREZELL
Sun 9/22, 6:00 pm. Kiki and the Fellas [Green Oasis]
Kiki Cotto is a local legend and a Loisaida staple for generations, growing up in the midst of the Nuyorican cultural movement. Starting with Bomba, which captured his interest in music at a young age, Puerto Rican folklore helped him find his way through the tumultuous era in the Lower East Side. Kiki & The Fellas now play a vibrant mix of boogaloo, son, cha-cha-cha and boleros. Their performances are full of energy and spontaneity, featuring call and response and improvised elements to engage the crowd. Kiki and his crew will bring this Loisaida-Latin groove out for this show in the garden.
Sun 9/22, 7:00 pm. Marta & Spiritu Gitano [Green Oasis]
Sun 9/22, 7:30 pm. Caña y Cadencia [Green Oasis]
Sun 9/22, 8:00 pm. Isabel Estrada-Jamison [Green Oasis]
6th & B Garden, 84 Ave B (E 6th St, southwest corner)
Sun 9/22, 6:00 pm. MoRUS Film Festival [6&B Garden]
EVERY LITTLE THING: Closing Night Shorts
Rain Location at Museum: 155 Ave C (between 9th & 10th St)
- Liquid Denial — 6 Min. — MoRUS
- Shut Down Indian Point — 5 Min. — Time’s Up!
- Village Green Recycling Team Archives
- The Nature of Green Maps — 2 Min. — Green Map
- Scene From Viva Loisaida — Marlis Momber
MoRUS — Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, morusnyc.org
Campos Community Garden, 644 E 12th St (between Ave B & Ave C)
“Everything in New York goes BANG!”
NY NY: Two New York artists share their joy under the stars in an outdoor East Village Garden setting as part of the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival.
“Everything in New York Goes BANG!” and “Broken Ceilings” are a one-night-only engagement that takes place FREE. Garden gates open at 4 pm! This is a free show.
Sun 9/22, 6:00 pm. Galinsky [Campos]
Sun 9/22, 7:30 pm. Swihart [Campos]
Garden gates open at 4pm! This is a free show.
About Morgan Swihart, from Beatsperminute.com, Joshua Pickard:
“From Mercury Lounge to any number of DIY venues scattered across NYC, Swihart absorbs inspiration and history directly from her surroundings – from concrete, graffiti, and outdated metalworks that act as urban touchstones of decades gone by. Finding a happy medium between the cutting emotional rictus of PJ Harvey and the more introspective exhalations of Hope Sandoval, she breathes hope into dim landscapes, bringing a gauzy illumination to the craggy contours of our communal anxieties.”
About Galinsky’s “BANG!” from Artistic Director of Educational Alliance, Cory Michael Herman:
“…a gripping and raw exploration of systemic injustice, blending sharp humor and poetic cadence with the harsh realities of a society that fails its most vulnerable. Through his vibrant storytelling and a deeply personal lens, Galinsky offers a powerful reminder of resilience, hope, and the enduring value of every human life.”
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