The events cancelled by last weekend’s nor’easter have been rescheduled to Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4. Nine gardens, music from noon to 8pm on Sunday, Kids Day, a performance at La Plaza, and both climate garden tours. Everything is free.
Saturday, October 3
6B Garden — Annual HarvestFest from 2pm. Music, BBQ, raffle prizes, and The BioBus mobile science lab.
El Sol Brillante — Garden tour, 3 to 4:30pm. Sustainability in Community Gardens with architect Magali Regis.
Sunday, October 4
Green Oasis — Renegade Brunch at noon, then music through 8pm: Hellhounds, Matthieu Eveillard, Susan McKeown and Kyle Sanna, Sparrow and The Truffles, Villa Delirium, Rutherford Jones & the BQE, and Ray Santiago.
El Jardin del Paraiso — Kids Day, 1 to 5pm. Marionettes, Bengali puppets, Coach Rocco George, Son Pecadores, and a staged reading of The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity.
Pancho’s Garden — Los Fascinantes, 1 to 3pm.
La Plaza Cultural — Mudbird 3, a performance by Theresa and Sparrow Byrnes, 3 to 4pm.
Plus Baby Soda and Mitchell Cheng at Miracle Garden, the Ethan Silverman Trio at Sam & Sadie Koenig, the Renaissance Street Singers at First Street, and the LES Power garden tour with Wendy Brawer.
Please note: 11BC Serenity Garden and Creative Little Garden are not able to reschedule their programming. The garden tours are mile-long walks and heavy rain cancels them — RSVP here.
Due to the nor’easter, all Harvest Arts Festival events scheduled for Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27 are cancelled.
Many of those events are moving to Sunday, October 4, including Kids Day at El Jardin del Paraiso and the Green Oasis music lineup. Other gardens are still confirming new dates, and we will post them as we have them.
Sunday, October 4
Green Oasis — Renegade Brunch at noon, then Hellhounds, Matthieu Eveillard, Susan McKeown and Kyle Sanna, Sparrow and The Truffles, Villa Delirium, Rutherford Jones & the BQE, and Ray Santiago through 8pm.
El Jardin del Paraiso — Kids Day, 1 to 5pm. Marionettes, Bengali puppets, Coach Rocco George, Son Pecadores, and a staged reading of The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity.
Everything is still free. Stay dry, and we hope to see you on the 4th.
In 2022, LUNGS launched it’s first free Summer Theater Festival honoring Joe Papp’s tradition in 1956 of “Shakespeare in the Park” which began in East River Park. This year the Festival will take place Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7 from 1-5pm in the 6th St. & Avenue B Community Garden, with five original one act plays, free and open to all.
1pm. CZECH, SLOVAK, AND BENGALI STORIES WITH STRINGS DETACHED
Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre
Vít Hořejš performs Czech and Slovak folk tales, replete with (East) Village Characters, babies, children, teenagers, oldagers and street dangers who speak and sing in dozens of voices, dance, play violin, swim and fly In 1984, he found a trove of large antique marionettes in the attic of Jan Hus Church on East 74th Street, in the heart of yet another once-upon-a-time Czech and Slovak neighborhood and soon he founded Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre. Vít and his century-old wooden advisors will tell century-old Old Country folk tales, and “tattle tale” on his victorious presidential campaign, stolen temporarily by you-know-who.
With antique marionettes, an undocumented far-east muppet and lost and found objects performed by Master Puppeteer, Vit Horejs and Bengali Muppetress, Sayma Karim.
“THE TIGER” and “BENGALI FRUIT”. Story and puppets created and performed by Sayma Karim
Recommended for ages 104 To 4
2pm. The People’s Drop-in Center written and directed by Patrick Nash
An urban “drop-in center” that serves the homeless is threatened by the loss of an important grant. The couple that runs it seeks the help of a “turn-around consultant” specialized in non-profits. In order to save the center and secure the necessary grant money, some changes, and sacrifices must be made. With Laurie Sheppard as Martha, Brian Farrell as David, Lisa Whitten as Candy, David Mackler as JD, Andrew Gilchrist as Jackson, Perryn Pomatto as Dwight, Malia Mooney as Jane. Catalina Balladares as Actor 1, Sana Bokhari as Actor 2, Clark Herring as Actor 3, Elise Catera as Actor 4, Corinne Seaver as Actor 5, Maria de Elia as Actor 6. Music Director David Fletcher Choreographer James Martinelli.
3pm. EAST VILLAGE TIMEby James Love Cornwell IV, directed by Roman Primitivo –
Summary: Artists, dreamers and misfits carving out a life on the Lower East Side of the 1980s. Jack, an idealistic young artist, opens a storefront gallery on Rivington Street and finds himself caught between love, betrayal and survival. A raw and funny musical about the people who refused to give up on art — and the neighborhood that both inspired and swallowed them whole. With: Leia Martin, Just Daniel Lugo, Asher Cohen, Lei Chao, Cristina San Juana.
4pm. What Am I Missing? by Joan Reinmuth and Charles Krezell
A time-warp encounter of comedian Lenny Bruce and Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger’s chance meeting in the slammer. Each has be arrested on the Lower East Side for obscenity and distributing lewd material. With Susan Burns, Kim Chinh, Rocco George, Susan McKeown, Kathleen Morgo, Jared Reinmuth. Cordero Wilson. Costumes and scenic design by Rina Root. Directed by Charles Krezell.
