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LUNGS 14th Annual Harvest Arts Festival 9/19–9/28/2025

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CO-SPONSORS

CITY COUNCILPERSON CHRISTOPHER MARTE

HOWL ARTS


LA PLAZA CULTURAL ARMANDO PEREZ GARDEN

GREEN OASIS & GILBERT’S SCULPTURE GARDEN

DE COLORES COMMUNITY YARD

ART LOISAIDA FOUNDATION

La Guardia Corner Gardens

9/19-9/28 Presents Art, “The Ladder of Peace” by Francine Demeulenaere

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THESE FINE BUSINESSES FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT

B-SIDE 131 Ave C

BLOCK DRUG STORE  101 2nd Ave

BOBBY’S NIGHT OUT 145 Loisaida Ave

BRIX WINES 170 Ave B

C & B CAFÉ 178 E.7th St

EXIT9 GIFT EMPORIUM 51 Ave A

FIASCHETTERIA PISTOIA 647 E 11th St

FTC SKATEBOARDS 216 AVE A

GIZMO Sewing Supply 626 E.14th St.

GNOCCO 337 E 10th St


GRUPPO 98 Ave B


JOSIE’S 520 E. 6th St

KATI 347 E.14th St.

LILLY’S SHAKES & CREPES 134 Loisaida Ave

LUCKY 168 Ave B

MONA’S 224 AVE B

NINTH STREET EXPRESSO 700 E. 9th St

ROYALE 157 Ave C


SAIFEE HARDWARE 114 1st Ave

SOPHIE’S 509 E. 5th St

THE SOURCE UNLTD PRINT & COPY SHOP 331 E 9th St

THE SUMMIT BAR & CAFE 133 Ave C

TWO PERRYS 127 Loisaida Ave

TOMPKINS SQUARE BAGELS 165 Ave A

TRADER JOE’S 436 E 14th St

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE BY THE DAY

FRIDAY 9/19

SATURDAY 9/20

SUNDAY 9/21

MONDAY 9/22

TUESDAY 9/23

WEDNESDAY 9/24

THURSDAY 9/25

FRIDAY 9/26

SATURDAY 9/27

SUNDAY 9/28

Friday 9/19

PEACHES FOR PEACE !!!

LUNGS CSA is in La Plaza this week, check out the produce, give Veggie a home!!

LaPlaza

6pm Opening night

6:30 Felice Rosner and FAITH NYC

7:30 Sylvain LaRoux’s Source

Saturday 9/20

Carmen’s Garden

Knit/crochet and Sketch/Paint workshops noon-3pm

Elizabeth St Garden 

10:30 am – Free Yoga w/ Chelsea Forbes

El Sol Brillante

12-4pm INSECT CREATURE CREATION LAB by BOTANICART.NYC

Using natural materials provided by the garden, such as paper, glue, leaves, twigs, dried berries, seed pods, and flowers, guests will design and build their own imaginative insect creatures. 

Casita Garden

11am-2pm Volunteer Workday, wear your work clothes

DeColores

Songwriters Circle  noon- 7pm

El Jardin del Paraiso

Pollinator workshop 10am-2pm

FAMILY DAY 2:30-5:30 pm

Puppeteer and Storyteller Vít Hořejš, Artistic Director, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre

Sayma Karim

Rocco George

Show Up Kids with Peter Michael Marino

Kenkeleba

Children’s Magical Garden

Arts for Art presents free jazz 2-5pm

Rob Brown trio, Amirtha Kidambie & Cooper Moore, Miriam Parker-Dance, Alfredo Colon Trio

11 BC Serenity Garden

  2 P.M.    Sylvain Leroux Qromatica Trio with Sylvain Leroux: fulaflute, flute, alto sax, Dan Kurfirst: drums and percussion, Hilliard Greene: contrabass

4 P.M.   Mbira workshop with Jennifer Kyker

Siempre Verde

2pm Poetry

Verde Verses | OPEN MIC | Theme: Gaia

2 PM: Sign up at 2p to share 8 minutes of poetry
(rain date 9/21)

La Plaza

Pinc Louds  4-6pm

6B Garden

MAKE ART IN THE GARDEN 1-6PM

Music Under the Stars with JOFF WILSON 7PM

Green Oasis Music

6pm Mathieu Eveillard

7pm Kid Java

Campos Garden

Sunday 9/21

Elizabeth St Garden

10:30 am – Free Tai Chi  w/ Tai Chi Solutions

5:30 pm – LiveMusic

ART around LOISAIDA

1-5pm Live painting and exhibit I wanna work, wanna paint on the fence all day

Paint your masterpiece on the Garden Fences of LaPlaza and Pancho’s Garden. Ave C & 9th St. Bring your own paint and brushes, we supply the canvas

La Plaza

2:30-4:30 The Renaissance Street Singers
Since 1973, The Renaissance Street Singers of New York, directed by John Hetland, have sung polyphonic music from the late 15th century to the early 17th a cappella on the sidewalks and in the public spaces of New York City. The motivation is love for the music and the wish to share it.

Down to Earth Garden

11 am – 2 pm  Bokashi Workshop Part 1: Fermenting Basic Recipes for Amending the Soil. 

Down to Earth Garden will be holding part 1 of 3 bokashi workshops on 9/21/25 Sun 11am – 2 pm, as part of the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival. We will make bokashi bran (bokashi sprinkle), Activated EM (bokashi spray), and EM•5 (a soil and foliar spray). 

Part 2 Sat 9/27/25, 11 am – 2 pm.
Part 3 Sun 9/28/25, 11 am – 2 pm.

 
Campos Garden

Come hear a wonderful FREE concert at Campos Community Garden!   September 21, at 3 pm featuring contemporary and classic song repertory performed by: Clara Lisle, Andres Penalver, and Victoria Falcon

Sam & Sadie’s Garden

6BC Botanical Garden

4pm The Beyond Flute Group has been playing acoustic chamber jazz since 2013 and music at the 6BC Botanical garden since 2017.  We are an acoustic, free jazz, experimental group, mostly flutes, playing in the moment music. Composing in the moment from our life experience in music, and listening to create through composed pieces of new jazz explorations from the heart, each player a chance to voice their individual ideas in unaccompanied solos.

“Howling for Jeremy Steig” Solo Flute Festival is a special iteration of Beyond Flute Group’s 3rd Sunday Jazz and their final performance of the season.

11 BC Serenity Garden

4 P.M.   MICHAEL EATON JAZZ GROUP

Michael Eaton – saxophones, Dan Wick – keyboard, electronics

Michael Eaton (b. 1981) is a Brooklyn based saxophonist, composer, and educator active in contemporary jazz and free improvisation.  

Dan Wick has been an integral member of the improvised music scenes in Chicago and Boston.  On keyboard and laptop electronics, he has appeared with musicians such as Forbes Graham, Brittany Karlson, and Nick Joliat.

6B Garden

2-4pm INTERNATIONAL GIRLS ENSEMBLE CHORAL PERFORMANCE

 4PM Maputi with Jennifer Kyker, Nora Balaban, and Susan Rapalee: mbira and vocals; Rima Fand: violin and vocals; Sylvain Leroux: fulaflute and vocals; Nari Zechman: percussion and vocals; Stuart Zechman: hosho

Miracle Garden

12:30 PM – 2 PM HELEN STRATFORD, Legendary East Village Accordionist

Children’s Magical Garden

Arts for Art presents free jazz 2-5pm

Andrew Drury-drums, Bahar Badietabar-oud, No Land -poet with oliver Ray guitar, As if roses were Poets

Green Oasis

6pm Grace Bergere

Grace Bergere grew up in NYC’s Downtown Manhattan. Her heavy atmospheric sound only adds to the impact of her carefully crafted, lyric driven songs. Her work has been compared to that of Elliott Smith and P.J. Harvey’s. Her debut album A Little Blood was released on Eugene Hutz’s (Gogol Bordello) Casa Gogol Records last year. Casa Gogol also recently released Grace’s cover of All Tomorrow’s Parties featuring Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. She just returned from her second west coast tour supporting Gogol Bordello. She has also shared bills with artists such as Shilpa Ray, Jon Spencer, Kaizers Orchestra and most recently opened for the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s at The Beacon Theater in NYC in July of this year.

John King 7pm

JOHN KING, composer, guitarist and violist, has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet; Ethel; the Albany Symphony/“Dogs of Desire”, Bang On A Can All-Stars; Mannheim Ballet; New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo; as well as the Merce Cunningham Dance Co.

8pm Villa Delirium

The New York based Villa Delirium is a five piece ensemble, whose uniquely ethereal sound has created a new Gothic folk music. Inspired by eerie traditional folk songs of Germany, Ireland, the Balkans and murder ballads of the American South, Villa Delirium writes and performs their own startling compositions. From the tongue in cheek country waltz “Bar in Heaven” to the hellfire rock’n’roll of “Turnin’ Up the Burners at Satan’s Steakhouse” to the wistfully nostalgic “Linden Trees”, Villa Delirium’s songs and truly unique instrumentation make for a deliciously

macabre experience.

Monday 9/22

LUNGS FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SLEEP-IN

Shhhhh….Take it easy….John and Yoko if you want, Rip your Van Winkle, Grin and Bear it after a loonng weekend!

Tuesday 9/23 

DeColores

7:00 p.m. FRESH from Germany : Digital Photography & Sound- Photo Projection – “ presented by Berlinique”

Wednesday 9/24

La PLAZA


7pm COMEDY Tonight

49 Pheasants are comics with the passion of a large ground-dwelling bird

Thursday 9/25

Pancho’s Garden

Rain date change please note films to be shown on Friday at Pancho’s Garden

6B Garden FILM CANCELLED TONIGHT DUE TO WEATHER

7PM FILM SCREENING “EL CORAZON DE LOISAIDA” (THE HEART OF LOISAIDA)

Campos Garden rain or shine dance, dance, dance!!

The 4th Annual ??? Sky Anyone??? Dances, Dancers, Faery Stories

In no particular order: Leigh Ann Kabatra Olivia Pane Adrienne Swan Taylor Fuchs Sam Flynn Gina Bonati Thursday September 25th Twilight @ 7ish so that we have the change of light Free or Contribution

DeColores Rain Cancellation sorry, we will try to reschedule

7pm Midnight Radio Show

Fairytale Magic with Charlotte Lily Fairy of Midnight Radio ShowJoin us for an enchanted evening of storytelling and songs!

Friday  9/26

Carmen’s Garden

6:30 -7:30 Kiki and the Fellas

LaPlaza

6-7 pm Mathew Silver’s Circus

8 pm: half hour of previously released short poetry films by Director Jason Wade Hammonds.


8:30pm: Premiere of “the destruction of the serpent of mundane misery”  by Director Jason Wade Hammonds followed by a brief QA.  Then a live set of music by John Markert and poetry by Justin Den Herder during a social half hour.

Pancho’s Garden

Rain day update !!!!

The show must go on!

Green Oasis

6PM Roisin McKeown is carving out a name for herself as a singer-songwriter with a deep sense of purpose. Born in Lower Manhattan and raised in Dublin, her music blends jazz, soul, and folk, shaped by both cities. Her name honours her mother, a singer-songwriter, and her grandmother, an organist and composer. This lineage fuels her artistry, making her work both personal and universal.

7PM VIVI HU Music Under One Sky” is a one-hour concert that includes songs about moon, stars and love with a blend of influences from jazz, R&B, soul, and Mandarin pop in both Mandarin and English. 

8pm Mitchell Cheng Trio

Mitchell Cheng is a Taiwanese-American  pianist and composer based in New York City.  He is first and foremost an improviser, and cherishes the surprise and wonder that can occur from a spontaneous musical idea that is expressed in real time.  The Trio features Mitchell on Fender Rhodes & Everton Isadoro, Percussion & Adrian Morning, Bass.  They play original songs interlaced with jazz and rock classics. 
 
 

Saturday 9/27

COMMUNITY GARDEN TOUR 2 3–5:30 PM

Down to Earth Garden

11 am – 2 pm  Bokashi Workshop Part 2: Using Fermented Basic Recipes to Ferment Secondary Recipes for Amending the Soil. 
Down to Earth Garden will be holding part 2 of 3 bokashi workshops on 9/27/25 Sat 11am-2pm, as part of the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival. We will use the bokashi bran to amend the soil directly and to ferment food waste. And we will use the bokashi spray to also amend the soil directly and to make bokashi FPE (fermented plant extract) using fresh cut weeds. 
Part 1 Sun 9/21/25, 11 am – 2 pm.
Part 3 Sun 9/28/25, 11 am – 2 pm.

DeColores

5pm Joan Reinmuth, with Olympic jokes that nail the landing.

5:30 pm Poetry with Sparrow, The Truffles and MORE!!

11th St Community Garden

Miracle Garden

6B Garden

2:00 – 4:00 pm Poetry

Celebrating the life and work of poet, ceramicist and gardener, M.C. Richards

FAHRENHEIT OPEN MIC WITH LINDA KLEINBUB 2-5PM

Pancho’s Garden

Los Fascinetes old school salsa music 1-4pm

LaPlaza

5pm The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity

A staged reading

The basis for the play is the Epistle of the Animals, composed by the Brethren of Purity, a Muslim Sufi order based in Basra, in present day Iraq, in the 10th century. It was part of a much larger encyclopedic work that the Brethren of Purity wrote. A complete English translation of this fable was only done in 2009.

LA PLAZA 6pm Celebration of the Solar pavilion and tour.

First St Green

Arts for Art presents  free jazz 2-5pm

Whit Dickey & Rob Brown, John Blum & Cooper Moore, Poets, James Brandon Lewis

GREEN OASIS

5pm Rossi & Reed – Groove / Noise-Folk / Ritual


Bradford Reed (pencilina) and Anni Rossi (hybrid viola-tar) turn their self-built instruments into a raw collision of groove, noise, and song. Reed, a Brooklyn composer and longtime member of King Missile III, has performed worldwide with his idiosyncratic creation, played in Blue Man Group’s original band, and currently performs with The Dirt Whisperers, Grains of Euphora, and Order of the Illusive. Rossi, a Queens-based songwriter, performer, and clown with releases on 4AD, moves between balladry, punk, folk, pop, and soul with what BBC 6’s Marc Riley called “classic and cutting edge.”  Together, they weave an experience that’s part avant-folk ritual, part chamber-punk séance, and part ecstatic improvisation. Their music can shift in an instant—from whispering strings to thunderous, body-shaking noise—holding audiences in a space that feels both ancient and futuristic.
https://linktr.ee/pencilina
https://www.instagram.com/annirossi

6pm VC and Friends

7pm Rutherford Jones and the BQE 

Rutherford Jones and the BQE is a band that plays blues and beyond. They take the blues to where it has never been. 
Rutherford Jones wants the blues to thrive not just survive. 

Sunday 9/28

Down to Earth Garden

11 am – 2 pm  Bokashi Workshop Part 3: Applying All of the Fermented Recipes for Amending the Soil. 
Down to Earth Garden will be holding part 3 of 3 bokashi workshops on 9/28/25 Sun 11am-2pm, as part of the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival. We will apply the bokashi food waste to soil, the bokashi FPE (fermented plant extract) with water to soil, and EM•5 to soil, plants, and trees. 

Miracle Garden

1:00 – 3:00 pm

Baby Soda is an adaptable 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.

Siempre Verde

Garden Climate Tour Noon LES Climate & Culture Tour with Green Map

Noon @ 156 Rivington, through gardens to East River Park

First St Green

Arts for Art presents free jazz 2-5pm Hans Young Binter Band, Aakash Mittal Trio, Mona Miari, Same Newsome Trio

Green Oasis

12-2:30 Jazz Brunch

Renegade Cabaret’ w/Lady in the Green Dress & Lady in the Red Dress.

Lady in the Green Dress (Elizabeth Soychak)

Lady in the Red Dress (Mary Foster Conklin)

Herr Johan (Beat Keastli)

Barefoot Roger (Manning)

Man Reading Amber’s Poems (Mick Hilgers)

We sing Great American Song Book  sultry ballads, swing tunes & bossa and ballads.

6pm  Isabel Estrada-Jamison

7:30 Ray Santiago 

The Bokashi Method to Prep Your Soil 12/14/2024 Sat 1-4pm

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Garden plot 20 at El Sol Brillante from early winter through the start of spring: 12/31/2023, 2/25/2024, 3/10/2024, and 3/24/2024.

Saturday, December 14, 2024 
1 pm – 4 pm 
at Down to Earth Garden, 546 E 12th St (by Ave B) [map] 

We will cover application guidelines on the bokashi method for preparing your soil whether in late fall, during the winter, or early spring. 

We will make Activated EM (i.e., the bokashi microbes, aka bokashi spray) which is one of the main microbial applications to soil and organic matter (including fall leaves, plant clippings, twigs/branches, and food waste). 

Down to Earth Garden (a GreenThumb community garden) has had a combined bokashi composting system with El Sol Brillante since the fall of 2009. 

Co-sponsored by LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens), lungsnyc.org, and El Sol Brillante, elsolbrillante.org.

Non-Food-Waste Bokashi Gardening Workshop 11/23/2024 Sat 1-4pm

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Non-food-waste bokashi composting pile at East Side Outside Community Garden.

Saturday, November 23, 2024 
1 pm – 4 pm 
at Down to Earth Garden, 546 E 12th St (by Ave B) [map] 

How to use the bokashi microbes to improve your soil, as well as, do non-food-waste bokashi composting. 

Bring your own items (bottles and ingredients) and together we’ll make the bokashi ferments (Activated EM and/or EM•5). 
Bottle suggestions (type and size): 
– Type: seltzer water bottles (HDPE) since they are designed to handle the carbonation/gas pressure buildup. (Glass bottles are only recommended if an airlock can be used with it.) 
– Size: either 16.9 fl oz (500 ml), 1 liter (or 1 quart), or 2-liter bottle. 

Ingredients (% of the volume or per volume of the bottle): 
Activated EM: blackstrap molasses (5%), EM•1 Microbial Inoculant (5%), and sea salt (2 tsp/liter). 
EM•5: blackstrap molasses (5%), EM•1 Microbial Inoculant (5%), apple cider vinegar (5%), 40% alcohol (5%) (e.g., vodka, tequila, whiskey), garlic cloves (1 clove/liter), and hot spicy peppers (3 or more/liter, can more different kinds, should be cayenne or hotter peppers). 

We will make Activated EM (i.e., the bokashi microbes, aka bokashi spray) and the EM•5 foliar spray and show how to use them for gardening, plant care, soil improvement, and composting plant clippings, twigs and branches (without food waste). 

Down to Earth Garden (a GreenThumb community garden) has had a combined bokashi composting system with El Sol Brillante since the fall of 2009. 

Co-sponsored by LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens), lungsnyc.org, and El Sol Brillante, elsolbrillante.org. 

Sunday October 6, 2024

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Rescheduled LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival 2024 Last Day Closing Party!

Campos Community Garden, 644 E 12th St (between Ave B & Ave C)

Sun 10/6, 3:00 pm. dell’Arte Opera [Campos Garden]

Clockwise from upper Left:
Boris Derow, Oleksandra Hrabova, Elizaveta Kozlova and Jennifer Gliere

dell’Arte Opera is pleased to participate in this year’s ‘LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival’! We are featuring four wonderful singers in a collection of Ukrainian songs, excerpts from La Traviata and La Bohéme, and Musical Theater favorites!

Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & Ave D)

Sun 10/6, 2 pm. Poetry, Sparrow, the Truffles, Bob Holman, Kyra Gordon and provisional list. [DeColores]

Sun 10/6, 4 pm. Mitchell Chang [Green Oasis]

Sun 10/6, 5 pm. Elliott Sharp [Green Oasis]

Sun 10/6, 6 pm. Kid Java [Green Oasis]

KID JAVA is a NYC‑based band that plays “Blue Note Americana”, ie., music that is deeply indebted to the blues, but mix it up with other rootsy genres and often with a contemporary feel. Sometimes we’ll play a down-home traditional blues, other times more swing-oriented material, and then there is the New Orleans second-line or funk tune thrown in to keep things lively.

Sun 10/6, 7 pm. Ray Santiago [Green Oasis]

Afro-Cuban Jazz, Ray Santiago is New York City based pianist, percussionist, singer, composer, arranger and band leader, active in the US Salsa scene from the early 1970s.

Sponsors and Thank You’s

OUTLINE – LUNGS 13th Annual Harvest Arts Festival Schedule

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OUTLINLE & DIRECTORY

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at La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)

  • Festival Opening Night Party!
    • 6:00 pm. Avon Faire, traditional Celtic and English folk songs [La Plaza]
    • 7:00 pm. “Source” African Jazz [La Plaza]

at Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & Ave D)

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  • El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St (between Ave A & Ave B)
  • St Mark’s Place (block between Avenue A and 1st Ave)
    • 11 am – 2 pm. SUNCAST Flint Collective NYC—8 site installations [Little Mish, 95 St Mark’s Place]
  • La Plaza Cultural, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)
  • Pancho’s Garden, 709 E 9th St (entrance: Ave C, east side, between 9th & 10th St)
  • 6th & B Garden, 84 Ave B (E 6th St, southwest corner)
  • De Colores Community Yard and Cultural Center, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & Ave C)
    • 12–7 pm. Songwriters Circle — The Jack Hardy Songwriters Exchange [De Colores]
      • 12:50 pm. Special guest Patrick Cavanagh
      • 1:00 pm. Kathryn Bloss, David Seitz, Dalan Sow
      • 1:45 pm. Orly Bendavid, Chris Fuller, Morman Salant
      • 2:30 pm. Michelle Biagi, Steve Schalchlin, Carolann Solebello
      • 3:15 pm. Jane Byaela, Mark Aaron James, Ina May Wool
      • 4:00 pm. Diana Jones, Frank Mazzetti, Paul Sachs
      • 4:45 pm. Mya Byrne, Jonathan Laurence Green, John Hodel, Jenny Leto
  • Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St (at Norfolk St)
  • 11 BC Serenity Garden, 626 E 11th St (between Ave B & Ave C)
  • Le Petit Versailles Garden, 247 E 2nd St (west of Ave C)
  • Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & Ave D)
  • Campos Community Garden, 644 E 12th St (between Ave B & Ave C)

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  • M’Finda Kalunga Garden, 179 Chrystie St. & Rivington St.
  • La Plaza Cultural, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)

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  • La Plaza Cultural, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)
  • Pancho’s Garden, 709 E 9th St (entrance: Ave C, east side, between 9th & 10th St)

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DUE TO RAIN, SOME OF THE EVENTS MAY HAVE BEEN CANCELED
OR RESCHEDULED TO SUNDAY 9/29.

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Rescheduled Festival Last Day Closing Party!

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THANKS to all of our sponsors, supporters, contributors, participants, and volunteers.

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Sponsors & Thank You’s

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For the 13th Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival 2024

THANKS to all of our sponsors, supporters, contributors, participants, and volunteers.

CO-SPONSORS

STATE SENATOR BRIAN KAVANAGH

CITY COUNCILPERSON CHRISTOPHER MARTE

MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT MARK LEVINE

CITY PARKS FOUNDATION

LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL

PARTNERSHIP FOR PARKS

NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS

LA PLAZA CULTURAL ARMANDO PEREZ GARDEN

GREEN OASIS & GILBERT’S SCULPTURE GARDEN

DE COLORES COMMUNITY YARD

ART LOISAIDA FOUNDATION
 
SPECIAL THANKS FOR OPENING NIGHT VENDOR DONATIONS
BARNYARD CHEESE SHOP 168 Ave B
BRIX WINE SHOP 170 Ave B
C & B Café 178 E. 7th St
C-TOWN GROCERY 188 Ave C
FIASCHETTERIA 647 E 11th St
GNOCCO 337 E 10th St
GRUPPO 98 Ave B
Josie’s 52o E 6th St
Mona’s 224 Ave B
ROYALE 157 Ave C
Sophie’s 507 E 5th St
THE SUMMIT BAR & CAFE 133 Ave C
THE YORK 186 Ave B
TOMPKINS SQUARE BAGELS 165 Ave A
TRADER JOE’S 436 E 14th St
YANKEE PIZZA 181 Ave C

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THESE LOCAL BUSINESSES FOR THEIR ONGOING SUPPORT
THE SOURCE UNLTD PRINT & COPY SHOP 331 E 9th St
SAIFEE HARDWARE 114 1st Ave

SPECIAL THANKS
Kay Bloss

Dania Bressler
Doug Bressler
Bunny
JK Canepa
Stewart Cauley & Pollen

Patrick Cavanagh
Bill DiPaola & MoRUS
Brigitte Engler
Fulla
Sandy Hirshkowitz
Damian Kolodiy
Jon Lefkowitz
Sylvain Leroux
Beverley Love
Jack Ludkey
Sylvia Mandel
Ross Martin
Santo Mollica
Rina Root
Anna Sawaryn
Oscar Grigg Schoenberg
Christian Schoenberg
Sparrow
Ania Wang & Vasilii Krasikov
Alexia Weidler

Debra Williams
Sally Young
Chinese-American Planning Council – Manhattan
Dahlimama Inc
GrowNYC
Loisaida Community Gardeners
Loisaida Open Streets
Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York
LUNGS CSA Volunteers
NYC Parks GreenThumb
NYC Summer Youth Employment Program
Royale Bar Staff
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(Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens, Inc) was founded in 2011 to strengthen our community by promoting, protecting and preserving the gardens and greening on the Lower East Side. LUNGS works to unite the gardens through cooperation, coordination and communication. We believe that permanent community gardens and public green spaces are necessary for a healthy New York City.
 
CHARLES KREZELL President (Firemen’s Memorial Garden, De Colores Community Yard) • RIKI COLON Vice President (Sam & Sadie Koenig Garden) • KAREN KANDRAC Treasurer (Miracle Garden) • CHRISTOPHER BATENHORST Secretary (Campos Community Garden) • GEORGE HIROSE Program Director (Children’s Magical Garden) • Board Members: WENDY BRAWER (Siempre Verde Garden) • SHAWN DAHL (De Colores Community Yard) • CARMINE D’INTINO (6th & B Garden) • EILEEN DOSTER (6BC Botanical Garden) • JIM FEALY (Green Oasis & Gilbert’s Sculpture Garden) • FRANK GONZALEZ (St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery & Trinity Church) • MICHAEL HINDS (11BC Garden) • ALVAH HOLMES (La Plaza Cultural Armando Perez Garden) • SHIG MATSUKAWA (Down to Earth Garden) • CAROLYN RATCLIFFE (Carmen’s Garden & more) • MAGALI REGIS (Toyota Children’s Learning Garden) • LAURA SEWELL (El Sol Brillante)

PROGRAM DESIGN by Christian Schoenberg.
© 2024 LUNGS (Loisada United Neighborhood Gardens, Inc) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
428 E 10th St, New York, NY 10009

ON THE EDGE

LUNGS’ Lucky 13th Annual Harvest Arts Festival finds us on the edge.
Elections are looming, the weather is challenging and the City of Yes is threatening our community gardens.
I’m not sure Mayor Eric Adams knows what he wants or what he is doing. On August 21, he issued an executive order to require all city agencies to review city owned property for potential housing development.
NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue supported Adams’ order as “an important step in addressing New York City’s affordable housing crisis.” 
 
On April 22, Governor Hochul announced a package of programs and initiatives to create new housing, including affordable housing, in New York City. It was immediately denounced by This sham of a housing deal will do absolutely nothing to make housing more affordable and keep New Yorkers in their homes. It is nothing more than a massive giveaway to the real estate industry.”
 
It is ridiculous to consider destroying gardens to build housing. In 2021, the city housing agency said the number of potential vacancies as almost 89,000 units. It was reported at least 26,000 apartments are being warehoused by landlords.
 
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.
 
We cannot sit back and wait to have our gardens listed as available. The past tells us we have to be Pro-active. We’ve got to make some noise.
That is why, in the middle of our 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.

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Sunday September 29, 2024

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El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St (between Ave A & Ave B)

Sun 9/29, 11 am – 12 pm. Non-food-waste Bokashi Gardening [El Sol Brillante]

Rain or shine!

How to use the bokashi microbes to improve your soil, as well as, do non-food-waste bokashi composting.

Community Garden Tour 3 (of 3) — East Village Gardens: starting at El Sol Brillante 524 E 12th St (between Ave A & Ave B) > El Sol Brillante Jr. > Campos Community Garden > Toyota Children’s Learning Garden > De Colores Community Yard > La Plaza Cultural > Pancho’s Garden.

Sun 9/29, 1:30–3:30 pm. Meet at 1:20 pm. Community Garden Tour 3 [El Sol Brillante, El Sol Brillante Jr., Campos Community Garden, Toyota Children’s Learning Garden, De Colores Community Yard, La Plaza Cultural, and Pancho’s 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 the entrance gate of El Sol Brillante, 524 E 12th St between Ave A & Ave B. Meet your tour guide Magali Régis at 1:20 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.

La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)

Sun 9/29, 12–5 pm. Art around La Plaza [La Plaza]

Art around LaPlaza, paint draw, exhibit your art on the Garden Fence, we supply the canvas you bring your brushes, paints, creativity.
For Kids of All Ages!

Sun 9/29, 1:00 pm. Matthew Silver’s Idiot’s Hour [La Plaza]

An Avant Clown Variety Show, that celebrates your inner idiot.

Co-produced and Co-hosted by Matthew Silver and The Powerful Comedy

Sun 9/29, 5–8 pm. Pinc Louds and Lumberob [La Plaza]

M’Finda Kalunga Garden, 179 Chrystie St. & Rivington St.

Sun 9/29, 12:30–2:30 pm. NYC Birds [M’Finda Kalunga]
Bird tours between 1–2 pm.

There will be crafts, bird feeding, and birdwatching all afternoon! Make your own binoculars and learn about NYC birds!

Sun 9/29, 1–3 pm. Picture Book Festival [M’Finda Kalunga]

Kids – come and enjoy beautifully illustrated picture books, listen to a story, and choose some picture books to take home for yourself.

First Street Green Cultural Park, 33 E 1st Street (east of 2nd Ave)

Sun 9/29, 1:30–6 pm. Arts for Art Jazz

Sun 9/29, 1:30 pm. The Daves [First Street Green]

Dave Sewelson – bari sax
Dave Hofstra – tuba
Dave Hernandez – tuba

Sun 9/29, 2:30 pm. Lesley Mok Band [First Street Green]

Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson – trombone
Nathan Nakadegawa-Lee – reeds
Lesley Mok – drums

Sun 9/29, 3:30 pm. Warrior of Light [First Street Green]

Djassi Dacosta Johnson – dance
Shayna Dulberger – bass

Sun 9/29, 4:30 pm. Ayumi Ishito [First Street Green]

Ayumi Ishito – saxophone
Rema Hasumi – keyboard
Yuko Togami – drums

Miracle Garden, 194 E 3rd St (west of Ave B)

Sun 9/29, 2 pm. Mame-Loschen or “Mother Tongue” – Poetry [Miracle Garden]

Mame-Loschen is a poetry reading series at Miracle Garden featuring original works from local poets, works in translation, and selections from the neighborhood’s rich literary history.

6th & B Garden, 84 Ave B (E 6th St, southwest corner)

Sun 9/29, 2–5 pm. Fahrenheit Open Mic [6&B Garden]

Campos Community Garden, 644 E 12th St (between Ave B & Ave C)

Sun 9/29, 3:00 pm. dell’Arte Opera [Campos Garden]

Clockwise from upper Left:
Boris Derow, Oleksandra Hrabova, Elizaveta Kozlova and Jennifer Gliere

dell’Arte Opera is pleased to participate in this year’s ‘LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival’! We are featuring four wonderful singers in a collection of Ukrainian songs, excerpts from La Traviata and La Bohéme, and Musical Theater favorites!

DeColores Community Yard and Cultural Garden, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & Ave C)

Sun 9/29, 3:00 pm. “The Thin Ice Tour” – Comedy from Joan Reinmuth [De Colores]

Sun 9/29, 3:30 pm. Poetry, Sparrow, the Truffles, Bob Holman, Kyra Gordon and provisional list. [DeColores]

Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St (at Norfolk St)

Sun 9/29, 3:00–3:45 pm. Music by Latido a percussion teaching circle [Children’s Magical] 

4–5 pm. Followed by performance.

Experience Latido, a vibrant fusion where soaring vocals weave tales of love and longing, inspired by pop and Latin American traditions. A piano-driven foundation grooves with infectious Latin rhythms, complemented by rock-infused guitar. Rich harmonies and captivating dance movements add another dimension on select songs. Defying definition, Latido’s fresh sound compels you to move! Join the celebration!

6BC Botanical Garden, 624 E 6th St (between Ave B & Ave C)

Sun 9/29, 4 pm. Beyond Flute Group [6BC Botanical Garden]

Carmen Pabon del Amanecer Garden, 115 Loisaida Ave (Ave C between 7th St & 8t St)

Sun 9/29, 4–6 pm. Jewelry Making Workshop [Carmen Pabon]
carmenpabongarden.org

East Side Outside Community Garden, 415 E 11th St (east of 1st Ave)

Sun 9/29, 5 pm. Marta & Spiritu Gitano [East Side Outside]

Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & Ave D)

Sun 9/29, 4 pm. Mitchell Chang [Green Oasis]

Sun 9/29, 5 pm. Elliott Sharp [Green Oasis]

Sun 9/29, 6 pm. Kid Java [Green Oasis]

KID JAVA is a NYC‑based band that plays “Blue Note Americana”, ie., music that is deeply indebted to the blues, but mix it up with other rootsy genres and often with a contemporary feel. Sometimes we’ll play a down-home traditional blues, other times more swing-oriented material, and then there is the New Orleans second-line or funk tune thrown in to keep things lively.

Sun 9/29, 7 pm. Ray Santiago [Green Oasis]

Afro-Cuban Jazz, Ray Santiago is New York City based pianist, percussionist, singer, composer, arranger and band leader, active in the US Salsa scene from the early 1970s.

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Saturday September 28, 2024

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El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St (between Ave A & Ave B)

Sat 9/28, 11 am – 12 pm. Bokashi Mudballs [El Sol Brillante]

How to use the bokashi microbes to make mudballs which can be used to inoculate contaminated soils and waters.

Sat 9/28, 3 pm. Poetry Prompt [El Sol Brillante]

Ian Caskey
Carl Heubner
Andreas Apostolides

Join a participatory writing exercise inspired by a prose or poem prompt. Sitting beside experienced writers, we’ll listen to the prompts, write whatever comes to mind, and share a few of our spontaneous creations with the group.

Here’s one I hope appeals to Gardners: 
by Mary Oliver
LINES WRITTEN IN THE DAYS OF GROWING DARKNESS
Every year we have been 
witness to it: how the
world descends

into a rich mass, in order that
it may resume.
And therefore
who would cry out

to the petals on the ground
to stay, 
knowing as we must,
how the vivacity of what was is married

to the vitality of what will be?
I don’t say
it’s easy, but
what else will do

if the love one claims to have for the world
be true? 

Orchard Alley, 346–354 E 4th St (west of Ave D)

Sat 9/28, 11 am – 1 pm. Hounds of Harvest [Orchard Alley]

Bring your dog for a free outdoors doggie shoot in a dog friendly community garden. Treats and water will be served!

El Jardin del Paraiso, 311 E 4th St (between Ave C & Ave D)

Sat 9/28, 12–4 pm. GreenThumb Harvest Fair [El Jardin]

Join NYC Parks GreenThumb and GreenThumb community gardeners in celebrating the start of fall with workshops, healthy cooking, Harvest Fair Competition, and more.

La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner).

Sat 9/28, 12–3 pm. Natural Paint Workshop [La Plaza]

Join Earth Celebrations for Climate Week with NYU at LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival. Natural Paint Workshop making paint from fruit vegetable and plants and painting climate solution banners.

Sun 9/28, 2–5 pm. Tapestry Weaving Workshop — New York Textile Month. [La Plaza]
This workshop is part of New York Textile Month.

Amirtha Arasu and Lin Qiqing will host a workshop to teach the basics of tapestry weaving and how to use a simple frame loom. Participants will be introduced to non-traditional materials such as hand-made paper yarn, and natural fibers such as cotton, hemp, and linen. Each participant will be able to take a hand-made loom home after the workshop, so you can keep on weaving!

Fibers will also be provided.

Sun 9/28, 3:30–4:00 pm. “I dreamt I was the ocean” [La Plaza]

Theresa Byrnes performs

Theresa, inside her painting process brings us into the creative zone and into deep contemplation.

Sat 9/28, 5–8 pm. Pinc Louds and Lumberob [La Plaza]

Sat 9/28, 8 pm. Music at the Cotton Club [La Plaza]

Sat 9/28, 8–9 pm. A Special 70s Music Tribute [La Plaza 137 Ave C]

Hosted by: Lee Soulja

Performers:
Ivana Black
Kristy Blaze
La’Nece Onassis

6th & B Garden, 84 Ave B (E 6th St, southwest corner)

Sat 9/28, 1–4 pm. Biodiversity Day [6&B Garden]

What makes the world go round?
Birds & bees… and the plants, of course!

Learn about backyard biodiversity with George Silvera Seamans & Loyan Beausoleil (Local Nature Lab), Melinda Billings (LES Ecology Center), and Amy Berkov.

Ave B Open Street between 8th & 9th Streets

Open Arts LES on Avenue B

Sat 9/28, 1:00 pm. Arts Workshop [Ave B Open Street]

Sat 9/28, 1:30 pm. Duo Chuño Argentinian percussionist & singer play melodies of South and Central America [Ave B Open Street]

Mr. Pablo (photo by Amber Chang)

Sat 9/28, 3:00 pm. Mr. Pablo Latin fusion band mixes Latin styles with rock, reggae and funk [Ave B Open Street]

First Street Green Cultural Park, 33 E 1st Street (east of 2nd Ave)

Sat 9/28, 1:30–6:00 pm. Arts for Art Jazz

Sat 9/28, 1:30 pm. Devin Brahja Waldman Trio [First Street Green]

Devin Brahja Waldman – sax
Georgia Wartel Collins – bass
Malik Washington – drums

Sat 9/28, 2:30 pm. Siren Xypher [First Street Green]

Melanie Dyer – viola
Kyoko Kitamura – voice
Mara Rosenbloom – piano

Sat 9/28, 3:30 pm. Anne Waldman – poetry [First Street Green]

Sat 9/28, 4:30 pm. Michael Wimberly Trio [First Street Green]

Jay Rodriquez – reeds
John King – guitar
Ken Filliano – bass
Michael Wimberly – drums

El Sol Brillante Jr, 537 E 12th St (between Ave A & Ave B)

Sat 9/28, 2–4 pm. Intentional Mending [El Sol Brillante Jr]

“Intentional Mending” It is a form of mending that is not disguised, but shown. Often with interesting stitching. It has a long history in Japan. Also known as Boro or Sashiko.

There is a resurgence in popularity in the art of mending. Before the age of disposable fashion, our grandmothers bought good clothes and, as they became worn, they mended them. They darned socks and learned how to match fabrics and patterns so mending could only be seen with close inspection. The beauty of mending clothes is in preserving old favorites with slow, meditative stitches that extend the life of garments or home accessories.

Campos Community Garden, 644 E 12th St (between Ave B & Ave C)

Sat 9/28, 2–5 pm. BWAY Z SKETCH CLUB [Campos Garden]

Campos Garden welcomes the fabulous BWAY Z SKETCH CLUB with LIVE FASHION MODEL DRAWING EVENT SATURDAY 28 SEPT.

BRING YOUR SKETCH PADS!!!!

11th Street Community Garden, 422 E 11th St (between 1st Ave & Ave A)

Sat 9/28, 2–6 pm. Live Music Series [11th Street]
Gina Healy & Friends
Stephanie M. Hall
Brooklyn Bluegrass All-Stars
Mimsey Mack
Kieran Murray
Ross Daisomont Lower Heights

La Sala de Pepe y Foto Espacio, 73 Ave C

Sat 9/28, 2 pm. Unknown Tales From The Gardens [La Sala]

Community Garden Tour 2 (of 3) — East Village Gardens: starting at El Jardin del Paraiso 311 E 4th St (between Ave C & Ave D) > Orchard Alley > Parque de Tranquilidad > 6BC Botanical Garden > 6&B Garden > Green Oasis > Pancho’s Garden > La Plaza Cultural.

Sat 9/28, 3:30–6:00 pm. Meet at 3:20 pm. Community Garden Tour 2 [El Jardin del Paraiso, Orchard Alley, Parque de Tranquilidad, 6BC Botanical Garden, 6&B Garden, Green Oasis, Pancho’s Garden, and La Plaza Cultural]

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 the entrance gate of El Jardin del Paraiso 4th St between Ave C and Ave D (next door to 309 E 4th St). Meet your tour guide Magali Régis at 3:20 pm. This tour involves walking several blocks; 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 >>

Albert’s Garden, 16 E 2nd St (between Bowery & 2nd Ave)

Sat 9/28, 4–6 pm. Just Jazz Friends [Albert’s Garden]

Carmen Pabon del Amanecer Garden, 115 Loisaida Ave (Ave C between 7th St & 8t St)

Sat 9/28, 4–6 pm. Jewelry Making Workshop [Carmen Pabon]
carmenpabongarden.org

Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & D)

Sat 9/28, 5 pm. Elliott Sharp [Green Oasis]

Sat 9/28, 6 pm. Mitchell Chang [Green Oasis]

Sat 9/28, 7 pm. Fiction Light [Green Oasis]

Kyoko Kitamura – voice
Melanie Dyer – viola
Claire de Brunner – bassoon
Leonid Galaganov – drums

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