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Sunday October 16, 2022

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Tai Chi

10–11 am Free and Open to all.

Elizabeth Street Garden, between Spring St & Prince St.

Botanical Mini Pumpkin Decoration Workshop with Local Artist Kuki Go

12–4 pm

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

We’ll take participants for a tour at El Sol Brillante and select and recognize, leaves, flowers and plants from the garden to decorate mini pumpkins.

Seed Giveaway

Noon – 5 pm. Saturdays and Sundays

LaGuardia Corner Gardens, 511 LaGuardia Place & Bleecker Street

We will be having a seed giveaway, with seeds of flowers and veggies gathered from our garden. 

We will also be doing sun prints, if the sun cooperates. And our Butterfly expert, Johannes, may also be tagging and releasing monarch butterflies, getting ready for their trip to Mexico.

Bokashi Composting Workshop with Shig Matsukawa

1–3 pm

Down to Earth Garden, 546 E 12th St, corner of Ave B.

Down to Earth Garden

We will make the bokashi fermentation starter, both the bokashi sprinkle (with wheat bran) and the bokashi spray (a liquid microbial fermentation starter). See how we ferment food waste and how we use the resulting fermented food waste to amend soil or to produce compost.

Miraculous Music

1–3 pm 2:30 pm

Miracle Garden, 194 E 3rd St (between Ave A & B).

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. 

Chopin in the Garden

2–4 pm

Albert’s Garden, 16 E. 2nd St (between Bowery and 2nd Ave—close to the Broadway-Lafayette/Bleecker Street subway stops and the 2nd Avenue stop on the F line).

Join us as we welcome Kristopher “Kris” Hull, pianist errant, for a concert of Chopin’s works in Albert’s Garden. He’ll be performing under a striking mural by the Belgian street artist ROA.

As a self-taught concert pianist, Kris travelled the world, finding pianos wherever he could, practicing for countless hours a day.

Eventually, he landed back in the United States and in 2008, he loaded an upright piano into the back of a pickup truck and drove “from Miami to Denver inventing and committing pianist errantry — the noble art of performing and bringing Chopin out of the concert hall and directly to those in need.”

Music Akimbo

2:30–5 pm

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

  1. 2:30 pm. AVON FAIRE

Freshly returned from their 5th tour of England, Avon Faire is a fun, 3-part harmony female singing group, embellished with guitars, recorder, percussion, harp and a dancer, performing folk treasures, romantic Renaissance ballads, and shanties from the British Isles and beyond.

  1. 3:30 pm. Roisin McKeown 
  1. 4:30–5:30 pm. Hed Peddlers

Theresa Byrnes Performance Art

4 pm

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

FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT

5–8 pm

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

  1. 5 pm. Batala

The music of Batala originates in Salvador de Bahia, in North Eastern Brazil.  Batala is an international co-ed organization with a giant Batalá family, and owes its existence to Giba Gonçalves, a drummer and composer from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Batala has spread to over 30 international cities. 

  1. 6 pm. SOURCE

SOURCE is an African Jazz group led by flutist-saxophonist Sylvain Leroux that was founded in the East Village in the late nineties and had a 12-year monthly tenure at the Zinc Bar’s African Fridays. SOURCE delivers a message of human spirit, individual and collective creativity through the melding of authentic African groove with the individuality of Jazz expression.

Sylvain Leroux: Fula flute, flute, sax, ngoni
Alexis Marcello (not pictured): keyboards
Mamadou Ba: bass
Andy Algire: drums

Saturday October 15, 2022

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I don’t wanna work, wanna paint on the fence all day

Paint your masterpiece at a garden near you

Calling all Artists

October 8 & 15, Saturdays 12–5 pm

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

Artists who are exhibiting only must sit with their work while it hangs in the garden—LUNGS is not responsible for any damage or theft of exhibited work.

Live Painting — Bring your own brushes & paint🎨 & Enjoy the music. Live painting will be done on canvas attached to fence. Canvas supplied.

HONKNYC

12–5 pm

La Plaza Cultural, 9th St & Ave C, and all over.

HONK NYC! brings the tradition of global street band music & spectacle to audiences everywhere. 

Seed Giveaway

Noon – 5 pm. Saturdays and Sundays

2pm Pressed Flower Workshop making notecards andbookmarks

LaGuardia Corner Gardens, 511 LaGuardia Place & Bleecker Street

We will be having a seed giveaway, with seeds of flowers and veggies gathered from our garden. 

We will also be doing sun prints, if the sun cooperates. And our Butterfly expert, Johannes, may also be  tagging and releasing monarch butterflies, getting ready for their trip to Mexico.

KIDS GARDEN DAY!

Noon — 7 pm

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

  1. 1–3 pm. Indigo Workshop for Children: age 7 and up, we will experiment with folding patterns and indigo dye to design a t-shirt. Children will have a chance to look at the results during the workshop led by visual artists Brigitte Engler, Kazuha Okuchi, Asami Onuki and Jan Werner. T-shirts, gloves and indigo vat provided. Free.
  1. 1–5 pm. TOY MAKING WORKSHOP

BRING Your old and broken toys and make them into new. 
Drop Off your broken toys at LaPlaza Cultural 9th St & Ave C.

Sonny & Sara reinvent timeless characters and cherished heroes into new, one-of-a-kind friends and legends. You are invited to get creative and build your own creations out of up-cycled toys!

  1. 1–3 pm. Treasure Hunt by Margarita.
  1. 2 pm. Show Up Kids!

This fresh twist on the traditional kids’ show blasts off into unknown comedy zones when Denisse enlists the Audience to help write, design, and Direct it. What could possibly go wrong? 

  1. 3–4 pm Singalong with Susie
    Parent and child together sing alongs, dancing together.
  1. 6:00 pm. Midnight Radio Show

Midnight Radio Show (MRS) is a Shadow Puppet and Fairytale Theatre collective based out of Brooklyn, NYC. The company creates collaborative works headed up by “bona fide fairy princess” Charlotte Lily Gaspard, joined by a diverse group of artists, musicians, actors and puppeteers.

COMPOST CONFERENCE

2 PM

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

Moderated by Laura Sewell.

Music and a Model

2 pm

6BC Botanical Garden, 630 E 6th St (between Ave B & C).

Trudy Silver on the Piano and a live model for your drawing pleasure.

MUSIC on 11th St.

2–6 pm

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

Gina Healy and friends Blues, Roots and Rock-n-Roll.

Story Telling

3 pm (Rescheduled from Thursday, October 13).

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

“Tell Tell Garden” presented by Kate Gorland

Remembrance and Protection for Urban Forests

3:30–5 pm

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

Learn how to protect NYC’s trees from disease, climate destruction, and illegal dumping.
A moment for appreciation for their gifts of clean air, shade, stormwater management, habitat, beauty and remembrance for those we have lost. On this first City of Forests Day, you’ll also hear about the grassroots-led defense of the City of Atlanta’s lush tree cover from clearcutting.
Let’s take action for urban forests!

3:30 – Land acknowledgement for those who preceded us, two minutes of silence for the trees gone in East River Park and other places throughout the City.
3:40 – Tree stewardship with David Goldberg, a Tree Steward from Siempre Verde Garden.
3:50 – Biodiversity and urban forests with Dr. Amy Berkov of 6&B Garden.
4:00 – Guarding trees on your block with Alexis Adler and Lorraine Forte from Down to Earth Garden and El Sol Brillante community gardens on making tree guards, then a visit to the 2 to 3 tree pits just outside the garden gate most affected by dumping.
4:15 – Tree Songs and Tree Mapping.
4:25 – Defend the Atlanta Forest’s Laurel Leckert shares the story of that city’s plans to clearcut over 400 biodiversity-rich acres to create an enormous police training and film soundstage complex; action steps to follow.

Refreshments provided.

Music Extraordinaire

5–10 pm

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

  1. 5 pm. HONKNYC presents New Orleans.
  1. 6 pm. TIMBILA, AFRODELIC 4 PIECE with Nora Balaban.
  1. GALINSKY, Campos gardener & actor, presents his version of the Ginsberg classic poem HOWL!!!!
  1. 7 pm. Afro Cuban JAZZ from RAY SANTIAGO.

Music Under the Stars with Joff Wilson

7:30–10 pm

6&B Garden, Ave B & 6th St.

Local Legends—and Up-and-Coming Local Legends—will present an evening of unforgettable and inspiring music.

Friday October 14, 2022

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Jewelry Workshop with Anna Pasztor

3–6 pm

Carmen’s Garden, 117 Ave C (between 7th & 8th Streets).

Materials provided.

Bleu y Blues MUSIC

6:30 – 9 pm

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

6:30 pm. Graffiti Child Project “Improvised Electronic Beat Music”

7:30 pm. MATHIEU EVEILLARD, a French singer songwriter from Brittany. He has released 5 albums under his own name since his move to NYC in 2015, all available on the digital platforms. Before that, he was the founding member of KOWALSKI, a French folk rock quartet. His lyrical songs are written in French and in English. He will perform a selection of songs from all his albums, between dogs and wolves. 

Mathieu Eveillard

PETE MARGOLIS, New York City guitarist, mandolin and banjo player, playing many genres of music from jazz to bluegrass and world music.

Pete Margolis

Dance & Films

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

6–7 pm

MAGICAL DUET

Gina Bonati, actor/dancer, performs with Christopher Lee Hodel, bassist.

7 pm (Rescheduled from Thursday, October 13).

FILMS

Four short videos from Campos Garden & Cuala Foundation’s 2020 “Samhain” (SOW-en) event exploring the dark feminine roots of Halloween and other indigenous LES cultures (Native, Taino, Arawak, Afghan, Thai etc.).
Videographer: James Higgins.
Editors: Jacob Swartz and Jacob Weisblatt. 

Also, a rare opportunity to see Rachel Amodeo’s Lower East Side classic “What About Me?” about a young woman who becomes homeless on the streets of Manhattan. (1993 B/W 1 hour 27 min)

Music & Comedy

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

7 pm. V/C — Victor & Carmine

8 pm. Comedy Stand-up, “10009 Zip Comedy”

Presented by Joan Reinmuth

“I studied comedy on the streets where comedy lives.

‘I teach Satire classes “because that’s how you learn you’re smarter than you were told”.

“I believe I understand this economy, who benefits and who pays. I predict: we will return to a time when we had webbed feet and hugged each other.

Thursday October 13, 2022

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Story Telling

7 pm Moved to 3 pm Saturday, October 15.

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

“Tell Tell Garden” presented by Kate Gorland

Films

7 pm Moved to 7 pm Friday, October 14.

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

Four short videos from Campos Garden & Cuala Foundation’s 2020 “Samhain” (SOW-en) event exploring the dark feminine roots of Halloween and other indigenous LES cultures (Native, Taino, Arawak, Afghan, Thai etc.).
Videographer: James Higgins.
Editors: Jacob Swartz and Jacob Weisblatt. 

Also, a rare opportunity to see Rachel Amedeo’s Lower East Side classic “What About Me?” about a young woman who becomes homeless on the streets of Manhattan. (1993 B/W 1 hour 27 min)

Wednesday October 12, 2022

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PHOTO SLIDE SHOW.
“Time Exposures” 
With Photographers GEORGE HIROSE & DAN ROOT

7 pm

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

Dan Root, “Wandering Downtown: Predawn NYC”

George Hirose, “Midnight in the Peoples Garden: Night photos from NYC Community Gardens.”

Tuesday October 11, 2022

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Hispanic Heritage Month Film Festival 

7 pm

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

Highlighting Latinx film makers and collectives in Ecuador and Honduras. 

Featuring the documentary “Mujeres en Movimiento (Women in Movement)” about the lives of migrant women living in the north of Ecuador. It is a very rich film in the sense of the union and strength that exists between women when they connect. 

Refreshments provided by “A Farm For All.”

Monday October 10, 2022

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Music at DeColores

2-5pm

311 E.8th st B/C

2-3pm V/C, Victor, Carmine and friends with old school rock and roll

3-4pm Misa Rai, singer songwriter

4-5pm Mitchell Cheng Jazz Trio

Arts for Art presents Jazz

1–5 pm

First Street Green Art Park, 33 E 1st St. 

  1. 1:30 pm. Ishito / Carter / Richardson

    Ayumi Ishito—sax / Daniel Carter—reeds / Demian Richardson—trumpet
     
  2. 2:30 pm. Darius Jones / William Parker / Scott Clark 

    Darius Jones—alto sax / William Parker—bass  / Scott Clark—drums
     
  3. 3:30 pm. Sheila Maldonado

    ​Sheila Maldonado—poetry
     
  4. 4 pm. Avram Fefer’s Trio of Freedom 

    Avram Fefer—sax / Michael Bisio—bass / TA Thompson—drums