La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)
Thu 10/5, 7 pm. Film: “End of the Rope” [La Plaza]
Suspicion falls on a sociopathic farmhand when a family mysteriously disappears from the town of Schafer, N.D., in the 1930s.
DeColores Community Yard and Cultural Garden, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & Ave C)
Wed 10/4, 7 pm. Film: “Medium Hot” [DeColores]
In 2004, the Republicans came to NYC for their convention, and we made “Medium Hot”.
The Village Voice — “You didn’t know it, but Medium Hot was shot on dislocation during the convention.”
Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & Ave D)
Wed 10/4, 8 pm. Theater: “ELEGY FOR AN UNDERGROUND PLAYWRIGHT” [Green Oasis]
The historic essentials of Robert Patrick. Join us for performance of original short plays by gay downtown theater pioneer of the 1960’s, Robert Patrick, who died this year. Presented by Jason Trucco.
DeColores Community Yard and Cultural Garden, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & Ave C)
Tue 10/3, 7 pm. Film: “They Survived Together” [DeColores]
“They Survived Together” is the incredible, true story of the survival of the Neiger family, as they desperately try to stay together as a family while escaping certain death by the Nazis – with four small children.
DeColores Community Yard and Cultural Garden, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & Ave C)
Mon 10/2, 7 pm. Film: “Freedom or Death” [DeColores]
A powerful and shocking narrative of the Ukrainian revolution and the beginnings of the war with Russia.
Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & Ave D)
Mon 10/2, 8 pm. Theater: “ELEGY FOR AN UNDERGROUND PLAYWRIGHT” [Green Oasis]
The historic essentials of Robert Patrick. Join us for performance of original short plays by gay downtown theater pioneer of the 1960’s, Robert Patrick, who died this year. Presented by Jason Trucco.
Down to Earth Garden, 546 E 12th St (by Ave B)
Sun 10/1, 11 am – 12 pm. Bokashi Gardening Workshop. A non-composting workshop on how to use and make your own bokashi varieties for your soil and plants. [Down to Earth Garden]
El Jardin del Paraiso, E 4th St (between Ave C & Ave D)
Sun 10/1, 12 pm. Razzle Dazzle magic show. [El Jardin]
Tanya Solomon, a magician and clown performing in New York for over a decade.
Sun 10/1, 1 pm. Show Up Kids! [El Jardin]
Making it all up. 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?
Sun 10/1, 2 pm. Son Pecadores music and dance. [El Jardin]
Sun 10/1, 3 pm. Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater. [El Jardin]
The irreverent storyteller Vít Hořejš re-tells classic Czech and Slovak fairy tales. Co-starring guest-musicians from across the globe.
(Also on Fri 10/6, 4 pm at Children’s Magical Garden >>)
El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St (between Ave A & Ave B)
Sun 10/1, 12–7 pm. El Sol Brillante garden party benefit. [El Sol Brillante]
Live music, food, refreshments, and fun.
Carmen Pabon Del Amanecer Garden, 115 Loisaida Ave (Ave C between 7th St & 8t St)
Sun 10/1, 1–3 pm. Carolyn Ratcliffe – Drawing Workshop. [Carmen Pabon]
Sun 10/1, 4–6 pm. Anna Pasztor – Jewelry Workshop. [Carmen Pabon]
East Side Outside Community Garden, 415 E 11th St (east of 1st Ave)
Sun 10/1, 2 pm. Music Down Home with V/C—Victor and Carmine. [East Side Outside]
Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St (at Norfolk St)
Jazz produced by Arts for Art
Sun 10/1, 2 pm. Heru’s “Basquiat Blues” [Children’s Magical Garden]
Sun 10/1, 3 pm. Jason Kao Hwang: Human Rites Trio. [Children’s Magical Garden]
Sun 10/1, 4 pm. Joseph Daley: The Tuba Trio. [Children’s Magical Garden]
Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & Ave D)
Sun 10/1, 2–4 pm. Indigo Dye Process Workshop. [Green Oasis]
Sun 10/1, 6 pm. Isabel Estrada-Jamison, Afro-Cuban Folklore Dance and Music. [Green Oasis]
Sun 10/1, 7 pm. Jazz Mitchell Cheng Trio. [Green Oasis]
Mitchell on Fender Rhodes
Everton Isadoro, Percussion
Adrian Morning, Bass.
Sun 10/1, 8 pm. KID JAVA. [Green Oasis]
Kid JAVA plays the blues.
11th Street Community Garden, 422 E 11th St (between 1st Ave & Ave A)
Sun 10/1, 2–6 pm. The 11th Street Community Garden presents live music [11th Street]
Gina Healy, Todd Louis
Ross Daisamont, Jason Green
Coby Petric, Manny Music
Diana Gitesha Hernandez and Marc Capon, Kieran Knightly and more.
Miracle Garden, 194 E 3rd St (west of Ave B)
Sun 10/1, 3 pm. Baby Soda. [Miracle Garden]
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.
El Jardin del Paraiso, E 4th St (between Ave C & Ave D)
Sun 10/1, 4 pm. “Outline For A Tree” – A Performance by Theresa Byrnes [El Jardin]
A ceremony worshipping and drawing strength from the trees. A community meditation & sound bath led by Theresa standing with the trees.
La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)
Sun 10/1, 4 pm. Maputi [La Plaza]
Mbira (the name of both the instrument and the music) is considered to be a “telephone to the spirits, used to communicate with deceased ancestors.
Sun 10/1, 5 pm. Pinc Louds [La Plaza]
“New York City’s best imaginary band” – The Village Voice
DeColores Community Yard and Cultural Garden, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & Ave C)
Sun 10/1, 4–6 pm. Bingo in the Garden. [DeColores]
With the invigorating and zazzy Lala Wiggy, grab a card, win a prize?
Sun 10/1, 7:30 pm. FILM: “The Clash” [DeColores]
Over a dozen years in the making, the Clash is a story about public space in New York, with contests over green space, biking, occupying, sustaining, and Black Lives in public space by Ben Shepard.
Sam and Sadie Koenig Garden, 237 E 7th St (east of Ave C)
Sun 10/1, Time TBD. The 15th annual Music and Art Festival [Sam & Sadie]
A Tribute to Carla Savoy!
Elizabeth Street Garden, Elizabeth St between Spring St & Prince St
Sat 9/30, 10 am – 12 pm. Community Gardening [Elizabeth Street Garden]
Join us for community gardening every Saturday & Sunday. All volunteers and neighbors welcome during this time!
Gardening tasks will vary each week. See you in the garden!
Sat 9/30, 10:30–11:30 am. Yoga with Sky Ting [Elizabeth Street Garden]
Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & Ave D)
Sat 9/30, 11 am “Joan Jokes For Change” [Green Oasis]
Satire writing workshop with Joan Reinmuth.
Just Married or Just Married; now Barbie says “I want a divorce.”
Tell jokes like Joan does, with the pleasure of knowing she didn’t lose the file she just moved it.
Canceled—Kids Day After Dark—Check back for schedule.
Sat 9/30, 6 pm. Musical Monsters [Green Oasis]
Fairy Tale Marionettes presents Musical Monsters. This is our Monster / Halloween themed show featuring popular songs and poems spanning the decades.
Sat 9/30, 6:30 pm. Z Fire Flies, Zariah Maya Sapphire [Green Oasis]
Sat 9/30, 7 pm. Charlotte Midnight Radio Show [Green Oasis]
Due to the weather, KIDS DAY Moves to Sunday 10/1, same time, same garden.
El Jardin del Paraiso, E 4th St (between Ave C & Ave D)
See Sun 10/1—Sat 9/30, 12 pm. Razzle Dazzle magic show. [El Jardin]
Tanya Solomon, a magician and clown performing in New York for over a decade.
See Sun 10/1—Sat 9/30, 1 pm. Show Up Kids! [El Jardin]
Making it all up. 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?
See Sun 10/1—Sat 9/30, 2 pm. Son Pecadores music and dance. [El Jardin]
See Sun 10/1—Sat 9/30, 3 pm. Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater. [El Jardin]
The irreverent storyteller Vít Hořejš re-tells classic Czech and Slovak fairy tales. Co-starring guest-musicians from across the globe.
Kids Day continues After Dark at Green Oasis Community Garden, above.
DeColores Community Yard and Cultural Garden, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & Ave C)
Sat 9/30, 12–7 pm. The Jack Hardy Circle [DeColores]
SongWriters Workshop. Jack Hardy was a lyrical singer-songwriter and playwright based in Greenwich Village, who was influential in the folk music scenes for decades. In songwriter circles, Hardy was as well-known as a teacher and mentor as he was as an artist. Come and hear this current crop of singer-songwriters.
Due to the weather, El Sol Brillante’s garden benefit moves to Sunday 10/1, same time.
El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St (between Ave A & Ave B)
See Sun 10/1—Sat 9/30, 12–7 pm. El Sol Brillante garden party benefit. [El Sol Brillante]
Live music, food, refreshments, and fun.
Canceled (May be rescheduled to Sat 10/7—TBD)
Carmen Pabon Del Amanecer Garden, 115 Loisaida Ave (Ave C between 7th St & 8t St)
Sat 9/30, 1–3 pm. Kellie Pryor-Knot & Crochet Workshop [Carmen Pabon]
Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St (at Norfolk St)
Jazz produced by Arts for Art
Sat 9/30, 2 pm. Hans Young Binter Trio [Children’s Magical Garden]
Hans Young Binter – piano
Che Buford – violin
Joshua Mathews – drums
Sat 9/30, 3 pm. Dulberger / Johnson Warriors of Light [Children’s Magical Garden]
Shayna Dulberger – bass
Djassi DaCosta Johnson – movement
Sat 9/30, 4 pm. Aakash Mittal Trio [Children’s Magical Garden]
Aakash Mittal – saxophone
Ivy Fu – electronics
Lesley Mok – drums
Due to the weather, the 11th Street live music event moved to Sun 10/1, same time.
11th Street Community Garden, 422 E 11th St (between 1st Ave & Ave A)
See Sun 10/1—Sat 9/30, 2–6 pm. The 11th Street Community Garden presents live music [11th Street]
Gina Healy, Todd Louis
Ross Daisamont, Jason Green
Coby Petric, Manny Music
Diana Gitesha Hernandez and Marc Capon, Kieran Knightly and more.
Miracle Garden, 194 E 3rd St (west of Ave B)
Sat 9/30, 3 pm. Poetry [Miracle Garden]
Mame-Loschen or “Mother Tongue” is a monthly reading series inspired by the Yiddish poets living on the Lower East Side in the early 20th Century, each session welcomes readers to present works by other authors that speak to their personal canon as well as new original works.
Campos Community Garden, 644 E 12th St (between Ave B & Ave C)
Sat 9/30, 4 pm. Music – TAPi TAPi. [Campos]
TAPi TAPi is the lean, mean offspring of the Afrodelic trance-dance band Timbila.
Sat 9/30, 5 pm. Roisin McKeown Band. [Campos]
Róisín McKeown is a New York-Irish singer-songwriter, whose influences stem from jazz, blues, soul and folk.
Having grown up between New York’s Lower East Side and Dublin, Ireland, Róisín takes inspiration and cues from both cities, while developing her own sound along with her global community of friends and collaborators.
9th St & Ave C: La Plaza (southwest corner) and 9th Street Community Garden (northeast corner)
Catty Corners ART
Sat 9/30, 12–5 pm. Painting [Outside La Plaza & 9th Street Community Garden]
Live painting along the garden fences.
Bring your own paint and brushes, we supply the canvas.
Artists exhibit their work with Eric Yung, Chun Park, Savanna Fortgang, Eileen Doster and more.
Siempre Verde Garden, 181 Stanton St (between Clinton St & Attorney St)
Time: TBD. Aaron Diskin & Jeremy Brown play Jewish music and more. [Siempre Verde]
La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)
Sat 9/30, 2–5 pm. Green Guerillas 50th Anniversary Celebration [La Plaza]
Celebrate 50 years of creating, preserving, and protecting community gardens.
FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT PARTY
MUSIC
Sat 9/30, 5:30 6:00 pm. Avon Faire [La Plaza]
Lively & moving “Fairy Baroque Folk” ~ weaving harmonies thru delightful Celtic & English songs.
Sat 9/30, 6:30 7:00 pm. DASO [La Plaza]
Singer, Songwriter, Youth Development & Community Organizer. David Soto aka Daso has dedicated several decades to music and the activism through art movement. From his first show with Cultural Music Bomba Y Plena Group Cemi at age 8 to Live performances with his own Afro Latin Caribbean Soul band at Music Venues throughout NYC and beyond. A few of his accomplishments include: Music Artist As Daso El Afro Caribeño, Founder of the PIRAGUA clothing brand, Owner of the PIRAGUA ART SPACE, Founder of the yearly multicultural New Village Music Festival, Founder of the record label DeKora Digital, Founder of the New Village Foundation connecting artists to community and youth development.
Sat 9/30, 7:30 8:00 pm. Chupacabras. [La Plaza]
Chupacabras serve as the guide to bring both young and old on a celestial journey of chaos and transformation, restoring balance to the galaxy. But as new cosmic turbulences arise, this band of brothers continues to travel through time and space, inspiring audiences to move, love, and live like never before.
Le Petit Versailles Garden, 247 E 2nd St (west of Ave C)
Sat 9/30, 7:30 pm. ¡Sólo una noche! One night only! [Le Petit Versailles]
An evening of film and flamenco, Noe Kidder & Flamenco Rosado.
LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival
CANCELED BY THE WEATHER!!
PArty on SaTurDay Sept 30
at La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)
Fri 9/29, 6:30 pm.Moved to Sat 10/7 Campos 5 pm. Trio Daphne [La Plaza Campos]
With Rie Yamaguchi-Borden (b) Steve Nelson (g) and Reid Taylor (b) will visit sentimental jazz standards for intimate Autumn Serenade with some uplifting swing numbers in the beautiful La Plaza Community Garden.
Fri 9/29, 7:30 pm.Moved to Sun 10/1 Green Oasis 8 pm. KID JAVA [La Plaza 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. KID JAVA has shared bills with such blues greats as Albert King, Otis Rush, Pinetop Perkins, and Johnny Copeland.
Siempre Verde Garden, 181 Stanton St (between Clinton St & Attorney St)
The SuKKOT! Will go up — sit under the sky until October 15. [Siempre Verde]
Climate and schedule subject to change
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At La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden,
9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)
Siempre Verde Garden, 181 Stanton St (between Clinton St & Attorney St)
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THE 12TH ANNUAL LUNGS HARVEST ATS FESTIVAL 2023 starts with an Opening Night Party, Friday, September 29, 6:30 pm and runs through Sunday, October 8, 2023.
OPENING NIGHT PARTY CANCELLED AND MOVED TO SATURDAY NIGHT (9/30) at La Plaza.
Community gardens throughout the Lower East Side and East Village will be participating.
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10–11 am Free and Open to all.
Elizabeth Street Garden, between Spring St & Prince St.
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.
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.
1–3 pm
Down to Earth Garden, 546 E 12th St, corner of Ave B.
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.
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.
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.”
2:30–5 pm
DeColores Community Yard and Cultural Garden, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & C).
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.
4 pm
La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner).
5–8 pm
Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & D).
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.
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