6B Garden — Annual HarvestFest

• 2pm — Sixth Street & Avenue B Community Garden’s annual HarvestFest. A day of music, BBQ and friendship, with raffle prizes and The BioBus mobile science lab. Grab a bag of compost to take home from the LESEC. Rain date: Sunday, October 4.

El Sol Brillante Garden

• 3–4:30pm — Climate Innovation & Community Garden Tours: Sustainability in Community Gardens with Magali Regis, architect. Tour starts at El Sol Brillante Garden, 522 East 12th Street. A mile-long walking tour; heavy rain cancels. Please RSVP.

Note: 11BC Serenity Garden and Creative Little Garden have both cancelled their rescheduled programming for this weekend.

Green Oasis

• 12–2pm — Renegade Brunch. Torch songs with laundry, bagels and coffee, featuring Elizabeth Soychak, Mary Foster Conklin, Beat Kaestli, John DiPinto, Barefoot Roger and Mick Hilgers.
• 2pm — Hellhounds, Hill Country blues with John King and Mark Howell
• 3pm — Matthieu Eveillard, French ballads
• 4pm — Susan McKeown and Kyle Sanna
• 5pm — Sparrow and The Truffles
• 6pm — Villa Delirium. Five-piece ensemble with an ethereal sound inspired by eerie traditional folk songs, with Tine Kindermann, John Kruth, Kenny Margolis, Steve Bear and Premik Russell Tubbs.
• 7pm — Rutherford Jones & the BQE
• 8pm — Ray Santiago, Afro-Cuban jazz

El Jardin del Paraiso — Kids Day

• 1pm — Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre
• 2pm — Coach Rocco George
• 3pm — Sayma Karim, Bengali puppets
• 4pm — Son Pecadores, music and dance
• 5pm — The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity. A staged reading of an adapted 10th-century Sufi play, a multicultural fable in which eloquent members of the animal kingdom complain of their treatment at the hands of humankind.

Francisco “Pancho” Ramos Community Garden

• 1–3pm — Los Fascinantes. 703 East 9th Street at Avenue C.

La Plaza Cultural

• 3–4pm — Mudbird 3: birth, death, renewal, mother and son. Performance by Theresa and Sparrow Byrnes with Leia Martin and Susan Hwang. East 9th Street at Avenue C.

Miracle Garden

• 1–3pm — Baby Soda
• 3:30pm — Mitchell Cheng

Sam & Sadie Koenig Garden

• 3–5pm — Ethan Silverman Trio. Ethan Silverman on sax, Mike Camacho on drums, Nick Panoutsos on bass.

First Street Community Garden

• 2:30pm — The Renaissance Street Singers

El Sol Brillante Garden

• 3–4:30pm — Climate Innovation & Community Garden Tours: LES Power, Gardens and Energy with Wendy Brawer, Green Map System. Tour starts at El Sol Brillante Garden, 522 East 12th Street. A mile-long walking tour; heavy rain cancels. Please RSVP.

La Plaza Cultural

• 6pm — Opening night with The Pressure Point Brass Band
• 8–10pm — Isabel Estrada Jamison and friends present Afro-Cuban folklore and Rumba de Corazón

DeColores Community Yard

• Noon–6pm — Jack Hardy Exchange Songwriters Circle

Carmen Pabon Garden

• 4–6pm — Paint, Draw, Sketch the Garden with Carolyn and Inis. Materials provided.
• 6–7pm — Kiki and the Fellows, Latin sounds of Loisaida

Children’s Magical Garden

Arts for Art presents:

• 2pm — Caleb Smith / Kickofel / Rogers
• 3pm — Joe Morris Trio
• 4pm — Open drum and dance circle

Creative Little Garden

• 2–4pm — Music Under The Willow: Close Up in the Garden. An intimate afternoon of live performances by New York City’s finest musicians. Jazz trio: Solomon Gottfried (bass), Emmanuel Michael (guitar), Adam Arruda (drums).

11BC Serenity Garden

• 3pm — Rocco John & Ras Burnett. Soprano, alto, tenor, flute and bells.
• 4pm — Eaton, Nahtal, Hertlein. An electroacoustic trio of saxophones, voice and electronics.
• 5pm — Ben Stapp, a singular voice as both tubist and composer
• 6pm — Ras Moshe, saxophonist, composer and educator from a family of jazz musicians

El Sol Brillante Jr.

• 11:30am–2pm — Cyanotype and Numeric Sun Prints Workshop, led by Mary Sheridan

6B Garden

• 3–5pm — Tea ceremony, tastings and community engagement with EunYoung Sebazco
• 7–10pm — Music Under the Stars with Joff Wilson

Le Petit Versailles Garden

• 4–10pm — Exhale Readings: an evening of poetry and performances crafted from acts of creative release like that of a deep & labored breath.

M’Finda Kalunga Garden

Kenkeleba Garden

• 1–5:30pm — Art Offence, multi-media art show

Green Oasis

• 5:30pm — Elliott Sharp
• 6:30pm — Arturo and Flamingo
• 7:30pm — SOURCE

6BC Botanical Garden

• 1–7pm — Art exhibit. Sarah Viviana Valdez brings together three sculptural artists, beginning in the afternoon and unfolding toward sundown with a closing performance.

Siempre Verde Garden

• 2–4pm — Verde Verses open mic. Theme: Gather. Sign up for 8 minutes of poetry.

11th Street Community Garden

• 3pm — Charlie Nieland
• 4pm — Jeannie Skelly
• 5pm — Pircher’s Cove
• 6pm — The Gardeners: Ross Daisomont, Victor Moulinier, Gina Healy

All events scheduled for Sunday, September 20 were postponed due to rain.

La Plaza Cultural

• 7pm — Only the Bad Die Old, a film by Charles Krezell

11BC Serenity Garden

• 6pm — Michael Eaton, solo saxophone with a holistic vision of jazz

La Plaza Cultural

7pm — An evening of film shorts:

• 50 States of Sustainability — the world’s first electric tractors
• Dante Diez Explores the Meaning of a Name
• Home at La Plaza — rebuilding the soil after Sandy
• La Plaza Needs You — the making of the Electric Pavilion
• 50 States of Sustainability: Soul of the Soil
• Grandmere — a short squirrel comedy
• The Making of the Green Roof, La Plaza Cultural Solar Pavilion

Elizabeth Street Garden

• 6–8pm — Autumn Equinox Celebration. Special musical performance by Laraaji, seasonal tea from The Alchemist’s Kitchen, and face painting by ESG volunteers.

11BC Serenity Garden

• 6pm — Ras Moshe. Brooklyn-born saxophonist, composer and educator who believes in the power of creative music on social change.
• 7pm — Dick Griffin. Master trombonist, playing the style he calls circularphonics, inspired by his mentor Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

El Sol Brillante

• 6:30–8pm — Comedy in the Garden. Laugh with your neighbors!

La Plaza Cultural

• 7pm — Films by Jason Hammonds: The Serpent (7 min) and Richard Freeman’s Natural Universe (60 min)

DeColores Community Yard

• 6:30pm — Concert and community jam with The Head Peddlers & Santo

11BC Serenity Garden

• 6pm — Musique Libre Femmes. Women improvisers who compose and create spontaneous music in the moment, with Cheryl Pyle, Ayumi Ishito and Mary Cherney.
• 7pm — Maputi. Reinventing the deep African musical traditions of Shona mbira with a New York edge.

Elizabeth Street Garden

A salsa block party co-hosted with Peasant, Lovely Day, Caffe Paradiso, Brain Dead, & Dante Elizabeth.

• 6:30pm — Salsa lessons
• 7–9:30pm — Open dance, featuring live music by Lulada Club, a DJ set by UnAbrazo, and salsa classes by Osva Velarde

Francisco “Pancho” Ramos Community Garden

• 7pm — Short films by Laurie Olinder, George Hirose, Evie McKenna, Bill Morrison, Emmett Padgett, Beck Underwood and Nadia Roden

El Jardin del Paraiso

• 3–7:30pm — GreenThumb presents Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass. Talk and demonstration.

La Plaza Cultural

• 5pm — Pinc Louds, our local legends
• 6pm — Rossi and Reed. Avant-garde collaboration between multi-instrumentalists Anni Rossi and Bradford Reed.
• 7pm — Betty. The award-winning indie trio of Alyson Palmer, Elizabeth Ziff and Amy Ziff.

Carmen Pabon Garden

• 4–6pm — Cell phone photography with Inis and Kellie

Firemen’s Memorial Garden

• 7pm — Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother (1999)

11BC Serenity Garden

• 6pm — Ben Stapp, tubist and composer, with Jason Nazary on drums
• 7pm — Ka’a Davis and Eulas Pizarro, “Aura Glow Vibes.” Ambient sonic duo of keyboard synth wizard Eulas Pizarro and Afro Future guitarist Ka’a Davis.

Campos Community Garden

• 7pm — Could You Patent the Sun? A staged reading of a one-person show inspired by the story of Jonas Salk, written and performed by Robert Galinsky.

All events scheduled for Saturday, September 26 were cancelled. Many have been rescheduled to Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4.

All events scheduled for Sunday, September 27 were cancelled. Many have been rescheduled to Sunday, October 4.