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 musician

EL SOL BRILLANTE JR.

Mary Sheridan will lead:
Cyanotype and Numeric Sun Prints Workshop 
11:30-2:00pm Saturday September 19
 

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

Children’s Magical Garden

Arts for Art presents:

• 2pm — Kang / Summers / Nakadegawa-Lee
• 3pm — Eichenberger Trio
• 4pm — Cabrini
• 4:30pm — Nadien / Salamone

Francisco “Pancho” Ramos Community Garden

This event is POSTPONED UNTIL SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27–RAIN DELAY

• 1pm — Quique’s Old School Salsa Band

11BC Serenity Garden

• 3pm — Mary Edwards & Michael Eaton. Composer, songwriter and environmental sound artist whose work treats sound as architectural, emotional and spatial.
• 4pm — Red Microphone with Ellen Christi and John Pietaro
• 5pm — Composers Concordance presents the Dennis Brandner & Gene Pritsker Duo
• 6pm — Michael Eaton / Dan Wick Duo. Jazz and free improvisation.

Elizabeth Street Garden

• 10:30–11:30am — Tai chi with Tai Chi Solutions
• 5pm — Poetry with McNally Jackson Bookstore

La Plaza Cultural

• 4–6pm — Music from Lucky’s. Jeannie Skelly and Eve Blackwater of The Brokeneck Girls, plus Simeon Rose and Michael O’Neill as The Dustman’s Sons.

Miracle Garden

• 2pm — Baby Soda
• 4pm — Mitchell Cheng

6BC Botanical Garden

• 4pm — Beyond Flute. Acoustic, free jazz, experimental group, mostly flutes.

Siempre Verde Garden

• 10am–12pm — Celebrating the harvest with sukkah decorating for children, hosted by Stanton Street Shul

Sam & Sadie Koenig Garden

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

Green Oasis

• 6:30pm — The Garden Variety Show with Rocco George, Cordero Wilson, Joan Reinmuth, and the Head Peddlers with Santo

Le Petit Versailles

• 8pm — Films by MM Serra, Peter Cramer, Jack Waters and Jim Hubbard

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

Equinox Celebration

Join us in celebration of the shifting seasons! On Tuesday, September 22, we’ll be gathering in the Garden for the Autumn Equinox. Special musical performance byLaraaji Seasonal tea from The Alchemists Kitchen Face painting by ESG Volunteers  6 – 8 pm, free & open to all!

Elizabeth Street Garden

We’re co-hosting a salsa block party with our neighbors Peasant, Lovely Day, Caffe Paradiso, Brain Dead, & Dante Elizabeth 

Thursday, Sept 24
6:30 pm – Salsa lesson
7-9:30 pm – Open dance 
Featuring live music by Lulada Club
Dj set by UnAbrazo
Salsa class by Osva Velarde

Join us on Elizabeth between Prince & Spring St. 
Free & open to all!

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

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

El Sol Brillante Garden

• 6:00pm — Community garden comedy show

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.

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. Participants need to pre-register online at the link below:
• Register here! HERE

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.

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.

La Plaza Cultural

• 12–7pm — Anarchist Book Fair

El Sol Brillante Garden

• 3–4:30pm — Climate Innovation and Community Garden Tours: Sustainability in Community Gardens with architect Magali Regis

11BC Serenity Garden

• 3pm — Sylvain Leroux’s Qromatica Trio. Sylvain Leroux on qromatica, Fula flute, flute and alto sax; Hilliard Greene on contrabass; Dan Kurfirst on drums and percussion.
• 4pm — Thick Zipper
• 5pm — Don’t Look Nows
• 6pm — Maiden Lane All Stars

Campos Community Garden

Green Oasis

• 1pm — Dania Bressler, classical violin
• 2pm—Maksym Loz, original music and Ukrainian music calling for unity,
• 3pm — Carmine D’Intino, the Happy Rocker
• 4pm — Matthieu Eveillard, French ballads
• 5pm — Susan McKeown, renowned Irish songbird
• 6pm — Maputi
• 7pm — 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.
• 8pm — Rutherford Jones & the BQE

6B Garden

• 2–5pm — Fahrenheit Open Mic with Linda Kleinbub. Everyone gets 4 minutes. Musicians, storytellers, poets, comics and writers all welcome.
• 7–10pm — Sounds in the Garden with Peter Louriero

First Street Green Cultural Park

Arts for Art presents free jazz, 2–5pm:

• 2pm — Choi / Connor
• 3pm — SSAJ / Dglio
• 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), Ben Sherman (saxophone), Eric McPherson (drums)

Francisco “Pancho” Ramos Community Garden

1pm — Quique’s Old School Salsa Band

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 — Nixiwei Poetry
• 4pm — Sparrow and The Truffles
• 5pm — Kid Java, classic blues
• 6pm — Faith NYC, Felice Rossner’s blue soul
• 7pm — Ray Santiago, Afro-Cuban jazz

La Plaza Cultural

NATURAL PAINT WORKSHOP

Climate Week – LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival 

@ La Plaza Cultural Garden (9th St. Ave C SW Corner) 

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 1-3pm

REGISTER – (Tickets -Free) Eventbrite

Click here

SIGN UP to volunteer and assist with the workshop from 12pm.

Contact: https://earthcelebrations.com/contact-us/

El Sol Brillante Garden

• 3–4:30pm — Climate Innovation and Community Garden Tours: LES Power, Gardens and Energy with Wendy Brawer of Green Map System

First Street Community Garden

• 2:00-3:30pm Art in the Gardens (rock painting and botanical monotypes), all ages, all supplies provided free
• 2:30-4:00pm Renaissance Street Singers

First Street Green Cultural Park

Arts for Art presents free jazz, 2–5pm:

• 2pm — Andrea Wolper and Friends
• 3pm — Christi / Nicholson / Thompson
• 4pm — Colon / Easter

Elizabeth Street Garden

Live Music Sunday

Our last live music performance of the season! Sunday, Sept 27 at 5 pm