Today’s Schedule for the LUNGS Harvest Arts Fest Thursday, September 19

Community Garden Rally 10am on the steps of City Hall.

The gardens continueto be under attack. Our strength is in unity; and ourgoal is to promote the robust preservation of New York City’s community gardens. All gardeners, friends ofgardens and residents of Mother Earth are urged tojoin us. Let’s rally together! WE LOVE OUR COMMUNITY GARDENS. Show the world how you feel! 10am City Hall!

Campos Community Garden

640 E12th St (Aves B & C)

7pm • Stand-up Comedy Garden Variety presented by Nick Probst and Ellington Berg, featuring: Brian Bahe, Peter Murray, Veronica Garza, Gus Constantellis and DoRi Dimplez.

Children’s Garden

194 Ave B (12th St)4–7pm • Bokashi composting workshop with E. Shig Matsukawa. We’ll use the bokashi fermented food waste (FFW) by adding to soil (ground and planters).

De Colores Community Yard &Cultural Center

313 E 8th St (Aves B & C) Today’s musical program is dedicated to the memory of Tim Schellenbaum

5:3 0 p m • HOWL ARTS Presents Modern flute music with Jesse Goldberg, piano and Shannon Vandzura, flute.

7pm • HOWL ARTS Presents Elliott Sharp’s Bootstrappers with Dave Hofstra (bass), Don McKenzie(drums).

Dias y Flores

520 E 13th St (Aves A & B)

5–6pm • Mind Guided Meditation session.

6TH & B GARDEN

84 Ave B (6th St)

5:30pm • Garden Pests and Soils Q&A with SamAnderson from Cornell Cooperative Extension.

7pm • Science IN & BEYOND the City, with studentsfrom the Berkov tropical ecology lab at the City College of New York:

LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival Schedule Today, Wednesday, September 18

Wednesday September 18

Carmen Pabon Del Amanecer Jardin

117 Ave C (7th & 8th Sts)

6–7:30pm • Jim Flynn performs “Ambient Harp Music”. Social Justice Singer, Song Writer, sponsored by Art Loisaida Foundation.

Children’s Garden

194 Ave B (12th St)

12–7:30pm • Bokashi composting workshop with E. Shig Matsukawa. We’ll manage our food waste dropoff using different techniques with bokashi.

De Colores Community Yard & Cultural Center

313 E 8th St (Aves B & C)

7pm • Stand-up Comedy with Cordero and Company. Featuring Andre D. Thomson, Zubi Ahmed, Jared Waters, Von Mycheal and Jarrod Fortune.

6TH & B GARDEN

84 Ave B (6th St)

7pm • Ecological City Slideshow Celebrate grassroots climate solutions with Felicia Young’s spectacular slideshow of the 2019 Ecological City: Procession for Climate Solutions.

TBG

616 E9th St (Aves B & C)

7:30–8pm sharp • A performance by Theresa Byrnes, FRESH. Every piece of plastic manufactured on Earth is still with us. Living forever is something we assume, until we learn of death. We want to be remembered. We fear vanishing without a trace. I propose that plastic is a sacred object to be contemplated. We should treat plastic with reverence and not thoughtlessness.

Today’s Harvest Arts Festival Tuesday, September 17

Tuesday September 17

El Jardin del Paraiso

706 E 4th St (Aves C & D)

10:35–11:35am • Kids’ day in El Jardin, painting shingles to go onto the children’s toolshed, putting perennial seed heads into the E. 4th Street tree pits; formal placement of tree-name plaques onto 4th Street tree guards; brief walk and talk thru medicinal/pollinator plot.

Green Oasis

370 E 8th St (Aves C & D)

7:30pm • Movie Night. Hitchcock’s Rear Window.

Miracle Garden

194 E 3rd St (Aves A & B)

7:30–9:30pm • Non-Human Persons. Video projection by Miah Artola. Her drawings, films and animations of a variety of animal and sea life. Visit artoladigital.com

6–7:30pm • Gabriel Royal. Singer/songwriter/cellist beautifully fuses R&B, Jazz, and Classical elements to create an entirely original sound. Check out YouTube, Gabriel Royal.

6TH & B GARDEN

84 Ave B (6th St)

7pm • Marlis Momber film. Marlis Momber’s 1978 documentary about the LES, Viva Loisaida, chronicles what life was like for the director and her fellow immigrants in the mid 1970s.

Today’s LUNGS Harvest Fest Schedule, Monday, September 16

Children’s Garden, 194 Ave B (12th St)4–7pm • Bokashi composting workshop with E. Shig Matsukawa. We’ll make the bokashi fermentation starter.

Siempre Verde, 181 Stanton St (Attorney St)5-7pm • Go Green Map! Curious about creating a GreenMap with your neighborhood, school or group? Come& find out how to use adaptable youth & communityresources to map sustainability, generate climate& support a greener, healthier city! Rain cancels this event

Theater for the New City Gallery,155 First Ave (9th & 10th Sts)6–8:30pm • Mom and Pop Storefront photo workshop.Opening Reception, Capturing the Faces & Voices ofMom-and-Pop Storefronts. Curated by James and KarlaMurray, featuring the work of 26 photographers.

Today’s LUNGS Festival Schedule, Sunday, September 15


Sunday, September 15

Campos Community Garden,640 E 12th St (Aves B & C)

4pm • The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre Czech and Slovak Tales with Strings Vít Hořejš and over a dozen 200-year-old marionettes

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

1:30PM–5PM • Arts for Art presents In Gardens Programs of free jazz, poetry, dance, justice.

1:30pm • Nick Lyons. Nick Lyons—alto sax, Bill Payne — clarinet, Adam Lane —bass, Michael Wimberly—percussion.

2:30pm • Poetry Tributes to Steve Cannon. Nancy Mercado—poetry, Poonam Srivastava—poetry.

3:30pm • Karen Borca Trio Karen Borca—bassoon, Hilliard Greene—bass, Jackson Krall—drums.

4:30pm • We Feel Quartet Luke Stewart, Daniel Carter—horns, woodwinds; No Land—poetry; Miriam Parker—dance.

DeColores, 313 E.8th St. Noon-2pm

Barbaric Yawps and Sea Shanties.  An afternoon of song and improv dance confronting Walt Whitman’s America and the concept of folk.

Dias y Flores,520 E 13th St (Aves A & B)

12–2PM • Acoustic Jam with Victor, Carmine, and Pete

3pm • Kane Balser

Firemen’s Garden,358 E 8th St (Aves C & D)

1-5pm • RALLY PREP! GreenThumb License Teach-in and Poster/Banner Workshop with the New York City Community Garden Coalition to Prep for City Hall Community Garden Rally on Thursday, September 19 Rally at 10am. Gardeners Demand Respect and a Voice in Community Garden Policy!

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East River Park Action Teach-in and Poster/Banner Workshop for March and Rally to SAVE EAST RIVER PARK on Saturday, September 21. This March begins at Noon at Tompkins Square Park. BURY THE PLAN/NOT THE PARK!

Green Oasis,370 E 8th St (Aves C & D)

3pm • Judy’s Troupe. A group of singers and singers/songwriters, trained by vocal coach Judy Hages, will perform their favorite covers as well as their own creations.

4pm Amza & Ayla, Beatbox, 21 Century Kids

5pm • Fiddler and Crossroads. Featuring Blues Hall-of-Fame fiddler, Greg Holt, with accordion player Neil Thomas, and Roger Stoltz on suitcase drums. Cajun/Americana Johnny Cash, Dylan, Elvis and other greats! Very danceable, high energy music!

6pm • Mathieu Eveillard. Breton singer-songwriter Mathieu’s rich and layered arrangements and emotionalvocals resonate on his latest album Petit Sauvage #1offering a wide exploration through a pop musical landscape.

7pm • Faith. Felice captures you with her soulful ballads,with rock/soul and reggae flair, with the raspiness of Nina Simone. Ms. Rosser “Sings in a voice both plangent and wailing” New York Times.

LaPlaza Cultural, Ave C & 9th St.

3-4pm MbiraNYC, African Percussion, Come listen, sing, dance to traditional music from Zimbabwe with MbiraNYC

Le Petite Versailles,274 E 2nd St (Aves B & C)

5–9pm • Museum Without Building. Finissage with Max-Louis Raugel and Aida Rebull. Curated by Sylvie Boulanger (CNEAI) and Nicholas Vargelis (LPV) with an homage to Yona Freidman composed by Max-Louis Raugel (sound) and Aída Rebull (video), taking the form of a study in abstract details and absurd coincidences or majestic events clumsily captured around the world.

Miracle Garden,194 E 3rd St (Aves A & B)

1–3pm • LUNGS CSA. Get your veggies on for only $10 per week. Stop by Miracle Garden any Sunday in September to sign up and pre-pay for the following week. The LUNGS CSA runs from July to November, in a new garden each month.

1–3pm • Baby Soda Jazz Band. New Orleans style, small ensemble improvisation, with a nod to Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Warren & the composers who created the great American songs of Tin Pan Alley. Visit babysoda.org.

Orchard Alley, 354 E.4th St (Aves C & D)

10am • Free yoga class. Bring your own mat! We’ll have water! Instructor, Olivia Snyder-Spak.

2–6pm • Friendly Dominoes Tournament. Open to players of all ages, rating & strengths. Beverages, prizes, great fun!

Sam & Sadie Koenig,237 E 7th St (Aves C & D)

3–5pm • Art Show. Kathy Creutzburg & Anne ‘An Address’ Edris. Two local artists exhibit and discuss their use of material from the East River and everything repurposed throughout a flood zone.

6TH & B GARDEN, 84 Ave B (6th St)

2–4pm • Mexican Cooking Workshop Cook up a seasonal summer dish to celebrate Mexico’s Dia de la Independencia with Garden member Paula and the KIDS COOKING Workshop: Ages 5 & up.

4–5:30pm • KidPop Karaoke ala LES. Join garden kid musicians & chefs for live music/singing fun.