At La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden 9th Street & Ave C (southwest corner), East Village [map below] laplazacultural.com
PUMPKIN SMASH 2022
Sunday, November 6, 2022, 12 pm – 3 pm [rain or shine]
“Join LES Ecology Center at La Plaza Cultural for Pumpkin Smash 2022 on Sunday, November 6th. Bring your pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns, and gourds for a smashing good time!”
At La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden 9th Street & Ave C (southwest corner), East Village [map below] laplazacultural.com
Free Medicinal Herb Class
Sunday, October 30, 2022, 12–1:30 pm
As per our recent conversations in the garden ancient cultures and plant wisdom, we’re going to do something a little different on Sunday. We will send ourselves on a Plant Journey, where we pick a plant to meditate near and ask for it to speak with us. I think this will be a nice departure from the academic approach we usually take, and also the time of year is right! The veil is very thin during Samhain! That said, this will not be a pagan ritual, but more of an exploration of the energy plants can give to us as green beings.
11:30 am – 7 pm. Songwriters Workshop at DeColores Community Yard, 311 E. 8th St. (between Ave B & C).
12–6:30 pm. 11th Annual Jack Hardy Festival
12–3 pm. Birding at M’Finda Kalunga, 179 Chrystie St & Rivington St.
12–5 pm. “I don’t wanna work, wanna paint on the fence all day” CALLING ALL ARTISTS for Saturdays Oct 8 & 15.
Exhibit your work at La Plaza Cultural, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner), Live Painting, on canvas on garden fence, and see works by Eileen Doster, Everton Tsosie, Maria Negulescu, Michael Meade, Joel Handorff, Andrew Hockenberry, Lee Ruelle, Orange, and more.
At 9C Garden, Ave C & 9th St, visit the Dioramas by J. Kathleen White.
7 pm. Hispanic Heritage Month Film Festival at DeColores Community Yard, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & C), featuring “Mujeres en Movimiento (Women in Movement).”
Rescheduled to 3 pm Saturday, October 15.7 pm.Story Telling at DeColores Community Yard, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & C) “Tell Tell Garden” presented by Kate Gorland.
Rescheduled to 7 pm Friday, October 14.7 pm. Films at 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.
Rachel Amedeo’s Lower East Side classic “What About Me?”
12–5 pm. “I don’t wanna work, wanna paint on the fence all day” CALLING ALL ARTISTS for Saturdays Oct 8 & 15, at La Plaza Cultural, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner).
12–5 pm. HONKNYC at La Plaza Cultural, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner)and all over.
12–5 pm. Seed Giveaway and
2pm Pressed Flower Workshop at LaGuardia Corner Gardens, 511 LaGuardia Place & Bleecker.
12–7 pm. Kids Garden Day! at Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & D).
1–3 pm. Indigo Workshop for Children.
1–5 pm. Toy Making Workshop.
1–3 pm. Treasure Hunt by Margarita.
2 pm. Show Up Kids!
3–4 pm. Singalong with Susie.
6 pm. Midnight Radio Show.
2 pm. COMPOST CONFERENCE—Bring Back Our Brown Bins!! at El Jardin del Paraiso, E 4th St (between Ave C & D).
2 pm. Music and a Model at 6BC Botanical Garden, 630 E 6th St (between Ave B & C) Trudy Silver on the Piano and a live model for your drawing pleasure.
2–6 pm. Music on 11th St.11th St Community Garden, 422 E 11th St (between 1st Ave & Ave A).
3 pm. Story Telling at DeColores Community Yard, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & C) “Tell Tell Garden” presented by Kate Gorland.
3:30–5 pm. Remembrance and Protection for Urban Forests at El Jardin del Paraiso, E 4th St (between Ave C & D).
5–10 pm. Music Extraordinaire at Campos Community Garden, 644 E 12th St (between Ave B & C).
5 pm. HONKNYC presents New Orleans.
6 pm. TIMBILA, AFRODELIC 4 PIECE with Nora Balaban.
GALINSKY, Campos gardener & actor, presents his version of the Ginsberg classic poem HOWL!!!!
7 pm. Afro Cuban Jazz from Ray Santiago.
7:30–10 pm. Music Under the Stars with Joff Wilson at 6&B Garden, Ave B & 6th St.
THE 11TH ANNUAL LUNGS HARVEST ATS FESTIVAL IS COMING TO A GARDEN NEAR YOU. The Festival begins Friday, October 7, 6 pm and runs through Sunday, October 16, 2022. Community gardens throughout the Lower East Side and East Village will be participating.
The GreenSpace & Urban Policy panel discussion was co-hosted by LUNGS with the Art Loisaida Foundation on May 22, 2022, Sunday 1-3 pm, at the 6th & B Garden (southwest corner of Ave B and 6th St in the East Village/Lower East Side of NYC).
12pm SHOW UP, KIDS! Written by Peter Michael Marino & The Kids Directed By Michole Biancosino & The Kids This fresh twist on the traditional kids’ show blasts off into unknown comedy zones when Pete enlists the Audience to help write, design, and Direct it. What could possibly go wrong?
June 11: Performance in Spangish by Denisse Estefany Mendoza
1pm TALES WITH STRINGS, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre Czech and Slovak Tales with antique marionettes, performed by Master Puppeteer, Vit Horejs
2pm & 5pm COFFEE WITH MY TATA Written and directed by RIKI COLON Performed by Saarah Medrano (as Tata) and Joseph Johnson Afthonidis (as Ricardo.) This is the story of Tata, a shy mother of six, living in Spanish Harlem. She had a secret festering in her soul that she was ready to share with Ricardo, her grandson who had an energetic seeking spirit.
3pm & 6pm THE GORGON APPROACHES Written and directed by JUSTIN ELIZABETH SAYRE Performed by Peter Donnelly and Judy Darling A comedic dialogue about growing up, growing wise, and perhaps growing kind.
4pm BY YOUR SIDE Written and Directed by CHARLY WENZEL Performers: Kevin Hobaichan, Fernando Rockenbach, Nancy Yao, Nya Yeanafehn An elderly Chinese woman on the Lower East Side of New York City is immersed in an imaginary birthday party for her late husband. She is yanked back into reality by the frantic knock on her apartment door. 7pm POST TENEBRAS SPERO LUCEM (After the darkness I hope for the light) Written and directed by ROMAN PRIMITIVO ALBEAR
Performers: Computer – MacBookPro
Mistress – Charly Wenzel
Servant – Andrew Chapman
A mixed media play featuring a dystopian New York with AI as the oligarchy state controlling everything and a tribe of survivors trying to get off the planet.
Sundays, June 5 & 12, 2-7pm
Green Oasis Garden, 370 E.8th St, btw Ave C & D, NYC
2pm & 5pm SHOW UP, KIDS! Written by Peter Michael Marino & The Kids Directed By Michole Biancosino & The Kids This fresh twist on the traditional kids’ show blasts off into unknown comedy zones when Pete enlists the Audience to help write, design, and Direct it. What could possibly go wrong?
June 5: Performance in English by Peter Michael Marino.
June 12: Performance in Spangish by Denisse Estefany Mendoza
3pm & 6pm TALES WITH STRINGS, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre Czech and Slovak Tales with antique marionettes, performed by Master Puppeteer, Vit Horejs
4pm & 7pm INKTOMI
by Charles Krezell, Directed by Susan McKeown
Performed by Stephen Carlsen, Ryan Opalaniete Pierce and Shabbi Sharifi
Inktomi is the trickster spirit of the Lakota people with the ability to change shape or gender at will. He is a mischief maker who delights in leading others astray and he’s coming. for you.
This is A FREE Arts Event. In 1956, Joe Papp began the outdoor theater tradition on the Lower East Side when he introduced “Shakespeare in the Park” in East River Park Amphitheater. From the 1950’s to the present, the Park was the site of frequent free Evening-in-the-Park concerts and plays.
One of the last performances was in 2021, Jody Oberfelder Projects immersive dance and music event called “Amphitheater”.
In June 2022, LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) will continue to honor the tradition with the FREE LUNGS Summer Theater Festival, at East Village community gardens.
The theme of the 2022 Festival will be Mother Earth/Nature. Everyone is welcome! We are hoping audiences to enjoy a great experience Free Theater in our community gardens!
The LUNGS SUMMER Theater Festival will present 6 thirty-minute plays performed in two community gardens.
Three plays will be performed on Saturdays, June 4 & 11 at 6B Garden, corner of Ave B & 6th St. And three other plays will be presented on Sundays, June 5 & 12 at Green Oasis Garden, 370 E.8th St.
Each set of three plays will be performed twice on Saturday, June 4 and another set of three plays will be performed twice on Sunday, June 5. Each program will be repeated the following weekend, Saturday, June 11 and Sunday, June 12.
Festival Schedule:
SATURDAY Programs: in 6B Garden, Ave B & 6th St begins at 2pm with a play presented every hour on the hour, with the final performance at 7pm Saturday June 4 2-4pm and again Saturday, June 11.
SUNDAY Programs: in Green Oasis Garden, E.8th St, btw Ave C & D begins at 2pm with a play presented every hour on the hour, with the final performance at 7pm and again Sunday June 12.
This inaugural LUNGS SUMMER Theater Festival is curated by Penny Arcade, Erez Ziv, Riki Colon, Roman Primitivo Albear, Bonnie Sue Stein and Charles Krezell.
Please join us and support free theater in the community gardens. Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens Inc is a registered non-profit 501 (c) (3) so your contribution is tax deductible and will have an impact. Every little bit helps. Thank you for your support.