Sunday October 16, 2022

Tai Chi

10–11 am Free and Open to all.

Elizabeth Street Garden, between Spring St & Prince St.


Botanical Mini Pumpkin Decoration Workshop with Local Artist Kuki Go

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.


Seed Giveaway

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.


Bokashi Composting Workshop with Shig Matsukawa

1–3 pm

Down to Earth Garden, 546 E 12th St, corner of Ave B.

Down to Earth Garden

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.


Miraculous Music

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. 


Chopin in the Garden

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.”


Music Akimbo

2:30–5 pm

DeColores Community Yard and Cultural Garden, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & C).

  1. 2:30 pm. AVON FAIRE

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.

  1. 3:30 pm. Roisin McKeown 
  1. 4:30–5:30 pm. Hed Peddlers

Theresa Byrnes Performance Art

4 pm

La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner).


FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT

5–8 pm

Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & D).

  1. 5 pm. Batala

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. 

  1. 6 pm. SOURCE

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


Friday October 14, 2022

Jewelry Workshop with Anna Pasztor

3–6 pm

Carmen’s Garden, 117 Ave C (between 7th & 8th Streets).

Materials provided.


Bleu y Blues MUSIC

6:30 – 9 pm

Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & D).

6:30 pm. Graffiti Child Project “Improvised Electronic Beat Music”

7:30 pm. MATHIEU EVEILLARD, a French singer songwriter from Brittany. He has released 5 albums under his own name since his move to NYC in 2015, all available on the digital platforms. Before that, he was the founding member of KOWALSKI, a French folk rock quartet. His lyrical songs are written in French and in English. He will perform a selection of songs from all his albums, between dogs and wolves. 

Mathieu Eveillard

PETE MARGOLIS, New York City guitarist, mandolin and banjo player, playing many genres of music from jazz to bluegrass and world music.

Pete Margolis

Dance & Films

Campos Community Garden, 644 E 12th St (between Ave B & C). 

6–7 pm

MAGICAL DUET

Gina Bonati, actor/dancer, performs with Christopher Lee Hodel, bassist.


7 pm (Rescheduled from Thursday, October 13).

FILMS

Four short videos from Campos Garden & Cuala Foundation’s 2020 “Samhain” (SOW-en) event exploring the dark feminine roots of Halloween and other indigenous LES cultures (Native, Taino, Arawak, Afghan, Thai etc.).
Videographer: James Higgins.
Editors: Jacob Swartz and Jacob Weisblatt. 

Also, a rare opportunity to see Rachel Amodeo’s Lower East Side classic “What About Me?” about a young woman who becomes homeless on the streets of Manhattan. (1993 B/W 1 hour 27 min)


Music & Comedy

DeColores Community Yard and Cultural Garden, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & C).

7 pm. V/C — Victor & Carmine


8 pm. Comedy Stand-up, “10009 Zip Comedy”

Presented by Joan Reinmuth

“I studied comedy on the streets where comedy lives.

‘I teach Satire classes “because that’s how you learn you’re smarter than you were told”.

“I believe I understand this economy, who benefits and who pays. I predict: we will return to a time when we had webbed feet and hugged each other.


Sunday October 9, 2022

Events at the Elizabeth Street Garden

Tai Chi

10–11 am Free and Open to all.

Elizabeth Street Garden, between Spring St & Prince St.


A Letter-Writing Event

12–3 pm.

Writing letters to loved ones. All letters submitted to the box will be stamped and mailed. A project by Xiaoyin Xie, supported by the What Can We Do? micro-grant from A4.


5:30 – 7 pm.

Think!Chinatown Garden Concert

Join us for a magical evening filled with opera and strings at Elizabeth Street Garden. MeeMee Chin 陳美美 will perform a selection of Cantonese opera arias accompanied by friends from the Mencius Society for the Arts.

Artist bios:

MeeMee Chin 陳美美 began her Cantonese Opera journey in 2004 as a way to support the oldest Opera Club in Chinatown, Manchee Benevolent Association. At first it was something for her to fill her Saturdays but it soon became a deep passion as she found her voice.

Sam Chan 陳偉正 is a Toishan Chinese multi-instrumentalist. Sam has practiced Cantonese opera music over 20 years, studying with Guangxi folk musician Lin Chetao 林湛濤 and Guangdong Music Conservatory master Chen Qizhan 陳其湛.

Julie Tay 鄭杏兒 began studying Cantonese opera in 1990, formally in the sheng role under grandmaster Luo Bincao 羅品超. She studied yangqin with Foshan folk master Zhaopuqin 趙樸欽 and as of 2001 pursued advanced practice with virtuoso (Mencius co-founder) Xiao Xiannian 蕭先念.

Mei Chaoming 梅超明 was first drawn to the sound of traditional music as a child watching the wedding & funeral processions; he taught himself the saxophone initially as an escape from tedious farm chores. Mei has been playing professionally in New York City for about 15 years.

INTERWOVEN is an intercultural ensemble which celebrates and integrates traditional Asian music and Western classical music through performing, commissioning, and recording contemporary works. Exploring the time-honored soundscapes of Asia and Europe, INTERWOVEN weaves together musical and artistic threads that represent diverse origins, traditions, and materials to create something holistic. By intertwining unique Asian perspectives and aesthetics into its artistic and organizational work, INTERWOVEN encourages union between various American communities through the Asian culture’s emphasis on organic inclusion and harmony; a principle that is needed in this time of division.


Seed Giveaway

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.


International Food Day

Campos Community Garden, 644 E 12th St (between Ave B & C).

  1. Noon – 5 pm. Come get a taste of the world.
  1. 5 pm. OPERA: “Songs of Love”

dell’Arte Opera Ensemble presents ‘Songs of Love’….
4 singers perform classic repertoire with keyboard accompaniment.


Bokashi Composting Workshop with Shig Matsukawa

1–3 pm

Down to Earth Garden, 546 E 12th St, corner of Ave B.

Down to Earth Garden

Discover the basics of the bokashi method of fermenting all food waste, and make the bokashi fermentation starter (the bokashi sprinkle and the bokashi spray). See how we use fermented food waste to amend soil or to produce compost.


Arts for Art presents Jazz

1–5 pm

First Street Green Art Park, 33 E 1st St.

  1. 12 pm. MiM Music Workshop for Young Musicians w/Instruments. 

    Led by William Parker​​
     
  2. 1:30 pm. Lee Mixashawn Rozie 

    Lee Mixashawn Rozie—reeds, flute
     
  3. 2:30 pm. Chen / Carter / Williams

    Che Chen—percussion, homemade instruments / Daniel Carter—reeds, flute, trumpet / Chris Williams—trumpet
     
  4. 3:30 pm. Sokolov-Gonzalez / Rosenbloom

    Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez—voice / Mara Rosenbloom—keyboard
     
  5. 4 pm. Jason Kao Hwang

Music with Pinc Louds

2 pm

at La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden, 9th St & Ave C (southwest corner).

“NYC’s best imaginary band” — The Village Voice


Poetry “No Time Limit”

3 pm

DeColores Community Yard and Cultural Garden, 311 E 8th St (between Ave B & C).

“No Time Limit” with Lydia Cortez, Emmy Hunter, Jim Fletcher, Mike Topp, Jeffrey C. Wright, Alexandra Tatarsky, David Sofaer hosted by Sparrow.


Events and JAZZ at Green Oasis

3–9 pm

Green Oasis Community Garden, 370 E 8th St (between Ave C & D).

  1. 3 pm. Pop Up Fashion Show, Tea party 
    Featuring clothing from City Kids & Gemo Gemo.
    Medical herbal tea sponsored by “A Farm For All.”
  1. 4:30 pm. ELLIOTT SHARP

FOURTH BLOOD MOON: ERIC MINGUS & ELLIOTT SHARP 

Longtime collaborators, Mingus and Sharp have worked together for decades in a dizzying variety of musical situations culminating in their distinctive duo project Fourth Blood Moon in which they create a mashup of poetics, electronica, blues, opera, improvisation, funk, and the cosmic. They will be performing songs from their latest album on zOaR, Songs From A Rogue State with Mingus on vocals and E# on guitar and laptop. 

  1. 5:30 pm. Tyler Bullock Trio

Tyler Bullock II is a New York-based jazz pianist, composer, and arranger making his way into the city’s musical landscape while studying at the Juilliard School.

Through its unamplified 88 keys, Tyler sees endless possibilities for freedom and the potential to form a connection with his audiences. In his playing, listeners will hear his unique voice that is rooted in the language of the jazz masters, as well as, bridge to the future.

  1. 6:30 pm. MamaJama

With Rie Yamaguchi-Borden, vocals, Steve Nelson, guitar and Neal Caine, bass.

  1. 8 pm. Faith

Faith has formed a musical style, “Unlike virtually any other sound out there” (J. Lien — CMJ).
“If Nina Simone had a power trio with a rock/soul and reggae flair, it would sound something like this” (Doug DeFalco, Talent Buyer, Southpaw).
Felice Rosser “Sings in a voice both plangent and wailing” (New York Times).
With sweet and powerful guitars from Nao Hakamada and funky polyrhythms from drummer Paddy Boom (x-Scissor Sisters), Faith has developed an immensely colorful sound.
“… tunes that are not rock, not funk, not r&b, so much as deeply soulful tone poems back by multiculti dream pop” (Village Voice).