Dias y Flores, E.13th St Btwn Aves A & B Saturday, September 26 5pm to 10pm Annual dance party this year’s theme is Martian Harvest Moon, live Afro-Cuban music will be supplied by local musicians Ray Santiago and Friends for a true Loisiada flavor.
El Sol Brillante, on south side of E.12th St, Aves A & B Saturday, September 26 8 am Qi Gong class by Charlotte de La Poole 1 pm Movement Performance by Yves Musard 2 pm Herb Walk by Devon McCormick 11am & 3 pm Bokashi composting workshops With Shig Matsukawa
Sunday, September 27 8 am Qi Gong class by Charlotte de La Poole 1 pm Movement Performance by Yves Musard 11am & 3 pm Bokashi composting workshops With Shig Matsukawa
Children’s Garden, E.12th St & Ave B Saturday, September 26 11am & 3 pm- Bokashi composting workshops Workshop starts at El Sol Brillante and ends here. Sunday, September 27 11am & 3 pm- Bokashi composting workshops Workshop starts at El Sol Brillante and ends here.
Campos Gardens, E.12th St, Aves B & C Saturday, September 26 12-3 pm GARDEN IMPRESSIONS Workshop for children making plaster casts by Rose McShane 12-3 pm Storytelling by Marietta B
SPOKEN WORK & MUSIC 7pm-9pm OPEN MIKE curated by Robert Galinsky, an open mic for local musicians, comedians, dancers, singers, and climate activists.
Sunday, September 27
11AM-12PM GARDEN TOUR of HERB SPIRAL GARDEN by Caroline Zezima 12-1:30 PM CANNING WORKSHOP VEGETABLE AND FRUIT CANNING by Classie Parker. Hands on demonstration of vegetable canning 2-3 PM COOKING DEMONSTRATION WITH HELEN & AHMED Bengali cooking demonstration 2-4 PM SEED SWAP hosted by Alexia Weidler & Carolyn Zezima Come swap seeds from our collected bounty 5-7 PM POTLUCK “INTERNATIONAL FOOD DAY” Annual potluck dinner, sharing dishes made from vegetables grown at Campos Community Garden 6-8 PM FESTIVAL CLOSING– WEENIE & MARSHMELLOW ROAST
11BC Garden, 11th St Btwn Aves B & C Saturday, September 26 4:00pm Modern Classical Music Andrew Bolotowsky, flute, Motomi Igarachi, Double Bass and Tomoko Sugawara, concert harp, will perform Daniel Binelli’s Buenos Aires Suite, w/rain date Sunday Sept 27 at 4pm.
ALL DAY “SPIRAL”, by Jose Landoni site specific sculpture, sponsored by Art Loisaida Foundation and Campos Garden as part of ALF’s Artist Residency Program funded by NYC Councilperson Rosie Mendez through DCA
Toyota Children’s Learning Garden, 11th St Btwn Aves B & C Saturday, September 26 7:00 pm Shadow Puppet Show! Founded by Charlotte Lily Gaspard (AKA Miss C.) in 2013, Midnight Radio Show (MRS) is a Brooklyn-based theater company whose work is inspired by the creation of new fairytales and the artistry of shadow puppets. MRS blends visual art, live music, and the oral tradition of storytelling to create family-friendly theatrical experiences of bedtime stories coming to life. Sponsored by New York Restoration Project.
East Side Community High School Garden, 11th St (1st Ave & Ave A)
Saturday, September 26 1-2pm Music Eclectic with City Timbers
9C Garden, Ave C & 9th St Saturday, September 26 4pm Salsa Dance Party with Los Fasinantes All Day –Dioramas “Vital Niches” by J. Kathleen White 7:30 pm “9C Garden Projections: Past and Present” by Laurie Olinder Projecting on the fence on 9th street just east of the corner of 9th and C between C & D.
La Plaza Cultural, Ave C & 9th St Saturday, September 26 4-5 pm Poetry for Purple, in Honor of Adam and the Garden of Eden. Adam Purple and the Garden of Eden are gone. But their memory lingers in stories and poems, in the earth and our memories. Join Public Space Party for a time to recall poems and stories in the spirit of the Garden of Eden.
Saturday, September 26 & Sunday, September 27 1-5 PM CLIMATE CHANGE MARCH REMEMBERED The show/exhibition to commemorate the anniversary of last year’s historic Climate Change March, featuring posters and signs and photos by people in the march and photojournalists who covered the march. The show will also include an audio installation created from sounds captured during the march. .
DeColores Community Garden and Cultural Yard, 8th St, B & C Saturday, September 26 JACK HARDY Songwriter’s Exchange with 20 singer/songwriters 1pm til 7pm In the 1970’s Jack Hardy, a Greenwich Village songwriter, wanted to write more songs, so he got a group of like-minded souls together. Everyone agreed to write a song a week. Decades of pasta dinners, legendary careers, and thousands of brand new songs later, the group continues to meet, an ever shifting cast of wildly various characters aged 8 to 78, representing every genre of music. Featuring: Bruce Balmer, Michelle Biagi, Matthew Broady, Vinny Ciambriello, Chris Fuller, Michael Glick, Sharon Goldman, Bev Grant, John Hodel , Mark Aaron James, Libby Johnson, Diana Jones, David Massengill, Frank Mazzetti, Dana McCoy, Tim Robinson, Paul Sachs, Norman Salant, Steve Schalchin, Tedesso, Ed Tristram, Ina May Wool.
Sunday, September 27 Heavy Metal Renaissance with Brian Butterick as MC 12:30 Ray & Elizabeth (guitar, Brazilian and international songs) 1:00 Ben Cauley, original piano pieces 1:30 Helen Stratford, sweet accordion sounds 2:00 Avon Faire, female trio sings Renaissance harmonies 2:30 A Work In Progress, Power Ballads, etc, Lisa Anselmo & Doug Bressler HOWL ARTS PROGRAM – 3:00 Heather Litteer the recipient of the 2014 Fox Fellowship with La MaMa where she will presenting her solo show “Lemonade” Spring 2016. 3:30 Bridget Barkan has toured the world with pop/glam band the Scissor Sisters. 4:00 Marni Rice performance works combining music, song and text. 4:30 Tammy Faye Starlite’s Nico: Underground was cited by NY Times as “a remarkable and howlingly funny portrayal”
Firemen’s Memorial Garden, East 8th St, C & D Saturday, September 26 2-4PM “By Word of Mouth” Lower East Side Poets with Pitts and crew and Roderigo Arenas
Green Oasis and Gilbert’s Sculpture Garden, 8th St C & D Theater/Drama Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27 2:30pm Catfight at the Oasis- Joanne, the long-suffering garden administrator, has called yet another meeting to resolve the intractable stray cat debate. Will the Bird Lobby get felines expelled from the garden or will Pro-Cat protestors win the day?@ written by Sarah Bernstein, directed by Dina Vovsi, featuring Starr Kirkland, Amanda Marikar, Betsy Rosen*, Marissa Wolf
3:30pm Welcome to The Fall- 1973: A smokejumper crash lands on the property of the world’s first meteor strike survivor. Today: Your tour guide is about to lose her mind. written by Angela Santillo, directed by Christine Zagrobelny, featuring: Adriana Jones, Alice Rose Turner, Josh Wolonick
MUSIC: Musical Journey curated by Beverly Love Saturday, September 26
3PM – 3:45PM City Timbers 4PM – 4:45PM Kyle Horn, fingerstyle guitarist who incorporates strong melodic riffs and percussive techniques that together form a very full and unique sound. 5PM -5:45PM Lewis Mason, draws heavy inspiration from a wide variety of artists but mainly Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground 6PM – 6:45PM Bobsghost
Sunday, September 27 3PM – 3:45PM Tatyana, conveys and compelling acoustic guitar playing, and the songs feel intimate and lively at once 4PM – 4:45PM Lukka, plays blues inflected classic rock with explosive energy and occasional psychedelic flourishes 5PM – 5:45PM Deanna 6PM – 6:45PM Digital Diaspora, AfroTronic/AfroFunk/AfroBeat Band. Stepping forward into the future, while recalling ancestors of the past. 7PM – 7:45PM Faith, captures you with her soulful ballads, with rock/soul and reggae flair, with the raspiness of Nina Simone.
Creative Little Garden, 6th St Btwn Aves A & B Sunday, September 27 3:30-4:30 PM Music by KRMN Refreshments will be served.
6B Garden, Ave B & 6th St Friday, Sept. 25 7:00-9:00 pm LET’S GO CRAZY! It’s a funked up DANCE PARTY!
Saturday, September 26 3:00-4:30 pm Kids COOK Your CULTURE! Ages 7-12; kid chefs must arrive on time to participate. Create healthy dishes from your own recipes. Sponsored by Roots ‘n Shoots and Citizens Committee for NYC. 7:30-10:00 pm MUSIC under THE STARS Curated by our own garden member, Joff Wilson: Local Legends—and Up-and-Coming Local Legends—will present an evening of unforgettable and inspiring music. Sunday, September 27 1:00- 3:00 pm Hayes Greenfield, the fiercely innovative jazz musician and long time East Village Resident brings his Gravity Unplugged trio back to celebrate the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival. From inside to outside and everything in between, Hayes and Gravity Unplugged deliver a magically wonderful unpredictable journey through jazz.
6BC Botanical Garden, 6th St Btwn Aves B & C Sunday, September 27 Jazz as Art: Earth Justice Day 1 2:00PM – 3:00PM – Lamb / Dulberger, 3:00PM – 4:00PM – Nicholson Newman, 4:00PM – 5:00PM – Jonathan Finlayson Group
El Jardin del Paraiso, 4th St Btwn Aves C & D Saturday, September 26 “The Art of Wellness” Circle 11am to 2pm People are welcome to linger longer. Free. Donations, gifts and exchanges welcome. Offer gratitude as you feel comfortable. Hosted by Acumobile Wendy & Dee Dee of MoS Collective We will gather informally to share our healing and wellness ways. We can give and receive wellness practices or other skills that help create our sense of well-being. Bring a salve recipe, a medicinal plant or seeds, a poem, your ears and eyes as we get creative with wellness. We are creating a network for our resilience, selves, community empowerment and health by sharing our skills, knowledge and traditions.
An optional picnic potluck. Bring a dish or non-alc beverage, a (waste-less) place setting and picnic blanket. Contact for questions and organizing.
6 pm. Full Moon Treehouse Concert featuring KeeKee, Dave Barish, Zero Boy, The Twin Rays, Ray & Elizabeth, Michael Schwartz, Jerry & Max, Eak and Paz.
Orchard Alley, 4th St Btwn Aves C & D Saturday, September 26 1-3:30pm LUNGS DANCE PROGRAM Featuring Rod Rodgers Dance Company & Teen Company Rastro Dance Company and soloist Leisa Haddad, From the American Dance Guild: Bone Solo, choreography by Gloria McLean, an exploration of the body’s systems through movement, The Spiral Universe choreography by Nancy Zendora performed by Marie Baker-Lee, Stabat Mater, choreography by Ana Alanis, a tribute to all mothers of the missing and dead, New Dance, choreography by Jeanette Stoner for Chase Booth and Peter Davis, a humorous piece, Nature choreography by Frances Rosario-Puleo, a piece about nature, trees and plants and Ibuki, choreography Kaoru Ikeda.
4-5 PM, Music Program Featuring East Village musicians we embrace and support who lost their homes in the 2nd Avenue Explosion. Group Public Access TV, Guitarist/Singer Donald Cummings and guitarist/singer Laura Gibson Secret Garden Ave C & 4th St Saturday, September 26 1-5pm ART RUMBLE—live painting by LES Artists with Laurie Olinder, Sally Young, Eileen Doster, Carolyn Ratcliffe, Roman Primiativo Abear, Laura Zelasnic, Leslie Lowe, Dorine Olive, and Mike Rimbaud.
Umbrella House 21-23 Avenue C, between 2nd & 3rd Streets Saturday, September 26 & Sunday, September 27 ROOFTOP GARDEN TOUR All LUNGS festival guests will be greeted at our building door by a gardener during our open hours, 12-4pm. No buzzer is needed.
Le Petit Versailles, 2nd St Btwn Aves B & C Saturday, September 26 7:30PM Queer Reading Series, Summer Nights on Jupiterrrr: The Fall into the Wintery Dark Hole Edition Summer Nights on Jupiter is back for one last trip. I’m Very scared to say Summer is almost OVER and we all need to spend as much time at the BEACH as we can before we are saddled to our heaters and snowed in due to the shitty conditions of climate change… with Jacqueline Mary, Gio BlackPeter, Che Gossett, Phoebe Glickl, Sade Martha Mary Murphy, Jasmine Gibson, Casey Llewellyn and more T.B.A.
Sunday, September 27 7:30PM Cupid’s Wet Nipples – Screening/Lecture/Performance Cupid’s Wet Nipples will be a night of video art and readings provided by a group of artists, writers, lovers, haters and thinkers who will come together to collectively consider questions around sex, love and romance. Artists: Katherine Cooper, Adriana Disman, Jessica Goldschmidt, Kelsey Harrison, Millie Kapp, Macklin Kowal, Marissa Perel, Alex Schmidt, Georgia Wall.
Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St at Norfolk St Saturday, September 26 JAZZ AS ART: SANDRA BLAND SERIES 3 2:00PM – 3:00PM – Nick Lyons Music, 3:00PM – 4:00PM – While We Still Have Bodies’, 4:00PM – 5:00PM – Michael Wimberly Children’s Magical Garden SW corner Stanton and Norfolk Sts There will be art making for children and community mural painting for all ages at Children’s Magical during the jazz performances.
Liz Christy Garden Houston St, btwn Bowery & Second Ave. Sunday, September 27 1pm Fundamentals of Picturesque Gardening, Penny Jones 3pm Foliage Color Design, Penny Jones
LaGuardia Corner Gardens, LaGuardia Pl btwn Bleecker & Houston Saturday, September 20 2-4PM “SUN PRINTS” workshop for adults and kids Sunday, September 27 2-4PM Beekeeping Coloring Books for kids 4-5PM NEVERMIND ORCHESTRA: brass renditions of Nirvana classics
Siempre Verde Garden, Stanton St betw Clinton & Attorney Sunday, September 27 A Sukkah (harvest hut) is being decorated for the holiday celebrations.
Elizabeth St Garden, Elizabeth St Btwn Prince and Spring Sts Sunday, September 27 10 AM – 1 PM Neighborhood Street Tree Care Day Help us clean up, mulch and water 151 street trees surrounding the Garden, funded by a grant from MillionTreesNYC 10 AM Meridian Tapping class by Wenji Zou 11 AM Vinyasa Yoga class by Sam Emrich, bring your own mat 3 PM Kimistry The Living Museum by singer-composer Kim Kalesti 4 –5:30 PM. Live Music Sunday