Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open.
Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Garden volunteer Joshua Frost and his 3-year-old daughter Amelie entertain kids with their favorite stories.
Open to all children under age 5. FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, June 17, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Kid’s Yoga has been designed especially for Elizabeth Street Garden to foster an appreciation for the Garden’s distinctive qualities. Kids will freeze in “strong statue” poses, learn about the life cycles of different Garden elements — seed to tree, caterpillar to butterfly, etc.; practice different “insect” poses; and explore the sounds and other sensory qualities of the Garden through minimeditations, aiming to provide an opportunity for kids to connect to this beloved neighborhood space in a unique and meaningful way.
Instructor: local parent and Twisted Trunk instructor Suzanne Monto.
Open to kids of all ages and their families. FREE. Please bring your own mat.
Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open.
Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Join Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden for Martin Scorsese’s interview with his mother, Catherine, and father, Charles, in this short documentary filmed in the couple’s Elizabeth Street apartment. As the Scorseses prepare dinner, they talk about their experiences as Italian immigrants, among other things. (Stay through the credits to get Catherine’s recipe for her starring sauce and meatballs.)
Movie Nights are free, family-friendly events where neighbors can come out and meet one another for a great time. The Garden will remain open through the evening, so come early, cool down, bring a blanket, picnic, cozy up and sink in!
Open to the public and FREE.
Open to the public and FREE.
Instructor Wenji Zou helps you stimulate the end points of the body’s energy pathways, develop a keener sense of awareness and clear your head.
Open to the public and FREE.
Instructors from our neighborhood studios will help you get your stretch on. Please bring your own mat.
Open to the public and FREE.
July Yoga Partner lululemon athletica Soho Ambassador/Instructors:
July 5 — Kristin Leigh, The Shala Yoga House
July 12 — Brianna Sculley, YogaWorks certified
July 19 — Perri Schneider, Strala Yoga certified
July 26 — Emmy Giarrusso
Our biweekly summer afternoon concert series continues. Don’t miss harpist/vocalist Lucia Helen Stavros’ performance or Leffie Louise’s encore this weekend in the Garden.
Open to the public and FREE
Garden volunteer Joshua Frost and his 3-year-old daughter Amelie entertain kids with their favorite stories.
Open to all children under age 5. FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, June 17, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Kid’s Yoga has been designed especially for Elizabeth Street Garden to foster an appreciation for the Garden’s distinctive qualities. Kids will freeze in “strong statue” poses, learn about the life cycles of different Garden elements — seed to tree, caterpillar to butterfly, etc.; practice different “insect” poses; and explore the sounds and other sensory qualities of the Garden through minimeditations, aiming to provide an opportunity for kids to connect to this beloved neighborhood space in a unique and meaningful way.
Instructor: local parent and Twisted Trunk instructor Suzanne Monto.
Open to kids of all ages and their families. FREE. Please bring your own mat.
Join Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden for Woody Allen’s 1984 comedy starring the filmmaker as a hapless New York talent agent who by helping a client gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at the Carnegie Deli.
Written and directed by Woody Allen
Comedy ‧ 84 minutes
Movie Nights are free, family-friendly events where neighbors can come out and meet one another for a great time. The Garden will remain open through the evening, so come early, cool down, bring a blanket, picnic, cozy up and sink in!
Open to the public and FREE
Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden is delighted to welcome the Chinatown YMCA back to the Garden for a second season of weekly tai chi classes, weather permitting.
Tai Chi Master Tina Zhang returns to lead the class.
All skill levels are welcome. Open to the public and FREE.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open.
Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
With its ability to induce a spontaneous meditative space and the quieting of mental chatter, the gong offers an opportunity for increased vitality, healing, expanded awareness and higher consciousness.
Join us for this sound immersion meditation designed especially for the Garden as we approach Friday’s Blue Moon.
Please bring your own mat or blanket to rest on. Open to the public and FREE.
Open to the public and FREE.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open.
Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Instructor Wenji Zou helps you stimulate the end points of the body’s energy pathways, develop a keener sense of awareness and clear your head.
Open to the public and FREE.
Instructors from our neighborhood studios will help you get your stretch on. Please bring your own mat.
Open to the public and FREE.
August Volunteer Instructors:
Aug. 2 — Jared Pava
Aug. 9 — Will Schneider
Aug. 16 — Sam Emrich
Aug. 23 — Courtney Allen Weinstein
Aug. 30 —Niki Cubides
Garden volunteer Joshua Frost and his 3-year-old daughter Amelie entertain kids with their favorite stories.
Open to all children under age 5. FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, June 17, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Kid’s Yoga has been designed especially for Elizabeth Street Garden to foster an appreciation for the Garden’s distinctive qualities. Kids will freeze in “strong statue” poses, learn about the life cycles of different Garden elements — seed to tree, caterpillar to butterfly, etc.; practice different “insect” poses; and explore the sounds and other sensory qualities of the Garden through minimeditations, aiming to provide an opportunity for kids to connect to this beloved neighborhood space in a unique and meaningful way.
Instructor: local parent and Twisted Trunk instructor Suzanne Monto.
Open to kids of all ages and their families. FREE. Please bring your own mat.
Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden is delighted to welcome the Chinatown YMCA back to the Garden for a second season of weekly tai chi classes, weather permitting.
Tai Chi Master Tina Zhang returns to lead the class.
All skill levels are welcome. Open to the public and FREE.
We’re firing up the grill again. Invite your friends and neighbors to participate in a cookout and potluck and enjoy summer tunes.
Burgers and hot dogs will be provided by Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden. To share a potluck dish with others, bring a fork-friendly appetizer, salad or side if your last name begins with A – R and a dessert if your last name begins with S – Z. Feel free to flavor with pickings from our Chinese-Italian kitchen garden. (No alcoholic beverages, please.)
For additional info or to help, please email [email protected].
Open to the public and FREE.
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Open to the public and FREE.
Instructor Wenji Zou helps you stimulate the end points of the body’s energy pathways, develop a keener sense of awareness and clear your head.
Open to the public and FREE.
Instructors from our neighborhood studios will help you get your stretch on. Please bring your own mat.
Open to the public and FREE.
August Volunteer Instructors:
Aug. 2 — Jared Pava
Aug. 9 — Will Schneider
Aug. 16 — Sam Emrich
Aug. 23 — Courtney Allen Weinstein
Aug. 30 —Niki Cubides
Volunteers keep the Garden open for our community. The more volunteers there are, the more hours the Garden can be open. Volunteering is flexible and simply involves welcoming visitors for just ONE hour at a time. Some volunteers volunteer each week, and other less frequently. Become a volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer but cannot make this time, please email [email protected].
Don’t miss musician Jas Walton as he performs “Face the Facts,” his collection of four songs that set lectures by Eastern philosophy interpreter Alan Watts to original electronic music.
Open to the public and FREE.
Help plan the rest of the summer season and Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden’s upcoming annual fall fundraiser.