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.
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 Blake Edwards’ romantic comedy loosely based on Truman Capote’s novella of the same name and starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard. Hepburn portrays Holly Golightly as a naive, eccentric New York socialite interested in a young man, Peppard, who has moved into her apartment building.
Direction by Blake Edwards
Screenplay by George Axelrod
Comedy-drama ‧ 115 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.
Open to the public and FREE.
No need to be squeamish! Help release hundreds of night crawlers into Garden beds and learn how earthworms aerate and fertilize the soil organically.
This free, family-friendly event is part of our season-long gardening initiative Edible Garden Lab, funded in part by a generous grant from Citizens Committee for New York City. Let’s engage with the Garden as a living laboratory and learn how to cultivate a vital green space that also provides a nutritious resource for the neighborhood.
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].
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.
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].
Our biweekly summer afternoon concert series continues. Don’t miss music performances by David Pollack and Jafé Paulino.
Open to the public and FREE.
Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden is delighted to host En Garde Arts’ BOSSS Sneak Preview of eye-popping spectacles, absurdist stories and unforgettable tunes. In October, New York’s most innovative writers, directors, composers and designers will “think big” and transform Hudson River Park with exciting theatrical work. Preview this new performance festival in the Garden.
All performances are 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 Ted Wilde’s last silent film starring comedian Harold Lloyd in the eponymous leading role. Chronically unemployed Yankees fan Harold “Speedy” Swift attempts to save the last horse-drawn streetcar in New York, in a rapidly changing city where the railway is becoming king. Yankees star Babe Ruth plays one of Speedy’s hapless passengers.
Director: Ted Wilde
Indie action film ‧ 86 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.