Fourth Season Celebration:Community Potluck and BBQ
Dedicated to Garden Volunteers & Saving Our Garden
This weekend we celebrate the beginning of the fourth year of our neighborhood volunteer movement to save the Garden and thank volunteers and community supporters.
Invite your friends and neighbors to participate in a potluck and barbecue and enjoy music and fun activities!
Please share a dish with others: bring an appetizer, salad or side if your last name begins with A – S and a dessert if your last name begins with T – Z. Shared dishes need not feed everyone; a contribution of 6 – 10 servings is plenty. Burgers and hot dogs will be provided by Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden. No alcoholic beverages please.
For additional info or to help, please email [email protected]. Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Instructors from our neighborhood studios will help you get your stretch on. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
June Yoga Partner Om Factory instructor: Caitlin Lavelle
Live Music Sunday — POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN
Our biweekly summer concert series begins today. Don’t miss Stephan Timonier and Leffie Louise performing this weekend in the Garden.
Open to the public and FREE.
Children’s Music, weekly
Live music, dancing, bubbles and fun with volunteers actress-singer Lauren Ruff and guitarist Pete Armstrong. We’ll provide music and percussion instruments for your little ones to sing, dance or play along. Bring the family and pack a picnic lunch for afterward.
Kids of all ages are welcome, but the music is geared especially towards newborns through 4-year-olds. FREE.
Seeds of a Memoir Writing Workshop
This workshop, led by Barbara Horn, English professor emerita at Nassau Community College, includes exercises that help us discover, reflect, recall and create. With the Garden as backdrop, participants are encouraged to remember long-ago and perhaps far-away places as they begin work on memoir writing. Reading pieces with other members is encouraged but not required.
Workshop dates: May 24, June 7 and June 28.
Open to the public and FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga
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, if you have one.
Volunteer Orientation–POSTPONED UNTIL TOMORROW DUE TO RAIN
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].
Children’s Storytime, weekly
Garden volunteer Alan Young and his 3-year-old son Callum entertain kids with their favorite stories.
Open to all children under age 5. FREE.
Volunteer Orientation
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].
Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden is delighted to welcome the Chinatown YMCA back to the Garden for a third season of weekly tai chi classes, weather permitting.
All skill levels are welcome. Open to the public and FREE.
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Instructors from our neighborhood studios will help you get your stretch on. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
May/June Yoga Partner Om Factory instructor: Caitlin Lavelle
Children’s Music, weekly
Live music, dancing, bubbles and fun with volunteers actress-singer Lauren Ruff and guitarist Pete Armstrong. We’ll provide music and percussion instruments for your little ones to sing, dance or play along. Bring the family and pack a picnic lunch for afterward.
Kids of all ages are welcome, but the music is geared especially towards newborns through 4-year-olds. FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, April 20, 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, if you have one.
Children’s Storytime, weekly
Garden volunteer Alan Young and his 3-year-old son Callum entertain kids with their favorite stories.
Open to all children under age 5. FREE.
Volunteer Orientation, before Garden Meeting
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 Meeting — All Are Welcome!
Open to the public and FREE.
Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden is delighted to welcome the Chinatown YMCA back to the Garden for a third season of weekly tai chi classes, weather permitting.
All skill levels are welcome. Open to the public and FREE.
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Ladybug Release
They’re not just bugs, they’re our friends. Join us as we release thousands of ladybugs into the Garden and learn how these critters are helpful to the environment and control pests.
Did you know that one adult ladybug will eat more than 5,000 aphids in its year-long lifetime?
Open to the public. All ages welcome. FREE.
Volunteer Orientation, after Ladybug Release
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].
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Instructors from our neighborhood studios will help you get your stretch on. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
May/June Yoga Partner Om Factory instructor: Caitlin Lavelle
Volunteer Orientation, before Live Music Sunday
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].
Volunteer Orientation, before Live Music Sunday
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].
Live Music Sunday: Eric Vitoff and Stillmarch & the Bandits
Our biweekly summer concert series begins today. Don’t miss Eric Vitoff and Stillmarch and the Bandits performing in the Garden.
Open to the public and FREE.
Eric Vitoff’s tunes toe a line between house/dance and those of an unplugged singer-songwriter. Equipped with an acoustic guitar and effects pedals, he builds pulsing, colorful beats that make your feet move and your mind wonder just where all those sounds are coming from.
Stillmarch and the Bandits are a gang of overly-sensitive misfits. Despite their best intentions, they stir up trouble, deep feelings and existential ideas that rattle the heart and twist the mind, making them a very dangerous band. If you happen to come across them, you may not survive unchanged.
Children’s Music, weekly
Live music, dancing, bubbles and fun with volunteers actress-singer Lauren Ruff and guitarist Pete Armstrong. We’ll provide music and percussion instruments for your little ones to sing, dance or play along. Bring the family and pack a picnic lunch for afterward.
Kids of all ages are welcome, but the music is geared especially towards newborns through 4-year-olds. FREE.
Weekly Kids’ Yoga — Beginning Wednesday, April 20, 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, if you have one.
Children’s Storytime, weekly
Garden volunteer Jeannine Kiely entertains kids with her favorite stories.
Open to all children under age 5. FREE.
Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden is delighted to welcome the Chinatown YMCA back to the Garden for a third season of weekly tai chi classes, weather permitting.
All skill levels are welcome. Open to the public and FREE.