Movie Night: Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
In this award-winning Taiwanese film — the first of celebrated director Ang Lee’s films to be both a critical and box office success, trouble is cooking for widower and master chef Chu who is about to discover that no matter how dazzling and delicious his culinary creations might be, they’re no match for the libidinous whims of his three beautiful but rebellious daughters. A master in the kitchen, Chu is at a loss when it comes to the ingredients of being a father.
Directed by Ang Lee
Comedy/Drama/Romance ‧ 124 minutes
In Chinese with English subtitles
Movie Nights are family-friendly events where neighbors meet with one another and have a great time. The Garden will remain open through the evening, so come, cool down, bring a blanket, picnic, cozy up and sink in!
Open to the public and 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.
Art Space
Families, explore your creativity with visual artist and fine arts teacher Ioannis Mavrikakis as he leads an afternoon of drawing, poetry and storymaking inspired by the Garden.
Open to the public and 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].
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.
Live Music Sunday
Our biweekly summer concert series continues. Beau and Mistri/Misrach perform 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.
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.
The Catalan Soul, presented by the Catalan Institute of America
Catalan poet Jaume Bosquet, winner of such renowned poetry awards as the Jocs Florals de Barcelona (2009) and Premi de Poesia Manuel Rodríguez Martínez – Ciutat d’Alcoi (2016), has prepared L’ Ànima Catalana (The Catalan Soul), a reading of poems by some of the most outstanding classic Catalan poets and a selection from Mr. Bosquet’s own work.
First Part: Poems by Salvador Espriu, Gabriel Ferrater, Ramon Llull, Joan Maragall, Miquel Martí i Pol, Maria Mercè Marçal, Maria Antònia Salvà and Jacint Verdaguer.
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Second Part: Poems by Jaume Bosquet
Open to the public and FREE. RSVP by emailing [email protected].
The Catalan Institute of America is an American membership organization dedicated to strengthening the bonds between Catalonia and the United States. Based in Manhattan, the Catalan Institute works to celebrate Catalan culture, language and heritage throughout America.
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.
Art Space
Families, explore your creativity with visual artist and fine arts teacher Ioannis Mavrikakis as he leads an afternoon of drawing, poetry and storymaking inspired by the Garden.
Open to the public and 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].
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.
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.
Natural Wellness Talk: Pain Management — POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN
Learn natural ways to help your body recover from injury faster and to manage pain effectively. Great for those with sports injuries and arthritis.
Kirsten Tempel, licensed practitioner of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, returns to the Garden with a new talk series covering such topics as detox, insomnia, allergies, fertility, women’s health, pain management, weight loss and ancient Chinese home remedies.
Open to the public and FREE.
Movie Night: “Big Night” (1996) — POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN UNTIL AUG. 17
In this award-winning American film, two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to the Jersey shore in the 1950s to open an Italian restaurant in America gamble on one special night — a feast of a lifetime, the brothers’ big night — to try to save their failing business.
Directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci
Drama/Romance ‧ 109 minutes
Movie Nights are family-friendly events where neighbors meet with one another and have a great time. The Garden will remain open through the evening, so come, cool down, bring a blanket, picnic, cozy up and sink in!
Open to the public and 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.
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].
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.
Live Music Sunday: Maitri and Leffie Louise
Our biweekly summer concert series continues. Don’t miss Maitri and Leffie Louise performing in the Garden.
Open to the public and FREE.
Translated from Sanskrit, Maitri (”my tree”) is an unconditional friendship and acceptance towards oneself that in turn extends to the greater outside world and its people. This group was formed by Caroline Davis (voice/woodwinds) to embrace both the hardship and ecstasy of life through song, and it is now a collective songwriting outlet for both her and Ben Hoffmann (voice/keyboards).
Incorporating a heavy dose of soul and R&B, Maitri also draws upon indie influences to create a unique sound in the Brooklyn musical landscape. The group also features Jay Sawyer (drums) and Sam Weber (bass).
Leffie Louise is the soundchild of Michigan native Levi Capper. His music is cerebral and ambient folk; an earthly expression of his celestial musings. The sound is melody-driven, and has an emotional quality that painfully desires change.
Meet the Kookers, presented by Fourth Arts Block
Meet the Kookers and our friends at FABnyc for this performance and story sharing event for all ages. The performance will feature dancers in costumes made from recycled and repurposed materials designed by artist Lexy Ho-Tai.
Stop by, smell the flowers and maybe join in some dancing! Feel free to contribute repurposed materials like old T-shirts, bottle caps or aluminum cans or just hang with the Kookers as they inject some play into your day.
Open to the public and 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.
Zen in Your Precinct With Our Local NYPD
Join our local 5th Precinct and the NYC Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence for a domestic violence awareness workshop and free yoga class taught by Yoga to the People.
Bring you own yoga mat, if you have one, and a bottle of water. Click to RSVP.
Open to the public and FREE.
Movie Night: “Big Night” (1996) — RESCHEDULED FROM AUG. 8
In this award-winning American film, two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to the Jersey shore in the 1950s to open an Italian restaurant in America gamble on one special night — a feast of a lifetime, the brothers’ big night — to try to save their failing business.
Directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci
Drama/Romance ‧ 109 minutes
Movie Nights are family-friendly events where neighbors meet with one another and have a great time. The Garden will remain open through the evening, so come, cool down, bring a blanket, picnic, cozy up and sink in!
Open to the public and FREE.