Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
Author Catherine Adami Reads From On Elizabeth Street, as part of the Fifth Annual LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) Harvest Arts Festival
What if you had a weekend in New York City to pretend you were the person you always thought you could be?
Catherine Adami reads from her comedy On Elizabeth Street about two college friends and former lovers, now in their forties, who are given a second chance to connect with one another during a summer weekend at an apartment on Elizabeth Street. The couple’s adventures include visits to many downtown jewels, including Elizabeth Street Garden.
Catherine Adami grew up a pool hustler’s daughter with a VIP pass to subterranean America. A prolific essayist and screenwriter, she is a proud alumna of Francis W. Parker School, Tulane University and NYU’s Summer Fiction Writing Program. Her article “The Epitome of Cool,” about her late father Freddy ‘the Beard’ Bentivegna and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet, appeared in Billiards Digest Magazine. Her debut novel On Elizabeth Street began as a feature film script she penned while living in Little Italy to attend NYU and was inspired by iconic writers and cinematic goddesses Nancy Meyers and the late Nora Ephron. She is a descendant of both the Daughters of the American Revolution and Black Hand, her credo, passed down from her father, is “Life Ain’t on the Square.” She lives in Chicago with her husband and two children. Find out more on catadami.com and poolhustlersdaughter.com.
Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens is a nonprofit organization founded to promote, protect and preserve the community gardens on the Lower East Side.
The Fifth Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival will take place in 38 community gardens. Events include music, dance, performance, films, photography, painting, sculpture, puppets and comedy, as well as environmental workshops and yoga. Each garden designs its own programing, so the festival is as interesting and eclectic as the Lower East Side.
Open to the public and FREE.
Live Music Sunday: No Chaser, in coordination with Fifth Annual LUNGS (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) Harvest Arts Festival
No Chaser closes this season’s biweekly summer concert series in the Garden. The band is a cooperative effort by a group of musicians who are all leaders of their own jazz bands and plays music that can be fairly described as “post modern hard bop, with attitude.”
No Chaser includes:
- Wendell Gault — trumpet
- Drake Colley — saxophone
- Paul Bloomberg — piano
- Gary Smith — drums
For this performance, No Chaser will be joined by Clemente Cuevas on bass.
Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens is a nonprofit organization founded to promote, protect and preserve the community gardens on the Lower East Side.
The Fifth Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival will take place in 38 community gardens. Events include music, dance, performance, films, photography, painting, sculpture, puppets and comedy, as well as environmental workshops and yoga. Each garden designs its own programing, so the festival is as interesting and eclectic as the Lower East Side.
Open to the public and FREE.
SOWING THE SEEDS
2016 Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden
BENEFIT RECEPTION AND SILENT AUCTION
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
98 Kenmare St.
Vino, Bites and Tunes!
Ticket $100
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.
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
Garden Meeting — All Are Welcome!
Help plan Oct. 6 protest and Oct. 22 Harvest Festival.
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.
Protest to Stop Developers
Elizabeth Street Garden needs you! Join our protest before developers’ meeting.
This is our first opportunity to show interested developers that we will fight to defend our beloved neighborhood green space. The Garden must be saved!
Wear green, bring signs and enjoy Baz Bagels and lox.
RSVP to Attend Protest.
Directions by subway: 6 to Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall
Exit at Nassau and Frankfort streets. Walk east downhill along Frankfort Street to 100 Gold St.
(To exit at Nassau and Frankfort streets, if traveling downtown: Exit train, take stairs at downtown end of platform. Do not exit first turnstiles. Instead turn left, then exit turnstiles. Follow hallway. Exit left stairs to Frankfort Street.)
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. 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.
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. 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.
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
Fourth Annual Elizabeth Street Garden Harvest Festival
Sponsored by The Nolitan Hotel
Start your Halloween early, show your support for Elizabeth Street Garden and celebrate at our fourth annual Harvest Festival. Costumes encouraged!
Enjoy a day of FREE, fun activities for all ages, live music, and lite bites and refreshments donated by neighborhood businesses. Give back by bringing canned soups, vegetables and beans to benefit The Bowery Mission‘s Thanksgiving Meal.
For Everyone
- Drawing by Spring Studio, with model Elizabeth Hellman, Noon.
- Cooking Demonstration Using the Garden’s Harvest by Stir-Fry Guru Grace Young, a James Beard Foundation award winner for Best International Cookbook and currently featured in the Museum of Chinese in America‘s Sour Sweet Bitter Spicy exhibition, 1 p.m.
- Seed Bomb Workshop. Learn about the soil nutrient cycle, composting and how the smallest things we can do can have such great impact.
- Designing Greeting Cards with pressed leaves and other Garden finds.
- Social Media Sharing and Garden Envisioning Stations. Tell the world why the Garden is important to you!
- Little Free Library. Bring a gently used book to help us start a free book exchange. (No textbooks, please.)
- Music.
For Kids
- Ghastly Garden of Zombie Gnomes: Horrifying Halloween Art by McNally Jackson Books.
- Pumpkin Decorating courtesy of The Montessori in SoHo.
- Face Painting by the Chinatown YMCA.
For Green Thumbs
- Planting Daffodil Bulbs courtesy of New Yorkers for Parks. No gardening skills required. Just the desire to get your hands in the dirt.
For Early Birds
- Vinyasa Yoga, 11:15 a.m.
Lite Bites and Refreshments Donated By
- Café Habana
- Caffé Roma
- Cha Cha Matcha
- Emporio
- Gimme! Coffee
- Little Cupcake Bakeshop
- Little Rascal
- Lombardi’s Pizza
- Loreley Restaurant & Biergarten
- Lovely Day
- Market Ipanema
- Milk Bar
- Parisi Bakery
- Pomodoro Pizza
- Prince Street Pizza
- PUBLIC
- Rubirosa Ristorante
- Tacombi
- Taïm
- WellWell
This FREE event is open to the public.
This year’s Harvest Festival is the culmination of Elizabeth Street Garden: Neighborhood LIVING Room, a neighborhood-led initiative that invites our larger community to engage with the Garden as an outdoor living room and shared backyard. The season-long initiative was funded in part with a generous grant from Citizens Committee for New York City.
If you would like to volunteer to help, email [email protected].
Community Gardening, weekly
Open to the public and FREE.
Vinyasa Yoga, weekly
Get your stretch on with instructors provided by our neighborhood lululemon athletica. Please bring your own mat. Open to the public and FREE.
Fall Cleanup & Daffodil Bulb Planting, as part of New Yorkers for Parks Daffodil Project
Spend a fall morning outdoors with neighbors planting spring-flowering bulbs and preparing Garden beds for colder months to come.
No experience necessary. Both adults and kids are welcome. Open to the public and FREE.
The Daffodil Project was founded in 2001 as a living memorial to Sept. 11. With nearly 5 million free bulbs planted citywide by New Yorkers, it is one of the largest volunteer efforts in the city’s history.
Garden Meeting — All Are Welcome!
Open to the public and FREE.
Invite the Mayor to Visit the Garden
Join us as we show the mayor how much the Garden means to us. (Let’s meet at the Peter Cooper statue.)
This is not a protest, but an invitation to the mayor to visit the Garden made more powerful by your presence!
Mayor de Blasio said he would “happily” visit Elizabeth Street Garden when questioned by a Garden supporter on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show. Help us re-extend the invitation in front of the Foundation Building at Cooper Union where the mayor is scheduled to give a major speech at 11 a.m. in the Great Hall.
Open to the public and FREE.
Leave the Leaves
The brilliantly colored leaves of our pear trees are among the last of the season to fall. Lend a hand with neighbors to keep leaves in the Garden. Let’s rake, shred and mulch them into beds in preparation of colder months come.
Both adults and kids are welcome to lend a hand (and play in the leaves). No experience necessary.
Open to the public and FREE.
Garden Meeting — All Are Welcome!
Help plan our Wake-Up Rally, Winter Solstice Celebration, Art Inspired by the Garden and more.
Open to the public and FREE.
Wake-Up Rally Outside City Council Building
It’s time to sound the alarm! Join us as we “wake up” Council Member Margaret Chin and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. Tell them to stop ignoring our community. Tell them that we will not rest until our beloved park is saved.
By subway: R/W to City Hall or 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall
Winter Solstice Celebration
Enjoy live seasonal music in the Garden and celebrate the coming of lighter days.
Winter caroling for kids and grown-ups with Pete Armstrong & Lauren Ruff and Kim Kalesti.
Hot cider, cocoa and coffee from neighborhood Gimme! Coffee and Lovely Day.
Open to the public and FREE.