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.