May 2011
6th Street and Avenue B Garden
open sat-sun-1to6.
Kasba Workshop:Prep for Plant and Bake Sale Make Planters and Pot Arrangements.
We Will Sell for the Plant Bake Sale.
Learn how to make planters out of tea cups and other interesting items-make a planter for mothers or for someone special.
Oranized By Master Designer Kim Depole
Sunday May 1st at 1p.m.
Plant and Bake Sale..Annual Funraiser..
Annual .Garden Fundraiser we will be selling bake goods refreshments and special outdoor garden and indoor plants with specially made plant arrangements-e-items and doctors answering your plant questions are among the things that make this year special.
Saturday and Sunday May7th and 8th from 11am to 5pm.
Poetry in the garden,our long standing poetry program organized by Mindy Levokove.
Leading New York poets take to the stage along with an open session-welcome New York poets.Our long standing Poetry in the Garden series,some 15 years,is coordinated by Mindy Levokove long time lower east resident and poet.
Sunday May 15th. 4pm……raindate is the 22nd…
Full Moon Celbration.! Come and gather to celebrate the beauty of the garden under a full moon!
Music,Laugher,Poerty,Mystery,Bonfire, Smores!!
Tuesday May 17th…7pm til 10pm.
Mindy Hung,reads from her tales about about lost dreams and confused Canadians.
Ms Hung is a 2010 Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts(NYFA).
This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists&Audiences Exchange,
aNYFA public program,funded with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts(NYSCA)
ThursdayMay 19th 6p.m.RaindateThursday Thursday, june 2.
Mighty Action Racket Theatre…Intergenerationl Workshop TAKES YOUNG ACTORS AND PARENTS orcaretakes on an awesome,self-empowering theatrical adventure.Racing through a menu of voice and movement skills,actors write linesmlearn choral actions and become collaborators in an instanttheatre company.Each session includes a short performance.Presented by Lois Kagah Mingus and Joanie Fritz Zosike
Organized For the Garden By Effie Serlis….Saturday May21st..2pm..Raindate June4th
Avram Fefer Jazz Trio…Avam has performed in fifteen countries around the world,has published poetry and essays is a saxophononist,
bandleader and composer now residing in New York City .http//www.AvramFerfer.com….Saturday May21st 5pm
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The garden is open to the community for many events which range from children's workshops and lectures to music and films.
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6th & B Garden Events
- Community Garden Members
- Our events committee taps into the skills of the many artist members, who stage programs of crafts, horticultural/science workshops, slide shows, multicultural festivals, and performances from around the world. The events program, runs all summer, featuring over 75 events annually, drawing thousands of visitors. In addition, three preschool centers joined the garden; garden members developed an environmental curriculum to teach the children gardening and nature principles and skills. ------------------------------------------- The Events Program is generously supported by the Mary Flager Cary Charitable Trust and European American Bank. The Events Program would also like to thank the Trust for Public Land for ongoing assistance. These Programs are also made possible in part with public funds from The Fund for Creative Communites/New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Decentralization Program (DEC), administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council(LMCC), and from The Rockefeller Flow Fund.