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  • Wednesday: Natural Wellness Talk on Pain Management
  • Wednesday Movie Night: One "Big Night" Can Change Everything!
  • The Weekend: Live Music Sunday
  • Tuesday, Aug. 16: "Meet the Kookers"
  • Wednesday, Aug. 17: Zen in Your Precinct With Our Local NYPD
  • Coming Up in August
  • Highlights: Art Activities, Movie Night Snacks & Garden Guests
  • Garden Hours

Wednesday: Natural Wellness Talk on Pain Management

Natural Wellness Talk: Pain Management β€” Wednesday, Aug. 10, 6 – 6:45 p.m.
Learn natural ways to help your body recover from injury faster and to manage pain effectively from Kirsten Tempel. Great for those with sports injuries and arthritis.

Wednesday Movie Night: One "Big Night" Can Change Everything!

Our fourth summer season of FREE movie screenings in the Garden continues with Big Night.

Movie Night: Big Night (1996) β€” Wednesday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.

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 β€” a feast of a lifetime, the brothers' big night β€” to try to save their failing business.

Directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci
Drama/Romance β€§ 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!

What's Playing
Aug. 24 β€” Ratatouille (2007)

For updated weather-related cancellations, visit the Garden calendar.

The Weekend: Live Music Sunday

Live Music Sunday β€” Sunday, Aug. 14, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Our biweekly summer concert series continues. Maitri and Leffie Louise perform this weekend in the Garden.

Tuesday, Aug. 16: "Meet the Kookers"

Meet the Kookers, presented by Fourth Arts Block β€” Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2:30 p.m.
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.

Wednesday, Aug. 17: Zen in Your Precinct With Our Local NYPD

Zen in Your Precinct β€” Wednesday, Aug. 17, 6 – 7:30 p.m.

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. Click to RSVP.

Coming Up in August

All Elizabeth Street Garden activities and events are open to the public and FREE. For up-to-date details, check out the Garden calendar.

Natural Wellness Talk: Allergies β€” Wednesday, Aug. 24, 6 – 6:45 p.m.

Movie Night: Ratatouille (2007) β€” Wednesday, Aug. 24, 7:30 p.m.

Live Music Sunday β€” Sunday, Aug. 28, 4 – 5:30 p.m.

Special Neighborhood Documentary Film Presentation: Mulberry (2016) and Hey Vinny (2000) β€” Tuesday, Aug. 30, 7:30 p.m.

Weekly in the Garden
Tai Chi Outdoors With the Chinatown YMCA β€” Saturdays, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Community Gardening β€” Saturdays, 10 a.m. – Noon
Vinyasa Yoga β€” Sundays, 11 a.m. – Noon
Volunteer Orientation β€” Sundays, 5:30 – 6 p.m.
Kids' Yoga β€” Wednesdays, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Volunteer Orientation β€” Thursdays, 7 – 7:30 p.m.

Highlights: Art Activities, Movie Night Snacks & Garden Guests
Art in the Park
Art Space
Delicious dim sum compliments of Hao Noodle and Tea by Madam Zhu's Kitchen before Movie Night showing of Eat Drink Man Woman. Thank you, Madam Zhu!
Participants in our NYPD 5th Precinct's Annual Run
Poetry Reading Presented by the Catalan Institute of America
Summer interns from NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer's office visit the Garden.
Garden Hours

Open daily, 10 a.m. β€“ 6 p.m., weather permitting.
On Wednesdays and Thursdays through August, until 7:30 p.m.

Volunteers serve to keep the Garden operating year-round.
Email volunteer@elizabethstreetgarden.org to help.
See you in the Garden.
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Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in 2014 in New York with the mission to preserve Elizabeth Street Garden as a unique public green, open space and NYC Park. Contributions made for the charitable purposes of Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

A copy of the latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden, 235 Elizabeth St., Ste. 23, New York, NY 10012 or the New York State Attorney General’s Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, Third Floor, New York, NY 10271.

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