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SATURDAY, OCT. 25: Second Annual Harvest Festival & Canned Food Drive To Support The Bowery Mission
Start your Halloween early and celebrate at Elizabeth Street Garden’s Second Annual Harvest Festival from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25. (Rain date: Sunday, Oct. 26.)
Enjoy a day of free, fun activities for all ages, live music, and lite bites and refreshments donated by neighborhood businesses. Canned vegetables for The Bowery Mission and costumes encouraged!
In addition to live music all day, a sampling of activities include:
- Carvers, bring your completed jack-o-lanterns to decorate Elizabeth Street Garden for Halloween. Ribbons will be awarded at day's end for the funniest, scariest and craziest designs. Pumpkins can remain on display through Halloween.
- Kids, at noon, join McNally Jackson Books for their Game of Bones Halloween Party. Ghoulify wicked wooden coffins, create creepy costumes and play ghostly games. From 1 p.m. on, join The Montessori in SoHo for Festival photos. From 2 p.m. on, join the Chinatown YMCA for face painting and Little Peep Prep to make masks and decorate pumpkins (while supplies last).
- Early birds, take wellness classes — Meridian Tapping at 10 a.m. and Vinyasa Yoga at 11 a.m.
- Sketch with Spring Studio at 12:30 p.m. to the sounds of flutist Andrew Bolotowsky.
- Plant spring bulbs provided by New Yorkers for Parks Daffodil Project. No gardening skills required. Just the desire to get your hands in the dirt.
- Visit our social media station and tell the world why Elizabeth Street Garden is important to you!
All activities and events are open to the public and free. For updated details, check out the Garden calendar.
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THIS WEEK IN THE GARDEN
Movie Night: “The Blob” (1958) — Wednesday, Oct. 15, 6:30 p.m.
For our last Movie Night of the season, Elizabeth Street Garden will remain open from noon through evening to honor the Halloween spirit as an alien life-form consumes everything in its path!. Come early and cozy up, if you dare.
Community Gardening: Fall Cleanup — Saturday, Oct. 18 & Sunday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. – Noon.
Come out to help prepare the Garden for the Harvest Festival. Bring your neighbors and friends.
Music Sundays — Sunday, Oct. 19, 3 p.m.
Ashley Galvani Bell, soprano (and Garden volunteer).
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Weekly in the Garden...Winding Down for the Season
Meridian Tapping With Wenji Zou — Saturdays, 10 – 11 a.m.
Vinyasa Yoga — Sundays, 10 – 11 a.m.
October's Studio of the Month: Twisted Trunk Yoga.
Each week, an instructor from our neighborhood studio will help you get your stretch on in the Garden!
Oct. 19 — Suzanne Monto.
Oct. 26 — Sara Auster.
All activities and events are open to the public and free. For details, check out the Garden calendar.
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Spring Studio held its last weekly Thursday afternoon drawing class for the season since beginning in June, and we thank them and founder Minerva Durham for their expertise, sensitivity to the Garden and commitment to community involvement.
We look forward to their encore participation in this fall's Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 25.
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* Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden Inc. thank Lower Manhattan Neighbors’ Organization Inc. for serving as our fiscal sponsor. Contributions made to LMNO(P) for the charitable purposes of Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Lower Manhattan Neighbors’ Organization Inc. are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in 1992 in New York with the mission to improve and expand open space in Lower Manhattan. Their efforts resulted in the creation of Mercer Playground. For more information about LMNO(P), visit savemercerplayground.org.
A copy of LMNO(P)’s latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from LMNO(P), c/o Jody Berenblatt, 180 Thompson St., No. 5C, 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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