La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden

Haunted Garden Adventure
2020-10-31 14:00 - 22:00 UTC | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
La Plaza’s annual Haunted Garden Adventure featuring a Rat Race maze, face painting, and fortune telling. The Haunted Garden will be open to the public and local schools will be organizing on different days as well. This year’s Halloween falls on a full moon, so there will also be some scary full moon celebrations.

Full Moon Celebration
2020-10-31 19:30 - 21:30 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Celebrate the light of the full moon in La Plaza. Pause and be guided into unconscious bliss under the healing light of the moon with a meditation, then reconnect sonically with ourselves and the planet.There will be a sound healing meditation as well as medicinal teas prepared. Dress up to shimmer like the moon and bring flowers for a mandala. Release your limitations and step into nature.

Ballad of Cyclic Change: By Night Multimedia Art team Kathy Creutzburg, Mirabai Kwan Yin, Jake Elkin, and Aya Harota
2020-12-06 14:00 - 15:30
Please join us for a free, outdoor, socially distanced concert in La Plaza Cultural Community Garden at East 9th St & Avenue C in the East Village at 2pm on Sunday, December 6. Get free, limited tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ballad-of-cyclic-change-musical-performance-using-sound-sculptures-tickets-128777790839 If you’d rather join from home, tune in online at https://www.facebook.com/nightmultimediaart/live or live on Instagram @NightMultimediaArt. You are invited to play the instruments yourself at the garden following the performance!
“Ballad of Cyclic Change” is a multimedia, collaborative art project with interactive sculptures by Kathy Creutzburg, Mirabai Kwan Yin, Jake Elkin and Aya Harota, and live music by Jake Elkin accompanied by Amy Garapic and Ric Becker. Inspired by the biogeochemical cycles and how they mirror cycles in human lives, we built acoustic kinetic sculptures from upcycled everyday materials and created musical compositions using the sculptures as instruments. By connecting human stories of transition to nature’s cycles we encourage people to feel connected to their planet. Come get inspired to share a story from your life of change or transition.
Made possible by LMCC and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA)

FREE Bicycle Repair Class
2021-04-08 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-04-15 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-04-22 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-04-29 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-05-06 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-05-13 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-05-20 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-05-27 18:00 - 19:00 and 4 more dates | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Come learn how to fix bikes, do simple maintenance and tune-ups at the bike mechanic repair classes. Subjects are covered in a four-week rotation beginning the first week of every month:
1st Thursday, 6:00pm – Basics for Beginners
2nd Thursday, 6:00pm – Brakes and Gears
3rd Thursday, 6:00pm – Cups, Cones, and Bearings
4th Thursday, 6:00pm – Wheels and Spokes

Community Garden Green Up Volunteer Days
2021-04-10 12:00 - 15:00, 2021-05-08 12:00 - 15:00, 2021-06-12 12:00 - 15:00 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Your Community Garden needs volunteers!
You”ll be helping to beautify and maintain the garden by pulling weeds, planting seeds, moving dirt, learning about our sustainable systems, and more. This is a great opportunity if you are looking for ways to get involved with the community or to simply spend an afternoon in the urban outdoors
The specific dates and locations are as follows:
– Saturday, April 10th, 12pm: La Plaza Community Garden (SW corner 9th St. & Ave C)
– Saturday, May 8th, 12pm: La Plaza Community Garden (SW corner 9th St. & Ave C)
– Saturday, June 12th, 12pm: La Plaza Community Garden (SW corner 9th St. & Ave C)

Please dress for the weather and wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty and closed-toe shoes. Volunteers may also want to bring water bottles and hats. Masks will be required for participation.

Loisaida Center presents Limpiación: A spiritual cleansing led by Batala NY
2021-04-18 14:00 - 16:30 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
April 18, 2021 – 3:30 – 4:30
Batala New York, with Loisaida Center, will be staging a spiritual musical cleansing on 8th Street and Ave B on Loisaida Open Streets before heading over to La Plaza to bless our bodies with the sounds of batucada.

Ric Becker Jazz Sextet
2021-04-25 14:00 - 17:00 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Come join us for a small jazz performance kindly offered by Ric Becker, who had previously performed at the Ballad of Cyclic Change Performance in November, 2020. Due to COVID-19, we will not allow audience from entering La Plaza- but people will be able to hear the music from outside the garden.

Bring your friends and loved ones!

ECOLOGICAL CITY - Art & Climate Solutions POP-UP PAGEANT
2021-05-08 12:30 - 15:00 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Join us at La Plaza Cultural Community Garden on May 8, 12:30pm, for a 15 minute pop-up performance and ceremony to celebrate the garden and its climate solution initiatives, followed by inspiring visuals, art and puppets throughout the neighborhood! The performance will feature dancers of Global Water Dance and orator Armand A. Ruhlman.

Please note that all safety precautions will be followed – including mask-wearing and physical-distancing.

ART WALK NY
2021-05-22 14:15 - 17:00
Garden walking tour looking at murals and art in various community gardens. Tour ends at La Plaza Cultural (2:15 pm & 4:15 pm). By Art Walk NY

Children's birthday party
2021-06-04 14:00 - 17:00 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States

Green Thumb Open Gardens Day
2021-06-05 11:00 - 12:30
welcome with Parks and the UN

Medicinal Garden Workshop
2021-06-06 14:00 - 17:00
Come learn about medicinal plants and how to heal your body the natural way through plants and herbs! Noreen Kelly, a Naturopath and herbalist, will guide us through this workshop, which will cover how to identify the herbs, what they were traditionally used for, what science there is behind them, and how to prepare them (whether that be a tea, a tincture, a concoction, or a capsule).
Free teas will also be offered, by availability.

CRUSH Poetry
2021-06-18 18:00 - 20:00 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Poetry Reading at La Plaza Cultural

La Luna La Plaza: Full Moon Healing Celebration
2021-06-24 19:30 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Celebrate the light of the full moon in La Plaza Community Garden. Let’s use this celebration as a moment of tranquility and future healing. Feel free to bring blankets and food to share!

Kid's Birthday Party on Saturday
2021-06-26 16:00 - 19:30

Prophecy
2021-06-27 11:00 - 14:00 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Join Ping Chong and Company and TheREDprojectNYC (TRPNYC) as we engage in small group activities, a street wide sing-a-long, and a facilitated dance jam-flash-mob happening!
Registration guarantees your spot as ‘quest-goer’, a group of 80 community members brought together to map out and collaboratively chart a journey launched from the question, “What is the distance of love?” This happening will be driven by inner sensation and outward embodiment.
Prophecy takes place during and celebrates NYC Pride Weekend, and will conclude with a performance-party premiering The Illustrious Black’s newest single, Cloud 9!

CRUSH poetry reading (rain date)
2021-07-07 16:00 - 19:00
