La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez Community Garden

FREE Bicycle Repair Class
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, 2021-06-03 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-06-10 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-06-17 18:00 - 19:00, 2021-06-24 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | 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
2021-05-08 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.

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 | NY
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 | NY
welcome with Parks and the UN

Medicinal Garden Workshop
2021-06-06 14:00 - 17:00 | NY
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, 2021-07-23 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 | NY

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 | NY

(private birthday party)
2021-07-11 08:00 - 17:00 | NY

Thunder in the garden: BATALA NYC practice
2021-07-18 08:00 - 17:00 | NY

Kid's Day at La Plaza
2021-07-25 10:30 - 14:00 | NY
Join us for a mid-day break full of movement and history! Hosted in La Plaza Community Garden, kids will be guided through short yoga sessions along with a brief introduction to the garden’s history and a scavenger hunt event! Bring your own lunch for a picnic in the garden. Rain cancels.
Sign up on the signupgenius page to secure a spot for a yoga session!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4DA9A928A4F9C70-kids

Moving the Bar: Remembering Michael Ratner
2021-07-27 08:00 - 17:00 | NY
Book party and celebration of the late, great international human rights lawyer Michael Ratner

Pinc Louds
2021-07-31 16:00 - 19:00 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Local jazz-punk-surf-doowop-indie rock heroes Pinc Louds will play some of their signature weirdo-joyous tunes before they sail off on a tour to promote their second full-length album, La Atomica. Dancing is encouraged.

Free Bicycle Repair Classes
2021-08-05 18:00 - 20:00 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Every Thursday at 6pm for the month of August.

A Thousand Suns
2021-08-05 19:30 - 21:00, 2021-08-06 19:30 - 21:00 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
On the evenings of Thursday, August 5th, Friday, August 6th and Saturday, August 7th, we’ll be hosting a production of an experimental theater performance by Yara Arts Group called A Thousand Suns. The performances will run from 7:30 to 9pm. Yara, which draws on the contemporary and traditional cultures of Eastern Europe in its work, is part of LaMaMa, and in this production, the main characters are the trees.

Let's Go, LES
2021-08-06 16:30 - 19:30 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St and Avenue C, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Celebrating a week of wellness and fitness with the Center for Wellbeing and Happiness
