Thursday, September 19, 2024

Explore neighborhood community gardens during the 13th annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival

The 13th annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival begins tomorrow night (Friday, Sept. 20). 

This year's festival, which runs through Sept. 29, includes 10 days of free activities at dozens of East Village/LES community gardens. Each garden features various performances, concerts, workshops, and other related events. Check the LUNGS website here for the day-by-day, garden-by-garden schedule. 

The opening night event at La Plaza Cultural on the SW corner of Avenue C and Ninth Street starts at 6 ... showcasing Avon Faire, performing traditional Celtic and English folk songs, and Source and Abdoulaye Diabate, providing "a vibrant and danceable mix of music of Guinea and Mali with a jazz inflection."
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5 comments:

  1. Jose GarciaSeptember 19, 2024 at 9:40 AM

    We are big Avon Faire fans. Looking forward to this.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2024 at 2:37 PM

    I love community gardens but in this day and age of a housing crisis we need to think about converting some gardens to affordable housing. Especially the small gardens that are shade bound and barely have visitors.

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    1. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM

      Couldn’t disagree more. Don’t put gardens and affordable housing against each other

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    2. BrianSeptember 19, 2024 at 4:41 PM

      No we don't. You want to put hi-rises in every corner of every neighborhood that wasn-t designed for it and make the city even worse tha it is now? Why build in the one city that is overbuilt to begin with? Maybe move to Iowa or White Plains. Not everyone deserves to live in Alphabet City. Plenty of other places besides NYC where affordable housing would be much more effective and practical to build than in NYC.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2024 at 5:32 PM

    How do we have a housing crisis when 700,000 have left the city over the past 4 years and businesses are not at pre-COVID operations. The housing crisis is a manufactured crisis by the real estate industry and politicians. If it is said it enough times, hopefully people will believe it. But data doesn’t lie.

    And yes, don’t pit parks and housing. That only reveals your greed.

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