You can check out the the 6th and B Garden this weekend

Garden prep photo last week by Stacie Joy 

The 6th & B Garden on the SW corner of Sixth Street and Avenue B is holding its first open hours of the season — today and tomorrow (Saturday and Sunday) from 1-6 p.m. 

The garden, which started in 1983, also hosts various events during the year. Check out their website here... or Instagram here.

6&B Garden’s 41st annual Harvest Fest set for tomorrow (Saturday!)

The 6th Street and Avenue B Garden is hosting its 41st Harvest Festival tomorrow (Saturday!) at the SW corner of Sixth Street and Avenue B. 

Here's what to expect via the EVG inbox... 

 ...from 2-7pm, with free food + music for our community + an enormous list of fantastic raffle prizes from our beloved local businesses (raffle tickets are still just $1 and go on sale at 12:30 p.m. outside the garden on Saturday) with all proceeds going to support the garden. The full list of prize donors can be found on our website, with even more updates forthcoming today and tomorrow.

At a 6th & B Garden Variety performance with Angela Di Carlo and Dirty Martini

Photo by Stacie Joy 

There was a full house on Tuesday evening in the 6th and B Garden for Angela Di Carlo's Attention Deficit Disorder Cabaret ... which is part of TWEED TheaterWorks ongoing Garden Variety series.

The evening included special guest star Dirty Martini...

Michael Musto was among those on hand for the performances...

The next Garden Variety event happens here at the SW corner of Avenue B and Sixth Street on Sept. 12 featuring Julian Fleisher. Find other free 6th & B Garden events at this link.

Harvest time: Happy 40th anniversary to the 6th and B Garden

The 6th Street and Avenue B Garden is celebrating its 40th year here at the SW corner of Sixth Street and Avenue B. 

Tomorrow (Sunday, the rain date), the garden hosts its annual HarvestFest from 2-7 p.m.

What to expect? Via the EVG inbox...

... free food + music for our community + an enormous list of fantastic raffle prizes from our beloved local businesses (raffle tickets are still just $1 and go on sale at 12:30 p.m. outside the garden on Sunday), with all proceeds supporting the garden. The complete list of prize donors can be found on our website at 6bgarden.org, with even more updates forthcoming... 

The East Village Rocks for Ukraine tomorrow at the 6th and B Garden

This is a make-up date for the event.

The 6th Street and Avenue B Garden plays host tomorrow (Sunday, Aug. 6) to two local bands in a program titled "East Village Rocks for Ukraine!" 

From 5-7 p.m., you can enjoy the sounds of the Timbres and Soul Cake ... as well as information on the current situation in Ukraine. 

The community garden is on the SW corner of Sixth Street and Avenue B. 

Check out 6 plays written and performed by local artists at the 6th and B Garden

 

The second annual LUNGS Theater Festival takes place this weekend at the 6th Street and Avenue B Garden.

The free performances are from 3-6 p.m. each day. Note: The program is the same today and tomorrow.

Baking news: The annual plant and bake sale is this weekend at the 6th & B Garden

Flyer by Briar Winters

The annual plant and bake sale takes place this weekend (Saturday and Sunday!) from noon to 5 p.m. at the 6th Street and Avenue B Garden

You can find the plants and baked goods here on the southwest corner of Avenue B and Sixth Street. Proceeds help fund the various events — music, workshops, poetry, screenings and more — during the year.

Time for some plants and baked good at the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden

The crap weather KO'd the annual plant and bake sale at the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden last weekend ... so garden members are trying again this weekend from noon to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow (Saturday and Sunday!). 

This weekend, you can find the plants and baked goods here on the southwest corner of Avenue B and Sixth Street. Funds help fund the various events — music, workshops, poetry, screenings and more — during the year.

Bake news: The annual plant and bake sale is this weekend at the 6th & B Garden

The annual plant and bake sale is going on this weekend at the Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden. Per the Facebook invite:

Our annual fund raiser to help bring you events for the rest of the open season. Delicious home-made baked goods and lots of plants for you to grow at home or in your backyard are available for sale.

The sale is Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the garden on the southwest corner of Sixth Street and Avenue B... 

Is this your cat?

The folks at the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden are looking to find the owner of this cat, who volunteers say has been causing a few problems for Oreo, their resident feline 😿 ... more details in the tweet below from today...

Hi neighbors! This cat has been coming to our garden this week + starting fights with our very elderly garden cat, Oreo. If you know who this cat belongs to, please ask them to keep it inside, otherwise we will need to trap it. Thanks for helping us spread the word! pic.twitter.com/6WLz43TTEX

— 6B Garden (@6BGarden) April 13, 2020

Reap the Harvest at the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden

Time for the annual Harvest Festival at the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden tomorrow (Oct. 5).

Per the Facebook invite:

Once again we have our annual neighborhood harvest festival with our legendary free to the public, delicious chicken and corn bar-b-cue and great entertainment on our stage. Plus our famous neighborhood rafffle with dozens of great prizes from local businesses. Drop by, have some food, listen to the entertainment, buy a raffle ticket or two or three or more. All proceeds go to the upkeep of the garden.

The festivities take place from 2 to 7 p.m.

Rain date today for the annual 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden plant and bake sale

Last Sunday, the annual 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden plant and bake sale got rained out... so, they'll be hosting a do-over today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Per the invite:

This is a fundraiser and the proceeds from sales goes to fund the 6&B Events Program that brings you FREE Events-Music, workshops, poetry, screenings and much more throughout the Summer months! Help support us — buy a plant, a yummy home-made baked good, a T-shirt and more!

Wake up to the annual plant and bake sale at the 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden

The 6th Street and Avenue B Community Garden is holding its annual plant and bake sale today and tomorrow... from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Plants for outdoors and indoors. Flowers and vegetable gardening. Lots of home-baked goods from garden members. Find it on the southwest corner of Avenue B at Sixth Street.

Easter at the 6th and B Garden

Egg hunt tomorrow (Sunday! Easter!) at the 6th and B Garden from noon to 2 p.m.

Time for the Harvest Festival at the 6th and B Community Garden

Tomorrow marks the 32nd annual Harvest Festival at the 6th and B Community Garden (on the corner of Sixth Street and Avenue B, if this is helpful).

There will be music, BBQ and a raffle during the festivities (2-7 p.m.).

You can find more details on Facebook here. Find a list of the raffle prizes (dinner for two at the Odessa!) here.

Short films program tonight at the 6th and B Garden

Tonight at 8 at the 6th and B Garden (Avenue B at 6th Street) ... re-scheduled from last Saturday night's rain out ...

Head to the 6 & B website for more details.

Included in the program is a feature on Eddie Boros, the neighborhood character/artist who created the Tower of Toys at the Garden. Boros died in 2007 at age 74. The Tower was removed the next year.

Plants and baked goods for sale this weekend at the 6th & B Community Garden

Via the EVG inbox...

The 6th & B Community Garden Plant & Bake Sale Fundraiser

Sixth Street and Avenue B (entrance on Avenue B between Fifth and Sixth)

Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Plant and Bake Sale supports the Garden's Events Committee's community programs, which include crafts, horticultural/science workshops, culinary events, films, multicultural festivals, and musical and theatrical performances from around the world.

Fundraiser at the 6th and B Garden tomorrow

Via the EVG inbox...

Remembering East Village resident Mary Bellis

Via the EVG inbox...

Longtime East Village resident Mary Bellis aka CalmX was a filmmaker, artist and writer.

She received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and funding from the National Film Board of Canada to create her experimental works. Her 1984 independent film "Agent of Paradise" shot in the New York underground art scene starred numerous downtown performance artists, including John Kelly, The Unknown Comic, Philly McAninch as well as James Oseland star of Bravo TV’s "Top Chef Masters." "Agent of Paradise" premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and screened in art house theaters worldwide.

Mary worked as an independent video game developer, animator and journalist while continuing to make and exhibit her computer-generated art. She was the originator and author of the Inventors site for the web portal about.com.

Mary loved tending her garden at 6th Street and Avenue B and dancing at the Pyramid Club. Mary was a beautiful person and dear friend and will be greatly missed by all of those she touched.

Please join us in a celebration of life for our friend at the 6th Street and Ave B Community Garden on Sunday from 4-8 p.m.

Bellis died on March 28 following a short illness.

The 6th & B Garden plant and bake sale continues today

Day 2 of the garden's annual plant and bake sale continues today from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. ... on the southwest corner of Avenue B and East Sixth Street...

As a garden rep told us, "It's our main fundraiser for the season and allows us to put on hundreds of free events throughout the season for the community."