Community events on 12th Street today

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Campos Community Garden invites the community to join us for our 14th annual celebration of Dia de Los Muertos on Saturday, Oct. 26, 3-6 p.m. As always, it’s a free event in remembrance of our loved ones. We will commemorate Dia de los Muertos with arts & crafts, Mexican hot chocolate & sweet breads, and ceremonial dancing by Cetiliztl Nauhcampa dancers (ceremony at 4 p.m.). 

Leave an offering at the altar if you wish. (You can also visit the altar on Sunday, Oct. 27, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. during public hours.) Garden: 640 E. 12th St. between Avenue B and Avenue C 

And next door... 

The Children's Workshop School will host Harvest Festival on Saturday, Oct. 26, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. This seasonal favorite returns with fall-themed crafts & activities, games, food, and our first-ever pie-baking contest! Open to the greater community! 

It's also a wonderful chance to meet families if you're interested in applying for school next year, as well as supporting our public progressive school: 610 E. 12th St. between Avenue B and Avenue C.

This weekend: Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at Campos Community Garden

The annual celebration of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) takes place Sunday from 2-5 p.m. at the Campos Community Garden, 640 E. 12th St. between Avenue B and Avenue C. 

Here's more info via the EVG inbox... 

We invite you back to our community event for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at Campos Community Garden. 

• Altar set up Saturday, 12-4 p.m. 

• Community Event Sunday, 2-5 p.m. 

• Cetiliztl Nauhcampa Dancers Ceremony Sunday, 3 p.m. 

We will have our sheltered altar set up in the gazebo. Feel free to bring your items in remembrance of your friends, relatives, pets, or any of your loved ones. There will also be an area for kids to make items to add to the altar. 

This is our 13th?! year organizing the event for the community. It's a tradition connected to Aztec/Indigenous roots and Spanish traditions. It is several days — of not mourning or sadness — but Dia de los Muertos celebrates the lives of the deceased with food, drink, parties, and activities the dead enjoyed in life. 

Come enjoy with us in the garden. Bring an item for the altar in remembrance of a loved one or someone you admired, especially those we lost during the pandemic and other recent tragedies. 

Celebrating the dead at Campos Community Garden

The annual celebration of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) takes place Sunday at the Campos Community Garden on 12th Street.

From 2-6 p.m., you can find arts and crafts ... as well as ceremonial dancing at 3 p.m.

The altar will also be open for residents to leave objects in memory of a loved one who has died.

Campos Community Garden is at 640 E. 12th St. between Avenue B and Avenue C. 

[Updated] Can you Handel some opera in a community garden?

UPDATED!

Due to the rain expected on Friday, organizers have moved opening night to tomorrow (Saturday) and added a Sunday show. Friday reservations are being honored for both Saturday and Sunday. And per the organizers: "Come as you are. All are welcome."

Via the EVG inbox...

Opera Praktikos (OPrak) will present a one-act distillation of Handel's rarely performed opera, "Orlando" in collaboration with Opera Essentia as their inaugural presentation in the NY OperaFest. 

This distillation of Handel’s masterpiece, here titled "Orlando: Hero of Love," explores love and madness from contemporary sensibilities, centering on what it means to love truly and how to endure pain and loss.

Performances occur tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday at Campos Community Garden on 12th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C. There is an encore presentation on June 10-11. The start time is 6:30 p.m. Tickets are free, and you can reserve seats via this link.

In the photo below, Opera Praktikos co-founders Gregory Moomjy and Marianna Mott Newirth check out Campos Community Garden (photo by Dailin Mercedes) ...

An invitation for Day of the Dead at Campos Community Garden

Via the EVG inbox...

Te invitamos a nuestra Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead.) This is an invitation to our neighbors from the members of Campos Community Garden on 12th Street.

Being respectful of COVID-19, we won’t be hosting a large event this year, but we will continue to honor our lost loved ones, especially those souls lost to the pandemic, police brutality and racism.

On Sunday, Nov. 1 from noon to 4 p.m., our altar will be open for viewing by the entrance and for leaving objects in memory of your beloved.

If you can’t make it during that time, we will also have our fence decorated and at anytime on Sunday you can also leave/attach your objects to the decorations there.

Please wear a mask and practice social distancing.

Campos Community Garden is on 12th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.

A Winter Solstice celebration today at the Campos Community Garden

Volunteers at the Campos Community Garden are hosting their Winter Solstice celebration today from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Among other things, you can burn your grievances "to open space for new goals in the coming year" and enjoy candied lemons made from the garden's very own lemon tree.

Campos Community Garden is at 640 E. 12th St. between Avenue B and Avenue C.

Celebrating the dead at Campos Community Garden

The sixth annual weekend celebration of Día de los Muertos — Day of the Dead — concludes today at the Campos Community Garden on 12th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.

EVG contributor Stacie Joy shared this photo of the altar, where people can bring an item in memory of a loved one...



Today's activities include an Aztec dance performance by Cetiliztli Nauhcampa at 3 p.m. Garden volunteers will also be serving free Mexican sweet bread and hot chocolate.