Zines and things: 'Bad Soil' this weekend at the First Street Garden

This weekend, the First Street Garden hosts "Bad Soil," "a 3-day outdoor show of small works, found objects and stickers." 

In addition, the garden's zine library will be open, with free copies of the latest release by 2x2 Periodical available. 

"Bad Soil" features works by 2x2 Periodical, Adam Milner, Alexa Punnamkuzhyil, Ana Ratner, Anthony Malone, Cesar van Pinsett, Christina Martinelli, Craig Jun Li, Craig Mathis, Danielo Garcia, Ekaterina Leiva, Gloria Glitzer, Kel Karpinski, Kristina Schmidt, Patrick Carlin Mohundro, Polina Tereshina, SiSi Chen and Vince Park (who created the above flyer). 

Hours: 

Friday, 3-6 p.m. 

Saturday and Sunday, noon-6 p.m. 

The First Street Garden, founded in 1983 (happy No. 40!), is between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Christopher Walken Rex on the move to East 8th Street

The 16-foot Christopher Walken Rex creation is on the move from First Park.

The sculpture created by a group of LES teens is arriving today for a two-week stint at the DeColores Community Garden on East Eighth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C… Catch it when you can.

Take a Walken on the wild side

Just noting the recent arrival of "Christopher Walken Rex," the 16-foot creation in First Park... it's the work of some local teens. They have a blog, which you can find here. BoweryBoogie wrote about this back on Tuesday and has more details on how this all came to be.

The sculpture will be making the rounds in local parks around the city... so catch it here while you can...

[Sorry about that headline too. Been listening to a lot of Lou Reed this past week]

First Street Garden closed until Tuesday

This sight gave us a start...

But. As the sign explains... it's just temporary. Anyone know exactly what the construction is about? (Ah — new fence. See the comments.)