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MAY

5/4 
MEMBER ORIENTATION: 1:00-3:00 PM

5/10 PERFORMANCE: 2:30-3:30 PM Ecological City: Procession for Climate Solutions
Presented by Earth Celebrations, Ecological City: Procession for Climate Solutions is an urban ecological pilgrimage featuring a spectacular procession with 21 sustainability site performances celebrating climate solution initiatives throughout the community gardens, neighborhood, and waterfront on the Lower East Side of New York City. 6BC hosts singer Jenny Amanda Hurwitz for a brief performance.

5/18 MEMBER ORIENTATION: 1:00-3:00 PM 5/31 CONCERT: 6:00-8:30 PM
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Terra Cotta, Miriam Elhajli, Sid & Devi
Terra Cotta is a chamber folk band from Philadelphia. Their songs draw from global folk
traditions to express the many-faced wonders of love.
Miriam Elhajli is a folk singer, composer-improviser, and musicologist whose work is influenced by the musical traditions of her Venezuelan, Moroccan and North American heritage.
Sid & Dev is a Hindustani classical violin and sitar duo

JUNE

6/7 
MEMBER ORIENTATION: 11:00 AM-2:00 PM

6/14-15 FESTIVAL Open Gardens NYC
Join NYC Parks GreenThumb for the Annual Open Garden NYC on Saturday, June 14 and Sunday, June 15! Hundreds of community gardens are opening their gates to the public for a weekend of free activities and exploration. 6BC hosts a live-scored puppet show, live-scored mime performance and music as part of Open Gardens NYC.

6/14 PUPPETRY, MIME PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC: 4:00-6:30 PM Aesop Sound Fables, Madeleine’s Puppet Show, Austyn Wohlers
Aesop's Sound Fables performs "Drops of Water"
The piece, written for three musicians and a mime, explores the journey of a drop of water across New York State from the Adirondack Mountains, through the Hudson River, into the East River, and ending in NY Harbor. Utilizing both pantomime and field recordings, "Drops of Water" explores the social ecology of New York State's waterways and the parallels between how humans treat their environment and with how we treat each other. The piece is inspired by the writings of the social theorist and political philosopher Murray Bookchin and his 1982 book "The Ecology of Freedom."Aesop's Sound Fables is a trio featuring guitar, bassoon, cello, and vocals.
Madeleine’s Puppet Show
Asheville-based artist Madeleine brings us a wholesome expression of life's wondrousness and the creatures woven within it all through puppetry, featuring a live-score by local musicians.
Austyn Wohlers's ‘Bodymelt in the Garden of Death’ is an unassuming triumph of sonic bereavement, transmitting and translating deeply emotional uncertainty into wholly consuming sounds.

6/15 CONCERT: 4:00-5:00 PM Beyond Flute Group: 3rd Sunday Jazz
The Beyond Flute Group has been playing “in the moment” free jazz, chamber, and experimental music since 2013 and at the 6BC Botanical garden since 2017. Composing from our life experience in music, Beyond Flue Group listens to create improv composed pieces of explorations from the heart, with each player given a chance to voice their individual ideas in unaccompanied solos.

6/18 WELLNESS
Mindful Wednesdays: 
10:30-11:30 AM
Once a month this summer, we’ll gather for a quiet morning of mindfulness and connection in the garden. Created with our Latino elders in mind, these sessions honor culture, community, and care—welcoming all who wish to share in a peaceful moment surrounded by nature.

6/29 CONCERT: 6:00-8:30 PM Grumpy, Asher White, D.A. Crimson
Grumpy, the NYC based-project led by Heaven Schmitt (they/he), released their Bayonet debut EP "Wolfed" in 2024, and since has released two collaborative singles - "Lonesome Ride" with Sidney Gish and Precious Human, and "Harmony" with claire rousay and Pink Must. Grumpy bends genre, with folk and hyperpop influences, resulting in a sound that is all their own.

Asher White’s music is a complex and heartfelt reaction to the churn of our modern world. With tender intimacy and resounding anxiety, White takes a wide view through the lens of her own queer sexual politics and transgender identity; what does it mean to renew, to progress, to transform? What is lost, gained, or irreversibly altered?
D.A. Crimson, the pen name of Brooklyn singer-songwriter Diego Clare brings their introspective folk songs to 6BC, blending elements of grunge, country, dark wave, and indie pop.

JULY

7/13 
GARDEN WORK DAY: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM

7/20 CONCERT: 4:00-5:00 PM Beyond Flute Group: 3rd Sunday Jazz

The Beyond Flute Group has been playing “in the moment” free jazz, chamber, and experimental music since 2013 and at the 6BC Botanical garden since 2017. Composing from our life experience in music, Beyond Flue Group listens to create improv composed pieces of explorations from the heart, with each player given a chance to voice their individual ideas in unaccompanied solos.

7/23 WELLNESS
Mindful Wednesdays: 
10:30-11:30 AM
Once a month this summer, we’ll gather for a quiet morning of mindfulness and connection in the garden. Created with our Latino elders in mind, these sessions honor culture, community, and care—welcoming all who wish to share in a peaceful moment surrounded by nature.

7/24 CONCERT: 6:00-8:45 PM
@, Tasha, Gabriel DeSanto & the Lovers, DJ eora
Gabriel DeSanto & The Lovers play wistful and sacramental songs for you in the tradition of rock n roll music. This one is for the dreamers. Hear their debut on July 24th at 6BC.
dj eora presents new ambient sound collages made for summer days in the garden.
Chicago-born artist Tasha released 'All This and So Much More' amidst performing as one of three lead singers in Tony-winning Broadway musical 'Illinoise'. 'All this and So Much More' is Tasha turned outward, flourishing, telling us what it’s like to take life by the chin and look it in the eye.
@, pronounced “At”, is the folk pop project of Stone Filipczak and Victoria Rose combining midi and analog elements in a home recorded environment.

7/25-27 ART EXHIBITION: 12:00-6:00 PM Surround yourself with Saints by Dana May
7/25 Opening Reception: 5:00-8:00 PM
In Surround yourself with Saints, Dana May paints her friends as saints, using symbolism and various media to convey the protection and guidance they have given her in her life. The exhibition asks us to consider our own friends and how they have been there for us, and how we can better serve those closest to us in troubling and uncertain times.

7/26 CONCERT: 6:00-8:45 PM Good Grief Concert Series: Artists TBA
Good Grief is a deep listening live event series curated by Drew Litowitz (A Place to Go, Marble Rye) and friends. Showcasing ambient, electronic, and experimental live music.
AUGUST

8/9 
GARDEN WORK DAY: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
8/17 CONCERT: 4:00-5:00 PM Beyond Flute Group: 3rd Sunday Jazz
The Beyond Flute Group has been playing “in the moment” free jazz, chamber, and experimental music since 2013 and at the 6BC Botanical garden since 2017. Composing from our life experience in music, Beyond Flue Group listens to create improv composed pieces of explorations from the heart, with each player given a chance to voice their individual ideas in unaccompanied solos.

8/27 WELLNESS
Mindful Wednesdays: 
10:30-11:30 AM
Once a month this summer, we’ll gather for a quiet morning of mindfulness and connection in the garden. Created with our Latino elders in mind, these sessions honor culture, community, and care—welcoming all who wish to share in a peaceful moment surrounded by nature.

8/29 CONCERT: 6:00-8:30 PM
Shara Lunon, Kwami Winfield, Jennae Santos performing as “Eternal Oyster”, Moon Davé: presented by soft moon sounds
Shara Lunon is a poet, vocalist, composer, and improviser, her art finds the ethereal in the chaotic; the electronic in the organic. With voice as the foundation, Shara’s music is an exploration of text, electronics, and melody that seamlessly weaves through the ongoing relationship of struggle, resilience, and resolution.
Kwami Winfield is a musician/sound designer raised in Jersey City, NJ currently performing and recording in Brooklyn, NY. She employs a variety of electronic and acoustic instruments, often smearing any distinction between them connecting complex and interactive networks of sonic systems. Her open-ended definition of "instrument" welcomes all objects, concepts, and feelings into the fray. Her core toolset features cornet, hardware and software electronics pushed toward the limit.
Jennae Santos is an interdisciplinary artist building tactile mythos through lovesong, sound, and ceremony. Their project “Eternal Oyster” is an earth body research-response container for eco-poetics, earth shapes, and animal architecture grounded in landback, food systems, and climate justice.
Moon Davé is a sound artist, improvisor, and organizer. She taps into unreachable emotional pockets through enveloping textural soundscapes using granular synthesis, field recordings, feedback, and guitar.

8/30 ART EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE: 12:00-8:00 PM Music from high buildings, in my hand a flower.
Music from high buildings, in my hand a flower., an art show at 6BC garden curated by Sarah Viviana Valdez, features three visual artists and one performance artist. Each artist will immerse their visual language within the gardens' history and space surrounded by this enormous city.

8/31-9/7 ART INSTALLATION: On view Saturdays and Sundays 12:00-6:00 PM what is big is many of / what is small is single of by mollie caffey
mollie caffey presents their ongoing installation what is big is many of / what is small is single of, representing if you were a microbe looking into the b.o.s.s. super structure.

8/31 READ-A-THON: 12:00 PM-6:00 PM
Bring a book and a friend to 6BC and read in the company of community and beautiful plants to
celebrate the opening of mollie caffey’s installation what is big is many of / what is small is single of. Science and Sci-Fi books are especially encouraged. We will document books read throughout the day, creating a web examining our interconnectedness from the small microbes of our community to the big expanse of the galaxy and beyond.
We will also be accepting book donations to add to the 6BC tree house library and the Little Free Libraries!

SEPTEMBER

9/12-20 FESTIVAL
LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival
LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival features Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens (LUNGS) and
community gardens in the Lower East Side for a multi-day celebration of art, music, poetry, puppets, workshops, theater, opera, dance, spoken word, drag performances and fun! 6BC hosts two art exhibitions, two concerts, a wearable sculpture fashion show and a dance theater performance as part of the festival kickoff weekend.

9/12 ART EXHIBITION & CONCERT: 5:00-8:00 PM Psychological Flesh by Matt Hall
Psychological Flesh is an art exhibition by Matt Hall that explores the mind body connection & hidden shadow parts of the psyche through grotesque illustrative tufted rugs. This collection of 6 foot rugs tells the story of an individual experiencing positive disintegration through emotional pain. A process where the individual breaks down inside in order to reorganize into a more emotionally complex being. A push to become more autonomous & competent through the gift of suffering, and depicts the cast of characters encountered on their journey through the invisible internal world of the mind.

EXHIBITION CONCERT: 6:00-8:00 PM
Christian Filardo, Gracie Gray, + Surprise Guests TBA
Christian Filardo is an artist and musician living and working in Queens, New York. In January 2025, Filardo released “What if God Was Sleeping,” arriving after almost a decade-long hiatus from audio creation as a whole. Utilizing unorthodox tape recording techniques, the recordings were made with various tape machines and synthesizers with a focus in vocal sampling, tape looping, and magnet induced tape decay.
Gracie Gray is a songwriter and recording artist currently based in upstate New York. Her 2024 self-produced, co-mixed and co-engineered record “Magnet” marks her third LP, demonstrating Gray’s multi-instrumentalist and vocal range. Proud owner of a bad dog and a lot of songs.

9/13 FASHION AND ART: Time TBA
Independent design space Lagoon New York presents Curious Silhouettes: Wearable Sculpture.

9/14 ART INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE: 12:00-7:00 PM Slow Violence, a collaboration by Izzy Leung and Laura Witsken
Slow Violence, a collaborative piece by Izzy Leung and Laura Witsken, is a sculpture with an accompanying durational performance of ice, material, and body exploring the gradual degradation of our environmental world. Accompanying performances will take place at 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00 PM.

9/14 CONCERT AND DANCE THEATER: 5:00-7:00 PM
R&D, yours are the only ears, dance theater produced by Campbell Ives
R&D is the experimental, improvisational guitar & harp duo of Dan Knishkowy (Adeline Hotel) and Rebecca El-Saleh (Kitba), exploring the intersection of composition and improv, ambience and melody.
yours are the only ears is the indie folk project of songwriter and artist Susannah Cutler. Her evocative songs create a quiet intensity where anything can be felt.
Campbell Ives presents a site-responsive dance theater performance, which explores the human body as a part of nature, contrasting the colonial-capitalist paradigm that separates humanity from the planet. This piece will feature 5 dancers, incorporating audience interaction and improvisation to highlight embodied ecologies and facilitate emotional expression.
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9/21 CONCERT: 4:00-5:30 PM
Beyond Flute Group: “Howling for Jeremy Steig” Solo Flute Festival
The Beyond Flute Group has been playing acoustic chamber jazz since 2013 and music at the 6BC Botanical garden since 2017. We are an acoustic, free jazz, experimental group, mostly flutes, playing in the moment music. Composing in the moment from our life experience in music, and listening to create through composed pieces of new jazz explorations from the heart, each player a chance to voice their individual ideas in unaccompanied solos .
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  • About Us
    • 6BC History Project
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  • Visit
  • Get Involved
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    • Volunteer
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  • Events/Calendar
    • Events 2025 Schedule
    • Event FAQS
  • The Garden
    • Garden Rules For Members
    • Plot Stewardship
    • How to Water the Garden
    • 6BC Plants >
      • 6BC Plants Gallery
      • Black-eyed Susan
      • Bleeding Heart
      • Bugleweed (Ajuga)
      • Corydalis
      • Crocus
      • Dutchman's Pipe
      • Hellebore
      • Iris
      • Jacob's Ladder
      • Lady's Mantle
      • Lily of the Valley
      • Solomon's Seal
      • Spurge
      • Winter Aconite
    • Help Us Identify These Plants
    • Creature Features >
      • Protect Your Pet - Toxic Plants
      • Know Your Butterflies
      • Get To Know These Common Birds
      • World Birds - For the Joy of Birding
  • Gardening 101
    • Best Practices
    • Garden Glossary
    • Glossary of Leaf Morphology
    • Benefits of Native Plants
    • Weeds
  • CONTACT
  • Donate