Events Calendar

UNTIL OCT 31 | 10am – 6 pm BARNSLEY BEDS ALL-DAY EXPLORATION

Explore the beautiful display of fruits and vegetables found on a farm at the Barnsley Beds. New York Botanical Garden - Get Tickets 2900 Southern Blvd.

MAY 22 - JUN 27 GYUN HUR: SO WE CAN BE NEAR

This installation visualizes histories that are personal, familial and intimately shared. Under soft, yellow light, etched mirrors line the edges of the Sunroom to open up the space for reflection and introspection. Wave Hill 4900 Independence Ave More info

MAY 11 – JUN 20, | TUE – SAT | 1:30 – 5:30 pm SUN and MON Holidays; 10am – 5:30 pm DIG! PLANT! GROW!

“Salad Days” are here! Explore and learn more about the spring crops (and lots of lettuce!) growing in the garden. Children are invited to pot up their own spring salad mix to take home. New York Botanical Garden 2900 Southern Blvd. click here for more info

SAT, JUN 19-21-26 | JUL 10-17-24 | 3 pm STAGE GARDEN RUMBA IS BACK IN SOUTH BRONX COMMUNITY GARDENS!

Presented in partnership with We Stay/Nos Quedamos, Stage Garden Rumba is an open invitation for all New Yorkers to experience the cultural riches, green spaces, and vibrant Casitas of the South Bronx! The 2021 series comes at you in pumped-up hybrid mode, with both in-person performances throughout the summer and new digital episodes for online and public access television broadcast! For more information about locations, click here.

TUE– THUR, JUN 22 to 24 | 7:30 pm BRINGING TOBACCO & CEDAR: DIGGING INTO PLANTS, ROOTS, JOURNEY

Pregones/PRTT is proud to partner with Jane Gabriels and PEPATIÁN for the second digital edition of their annual Indigenous Women Artists Residency, a project co-directed with Caridad de La Luz. This residency is as a border-crossing gathering that raises the visibility of self-identified Indigenous women artists by providing virtual space to share knowledge through conversation, creative workshops, informal showings, and opportunities to reflect, rejuvenate, and reconnect with the rivers and green spaces of The Bronx, and with its people. Live Online

SAT, JUN 19 | 10am – 2 pm INTERMEDIATE CANOEING

Few experiences compare with being on the open water in New York City. All canoe programs are for ages 8 years and older. Participants are chosen by lottery. Free! Orchard Beach Parking Lot (in Pelham Bay Park) Register here

SAT & SUN, JUN 19-20 | 10 am – 1 pm FAMILY ART PROJECT: CHOSEN FAMILY TREES

Celebrate Pride and commemorate the Stonewall Uprising by creating your own chosen family tree! For LGBTQ people, found families are bonded by an unwavering love, and are supported by each other so they can be their full selves. Celebrate this kind of love by inviting your own chosen family to co-create tree sculptures holding photographs or drawings. Free admission Wave Hill 4900 Independence Ave

THUR, JUN 24 | 12 pm - 1 pm WAVE HILL PRESENTS: JERRON "BLIND BOY" PAXTON

Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton is an American multiinstrumentalist, blues musician and vocalist from Los Angeles. He plays banjo, piano and violin, and his musical influences are rooted mainly in the early blues from the 1920s and 1930s. Paxton’s family, originally from Louisiana, moved to L.A. in the 1950s where he grew up before moving to New York in 2007. With a strong interest in blues and jazz music before World War II, Paxton’s sound is influenced by the likes of Fats Waller and “Blind” Lemon Jefferson. As Will Friedwald has written in The Wall Street Journal, Paxton is “virtually the only music-maker of