Panel Discussion with Q&A to follow on the intersect of green space and urban policy in NYC. Panelists are pulled form agencies, NFP's and science professionals to discuss why NYC needs green space and how urban policy affects and is affected by communities. The Community Garden movement was homegrown in the LES starting with Liz...
During the past decade, Cooper Square Committee (CSC) has created a Tenant Organizing Department that has gone after the worst landlords in the East Village/Lower East Side. CSC’s success in organizing tenants to fight “predatory equity speculators” has resulted in several multi-million settlements for tenants, and a prison sentence for one landlord. Visit CSC’s Open...
Join WOW for story circles, improv games, and fellowship. WOW invites old and new WOW members and those who are WOW curious to get to know each other and share our experiences with the community.
East Village Independent Merchants Association (EVIMA) & The Gray Mare Grab a drink and kick back with LES-themed bar trivia featuring prizes donated by East Village merchants! Your hosts from NYC Trivia League will serve up six rounds of LES-themed trivia ranging from music, pop culture, notable people, and more. Entertaining, educational, and a great...
Chen Dance Center Outdoor showing of MOTT STREET excerpt – a dance honoring NYC garment workers – choreographed by H.T. Chen and music by Charlie Chin.
Join the Tenement Museum for a virtual tour of the tenement home of the Wongs: explore their home, work in the garment industry, and the role of union membership for the family. They moved to the Lower East Side in the late 1960s, and we’ll look at how they made a home in the neighborhood...
A multidisciplinary visual Art exhibit entitled "Artists Embrace Liberty and Freedom" showing paintings, photography, sculpture, collage, mixed media works by Artists who either live or work in the LES. The opening reception is Wednesday May 25, dates of exhibit are from May 14-June 30.
East Village Independent Merchants Association (EVIMA), LES Small Business Alliance, Cooper Square Committee, La Sala de Pepe Take a glimpse into Loisaida past and present with an event featuring a conversation with leaders and longtime residents of the neighborhood. Hear stories and learn about the community history followed by time for questions.
Theater for the New City The Lower East Side Festival of the Arts For your delight and entertainment and free! Theater, Music, Dance, Video, Film, Poetry, Cabaret, Kid's Stuff, Fun Outside: Cultural Fair, Performances, Food, Vendors Inside: Variety Arts, Theatrical Excitement Free! Fun!
Bring your own mat for our annual and free 45-minute vinyasa flow yoga class taught by Alexandra Royals of Yes, Yea, Yoga! Breath in environmental beauty on the great lawn at Orchard Alley, one of the Lower East Side’s oldest community gardens. Ayo Harrington, LES Community Hero and founder of Orchard Alley Community Garden, will...
Loisaida Inc. It’s the 35th Anniversary of the iconic Loisaida Festival, finally back on the streets after a 2-year mandatory Covid-19 hiatus, we’re back! Better, bigger and greener than ever, along Avenue C in Manhattan’s Lower Eastside in the heart of Alphabet City. Loisaida will shine again as a beacon of Puerto Rican and Caribbean...
City Lore is excited to launch "Rise Up! Activism on the Lower East Side," an oral history-based place-marking project that aims to honor and illuminate the activist histories of pioneering organizations and individuals on the LES, our long-time home. Through Rise Up!, our team of historians, activists, and designers are developing unique, informative, and artful...