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You don’t want to miss this production in Sara Roosevelt Park!!!

From an earlier Lo-Down podcast on Traven Rice‘s the Lo-Down:

Playwright Carmen Rivera: “We’re living in this divisive time when everyone is screaming at each other,” she said, “so let’s take a step back  and remember that we are living on the same planet. Everyone wants to be heard – giving space to their stories, and giving space to the idea that we should all listen to each other was the work…’Open your heart’ is what we want to say with the piece.”

Alexandra Aron Director

(Founder and Artistic Director of The Remote Theater Project)

“a community engagement project…based on conversations and workshops with…different communities that intersect in the park; the unhoused community, Chinese seniors and more recently, migrant workers who are temporarily living in hotels near the park.”

If you feel a lack of hope, nothing makes that better than spending an evening at FABnyc for the annual Community Hero Awards.

Everyday Lower East Side and Chinatown neighbors making a difference in the lives of others – and transforming their own life in the process.

Frank Arroyo presenter Wendy Brawer

Jeanie Chin presenter Jan Lee

Jenny Deida presented by Jamie Hawk

Terron Lemons presented by substitute

Margaret Yuen presented by Amy Chin

Trever Holland (absent) Ryan Gilliam presented (stay tuned for next year)

Thank you CitizensCommittee for NYC’s Abril Peña for leading us and for inviting A & E volunteers!

The organized, oiled and marked tools and tool bins, they scrubbed the patio chairs, moved large planters, moved trash out, they hefted soil into large planters, the scoured the garden for soil that wasn’t being used, they planted, weeded and rejuvenated spaces here. They pitched in with any task before them.

They took iniative and then offered even more help.

As decades long volunteers, we can’t tell  you what a difference it makes to get this infusion of assistance. Less alone, more aware of the good will of others – it matters. Thank you.

Rob and A & E Real Estate volunteers working in the BRC front gardens: Elizabeth Hubbard, Rivington House, Homeless Memorial and side gardens.

Gus, Debra and Abril!! Neighbors!

Coming to Worship the 1000 Year Old Cherry Tree

Life is good. Goodness is its character; all else is defamation.
The Earth is good. Goodness is its nature. Nature is good. Goodness is its essence. People are also good.

Goodness is our offering; our predictable yet unfathomable flowering.

Thankful and encouraged
Infused with our peaceful inheritance, Our peaceful inheritance,
May we not despair.

– Alice Walker

Thank you  to volunteer organizers Juliana & Hannah. To Lexi, Pilar, Luc, and Partnerships for Parks, And to Colleen (and thank you Sabina for stopping by too!)

Photos of the day:

Compost help

and fence painting:

Tessa’s Garden

Rob’s Garden area with memorials to Bette Hubbard, Rivington House, and those who are Homeless (and soon to be temporary site of our gardens that must move).

And the mothership: M’Finda Kalunga.

South Delancey Gardens: Ribbon, de Britto, Hua Mei, Middle

Sports, help, and more..

Thanks to Yaliza and Angela for helping us prepare for the butterfly releases of University Settlement’s Day Care program!!

Children’s Garden

Thank you to Colleen and food boss Liz!!

And the entire community – new and old…

Thanks Tom for taking on the planters!

The day begins with Bob and a young man who grew up here and now has a family of his own.

And appreciative visitors from England!

“The Muscle” moving mountains (or rain barrels).

Just some of the ‘talent’ that day!

Fixing things: Tom

Turtle Release Squad retrieving the turtles from their winter quarters.

It begins!

Internationally renowned  Turtle expert Richard:

Ted Turtle Whisperer, Caregiver and Boss in MKGarden

Until Turtle Winter removal day…