Friday, September 18 – Sunday, September 27, 2026
The 15th annual Harvest Arts Festival brings over 50 events to 30 community gardens across the Lower East Side. Ten days of music, poetry, puppets, film, theater, workshops, and art, in the gardens our neighbors built and still tend. Every event is free.
Rescheduled
The Harvest Arts Festival is back on this weekend
The events cancelled by last weekend’s nor’easter have been rescheduled to Saturday, October 3 and Sunday, October 4. Nine gardens, music from noon to 8pm on Sunday, Kids Day, a performance at La Plaza, and both climate garden tours. Everything is free.
Saturday, October 3
6B Garden — Annual HarvestFest from 2pm. Music, BBQ, raffle prizes, and The BioBus mobile science lab.
El Sol Brillante — Garden tour, 3 to 4:30pm. Sustainability in Community Gardens with architect Magali Regis.
Sunday, October 4
Green Oasis — Renegade Brunch at noon, then music through 8pm: Hellhounds, Matthieu Eveillard, Susan McKeown and Kyle Sanna, Sparrow and The Truffles, Villa Delirium, Rutherford Jones & the BQE, and Ray Santiago.
El Jardin del Paraiso — Kids Day, 1 to 5pm. Marionettes, Bengali puppets, Coach Rocco George, Son Pecadores, and a staged reading of The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity.
Pancho’s Garden — Los Fascinantes, 1 to 3pm.
La Plaza Cultural — Mudbird 3, a performance by Theresa and Sparrow Byrnes, 3 to 4pm.
Plus Baby Soda and Mitchell Cheng at Miracle Garden, the Ethan Silverman Trio at Sam & Sadie Koenig, the Renaissance Street Singers at First Street, and the LES Power garden tour with Wendy Brawer.
Please note: 11BC Serenity Garden and Creative Little Garden are not able to reschedule their programming. The garden tours are mile-long walks and heavy rain cancels them — RSVP here.
Weather update · September 25, 2026
This weekend’s events are cancelled
Due to the nor’easter, all Harvest Arts Festival events scheduled for Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27 are cancelled.
Many of those events are moving to Sunday, October 4, including Kids Day at El Jardin del Paraiso and the Green Oasis music lineup. Other gardens are still confirming new dates, and we will post them as we have them.
Sunday, October 4
Green Oasis — Renegade Brunch at noon, then Hellhounds, Matthieu Eveillard, Susan McKeown and Kyle Sanna, Sparrow and The Truffles, Villa Delirium, Rutherford Jones & the BQE, and Ray Santiago through 8pm.
El Jardin del Paraiso — Kids Day, 1 to 5pm. Marionettes, Bengali puppets, Coach Rocco George, Son Pecadores, and a staged reading of The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity.
Everything is still free. Stay dry, and we hope to see you on the 4th.
Weather update · September 20, 2026
Today’s events are postponed
Due to rain, all Harvest Arts Festival events scheduled for today, Sunday, September 20, have been postponed to new dates.
Please check the schedule for updated dates and times. Thank you for your patience, and we hope to see you there.
The festival runs through Sunday, September 27. Everything else is still on, and every event is free.