15th Annual
LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival
Friday, September 18 – Sunday, September 27, 2026
Since 2011, the Harvest Arts Festival has closed out the community garden season with ten days of art, music, poetry, puppets, workshops, theater, opera, dance, and spoken word across the gardens of Loisaida.
A few highlights
Opening night
Friday, September 18, 6pm — La Plaza Cultural. The Pressure Point Brass Band opens the festival, followed at 8pm by Isabel Estrada Jamison and friends presenting Afro-Cuban folklore and Rumba de Corazón.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Friday, September 25, 2–5pm — El Jardin del Paraiso. GreenThumb presents the author of Braiding Sweetgrass for a talk and demonstration.
Anarchist Book Fair
Saturday, September 26, 12–7pm — La Plaza Cultural.
Kids Day
Saturday, September 26 — El Jardin del Paraiso. Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, Bengali puppets with Sayma Karim, Coach Rocco George, music and dance from Son Pecadores, and a staged reading of The Animals’ Lawsuit Against Humanity.
Co-sponsors
- Council Member Christopher Marte
- Howl Arts
- La Plaza Cultural Armando Perez Garden
- Green Oasis & Gilbert’s Sculpture Garden
- De Colores Community Yard
- Art Loisaida Foundation
Thank you to our neighborhood supporters
These local businesses support the gardens and keep this festival free. Please support them back.
- B Scene, 50 Ave B
- Block Drug Store, 101 2nd Ave
- Bobby’s Night Out, 145 Loisaida Ave
- C & B Café, 178 E 7th St
- Exit9 Gift Emporium, 51 Ave A
- Fiaschetteria Pistoia, 647 E 11th St
- Gnocco, 337 E 10th St
- HiLot, 102 Ave C
- Josie’s, 520 E 6th St
- Kati, 347 E 14th St
- Lilly’s Shakes & Crepes, 134 Loisaida Ave
- Lucky, 168 Ave B
- Mona’s, 224 Ave B
- Ninth Street Espresso, 700 E 9th St
- Royale, 157 Ave C
- Sophie’s, 509 E 5th St
- The Source Unltd Print & Copy Shop, 331 E 9th St
- The York, 186 Ave B
- Two Perrys, 127 Loisaida Ave
- Tompkins Square Bagels, 165 Ave A
Special thanks
This festival runs on volunteers. Our thanks to everyone who made the 15th annual Harvest Arts Festival happen.
Alexis Adler
Christopher Batenhorst
Kay Bloss
Wendy Brawer
Dania Bressler
Doug Bressler
Bunny
Patrick Cavanagh
Riki Colon
Carmine D’Intino
Eileen Doster
Anne Edris
Shawn Garcia
Frank Gonzalez
Michael Hinds
George Hirose
Alvah Holmes
Merica May Jensen
Karen Kandrac
Max Katz
Jonathon Lefkowitz
Sylvain Leroux
Beverley Love
Ross Martin
E. Shig Matsukawa
Santo Mollica
Carolyn Ratcliffe
Magali Regis
Daniel Root
Rina Root
Anna Sawaryn
Christian Schoenberg
Laura Sewell
Sparrow X
Erika Suban
Brian at TriStar Offset
Debra Williams
Sally Young
Chinese-American Planning Council – Manhattan
Dahlimama Inc
GrowNYC
Loisaida Community Gardeners
Loisaida Open Streets
Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York
LUNGS CSA Volunteers
NYC Parks GreenThumb
NYC Summer Youth Employment Program
TriStar Offset
Program design by Christian Schoenberg.
Get involved
Perform, exhibit, or volunteer. The festival runs entirely on volunteers and on artists who offer their work for free. Email info@lungsnyc.org or contact us online.
Sponsor the festival. Local businesses and individual donors cover the permits, sound, printing, and materials that keep all fifty-plus events free. To join next year’s supporter list, write to info@lungsnyc.org.