Weekends in Bloom: Sunday, May 12 [Canceled] - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Weekends in Bloom: Sunday, May 12 [Canceled]

Weekends in Bloom: Sunday, May 12 [Canceled]

Weekends in Bloom

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Programs are canceled on Sunday, May 5 due to inclement weather.

Weekends from April 27 to May 12, celebrate cherry blossom season and all the spring blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden with casual, pop-up music and dance performances, morning programming for kids and families in the Discovery Garden, and Garden tours.

All programs free with Garden admission. See all weekends.

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Activities

  • Two young girls prepare food in the Children's Garden.

    10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
    Discovery Garden

    Spring Family Discovery Weekends

    Learn and play together in the Discovery Garden. Hands-on stations throughout the garden’s courtyard, meadow, woodland, and marsh encourage families to explore nature alongside our volunteer Discovery Docents and teen garden apprentices.

  • Man with dreads carrying guitar case behind his head during sunset.

    12–12:45 p.m.
    Plant Family Collection

    JC Maillard

    Songwriter and master of Caribbean guitar JC Maillard brings an acoustic trance of zouk and gwoka music from his native Guadeloupe to the stage with his own signature style.

    Presented in partnership with I AM caribBEING

  • Samba performer poses with arm outstretched.

    1–1:30 p.m.
    Cranford Rose Garden

    Samba New York!

    Join this world-renowned performance company in a drum and dance procession in the spirit of Rio’s famous Carnaval. Samba New York are dedicated to educating, entertaining, and uplifting people of all backgrounds with the exhilarating national music and dance of Brazil.

  • A view of a bridge in the Japanese garden.

    1–2 p.m.
    Magnolia Plaza

    Seasonal Highlights Tour

    Discover BBG’s plants and gardens in peak bloom and other highlights of the season on this tour led by a Garden Guide. Meet on Magnolia Plaza by building steps.

  • Musician wearing black poses along grassy train track.

    1:30 & 3 p.m.
    Alfred T. White Memorial Amphitheater

    FADA: Éléonore Weill and Miriam Elhaji

    FADA is a folk-rock chanson voyage through the fairy-inhabited brain of singer and multi-instrumentalist Éléonore Weill. She performs original songs, old, traditional, famous, and forgotten songs of resistance, peace, justice, and love in Yiddish, French, Occitan (Southern French language), and English accompanied by Miriam Elhaji.

  • Two members of the Brownstone Jazz Ensemble playing a cello and trumpet on the grass under a tent.

    2:30–3:15 p.m.
    Plant Family Collection

    Brownstone Jazz Ensemble

    Enjoy a performance by Brownstone Jazz Ensemble featuring Eric Lemons (bass), Silvano Monasterios (piano), Barbara King (vocals), David Lee Jones (sax), and Bobby Sanabria (drums).

Support

Art in the Garden is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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