Weekends from April 26 to May 11, 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. 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 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.
12 p.m. Songwriter and master of Caribbean guitar from Guadeloupe JC Maillard brings an acoustic trance of Zouk and Gwoka music to the stage with his own signature style.
Presented in partnership with I AM caribBEING. 12 p.m. Celebrate vasant ritu (the spring season) with this participatory performance by traditional Indian dancer Aeilushi Mistry.
1–2 p.m. Discover BBG’s plants and gardens in peak bloom and other highlights of the season in this free walk led by trained Garden Guides. Meet on Magnolia Plaza by building steps. 1:30 & 3 p.m. 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 (a Southern French language), and English, accompanied by Ali Dineen. 2:30 p.m. Enjoy a performance by BrownstoneJAZZ Ensemble. Major Supporter, Discovery ProgramsActivities
Discovery GardenSpring Family Discovery Weekends
Plant Family Collection JC Maillard Caribbean Quartet
Osborne GardenBharatanatyam Dance by Aeilushi Mistry
Magnolia PlazaSeasonal Highlights Tour
Osborne GardenFADA: Éléonore Weill and Ali Dineen
Plant Family CollectionBrownstoneJAZZ Ensemble
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Weekends in Bloom: Sunday, May 11
Weekends in Bloom
Sunday, May 11, 2025
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