Weekends in Bloom: Sunday, May 11 - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Weekends in Bloom: Sunday, May 11

Weekends in Bloom: Sunday, May 11

Weekends in Bloom

Sunday, May 11, 2025

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.

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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.

  • A man with dreadlocks stands confidently, posing with a guitar case in front of him.

    12 p.m.
    Plant Family Collection

    JC Maillard Caribbean Quartet

    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.

  • A woman looks down while performing signals with her hands.

    12 p.m.
    Osborne Garden

    Bharatanatyam Dance by Aeilushi Mistry

    Celebrate vasant ritu (the spring season) with this participatory performance by traditional Indian dancer Aeilushi Mistry.

  • 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 in this free walk led by trained Garden Guides. Meet on Magnolia Plaza by building steps.

  • A woman wearing a plaid jumpsuit poses for a photo with a clear blue sky behind her.

    1:30 & 3 p.m.
    Osborne Garden

    FADA: Éléonore Weill and Ali Dineen

    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.

  • A mature, stylish black man holds the neck of a stringed instrument.

    2:30 p.m.
    Plant Family Collection

    BrownstoneJAZZ Ensemble

    Enjoy a performance by BrownstoneJAZZ Ensemble.

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