Weekends in Bloom: Sunday, May 11

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 2:30 p.m.
  Plant Family Collection

  BrownstoneJAZZ Ensemble

  Enjoy a performance by BrownstoneJAZZ Ensemble.

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