09/26/2025
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT PHONE #: 929-925-5145 Thursday, September 18, 2025
6/15 GREEN 2025 FALL FESTIVAL AND PLANT SALE
6/15 Green, a community garden in the South Slope (at the intersection of 6th Avenue and 15th Street in Brooklyn) is hosting its annual Fall Festival and Plant Sale on Saturday, September 27th from 10:30 am to 8:00 pm. Festivities start at 10:30 a.m., and include activities for children, live music, and a bake sale.The rain date will be Sunday, September 28. A potluck is scheduled to start at 3:00. Some of the activities will take place on 15th Street, which will be closed off from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The plant sale will take place from 10 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
6/15 Green’s annual Harvest Festival will begin under the willow tree, as it always does, with joyous music for the children. At 10:30, folksinger Brooke Dramer will be joined onstage by singers Mikhail Haramati and Eman Rashid and their menagerie of hand puppets. The children's concert will be the usual mix of Beatles songs and English and American folk music—with songs ranging from the 15th through 20th centuries. All of the children will be invited to go up on stage to perform with animal hand puppets during the Tom Paxton song "Going to the Zoo."
Immediately after the show, children can walk over to the garden's Story Grove to hear Brooklyn author Lauren Fornoles read aloud from her books Sheba the Alley Cat and Night Owl and Early Bird (see https://youtu.be/ZKCOnwssoT0 for a sample of her reading aloud.) 15th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues will be closed for most of the day. Children can enjoy activities there, or they can stay in the garden and paint pumpkins or play in the children's garden while the entertainment under the willow tree continues until 8:00 PM. Gorilla Baroque (Tracy Fitz, solo), 12:00 - 12:45 pm: Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179, O tu illustrata; Comtesse de Dia 1140-1212, A Chantar; Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377, Plus Dure; Ockeghem 1410-1497, Baisiez moy donc fort; William Byrd 1540-1623, Gipseis Round; Antonio Vivaldi 1675-1741, Le Quattro Stagioni; JS Bach 1985-1750, BVD 1013 for solo flute Amin, Sarabande; Georg Phillipp Telemann 1681-1769, fl Fantasie 6, Dmin, Spirituoso; Claude Debussy 1862-1918, Syrinx; Arthur Foote 1853-1937, Scherzo; W***y Ostyn 1913-1993, Canzonetta. Sogobrook, (Tracy Fitz and Dan Sofaer), 1:45 - 2:45 pm: folk, blues flute - guitar fusion. Cellist Anahit Gaskill will also perform.
Additional music will be an eclectic offering of jazz, classical, and the music of New Orleans. The headliner at this year’s Harvest Festival will be the Eagle C**t Jazz Combo, who have been entertaining on Sunday afternoons at Freddy’s Bar and Back Room (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEMjCU_JSFA). Other performers will include Jacomo Fino,Seth Goldart, Alex Fox Tshan and Pastel Hell, and Richard James.
For more details, check our website at www.615green.org, and our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/70491350870. Also follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/615.green Additional details regarding activities and other musical performers will be posted there closer to the event date.
6/15 Green is a 501 ( c ) 3 organization, and contributions are tax-deductible: our EIN number is 11-3305608. Donations are welcome! 6/15 Green is a proud founding member of the Brooklyn Alliance of Neighborhood Gardens Land Trust (BANG). See www.banglandtrust.org for more information. Visit our website at www.615green.org. This event is made possible, in part, by generous support from The Park Slope Civic Council.
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Brooklyn Alliance of Neighborhood Gardens
