El Sol Brillante

April 2026 Garden Meeting
2026-04-26 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St.
Our next meeting will take place on Sunday, April 26th at noon. All are welcome! We will be holding our biennial board elections, sharing updates on the various projects happening in the garden, and scheduling upcoming events. Prospective members are highly encouraged to attend!
All board positions are up for election every two years at the second meeting of the season. Often board members will serve multiple terms in a row (we don’t have term limits) but must run for reelection every two years. There are a number of official board positions that must be filled BUT there is not a limit to the number of board members we can have. So additional, untitled, board members are welcome and encouraged! Additional board members don’t have predetermined duties but often discover areas that they are most interested in assisting with.

Spring Awakening 2026
2026-05-09 12:00 - 16:00 | Lower East Side
*Postponed to May 9th*
Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens (LUNGS) is proud to present the annual Spring Awakening parade and festival. This is a neighborhood wide celebration of Earth Day, and the opening of the community gardens. All Festivities are FREE and include a parade, pony rides, music, kids’ activities, art, environmental and educational workshops and a Special Garden Tour with Magali Regis.
The parade will start outside El Sol Brillante at Noon and feature Batala, our Tree Goddess, and Le Velo Rouge. It will continue East on 12th to Loisaida Avenue and turn South. Then it will return West across 7th, go through Tompkins Square Park, and finish on 9th and B. Following the parade, there will be pony rides on Avenue B between 7th & 8th streets., a puppet making workshop, seed give away, and music from Martini X, with Arturo Martinez, Jeff Ellenberger, Sylvain Leroux, and Marta Gaia.
For more information on all of the day’s events, check out the LUNGS website here.
