El Sol Brillante

An Evening Reading at El Sol Brillante
2024-06-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St.
El Sol Brillante is pleased to invite you to an early summer reading at the garden, Thursday, June 13 at 7 p.m., featuring four New York City writers who engage deeply with nature and their environment.
The readers are
🍀 Andrea Mauri (@babedrea33), an archaeologist, blogger, and co-founder of @ihatewarmag
🍀 Alex Wolfe (@ppedestrian), an artist who writes a newsletter about walking
🍀 Lori-May Cruz Orillo (@a_drifter__), a poet, artist, and gardener
🍀 El Sol Brillante’s own Andreas Apostolides, a writer and lawyer.
The event is free and open to the public, recommended for ages 16+, and hosted by the New York City poet and artist Em Brill (@em.info). We hope to see you Thursday! 🌷

Spring Fundraiser Party 2024
2024-06-08 12:00 - 20:00 | El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St.
Let’s get ready for summer! Our end-of-spring fundraiser party on June 8th at noon. There will be live music, delicious food and beverages donated by our volunteers and local businesses, and craft areas for all ages. We also just resupplied our t-shirt stock and will have all sizes for sale. Both vegetarian and non-vegetarian food will be available. All proceeds go towards supporting our garden and its composting program. Free and open to the public.

Garden Meeting + Spring Fundraiser Party Planning
2024-05-25 12:00 - 13:00 | El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St.
Our next garden meeting will be on May 25th, the focus will be on planning our upcoming spring fundraiser party on June 8th.

Meeting + Board Elections
2024-05-04 12:00 - 12:30 | El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St.
Our next meeting will be Saturday, May 4th at noon. We will also have elections for board positions at the meeting.
If you are interested in working on the board, please reach out to the board by emailing info@elsolbrillante.org—we can answer any questions you might have.

First Garden Meeting of 2024
2024-04-13 11:30 - 12:00 | El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St.
All are welcome to attend, whether you are an existing member or new and looking to join.

We will have an introduction about garden membership in addition to info about upcoming Board positions, which will be up for election at our subsequent meeting.

Bokashi Gardening Workshop hosted by the LES Ecology Center
2023-10-14 13:00 - 15:00
The Lower East Side Ecology Center will be hosting a bokashi gardening workshop on October 14th from 1-3 PM. If you’d like to participate, you can sign up here! Non-participating observers are welcome as well!
The workshop will focus on the use of bokashi on other than composting, including using the bokashi spray/liquid (aka Activated EM) to improve soil and plant health. Participants who sign up will receive a multi-purpose bokashi solution to take home.

Fall Fundraiser 2023
2023-09-30 12:00 | El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St.
Come celebrate the season, meet your neighbors, and support the Garden!
Our fall fundraiser party is coming up Saturday, September 30th from noon to moon. The all-day celebration will feature live music, delicious food prepared by garden members and local businesses, refreshing beverages, and fun for the whole family.

General Membership Meeting + Fundraiser Prep
2023-09-27 18:00 | El Sol Brillante, 522 E 12th St.
Our next general membership meeting has been postponed to Wednesday, September 27th at 6 PM due to rain. We will be reviewing volunteer roles and preparation needed for our Fall Fundraiser on the following Saturday.

March to End Fossil Fuels
2023-09-17 13:00 - 16:00 | Broadway & West 55th Street
The 12th Street Block Association and El Sol Brillante Jr. will be participating in the upcoming March to End Fossil Fuels. We will be meeting to create banners for the march in the Down To Earth garden on the Southwest corner of 12th and B Tuesday 1:30PM – 4PM during normal composting drop-off hours.

Anarchist Book Fair
2023-09-16 18:30 - 20:00 | La Plaza Cultural, E 9th St. & Avenue C
The annual Anarchist Book Fair will be using our garden as overflow space on Sept 16th. The
fair is centered at La Plaza Cultural.
From their website:
For this year’s book fair, we invited anarchists from the city, the region, and around the country to speak, teach, and inspire on every aspect of our struggle. But we especially invited our comrades who are engaged in the fight against police and helping to build alternative systems of community justice.
