Art in the Garden: Summer Thursdays

Celebrate summer at Brooklyn Botanic Garden with music and dance performances on Thursday evenings, presented in partnership with local arts organizations. Free with Garden admission.

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Performances

• This performance is canceled due to inclement weather.

  Thursday, June 2, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 p.m.
  Osborne Garden

  Orlando: Hero of Love

  This distillation of Handel’s masterpiece explores love and madness from contemporary sensibilities, centering on what it means to love truly and how to endure pain and loss.

  Presented in partnership with Opera Praktikos & Opera Essentia

  Featuring:
  Orlando: Jeffrey Mandelbaum, countertenor
  Dorinda: Elyse Anne Kakacek, soprano
  Angelica: Heather Hill, soprano
  Medoro: Hai-Ting Chinn, mezzo-soprano
  Zoroastro: Hans Tashjian, bass, appearing courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera
  First violin: Rafa Prendergast
  Second violin: Sarah Jane Kenner
  Viola: Rebecca Nelson
  Cello: Cullen O’Neil
  Harpsichord: Rebecca Pechefsky

• Thursday, June 9, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 p.m.
  Plant Family Collection

  Sherlee Skai

  Enjoy acoustic ballads shaped by multicultural influences from Haitian folklore to American jazz and soul.

  Presented in partnership with Haiti Cultural Exchange

• Thursday, June 16, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 p.m.
  Cherry Esplanade

  Jess McAvoy

  Performer and storyteller Jess McAvoy carries flavors of Brandi Carlile and Jeff Buckley.

  Presented in partnership with FiveMyles

• Thursday, June 23, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 p.m.
  Plant Family Collection

  Helen Gillet

  Singer-songwriter and surrealist archeologist Helen Gillet explores synthesized sounds, texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello.

• Thursday, June 30, 2022 | 5:30–6:30 p.m.
  Discovery Garden

  Culinary Demonstration & Workshop

  Watch or join a Caribbean and Native American culinary demonstration and workshop led by Junayd Juman of Little Caribbean’s Honey Badger restaurant.

  Presented in partnership with I AM caribBEING

• Thursday, June 30, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 p.m.
  Cherry Esplanade

  Angela Hunte and Da Jerry Wonda Band

  Enjoy a performance by Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Angela Hunte backed by Da Jerry Wonda Band.

  Presented in partnership with I AM caribBEING

• Thursday, July 7, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 p.m.
  Plant Family Collection

  Basher

  New Orleans-based Basher plays NOLA-inspired dance music with the energy of a punk band and the improvisational spirit of a jazz quintet.

  Presented in partnership with Wild Birds Brooklyn

• Wednesday, July 13 (members only) & Thursday, July 14, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 p.m.
  Cherry Esplanade

  Brownstone Jazz

  Relax on Cherry Esplanade to the sounds of a jazz ensemble.

  July 13:
  Eric Lemons (bass)
  Silvano Monasterios (piano)
  Damon DueWhite (drums)
  T.K. Blue (sax/flute)
  

  July 14:
  Eric Lemons (bass)
  Patience Higgins (sax/flute)
  Terry Burrus (piano)
  Ali Bello (drums)
  

  Presented in partnership with Brownstone Jazz

• Thursday, July 21, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 p.m.
  Plant Family Collection

  Vince Giordano and the Mini-Nighthawks

  Swing the night away as Grammy-winner, New York native, and multi-instrumentalist Vince Giordano and his band play 1920s & ’30s–era music.

• Thursday, July 28, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 p.m.
  Cherry Esplanade

  TablaTun

  David Rothenberg brings his band, TablaTun, to the Garden, combining Hindustani drumming, electronics, live and recorded birdsong, and his clarinet for a multicultural, interspecies sonic feast.

Support

Presented in partnership with Brownstone Jazz, FiveMyles, Haiti Cultural Exchange, I AM caribBEING, and Wild Birds Brooklyn.

Art in the Garden is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.