Weekends in Bloom: Sunday, May 12

Weekends from April 27 to May 12, 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.

• 12–12:45 p.m.
  Plant Family Collection

  JC Mallard

  Songwriter and master of Caribbean guitar JC Maillard brings an acoustic trance of zouk and gwoka music from his native Guadeloupe to the stage with his own signature style.

  Presented in partnership with I AM caribBEING

• 1–1:30 p.m.
  Cranford Rose Garden

  Samba New York!

  Join this world-renowned performance company in a drum and dance procession in the spirit of Rio’s famous Carnaval. Samba New York are dedicated to educating, entertaining, and uplifting people of all backgrounds with the exhilarating national music and dance of Brazil.

• 1–2 p.m.
  Magnolia Plaza

  Seasonal Highlights Tour

  Discover BBG’s plants and gardens in peak bloom and other highlights of the season on this tour led by a Garden Guide. Meet on Magnolia Plaza by building steps.

• 1:30 & 3 p.m.
  Alfred T. White Memorial Amphitheater

  FADA: Éléonore Weill and Ali Dineen

  FADA is a folk-rock chanson voyage through the fairy-inhabited brain of singer and multi-instrumentalist Eleonore Weill. She performs original songs, old, traditional, famous, and forgotten songs of resistance, peace, justice, and love in Yiddish, French, Occitan (Southern French language), and English accompanied by Ali Dineen.

• 2:30–3:15 p.m.
  Plant Family Collection

  Brownstone Jazz Ensemble

  Enjoy a performance by Brownstone Jazz Ensemble.

Support

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

Major Supporter, Discovery Programs