Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) will be hosting Jazz in July, a special concert series featuring local arts organizations celebrating BBG’s summer exhibition Natural Attractions: A Plant-Pollinator Love Story.
Taking place every Thursday in July, visitors can celebrate summer at the garden with live jazz performances from local musicians, art tours and interactive workshops, and a pop-up bar serving beer, wine, ice cream and snacks, according to a press release.
Jazz in July is a part of Natural Attractions: A Plant-Pollinator Love Story, an exhibition and program series through October that aims to inspire a new way of seeing and appreciating the necessity of plants – and insects - to encourage visitors to actively help protect pollination through thoughtful gardening strategies and plant choices.
Through exhibits, public programs, and new articles, Natural Attractions offers a call to action to New Yorkers to protect pollinators, whose survival is inextricably linked to reversing climate change and making the planet a safer, and more beautiful place for us to live.
Join Patrick Costello, BBG’s 2024 artist-in-residence, in a Community Chorus on July 18. In addition, Haitian music and stories will be performed by Mizik Ayiti! Featuring Jonathan Michel: L’Ouverture, presented in partnership with Haiti Cultural Exchange.
On July 25, join "Disability Pride, Disability Joy, Exist," a Disability Pride Month Art-Making Program celebrating disability diversity with Annie Nishwani Lachhman and Lakshmee Lachhman-Persad, presented in partnership with Accessible Travel NYC and a performance by the Brooklyn-based Afro-Caribbean band, Blakk.
Activities will kick off at 6pm with performances starting at 7pm. Jazz in July is free with Garden admission. The full schedule of activities and performances can be found here. Garden admission can be purchased at bbg.org.
