{"id":46971,"date":"2014-08-29T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=46971"},"modified":"2014-08-29T12:50:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T16:50:22","slug":"this-weekend-a-labor-day-lark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/08\/around-the-garden\/this-weekend-a-labor-day-lark\/","title":{"rendered":"This Weekend: A Labor Day Lark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>As one of the last gasps of summer, Labor Day weekend is a chance for NYBG<\/a> to throw open its gates on a Monday and welcome everyone for what tends to be the closing week of our summer exhibition. And this year, things are no different\u2014we’re rapidly approaching the September 7 end of our Groundbreakers<\/em><\/a> exhibition! If you haven’t found a moment to get away and visit us here in the Bronx, now’s as good a time as any and maybe even better.<\/p>\n

Those of you with kids in tow will be happy to know that we’re going full-tilt in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden with our SousaKazooza events, the last of the season. Bring your little ones for some music, marching, and crafts to keep them busy. And for the adults, we’re still offering our full suite of Groundbreakers<\/em> events alongside a sweeping schedule of tours\u2014Azalea Garden<\/a>, Rock Garden<\/a>, Conservatory<\/a>, Native Plant Garden<\/a> and Garden Highlights among them\u2014to help you make the most of your afternoon.<\/p>\n

Head past the jump for the full schedule, and don’t let the last few weeks of warm sunshine get away from you!
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Saturday, August 30<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\"The<\/a>\n

Rock Garden Tour \u2013 11:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nThe Rock Garden<\/a> is a 2 1\/2-acre oasis complete with a pond and waterfall and featuring alpine plants from six continents. Join an expertly trained Garden Guide for a walking tour to see and learn more about these jewel-like plants.<\/p>\n

Family Adventures: SousaKazooza! \u2013 12\u20134 p.m.<\/b>
\nIn the Everett Children\u2019s Adventure Garden<\/em>
\nOngoing craft, 12-4 p.m.<\/em>
\nPresentations with parades, 12, 1, 2, & 3 p.m. <\/em>
\nKids learn about John Philip Sousa and two of America’s distinct instruments, the sousaphone and kazoo. Participants make bandleader hats and receive a kazoo with which to march around. On Labor Day, September 1, participants are encouraged to come back and take part in a performance in the Ross Hall, for families and friends!<\/p>\n

Native Plant Garden Tour \u2013 12:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nJoin a tour guide for an insider’s view of the newly designed Native Plant Garden. Enjoy a mosaic of nearly 100,000 native trees, wildflowers, ferns and grasses designed to flourish in every season.<\/p>\n

From Ragtime to Jazz: The Roots of Pop \u2013 1 & 3:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nIn the Ross Hall <\/em>
\nMusic from the period of Groundbreakers\u2014ragtime, jazz, Broadway, and beyond to Hollywood\u2014had a great impact on American culture. Enjoy a variery of styles in live performances by a trio of artists, including musical producer, pianist, and historian Terry Waldo, featuring the works of Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, Irving Berlin, and Tin Pan Alley composers such as George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, and Dorothy Fields.<\/p>\n

Garden Highlights Tour \u2013 2:30 p.m. <\/strong>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nSights and scents flourish across the 250 acres of the Botanical Garden. Join a Garden Guide for a walking tour featuring highlights of the gardens and plant collections.<\/p>\n

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Sunday, August 31<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\"The<\/a>\n

Family Adventures: SousaKazooza! \u2013 12\u20134 p.m.<\/b>
\nIn the Everett Children\u2019s Adventure Garden<\/em>
\nOngoing craft, 12-4 p.m. <\/em>
\nPresentations with parades, 12, 1, 2, & 3 p.m. <\/em>
\nKids learn about John Philip Sousa and two of America’s distinct instruments, the sousaphone and kazoo. Participants make bandleader hats and receive a kazoo with which to march around. On Labor Day, September 1, participants are encouraged to come back and take part in a performance in the Ross Hall, for families and friends!<\/p>\n

Garden Highlights Tour \u2013 12:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nSights and scents flourish across the 250 acres of the Botanical Garden. Join a Garden Guide for a walking tour featuring highlights of the gardens and plant collections.<\/p>\n

From Ragtime to Jazz: The Roots of Pop \u2013 1 & 3:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nIn the Ross Hall <\/em>
\nMusic from the period of Groundbreakers\u2014ragtime, jazz, Broadway, and beyond to Hollywood\u2014had a great impact on American culture. Enjoy a variery of styles in live performances by a trio of artists, including musical producer, pianist, and historian Terry Waldo, featuring the works of Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, Irving Berlin, and Tin Pan Alley composers such as George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, and Dorothy Fields.<\/p>\n

Conservatory Tour \u2013 2:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMeet at the entrance to the <\/em>Enid A. Haupt Conservatory<\/em><\/a>
\nExplore the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, an acre of plants under glass, with one of the Garden’s Guides. Take an ecotour around the world through 11 distinct habitats, including two types of rain forest, deserts of the Americas and of Africa, and aquatic and carnivorous plant displays.<\/p>\n

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Monday, September 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\"The<\/a>\n

Azalea Garden Tour \u2013 11 a.m.<\/strong>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nJoin us for a guided tour of the 11-acre site that offers an encyclopedic collection of the world\u2019s azaleas planted along a broad hillside punctuated by rock outcrops and shaded by mature native trees.<\/p>\n

Family Adventures: SousaKazooza! \u2013 12\u20134 p.m.<\/b>
\nIn the Everett Children\u2019s Adventure Garden<\/em>
\nOngoing craft, 12-4 p.m. <\/em>
\nPresentations with parades, 12, 1, 2, & 3 p.m. <\/em>
\nKids learn about John Philip Sousa and two of America’s distinct instruments, the sousaphone and kazoo. Participants make bandleader hats and receive a kazoo with which to march around.<\/p>\n

Native Plant Garden Tour \u2013 12:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nJoin a tour guide for an insider’s view of the newly designed Native Plant Garden. Enjoy a mosaic of nearly 100,000 native trees, wildflowers, ferns and grasses designed to flourish in every season.<\/p>\n

From Ragtime to Jazz: The Roots of Pop \u2013 1 & 3:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nIn the Ross Hall <\/em>
\nMusic from the period of Groundbreakers\u2014ragtime, jazz, Broadway, and beyond to Hollywood\u2014had a great impact on American culture. Enjoy a variery of styles in live performances by a trio of artists, including musical producer, pianist, and historian Terry Waldo, featuring the works of Scott Joplin, Eubie Blake, Irving Berlin, and Tin Pan Alley composers such as George Gershwin, George M. Cohan, and Dorothy Fields.<\/p>\n

Rock Garden Tour \u2013 2:30 p.m.<\/strong>
\nMeet at the Reflecting Pool at the Leon Levy Visitor Center<\/em>
\nTheRock Garden<\/a> is a 2.5-acre oasis complete with a pond and waterfall and featuring alpine plants from six continents. Join an expertly trained Garden Guide for a walking tour to see and learn more about these jewel-like plants.<\/p>\n

Family Adventures: SousaPalooza! \u2013 3:30 p.m.<\/b>
\nIn the Ross Hall<\/em>
\nBring your kazoos and marching band hats! Children who have participated in SousaKazooza are invited to participate in a final presentation of their musical studies during the 3:30 p.m. performance of From Ragtime to Jazz: The Roots of Pop<\/em>. Children will have the opportunity to perform on stage with professional musicians of The Terry Waldo Trio and show off their newly learned skills on the kazoo.<\/p>\n

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Ongoing Children\u2019s Programs <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\"The<\/a>\n

Family Adventures: Focusing on Nature<\/b>
\nIn the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
\nWeekdays; 1:30\u20135:30 p.m.<\/em>
\n Weekends plus Holiday Mondays; 10 a.m.\u20135:30 p.m.<\/em>
\nChildren will explore the art of garden photography and will even have the opportunity to become garden photographers themselves. Through a series of stops within the Garden, they will see the world through a new lens as they learn how observations in science and nature have been recorded throughout time. They will also receive tips about perspective, scale, and framing when taking photographs.<\/p>\n

Dig, Plant, Grow: Pollinator Palls: Bees and Butterflies<\/b>
\nAugust 19\u2013October 3<\/em>
\nIn the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden<\/em>
\nThe Family Garden is buzzing in late summer! Join us to learn about important pollinators: our honeybees and the monarch butterflies passing us by on their way to Mexico.<\/p>\n

Mario Batali’s Kitchen Gardens \u2013 1:30 p.m. \u2013 6 p.m. <\/strong>
\nRuth Rea Howell Family Garden<\/em>
\nKids can explore with Mario’s Menu Mystery game, featuring favorite vegetables and herbs from nine of his restaurants’ kitchens, including Otto and Del Posto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We head into the last week of our Groundbreakers exhibition with a three-day weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":46977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952],"tags":[3795,2766,4639,161],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Weekender-header.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-cdB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46971"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46986,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46971\/revisions\/46986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}