MUST SEE! 

5 plays by neighborhood kids:

• Emily Bourne

• Cadence Delo-Barelli

• Lina Deutscher

• Gabby Drake

• Nadia Leonard

Directed and performed by Motor Company artists

Saturday, September 14, 1:00 PM 

Play On is a free summer playwriting program from The Motor Company for youth aged 9–12. Participants learn how to read scripts and important dramatic elements like dialogue, characters, and plot. They write their own 5–10 minute plays, get feedback from the group plus a 1:1 session with their playwriting teacher. Then, they see their script rehearsed by a professional director and a group of actors, and performed on opening day of the Communal Spaces play festival!

One Show ONLY: Saturday, September 9, 1:00 pm

The Motor Company is over the moon to present a staged reading of 4 original plays written as part of 🎭 PLAY ON 🎭  Plays will be performed before the start of COMMUNAL SPACES at 2:30 pm.

Their kids' writing workshop, led by none other than one of our 🐝 COMMUNAL SPACES 🌻 lead artists Angela Santillo. Rumor has it there's dragons and princesses and Groot, oh my! It's gonna be truly magical. 🪄✨

Starring 🌟 🌟 🌟

• David Jacobs

• Starr Kirkland

• Camila Pérez

• Jon Bock

• Renee Rises

• Veda Kumarjiguda

• Kimberly Chatterjee

Director: Lillian Meredith

You can signup to tell us you are bringing a dish. It's going to start right after the final play of the festival and we are going to celebrate the Communal Spaces project, the theatre company, our volunteers, our garden's progress, and acknowledge the space we occupy that was originally taken care of by the Lenape people. Please join us!

Saturdays and Sundays, September 10–25, 2022
(free and open to the public)

• The Rusty Wheelbarrow // 1:30 PM
  Lead Artist: David M. de León
  @ Rusty Wheelbarrow Farm,  72-02 Woodside Ave.

• Fort Sunny // 2:30 PM
  Lead Artist: Angela Santillo
  @ Sunnyside Community Garden,  38-01 50th St.

• What Grows? // 3:30 PM
  Lead Artist: Ben Holbrook
  @ Moore Jackson Community Garden, 31-57 51st St.

• Listen While You Walk: an audio experience while you walk from one garden to the other
  Lead Artist: Lillian Meredith

TikToks you shouldn't miss: 

• Pre-festival walk-through by Ben Holbrook, playwright of "What Grows?"

• Nearing end of festival share  by Ben Holbrook, playwright of "What Grows?"

Brought to us by The Motor Company.

This event is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.  

Saturday, September 17, 2022, 4:30 pm 

• FREE and open to the public

• EverythingRashmi.com, @everythingrashmi on Facebook and Instagram

This event is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts (QCA) with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. We'd like to thank the Puffin Foundation for their support of this project.  

Saturday October 5, 2019, 10–12 // Fun was had by all painting and decorating mini pumpkins to take home or display at the garden.  

Saturday, September 21, 2019, 6:15 pm // Moore-Jackson Community Garden hosted its first outdoor movie night for the neighborhood to enjoy. We screened the animated film, Coco. Over 100 people turned out. 

The crew and actors for Cyberchase on PBS/thirteen filmed at our community garden this summer. The animated portion of "A Garden Grows in Botlyn" episode was about Ren and the Cybersquad working together to make and unlikely space into a beautiful garden. The "For Real" segment was about germinating seeds in the Winter to plant in the Spring. The crew appreciated the room they had for equipment and taking breaks, and we even got to consult on the logistics of planting in raised garden beds so the content was as accurate as possible. The show aired Valentine's Day, 2020.

If you're a location scout looking for a community garden or open green space in the city, please email us.