PHOTO BY STEVEN BRENER
Garden lovers spring into Lower East Side pageant On Saturday, about 100 Lower East Side gardeners and supporters took part in a new pageant intended to celebrate the neighborhood’s abundant green spaces, while calling attention to the need to make all community gardens permanent. Called Spring Awakening, the event harkened back to the Earth Celebrations pageant of old, with homemade costumes, music, a “poetry romp” and street revelry. Four different parade groups set off from different locations and meandered through the neighborhood visiting various green havens, then converged on El Jardin del Paradiso, on E. Fourth St., which is home to a massive tree fort. Above, everyone gathered for a group photo in All People’s Garden, on E. Third St. Herman Hewitt, Community Board 3 first vice chairperson, is at left in first row, in green sweatshirt.
Tribes poet to be ‘Cannonized’ all throughout the weekend PHOTO BY SARAH FERGUSON
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Steve Cannon laughed with poet Jesus-Papaleto Melendez, one of the many bards who came out to serenade him at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe last Wed., April 23. The benefit was organized by friends to raise money to help defray Cannon’s moving expenses, after he was forced out of his home of 40 years. This Saturday, Cannon will be hosting a release party for the latest issue of Tribes magazine, at Bowery Arts & Science, at Bowery Poetry, 308 Bowery, at 1 p.m. And on Sunday, Cannon will be named a “Lower East Side Community Hero” at a presentation in the East River Park, part of the inaugural Lower East Side History Month celebration (leshistorymonth.org).
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