Summer Solstice

Bring your friends and family to the Park to celebrate the longest day of the year!
Bring your friends and family to the Park to celebrate the longest day of the year! Enjoy food by local vendors as the sun sets, and more. Enjoy workshops byWearable Tracy,Kimberly Chou Tsun An, a performance byFogo Azul NYC, and food byKinky Tacotruck!
Schedule and Descriptions

5 pm – 8:30 pm: Food provided by Kinky Taco TruckBuilding upon this experience, we showcase soulful African American flavors with bursting blends of Cajun and blackening spices, while infusing a variety of traditional Mexican peppers. Our menu has been professionally designed and curated by celebrity chef, Airis Johnson, a Food Network ‘Chopped’ Champion, and a two-time competitor. Featured inForbes magazine, Chef Airis lends her expertise in global cuisine and fine dining in creating an exceptional and elevated taco experience. Kinky Taco Truck will remain true to its roots in the Brooklyn area, with a focus on East New York and surrounding neighborhoods where there is a need for more quality food offerings. For full bio and info visit theirInstagram pagefor updates.

5 pm – 8 pm: Pipecleaner Crown Making with Wearable TracyBecome pipecleaner royalty at Socrates at this crown making workshop with Wearable Tracy!
5:30 pm – 7 pm:A guided tea meditation and ritualwithKimberly Chou Tsun An“Looking deeply, we can see that a simple cup of tea, a tangerine, or a morsel of bread are nothing less than an ‘ambassador of the cosmos.’ Eating with the energy of mindfulness we can experience our interbeing with the planet that is nourishing and sustaining us, and heal our feelings of loneliness and disconnection.”
Join Kimberly Chou Tsun An for a guided tea meditation and ritual — inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh’s mindfulness meditations — engaging with herbal tea cultivated from her cross-cultural medicine garden as part of the 2024 Socrates Annual Fellowship, harvested and blended with community members over the course of the growing season. Learn together about Western and Asian herbalism, and share knowledge and stories of your favorite herbs.

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Performances by Fogo Azul NYCFogo Azul NYC is New York City’s best and most powerful performance group. The New York City-based all-women, trans, and non-binary BrazilianSamba Reggaedrum line Fogo Azul (Blue Fire) was born at the intersection of founder and Buffalo, NY native, Stacy Kovacs’ passion for Samba Reggae, her deep respect for its cultural roots as a music of protest and resistance, her belief and activism in support of gender equality and her sense of civic duty in the current environment to publicly awaken and inspire people to resist oppression and exercise their power to uplift society —loudly. Launched in 2016 as an extension of Marcus Santos’s Samba Reggae-based Grooversity education project, Fogo Azul NYC is an age and ethnically diverse community that spans the drummer spectrum from novice to professional. For more info visit theirwebsite.