New York Botanical Garden Oct 19-30

• Perennial Garden
• Native Plant Garden
• Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden
• Home Gardening Center

Get a closer look at What’s Beautiful Now with Curator’s Spotlight.

• Bird Walk (October 17 & 24)
• Live Music & Dance
  (October 17, 18, 24, & 25)
• ¡Cámara, Acción! Mexican Film Series (October 17, 18, 24, & 25)
• Greenmarket (October 21 & 28)
• Frida al Fresco Evenings
  (October 22 & 30)
• Día de los Muertos Weekend Celebration
  (October 24, 25, 31, & November 1)

• Cooking with Frida
  (17, 18, 21, 24, 25, & 28)
• Frida for Families: A Spooky Nighttime Adventure (October 23)
• Giant Pumpkin Carving Weekend with Ray Villafane(October 24 & 25)
• Giant Pumpkin Display
  (October 24–November 1)
• Frida’s Fall Harvest
  (Through November 1)
• Mario Batali’s Kitchen Gardens
  (Through November 1)
• Dig! Plant! Grow! Goodnight, Garden!
  (Through November 1)

View the Fall–Winter 2015 Calendar of Events.

Join us in Manhattan on Monday, October 19, for the second lecture in a fascinating evening series that explores how ingenuity and deep insights are reimagining urban landscape design. New York-based landscape architect Ken Smith will talk about his boundary-breaking designs including the East River Waterfront Esplanade, the TFANA Arts Plaza in Brooklyn’s BAM Cultural District, and the Museum of Modern Art’s roof garden in Beyond the Metrics. The series concludes November 2 with San Francisco-based architect Peter Walker. Learn more and register.

Experience FRIDA KAHLO: Art, Garden, Life after hours in the Conservatory and Art Gallery—and then transport yourself to Mexico without leaving New York via live music, all enjoyed with a complimentary Modelo Especial draft cerveza or Jose Cuervo Tradicional margarita. Get ticketstoday to this evening escape.

If you’re joining us for our Frida al Fresco LGBT Night on Friday, October 22, we welcome you to dress the part! Register in advance for our Frida Look-Alike Contest and come decked out in your finest Frida ensemble for a chance at prizes! Learn more.

The whole family can enjoy the Frida experience on a night out at the Children’s Adventure Garden! Capture a photo with larger-than-life skeletons that celebrate Día de los Muertos. Grab a Con Edison flashlight as you travel along the Whole Foods Market® Trick-or-Treat Trail after dark. Listen for critters of the night or sit in on a spooky ghost story. For those who dare, see the giant pumpkin displays illuminated in the darkness and journey along the meandering Mitsubishi Wild Wetland Trail. Get more information.

Watch Master Carver Ray Villafane transform giant pumpkins into a Día de los Muertos tableau. Enjoy daily Q&A sessions with his additional carvers. From October 24 through November 1, giant pumpkins supplied by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth will once again be on display in the Garden, some weighing more than a ton! Get more information.

Giant pumpkins supplied by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth will once again be on display in the Garden, some weighing more than a ton! Get more information.

FRIDA KAHLO concludes with a celebration of the Mexican tradition known for bringing together family and friends to remember loved ones, Día de los Muertos. For two weekends in late October, join in the festivities with a procession of larger-than-life skeletons, butterflies, and La Catrina—the grande dame of this colorful holiday. Stroll the Conservatory Plaza with stilt dancers or check out the Giant Pumpkin Display. Artists in residence The Villalobos Brothers close out these weekend fiestas at the Garden with performances on October 31 & November 1. Get more information.

Classic and contemporary Mexican music meets the colorful traditions of ballet folklórico, featuring performances throughout the Garden by Mexico Beyond Mariachi, Jarana Beat, and Calpulli Danza Mexicana. Get more information, and be sure to check the lineup on the day of your visit.

Every Saturday, experience Frida Kahlo on the big screen with the Academy Award-winning filmFrida, directed by Julie Taymor and starring Salma Hayek. Every Sunday, Cinema Tropical selects current release films from Mexico as features. See Guten Tag Ramón/Buen Día Ramón on October 18 and Güeros on October 25. Get more information and view the film schedule.

Frida-inspired children’s activities continue in fall! Kids experience the delights of the season with hands-on activities and harvest-themed displays featuring perennial favorites such as pumpkins and gourds of all sizes, shapes, and colors, as well as corn stalks and hay bales artfully arranged throughout the landscape in the Adventure Garden. Get more information.

• Birch Paper Cutting on 10/23 at NYBG
• Overwintering Plants Indoors
  on 10/24 at NYBG
• The Art of Seeing Photographically: Lecture with Valerie Jardin
  on 10/26 at NYBG
• Frida Floral Crowns on 10/26 at NYBG
• Manhattan’s Mushrooms
  starting 10/28 in Midtown
• Fall Leaves in Watercolor
  on 10/29 in Midtown

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