San Francisco Botanical Garden

Come out next week to hear from the Gardens’ Director of Programs & Partnerships Jamie Marie Chan, Ed.D. amongst other great colleagues!

The Botanical Garden Plant Shop and pop-up Bookstore are now open just inside the main entrance. They will be open daily while the Bookstore undergoes improvements to make the store ADA compliant and accessible to all! You can continue to support the Garden’s shops in person 10am-5pm or online at buff.ly/437Pb41 Thanks to all of our wonderful staff, volunteers, interns, and SF Rec and Park partners for making this happen!

🌸🎹 Flower Piano Tickets and Program are Live! 🌸🎹 Gardens of Golden Gate Park and Sunset Piano are excited to present one of the most unique, creative, and innovative events in the Bay Area, Flower Piano, September 13-22 with a very Special Opening Event Thursday, September 12 in the 🌺 Flower Piano Lounge 🌺 In the final days of summer and for the ninth time since 2015, Flower Piano will once again transform San Francisco Botanical Garden into the city’s own alfresco concert hall where everyone is invited to play and listen. 🎵 🌺 Back again this year during Flower Piano is the Flower Piano Lounge. The Celebration Garden in the Botanical Garden will be transformed into an intimate experience where guests will enjoy concerts will access to full-service bars offering beverages and food for sale, comfortable lounge seating, expedited entry to Flower Piano 2024, and more. Featured Lounge performances will include Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Martin Luther McCoy & the Robin Hodge Williams Gospel Choir, Sixth Station Trio, Sumi Lee Tango Collective, and more! 🌼 The Flower Piano Lounge will host this year's Special Opening Night Event on September 12, featuring Orquesta La Moderna Tradición bursting with their sweet yet powerful sound of the Afro-Cuban charanga orchestra, featuring violins and woodwinds interlocking with driving afro-Cuban rhythms 🎹 🌸 Featured Flower Piano performers this year include familiar favorites such as Tammy Hall, Allison Lovejoy, Serene, Sarah Cahill, and Kev Choice, and several new artists and special performances such as a site-specific immersive concert composed by Kennedy Verrett for 4 musicians in the Redwood Grove, Hunter Noack of In A Landscape: Classical Music In The Wild fame performing a set described as "daydreamy classics from the last 300 years", and Grammy Award-winning Latin Big Band Pacific Mambo Orchestra Band Lead Christian Tumalan performing Latin influenced Jazz and beyond. 🌼🌺🌸🎹🎵 Significant gratitude and appreciation to Flower Piano presenting sponsor the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation! Thank you to additional lead Flower Piano sponsors: The John and Marcia Goldman Foundation, Ingrid Tauber and Frank Taforo, Fiorella: Neighborhood Italian, James Greene, Pacific Nurseries, Jennifer & Alan Petersen, Outside Lands Works, and the 5Ryan Foundation. Visit buff.ly/4bR40L4 for more details! 🌼🌺🌸🎹🎵 #flowerpiano #sunsetpiano #sfbotanicalgarden #gardensofgoldengatepark #sfrecpark PC: Travis Lange, @spiralworksproductions

Enjoy the summer weather and cool down in the fog this July with the Botanical Garden’s many outdoor programs! On Sunday, July 7, take a slow stroll with the Golden Gate Bird Alliance’s free birding tour, perfect for birding veterans and newcomers alike. On Thursday, July 11, experienced yoga instructor Nicolette Telech will lead this month’s Yoga in the Garden, free for Gardens members. Students can expect a unique and accessible yoga sequence within the Garden of Fragrance. The UC Master Gardeners will host their Monthly Plant Talk on Sunday, July 14, in the Botanical Garden Bookstore. This month’s topic is pollinators, including their basic needs, their favorite plants, and how to attract them to your own yard. Children 0-4 will love this month’s Little Ones Story Time, as our featured books are all about flowers! Visit the Helen Crocker Russell Library on Wednesday, July 17, for a morning of reading, finger plays, and songs. And on Saturday, July 20, treat yourself to a day of outdoor exercise! Dance the early afternoon away with “moving meditation” in the Great Meadow, led by Dance 5Rhythms in the Garden. Later, illustrator and designer Hollis Callas will teach you about Mapping San Francisco’s Natural Beauty through exploring the Botanical Garden and creating your own unique maps. For more information, visit https://buff.ly/3z6Cz2g

Later this week, the Botanical Garden will host a variety of soothing programs! This Friday, June 21, celebrate the Summer Solstice with Forest Bathing in the Redwood Grove. This gentle walk encourages participants to slow down and reconnect with the natural world by quieting the mind and awakening the senses. It's been scientifically proven to boost immune strength, reduce stress, and even improve cognitive functioning! Plus, $2 of each ticket purchase will be donated to OneTreePlanted.org, a nonprofit organization focused on global reforestation. On Saturday, June 22, Dance 5Rhythms in the Garden comes to the Great Meadow for an afternoon of “moving meditation”. Dance freeform through a series of spiritual movements to clear your mind and keep your energy in motion! No experience is necessary, and there’s no choreography to learn either; your curiosity and open mind are all that you need. Children under 12 can join for free. And on Sunday, June 23, Blue Muse and the Celestial Voices will hold an immersive Sound Bath in the beautiful Celebration Garden. Journey into a rejuvenating soundscape of Crystal Singing Bowls, Paiste Gongs, Hand Pan, Monochord, Native and Ocean Drums, Chimes and Angelic vocals, and more. Through frequency, vibration, and intention, the Sound Bath creates a meditative environment and promotes a sense of calm and peace. Save the date: next Saturday, June 29, is Illustoria Day! To celebrate, the Botanical Garden will host a day of arts, crafts, and book giveaways for all ages. Gardens members receive a 20% discount on all three events. RSVP and learn more about our programs at https://buff.ly/3z6Cz2g

We're excited to welcome a beautiful new exhibition at the Helen Crocker Russell Library! Hummingbirds and Flowers: Photographs by Ian Reid is a study in patience, perseverance and observation, with photos that reveal the diversity of flowers combined with charming images of hummingbirds as pollinators. Reid has been a photographer for many years and has studied and practiced a variety of techniques and subjects, including black and white and color landscapes, wildlife, plant life, and people. His most recent consuming interest is photographing hummingbirds, especially as they visit the many varieties of flowering plants from around the world in San Francisco Botanical Garden. Reid's work is on exhibit through September, so stop by the Library and brighten up your summer! No admission is required to visit the Library, which is located inside the Main Gate of San Francisco Botanical Garden on the left-hand side. To learn more, visit https://lnkd.in/gwrWDKQB

The Gardens are beautiful settings for team building, retreats, private events, group volunteering and more. Thank you TeamBuilding for including San Francisco Botanical Garden on your San Francisco list! Read more: https://buff.ly/3X7WVSO Learn more about Group Volunteering (https://buff.ly/4a9Rerm) and Corporate Rentals (https://buff.ly/4ehdK3V) at the Gardens of Golden Gate Park at gggp.org. We hope to see you in the Gardens soon! #teambuilding #companyretreat #boardretreat #privateevents #eventrentals #weddings #groupvolunteering #volunteer #volunteering #team #sanfrancisco #bayarea PC: Saxon Holt, Drew Bird

"In every season, and in every kind of mood, a walk in one of the Gardens of Golden Gate Park renews my spirit and rebalances my day. We are lucky to have these beautiful spaces in our park, each with its own surprises and delights. As San Francisco residents, my family gladly became recent members." –Kathryn Ma, author of The Chinese Groove, SF Public Library's 2024 selection for One City One Book Join, or renew your membership, like Kathryn and enjoy all that the Gardens have to offer at gggp.org/membership. Already a member? Support the Gardens with a gift by June 30 and help us reach our Spring fundraising goal! Make a gift today at gggp.org/donate

Join us this Saturday for the second annual Gamelan in the Garden, a stunning showcase of Balinese performing arts held in the beautiful Botanical Garden! This event is presented by Gamelan Sekar Jaya, a Bay Area-based organization that builds and maintains artistic links between Bali and the United States. Gamelan will kick off at 1pm with a free performance in the Great Meadow by Gamelan Sekar Jaya’s jegog ensemble, whose large bamboo instruments are sure to wake you up and encourage you to dance along! The jegog is joined by a marching beleganjur ensemble, full of drums and crashing cymbals. This is followed by a free workshop on the jegog instruments, suitable for all ages and experience levels. Gamelan Sekar Jaya will also be joined by Harmonic Drift, an immersive and interactive percussion ensemble-on-wheels, sure to bring out everyone’s inner child through playful and joyous exploration. After that, make your way to the beautiful Celebration Garden at 4pm for a special ticketed performance of "Perang Undur-Undur", a spectacular 16th century dance-drama about invasion, trickery, heroism, and the restoration of balance. Gamelan in the Garden is FREE to attend with general admission (free for SF Residents, veterans, and Museums for All participants). Tickets to the special Celebration Garden performance include general admission to the Garden and Gamelan in the Gardens. RSVP and purchase tickets at https://lnkd.in/dYwfrtRX

Gamelan in the Garden is next weekend! Join us in the Botanical Garden on June 8 for an exciting showcase of Balinese performing arts, including musical ensembles, workshops on traditional instruments, and a spectacular new dance-drama! Tickets are going fast, so be sure to RSVP soon at https://lnkd.in/gDp4UpXD In addition to Gamelan in the Garden, we’ll also be hosting our Monthly Plant Sale from June 8-9, featuring a variety of dazzling house plants! Continuing this theme, June 9 also features our new Master Gardeners’ Monthly Plant Talk from the UC Master Gardeners. Come learn all about house plants, including what to look for when shopping for them, how to care for them, and how to manage challenges like pests and diseases. Gardens Members can attend for free, though RSVP is still required. And for arts and crafts lovers, artist Robert Mahar is hosting a Faux Batik Technique Workshop on June 15! Developed on the Indonesian island of Java, batik involves applying wax-resistant dyeing to cloth to create highly patterned and colorful fabric. Join us in learning all about this craft and using a unique method to make your own custom throw pillow covers! Learn more and RSVP at gggp.org/events