Charshanbe Suri, fire jumping Update!
Help Us Make 2025 2026 Burn Brightly!
Please Read on for important information and the closest location to NYC for Chaharshanbe Suri this year/2025. Also, our new website link and a free Shahnameh event this coming Wednesday
Why is the Next Chaharshanbe Suri NYC, in 2026?
First of all, thank you for your partnership in bringing this free magical fire jumping event to New York City for over 20 years!
Chaharshanbe Suri is one of the hottest events and the number of visitors from near and far has increased tremendously, so much so that we need to expand from our beloved community garden locations to the magical and larger park spaces!
This means a significant increase in expenses! And… this is New York City! We know together, we can raise the funds! Your small and large donations will ensure Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, will be a treasured year for Fire Jumping, Fire Performances, Community Theater, Live Music, Food, Fire Arts, Showcase for the Iranian Diaspora, and beyond!
If you are and/or know anyone who can support with large donations of $10,000 and more, please call or email Aresh Javadi, More Gardens Fund Executive Director at aresh@moregardens.org or call 917-518-9987
Here’s how you can make 2026 burn brightly! :
1 – Donate Now for 4Shanbe Suri 2026: Link! – Sepasgozar!
2 – Join the Volunteer Team Now!
3- Get on the Mailing List
Spread the word and encourage your loved ones to join our festival.
We believe Chaharshanbeh Suri is more than just a festival; it’s a celebration of our communities, culture, and hope. With your continued support, we can make the 2026 festival an inspirational experience for everyone.Together, let’s raise the flames of joy and create a brighter future for our community.
Warmly,
The More Gardens! Team
call/text Aresh at 917-518-9987
1- Closest Location to NYC for 2025 Chaharshanbe Suri: The closest Chaharshanbe Suri Event in 2024 to NYC which is put together by the lovely folks at the Iranian American Society of NY, is on Tuesday, March 12th, 2024, 6PM-8PM, Brookville Reformed Church, 2 Brookville Road, Glen Head, NY Link to Event Website
2- FYI, we have a new upcoming website: Preview
3- FREE: The Shahnameh: Interpreting an Iranian Cultural Touchstone: LINK
Explore the Shahnameh through conversation, performance, and the Library’s own collections.
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 7 – 8 PM
NYC Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018 (the one with the big lions)
On this magical night, NYC’s fire-jumping festival, Chaharshanbe Suri NYC – ushers in Noruz and Spring with wondrous fire dance performances, music, art, and traditional food from the Iranian diaspora! Entry is free and all-inclusive.
We raise the flames of justice and solidarity, dedicating Charshanbe Suri to all the brave women and their supporters in Iran, Afghanistan, and beyond.
Brought to you by More Gardens!
Free entry to all
More Gardens’ Chsaharshanbe Suri is a free event for all.
Your kind donations will light up these fires and keep this community going. We prioritize paying artists!
By donating, you’ll be the first to know about special performances, festival updates, and special behind-the-scenes adventures.
Donations are fully tax-deductible.
Fire jumping
You are invited to join us in the tradition of taking a leap of faith over five transformative renewing fires into Noruz / the New Year.
During your jump you are welcome to sing to the fire: “Zardieh man az toe, Sorkhieh toe az man”. More
We work hand in hand with FDNY for the highest required safety.
Entertainment
Live traditional and contemporary music, fire dancing, collective art making & theater, food and more!
This year features a special Tree of Life fire altar sculpture.
Your donation here brings the fire to life
Your joining the mailing list here will give you the latest news and updates
Volunteer and join the fire community
More Gardens’ Chaharshanbe Suri NYC Mission
More Gardens’ Chaharshanbe Suri NYC is a local festival from West and Central Asia. It is rooted in community, sharing, equity, and reverence for the earth through ritual fire jumping.
This celebration nourishes our spirits, strengthens our connection to each other, and affirms our belonging by embracing our diverse nationalities, languages, faiths, classes, genders, races, and sexual identities. We make gathering joyful through art, music, food, culture, and intergenerational sharing.
We hold each other to tend the flames of love, justice, solidarity, and goodness across the planet and right here in the community green spaces of NYC.
Rabia al-Basri –
I carry a torch in one hand
I carry a torch in one hand
And a bucket of water in the other:
With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven
And put out the flames of Hell
So that voyagers to God can rip the veils
And see the real goal.
— from Women in Sufism: A Hidden Treasure – Writings and Stories of Mystics Poets, Scholars & Saints, Edited by Camille Adams Helminski
More Gardens’ Chaharshanbe Suri NYC
Thank You
More Gardens events and programs are supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), and City Councilpersons Christopher Marte and Carlina Rivera. We want to acknowledge the partnership with artist Aresh Javadi and El Jardin del Paraiso Community gardeners and Yin-To Wong for his architectural renderings. We are immensely grateful to the support from the NYC Parks’ GreenThumb staff, the NYC Fire Department (FDNY), the amazing performers, food vendors, and the many community volunteers, gardeners, the Iranian diaspora & NYC participants.
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More Gardens Fund sits on unceded Indigenous land, specifically the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We acknowledge the genocide and continued displacement of Indigenous peoples during the colonial era and beyond. The island of Mannahatta in Lenapehoking has long been a gathering place for Indigenous people to trade and maintain kinship ties. Today, these communities continue to contribute to the life of this city and to celebrate their heritage, practice traditions, and care for the land and waterways as sacred.
We acknowledge today’s Lenape communities, including Lenape people who belong to the Delaware Nation and Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma; the Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Wisconsin; and the Munsee-Delaware Nation, Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario.