Unless otherwise noted, canoeing events depart from 19th St. off of 3rd Ave. Walking tours start from different locations and bicycle tours depart from Brooklyn Borough Hall. Other events occur inside or outside our boathouse, at 165 2nd St. / off Bond St.
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The Beginning of Swimming Season at the End of the World
June 16 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A participatory archival activation about swimming, flooding, and water relationships created for the 2024 Culture Push symposium. Visit the archive. Share your own water stories, feelings, fears, and memories.
The Beginning of Swimming Season at the End of the World is part of a research and public art project about swimming, flooding, and water relationships called Open Water. So far the project has been conducted on the coast of Red Hook and shores of Coney Island Creek.
During the symposium, in collaboration with Interference Archive, the Gowanus Dredgers, Faith Toran (climate adaptation specialist, artist), and Jordan Packer (urban ecologist), we will install an interactive archive that will change and expand through the course of the symposium. Visit the archive. Learn about water experiences and practices, urban swimming, and coastal ecology. Share your own water stories, feelings, fears, and memories.
We’ll be recording anonymous oral histories, annotating a non-scientific map of NYC waterways, inviting additions to our incomplete climate action emergency toolkit, and asking questions emerging from research and an ongoing dialogic and somatic exchange that has been ongoing with the videographer iki nakagawa for the past year.
Curated by Nora Almeida
