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  • “Broadchannel” by Mia Martelli

    “Broadchannel” by Mia Martelli
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    "Broadchannel" is a solo by Mia Martelli that visits childhood bedroom performance-making. Photo by Kiana Kodama The early 2000s-era sounds, drawings, lighting, poems, and unfinished choreographies created in private are put on display and repurposed as a platform for contemporary questions around aging, spirituality, and environmental collapse. Improvised dances emerge in response to the rhythm, […]

  • “Broadchannel” by Mia Martelli

    “Broadchannel” by Mia Martelli
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    "Broadchannel" is a solo by Mia Martelli that visits childhood bedroom performance-making. Photo by Kiana Kodama The early 2000s-era sounds, drawings, lighting, poems, and unfinished choreographies created in private are put on display and repurposed as a platform for contemporary questions around aging, spirituality, and environmental collapse. Improvised dances emerge in response to the rhythm, […]

  • A Persistence of Cormorants Poetry Reading

    A Persistence of Cormorants Poetry Reading
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    A Persistence of Cormorants is a summer-long poetry reading series on our shoreline featuring accomplished and exceptional poets from the New York area, many of who live in Brooklyn. On each of the scheduled Sundays, from 1:30 to 3:30, up to four featured poets will read for 10 to 15 minutes each. Gerry reads poetry at […]

  • A Persistence of Cormorants Poetry Reading

    A Persistence of Cormorants Poetry Reading
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    A Persistence of Cormorants is a summer-long poetry reading series on our shoreline featuring accomplished and exceptional poets from the New York area, many of who live in Brooklyn. On each of the scheduled Sundays, from 1:30 to 3:30, up to four featured poets will read for 10 to 15 minutes each. Gerry reads poetry at […]

  • Arts Gowanus presents: Gowanus Art Parade – Creatures of the Canal!

    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Come one! Come all! March with Arts Gowanus and creatively show everybody your Gowanus love ❤️! All are invited to join us on Saturday, June 1 in the inaugural Gowanus Art Parade! The theme is Creatures of the Canal – Real or Imaginary. Come rain or shine, join us and show us your creature creations! Wear your art! Don your […]

  • Emily Chiavelli: The Sky Is Blue in Boston

    Monthly Gowanus Artists 2024
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    The Sky is Blue in Boston is a solo exhibition by Gowanus-based photographer Emily Chiavelli. The exhibition comprises analog images she shot in the year following her mother’s death in March of 2023, primarily in California’s San Joaquin Valley, intertwined with the medical texts her sister studied during the same period. Reception: June 8, 2024, 6:00-8:30 PM Open 1-5 PM Saturdays in June - […]

  • A Persistence of Cormorants Poetry Reading

    A Persistence of Cormorants Poetry Reading
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    A Persistence of Cormorants is a summer-long poetry reading series on our shoreline featuring accomplished and exceptional poets from the New York area, many of who live in Brooklyn. On each of the scheduled Sundays, from 1:30 to 3:30, up to four featured poets will read for 10 to 15 minutes each. Gerry reads poetry at […]

  • Emily Chiavelli: The Sky Is Blue in Boston

    Monthly Gowanus Artists 2024
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    The Sky is Blue in Boston is a solo exhibition by Gowanus-based photographer Emily Chiavelli. The exhibition comprises analog images she shot in the year following her mother’s death in March of 2023, primarily in California’s San Joaquin Valley, intertwined with the medical texts her sister studied during the same period. Reception: June 8, 2024, 6:00-8:30 PM Open 1-5 PM Saturdays in June - […]

  • The Beginning of Swimming Season at the End of the World

    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    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 […]