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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.
We’ll gather at 6:30 and chat indoors
Join The Gowanus Dredgers for an on-water screening of Gowanus Current, a documentary by Jamie Courville and Chris Reynolds, and a discussion with the filmmakers at the Boathouse after the show! Book your ticket via eventbrite. We'll meet at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse (165 2nd St.), but the screening takes place on the Gowanus Canal, with on-water […]
Our annual paddle-in screening of Creature from the Black Lagoon! Join The Gowanus Dredgers for our annual paddle-in screening of 1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon. It's your last chance to join us for an on-the-water cinematic event this season, so don't miss it! Book your ticket via eventbrite. We'll meet at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse […]
Each year, as part of the Brooklyn Folk Festival , contestants gather on the banks of the fetid Gowanus Canal to see who can throw a banjo the farthest in the - BANJO TOSS: BANJO THROWING COMPETITION! The special "throwing banjo", attached to a rope is tossed into the canal, a federally designate Super Fund site. The marked rope pays out, showing how far the banjo has been tossed. It is then hauled back in for the next throw.