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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. Gerry reads poetry at […]
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 […]
Socialize with the Dredgers at our BOATHOUSE (165 2nd St.) to discuss the latest updates on Gowanus and get involved. We continue to plan new and fun events on our shoreline and waterway. MONTHLY MEETING Third Thursday of the month, 6:30 PM 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11231 We've made the switch from meeting at […]
Join the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club as we give a few of our old canoes a makeover with the help of some amazing local artists!
Join the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club as we give a few of our old canoes a makeover with the help of some amazing local artists!
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.
Socialize with the Dredgers at our BOATHOUSE (165 2nd St.) to discuss the latest updates on Gowanus and get involved. We continue to plan new and fun events on our shoreline and waterway. MONTHLY MEETING Wednesday, November 12th 6:30 PM 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11231 We've made the switch from meeting at the Bunker […]
Help us close down the Bunker for the season. We'll be doing some light construction work and building out a new canoe rack, come ready to get dusty and dirty and have some fun.
Join LULITA for a listening party for her upcoming Argentinian Folk EP. Light snacks and drinks will be served, and the EP listening will be followed by a short live performance.
We're 25! Come by the boathouse at 2nd and Bond to help us celebrate our anniversary and the end of a fantastic season.
"Inner and Outer Transformations: The Climate Crisis" is an immersive multimedia exhibition curated through a blend of fine art photography, poetry, live music, and community climate engagement activities on climate adaptation on flooding in NYC.
Join the Gowanus Dredgers for the first talk in our new Mucking Things Up series launching this year! We're hosting a series of informal talks focused more on storytelling than slideshows. Come learn about our harbor habitat.