IMPORTANT NOTE: Please check the location of your event, as we host programming in multiple locations. We cannot delay launch or refund tickets if you arrive at the wrong spot.

  • Gowanus Jug & String Band Sessions

    Gowanus Jug & String Band Sessions
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Tuesday evenings, 6-8:30 April through October. Join our weekly Jug & String Band!
    These sessions will be open to Intermediate and above players, and we encourage you to sing along and bring a song to lead.

    $5 – $10
  • Boathouse Bluegrass Jam

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

    The Boathouse Jam every Wednesday evening 6-8:30 April-Oct. Just come, bring an acoustic instrument.
    We are inclusive of all – young & old, new & seasoned musicians. Just bring a smile and your musical instrument and/or your voice to join our one night makeshift band.

    $5 – $10
  • On Location with Artichoke Dance | Robin Michals

    Monthly Gowanus Artists 2026
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    On Location with Artichoke Dance is a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based photographer Robin Michals. Curated by Pam Wong, the exhibit showcases photographs of Artichoke Dance Company performing the Immersive Performance Tours of Gowanus conceived by Lynn Neuman in 2021, and co-hosted annually with various environmental and social justice organizations.  

  • Ukulele Cabaret

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

    For twenty years the Ukulele Cabaret has provided a stage for musicians, artists and performers from New York's underground ukulele scene.

    $10
  • 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.

  • Gowanus Jug & String Band Sessions

    Gowanus Jug & String Band Sessions
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Tuesday evenings, 6-8:30 April through October. Join our weekly Jug & String Band!
    These sessions will be open to Intermediate and above players, and we encourage you to sing along and bring a song to lead.

    $5 – $10
  • Boathouse Bluegrass Jam

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

    The Boathouse Jam every Wednesday evening 6-8:30 April-Oct. Just come, bring an acoustic instrument.
    We are inclusive of all – young & old, new & seasoned musicians. Just bring a smile and your musical instrument and/or your voice to join our one night makeshift band.

    $5 – $10
  • On Location with Artichoke Dance | Robin Michals

    Monthly Gowanus Artists 2026
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    On Location with Artichoke Dance is a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based photographer Robin Michals. Curated by Pam Wong, the exhibit showcases photographs of Artichoke Dance Company performing the Immersive Performance Tours of Gowanus conceived by Lynn Neuman in 2021, and co-hosted annually with various environmental and social justice organizations.  

  • Cultural Ecologies Series 2026: Unheard-of + Mehrnam Rastegari Trio

    Unheard-of Ensemble Cultural Ecologies Series
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    On September 19th, Unheard-of presents a new expansive electroacoustic commission by Matt McBane exploring underwater topographies in acoustic and synth forms paired with a set by Mehrnam Rastegari and her trio. Rastegari is a prominent Persian musician, award-winning film score composer, and master Kamancheh player bringing Persian music in new directions with inflections of rock, jazz, and modern fusion.

    $15