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  • Canoegrass: Jam on the Water

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

    Our first boathouse-jam ON the water! Join us as a musician, a paddle volunteer to help keep the boats together, or an audience member from land. Stick around after the jam for our FREE walk-up paddle.

  • The Boathouse Jam

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

    The Boathouse Jam is hosted by the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club to activate our shoreline while fostering the continued resurgence of acoustical collaborations in Brooklyn. 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.

  • Gowanus Jug & String Band Sessions

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

    Gowanus Jug & String Band Sessions
    Thursday evenings starting May 1st, 6-8:30 at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse
    165 2nd Street between Bond and the Gowanus Canal. We are excited to expand our musical offerings with this new weekly jam.
    Jam Leader: Papa Ernie Vega
    Dredger Host: Liz Rabson Schnore

  • Canoe Camp (for Grownups!)

    Featured Canoe Camp (for Grownups)
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Two weekends of on-water adventure, skill-building, and summer camp vibes! Build skills, have fun, and feel more confident on the water.

    $200

  • Rhythm & Flow: David Barthold and Josh Lambert

    Monthly Gowanus Artists 2025
    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse 165 2nd St, Brooklyn, NY, United States

    Rhythm & Flow brings together the vibrant, material-driven practices of David Barthold and Josh Lambert in a dynamic dialogue of structure, motion, and pattern. Both artists explore rhythm—Barthold through the exuberant visual culture of urban life and Lambert through the intuitive sequencing of abstract form. Barthold’s sculptures draw from the theatrical and the everyday, transforming […]

  • Canoe Camp (for Grownups!)

    Featured Canoe Camp (for Grownups)
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Two weekends of on-water adventure, skill-building, and summer camp vibes! Build skills, have fun, and feel more confident on the water.

    $200
  • A cormorant in the water with text "A Persistence of Cormorants, Poetry by the Gowanus" in the water below it.

    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 […]

  • Full Moon Gowanus Voyage – June

    Full Moon Tours
    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Join our Crew on a sunset and full-moon guided adventure!! Meet at the the Gowanus Dredgers Bunker, at the end of 19th St / off 3rd Ave, 11232 - NOT our 2nd St. boathouse. Tickets required, available via eventbrite.

  • The Boathouse Jam

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

    The Boathouse Jam is hosted by the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club to activate our shoreline while fostering the continued resurgence of acoustical collaborations in Brooklyn. 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.

  • Gowanus Jug & String Band Sessions

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

    Gowanus Jug & String Band Sessions
    Thursday evenings starting May 1st, 6-8:30 at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse
    165 2nd Street between Bond and the Gowanus Canal. We are excited to expand our musical offerings with this new weekly jam.
    Jam Leader: Papa Ernie Vega
    Dredger Host: Liz Rabson Schnore

  • 7th Annual Pride Paddle!

    Gowanus Dredgers Bunker (19th St.) 2 19th St., Brooklyn, NY

    Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride & paddle with us in June as we offer a special voyage of Gowanus Bay and lower Canal. This is our seventh annual Pride Paddle! We persisted right through each year of the pandemic, because celebrating and signaling the importance of inclusion on the waterfront is crucial to our work. Meet at our 19th […]