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.

  • 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
  • Dreams of Water, Bodies of Earth: Lenore Solmo and Chao Wang

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

    Dreams of Water, Bodies of Earth reflects on environmental fragility, material transformation, and the evolving relationship between living organisms and human-made worlds. Traversing between marine and terrestrial realms, the exhibition explores how modern life shapes our views of nature.

  • Friends from the Canal: A Floating Art Parade

    Have you spotted Mookntaka’s three Friends from the Canal around Gowanus? This multi-site public art installation imagines gentle creatures — known as Loofa, Shelby, and Pebbles — emerging from the […]

  • 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
  • Dreams of Water, Bodies of Earth: Lenore Solmo and Chao Wang

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

    Dreams of Water, Bodies of Earth reflects on environmental fragility, material transformation, and the evolving relationship between living organisms and human-made worlds. Traversing between marine and terrestrial realms, the exhibition explores how modern life shapes our views of nature.

  • Cultural Ecologies Series 2026: Pop-Up 1 – Ebb and Flow

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

    Our clarinetist Ford and music technologist/composer Brian Ellis are presenting a site-specific pop-up on June 27th 8PM at the 2nd Street Dock performed from canoes, tracing the flow of the Gowanus Canal from the Flushing Tunnel to the 2nd Street Boathouse. This opening pop-up titled Ebb and Flow is a limited seat event that is the first of smaller pop-up experiences bringing people together for on the water musical journeys. Iva will present a short set for the opening night.

    $15