8th Annual Pride Paddle!
Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride & paddle with us in June as we offer a special voyage of Gowanus Bay and lower Canal. This is our eighth annual Pride Paddle!
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.
Celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride & paddle with us in June as we offer a special voyage of Gowanus Bay and lower Canal. This is our eighth annual Pride Paddle!
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.
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.
Socialize with the Dredgers at our BOATHOUSE (165 2nd St, Brooklyn) for a casual member catch-up and paddle! We’ll gather at 6:30 and aim to be on-water around 7:15.
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.
Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our boathouse at 2nd Street!
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.
This hands-on workshop will explore how breath, movement, and mark-making can bring meaning to the flags and costumes we’ll carry on to the water for the processional on Saturday.
This hands-on workshop will explore how breath, movement, and mark-making can bring meaning to the flags and costumes we’ll carry on to the water for the processional on Saturday.
Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our boathouse at 2nd Street!
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.
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 Canal to meet their neighbors. To celebrate the re-opening of the Carroll St Bridge and cap off a day of cross-canal festivities on June […]