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.
Join The Gowanus Dredgers for a weekend of Creature Feature paddle-in movies! We're screening our seasonal favorite, Creature from the Black Lagoon, as well as a new-to-us film, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Tickets will be available soon, register for each screening separately.
Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our boathouse at 2nd Street!
Desire Lines and Daylighting is a new body of work by photographer Nathan Kensinger, looking at informal access points along three of the city’s larger waterways – the Flushing Creek, Harlem River, and Newtown Creek – and documenting work being done by community groups to open up public access along the waterfront.
Join The Gowanus Dredgers for a weekend of Creature Feature paddle-in movies! We're screening our seasonal favorite, Creature from the Black Lagoon, as well as a new-to-us film, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Tickets will be available soon, register for each screening separately.
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
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
Shenanigans will be on-shore tonight as a result of yesterday's storm. Hello Intrepid Gowanus Paddler, We have a different kind of "Boo!" for this Halloween afternoon. Unfortunately, yesterday's massive rainstorm — and the subsequent discharge of sewage into the Canal — and today's extreme wind conditions mean that we are offically deciding that today's conditions […]
For twenty years the Ukulele Cabaret has provided a stage for musicians, artists and performers from New York's underground ukulele scene!
Help us clean up and close out the 2025 on-water season at the Bunker! We'll be tidying up the space, repainting some details, cleaning and repairing gear, linseeding the dock, and other tasks as needed. Dress for the weather and mess. Bring water, a snack, and work gloves if you have them!
Keep jamming throughout the winter at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse. Bring your acoustic instrument, bring your jam busters, and be ready to expand your jam comfort zone!
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.
Keep jamming throughout the winter at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse. Bring your acoustic instrument, bring your jam busters, and be ready to expand your jam comfort zone!