Unless otherwise noted, canoeing events depart from 19th St. off of 3rd Ave. Walking tours start from different locations and bicycle tours depart from Brooklyn Borough Hall. Other events occur inside or outside our boathouse, at 165 2nd St. / off Bond St.
[ Rain 30 min. Prior to start time may cancel event and dates +30 days in the future are subject to change ]
Local artist Rich Garr leads this exploration through the Gowanus waterfront. He is a longtime area artist focusing on public art and community. This walking tour is a multi-sensory collage featuring art, and responding to the area's renowned history and current events.
COME PADDLE! Let’s show everyone how great it is to have access to the head of the canal! Help support our water access advocacy by using the canal and bringing friends! Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our 2nd St. Dock. Limited to the head of the canal to the floating boom at 3rd.
The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club is proud to present “Dual Currents: Perspectives in Paint,” an exhibition by local artists Janice McDonnell and Jen Ferguson.
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 […]
Wednesdays April 3 through October 30th, 2024 6:00 - 8:30 PM The Boathouse Jam is hosted by the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club to activate our shoreline while fostering the continued resurgence […]
Join the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club for a secret, one of a kind, personal sunset cruise in canoes above Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal.
A workshop reading presented by murmuration theatre co.
The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club is proud to present “Dual Currents: Perspectives in Paint,” an exhibition by local artists Janice McDonnell and Jen Ferguson.
The last performance of the 2024 Cultural Ecologies season features emerging composers at the cutting edge of music and technology from composers Erich Barganier, Han Geul Lee, Catherine Phang, Alyssa Wixson, and Annie Nikunen, each developing new multimedia works for the ensemble. This performance takes place during climate week NYC!
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 […]
Our 8th annual Gowanus Dawn Reading! We’ll proclaim poetry from Julian Talamantez Brolaski's "gowanus atropolis" in canoes on the Gowanus Canal!
Wednesdays April 3 through October 30th, 2024 6:00 - 8:30 PM The Boathouse Jam is hosted by the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club to activate our shoreline while fostering the continued resurgence […]
