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.
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 […]
Stop down and launch a canoe for a self-guided paddle from our boathouse at 2nd Street!
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.
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.
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.
Gather materials for cyanotype printmaking on a short canoe paddle in Gowanus Bay! Meet at the the Gowanus Dredgers Bunker, at the end of 19th St / off 3rd Ave, 11232 - NOT our 2nd St. boathouse. RSVP required, available via eventbrite.
Add valuable rescue skills to your toolbox by taking this certification class. CPR & First Aid is required to be a Trip Leader, we hope you join us!
We offer this CPR and first-aid training at cost. After completing the course, you can opt to receive your AHA eCard, which you can use as proof that you have successfully completed training.