Fairmount Water Works

Sunday Cinema: "The Lorax"
2015-04-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-04-05 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month.
The Lorax:
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
(Film selection subject to change.)

Science Saturday: "The Schuylkill: A Cosmopolitan River"
2015-04-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
When you turn on your tap clean, healthy drinking water comes out. Learn how the water from our rivers get cleaned and delivered to our homes, schools and businesses. We will describe the drinking water treatment process and demonstrate the types of tests that Water Department scientists perform to insure the water is safe. You will also have an opportunity to clean up your own “dirty” water sample using filtration.
(Sessions run every 30 minutes.)

Sunday Cinema: Over the Hedge
2015-03-29 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-03-22 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-22 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-03-15 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-15 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-03-08 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-03-08 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-03-01 15:00 - 17:00 and 1 more date | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month.

Science Saturday: "The Schuylkill River Comes Clean: All About Philly’s Drinking Water"
2015-03-28 14:00 - 16:00, 2015-03-14 14:00 - 16:00, 2015-03-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States

Spring 2015 Volunteer Orientation
2015-03-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Come and meet FWW staff members and current volunteers, and learn more about how being a FWW volunteer can be mutually beneficial.
Throughout the 6-month training, volunteers will be provided with detailed information about our site, exhibits, history, environmental messages, and architecture – along with shadowing current volunteers – all in time to help our staff with tours and events in the fall of 2015.
Refreshments will be provided. Registration is required.

Global Water Alliance - 8th Annual Conference
2015-03-26 08:00 - 19:00 | The Wharton School, 3731 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
“WASH Projects in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned”
Learn from world-changing thinkers and innovators from the United Nations, World Bank, USEPA, International Water and Sanitation Leaders, and Major NGOs.
Conference Objectives:

To provide a platform to learn about best practices at WASH projects in developing countries.
To provide special focus to three specific areas: monitoring and evaluation, gender, and schools.
To select several bests practices and recommend how to bring them to scale.

Keynote Speakers:

Martha Newsome, Global Director of Health, Nutrition, and WASH, World Vision International
Vanessa Tobin, Senior Technical Adviser for Water Supply, Sanitation and Water Resources Development for Catholic Relief Services

Panels including:

Howard Neukrug, Philadelphia Water Commissioner
Walter Walker, President of the Mid-Atlantic Professionals Chapter, Engineers Without Borders
Susan Davis, Executive Director, Improve International
Elynn Walter, Sustainability Director, WASH Advocates
Dr. Jayanti Bandyopadhyay, Professor at the Business School at Salem State University
Wendy Voet, MPH, Executive Director, Women’s Way
Karen Young, Director, Fairmount Waterworks
Doug Blazey, Governor, District 7450, Rotary International

CLOSED (Private Event)
2015-03-21 09:00 - 17:00, 2015-02-21 10:00 - 17:00 | PA

Walk for Water
2015-03-21 08:00 - 12:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
The Walk for Water was started by Keiyo Soy Ministries (KSM), an organization dedicated to raising funds to combat the urgent need for clean water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene education in the Kerio Valley in the Rift Valley Province of northern Kenya.
The event kicks off with a silent auction and rally at the Fairmount Water Works, and the race takes place along the Schuylkill River Trail, just outside the Fairmount Water Works.
Registration information can be found at www.ksmministries.com.

Frozen
2015-03-14 11:00 - 14:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Frozen at the Fairmount Water Works has been extended.
Bring the family to experience the hit musical comedy Frozen like never before in an all-new, full-length sing-along edition. Follow the lyrics with a bouncing Frozensnowflake. Join Anna as she sets off on an epic journey – teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and a snowman named Olaf – to find her sister Else, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter.
The day starts off with a special hands-on snowflake science activity at 11 a.m., and the movie screening at 12 noon.
Kids are more than welcome wear their favorite Frozen costume, or bring their favorite themed toy. Let’s share our love for Frozen together this month!
Be sure to register for this event here.

Frozen!
2015-03-07 11:00 - 14:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States

Skiing the Sewer Line: A Wissahickon Snow Day Adventure
2015-03-01 08:00 - 2015-03-31 17:00 | PA
This tour is impromptu every snowy day in March.
This spontaneous tour is for cross-country skiers and winter hikers/runners/snowshoers who want to see the Wissahickon Valley from a whole new perspective. We will need snow on Forbidden Drive so participants should be flexible as you may only get a few hours of notice! Any new-fallen snow day (morning) from January 5 to March 6 is possible, including weekdays. You must have your own skis or be able to keep up by running or walking. Your guide is not fast, but if
snow is deep it can be tiring to walk.
The Wissahickon Valley was added to Fairmount Park in 1868 to protect Philadelphia’s water supply. An interceptor sanitary sewer, to keep waste out of the creek, runs along most of the valley. We will parallel its route on Forbidden Drive and stop occasionally to talk about types of sewers, the urban water cycle, trail erosion and stormwater runoff, and water quality in the Wissahickon and Monoshone Creeks.
When you get the email or text message that we’re on, meet at the bottom of Green Lane in Roxborough (map). Free parking along the road. We will ski 1.5 miles to the confluence of the Monoshone and return. Coffee and biscotti provided.
Tour time is approximately 1.5 hours. Be sure to register here.

Science Saturday: "Philadelphia's Physiography"
2015-02-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Center City in Philadelphia is relatively flat. Across the Schuylkill River in the western part of the city there are hills and rocky outcrops. Learn about the physiographic provinces that make up Philadelphia and how they are different. We will use topographic maps and an interactive sandbox to understand the landforms that make up our city and watershed. Come and get the lay of the land and build your own miniature landscape with its own topo map.

(Sessions run every 30 minutes.)

Frozen in February
2015-02-28 11:00 - 14:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Bring the family to the Fairmount Water Works every Saturday in February for “Frozen in February”!
Experience the hit musical comedy Frozen like never before in an all-new, full-length sing-along edition. Follow the lyrics with a bouncing Frozen snowflake. Join Anna as she sets off on an epic journey – teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and a snowman named Olaf – to find her sister Else, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter.
The day starts off with a special hands-on snowflake science activity at 11 a.m., and the movie screening at 12 noon.
Kids are more than welcome wear their favorite Frozen costume, or bring their favorite themed toy. Let’s share our love for Frozen together this month!
Be sure to register for this event here.

Mommies & Minnows, Fathers & Fry: Winter Foods - Just Add Warm Water!
2015-02-26 10:30 - 11:30 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Winter Foods — Just add warm water!
Taste testing water as key ingredient in our winter favorites- hot cocoa, peppermint tea, soup and more.
Head on down to the Fairmount Water Works, where parents and preschoolers ages 3-5 can learn all about water. Starting January 15, join us Thursday mornings from 10:30am- 11:30am to splash around and discover new things about water through interactive story telling, movement activities, arts and crafts and hands-on experiments.
These sessions will be held at the Fairmount Water Works, weather permitting. Online versions will also be available so that you can enjoy these activities with your family in the comfort of your home during the winter months!
This program is free of charge but pre-registration is required. Be sure to register here.

Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences
2015-02-23 17:30 - 20:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Presented by the Society for Industrial Archaeology, Oliver Evans Chapter

Speaker: Matthew Christopher (Author & Photographer, www.abandonedamerica.us)

Founded by Matthew Christopher in 2006 as a catalogue of the remains of modern ruins, Abandoned America has since developed into one of the foremost websites dealing with the phenomena of abandoned buildings. Originally intended as an examination of the rise and fall of the state hospital system, Abandoned America rapidly grew to encompass derelict factories and industrial sites, schools, churches, power plants, ship and streetcar graveyards, hospitals, prisons, military installations, hotels, resorts, homes, and more. To date, the collection includes hundreds of locations, including the United States Air Force’s 2,600 acre aircraft boneyard and the SS Unites States, an abandoned 990-foot ocean liner.

Christopher’s body of work is a powerful statement about job loss, cultural legacy, urban blight, the artistic/architectural context of iconic buildings, and historic preservation. In light of the collapse of American industry and the subsequent economic meltdown, the relevance of these topics has never been more important to the examination of America’s national identity. Furthermore, the transcendental and sublime elements of Christopher’s imagery, allow viewers to delve beyond topical concerns to deeper themes of mortality, success and failure, bottomless despair and irrepressible hope that ruins have traditionally served as a metaphor for.

His new book, “Abandoned America: The Age of Consequences” (JonGlez Publishing), is available through major booksellers. His photography has been featured on NBC Nightly News, the L.A. Times, BBC, ABC News, NPR, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post, to name just a few. He has lectured on the art of ruins, abandoned spaces, preservation, and mental health history for the Pennsylvania State Museum, Preservation Pennsylvania, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, and many others, and his work has been displayed in galleries across the US. His website, Abandoned America, has gained international attention and is considered one of the leading collections of images of abandoned spaces.

Presented in galleries across the United States, preservation conferences, and educational institutions, the Abandoned America collection demonstrates that photographers can act as powerful vehicles for social change, education, and advocacy. Christopher’s images and essays continue to inspire viewers to contemplate who we once were as a people, who we are, and who we will become.

Books will be for sale at the program and Matthew will gladly sign your copy.

Registration required at ffaphila@hotmail.com or by phone at 610-566-2342

Sunday Cinema: Happy Feet Two
2015-02-22 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-02-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States

Mommies & Minnows, Fathers & Fry: Snowball Fight!
2015-02-19 10:30 - 11:30 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Snowball Fight!
There are all types of winter activities that can’t be done in other seasons. Do you want to build a snowman? Make snow angels? Make sure to dress warm!

Head on down to the Fairmount Water Works, where parents and preschoolers ages 3-5 can learn all about water. Starting January 15, join us Thursday mornings from 10:30am- 11:30am to splash around and discover new things about water through interactive story telling, movement activities, arts and crafts and hands-on experiments.
These sessions will be held at the Fairmount Water Works, weather permitting. Online versions will also be available so that you can enjoy these activities with your family in the comfort of your home during the winter months!
This program is free of charge but pre-registration is required. Be sure to register here.
