Exploring Our Urban Watershed
Join Fairmount Water Works and Schuylkill River Development Corporation in exploring the Schuylkill River in a program both on land and on the water! We start at Fairmount Water Works […]
Events for October 9 - September 7
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Watershed Wednesdays at the Fairmount Water Works
We will get to know the Schuylkill River by exploring various watershed topics through hands on activities, games and art projects. Suitable for ages 5 and up. Children must be […]
Watershed Wednesdays at the Fairmount Water Works
We will get to know the Schuylkill River by exploring various watershed topics through hands on activities, games and art projects. Suitable for ages 5 and up. Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian. Advance registration required. Sign up for one session or sign up for them all! All sessions are 10am-11:30am. Email educator stacey.heffernan@phila.gov […]
Watershed Wednesdays at the Fairmount Water Works
We will get to know the Schuylkill River by exploring various watershed topics through hands on activities, games and art projects. Suitable for ages 5 and up. Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian. Advance registration required. Sign up for one session or sign up for them all! All sessions are 10am-11:30am. Email educator stacey.heffernan@phila.gov […]
Watershed Wednesdays at the Fairmount Water Works
We will get to know the Schuylkill River by exploring various watershed topics through hands on activities, games and art projects. Suitable for ages 5 and up. Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian. Advance registration required. Sign up for one session or sign up for them all! All sessions are 10am-11:30am. Email educator stacey.heffernan@phila.gov […]
Exploring Our Urban Watershed
Join Fairmount Water Works and Schuylkill River Development Corporation in exploring the Schuylkill River in a program both on land and on the water! We start at Fairmount Water Works and move through 3 hands-on activities: creating a mural of the historic Schuylkill River, examining microscopic life in a drop of river water and engaging […]
River Days 2021
Enjoy hands-on activities for families throughout the day, plus a live performance conducted by the Cultural Heritage Fund Group, comprised of citizens of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape tribe and presented by the Lenapehoking~Watershed, a place for water, art and culture. Lenape performance/presentation starts at 1pm! Space is limited, so be sure to secure a space […]
POOL Opening / World Water Day
POOL weaves together history, site-specific artwork, storytelling, scholarship and place-based learning. The exhibit installations build on one another to illuminate a history of segregated swimming in America, and its connection to present-day drowning issues affecting Black communities. Open Wednesdays - Fridays, 12pm - 5pm and Saturdays, 10am - 5pm.
“Ripple Effect”: The Ed Grusheski Memorial Exhibition
Ed Grusheski had a gentle yet persuasive positive manner that resulted in cultivating like minded friends, colleagues, and communities, inspiring them to become more actively concerned and committed to their personal use and care of land and water. Ed did this through promoting education of the history of our relationship of water and how the […]
RIPPLE EFFECT: Curator and Artists’ Tours
Personal guided tours of Ripple Effect: Ed Grusheski Memorial Exhibition featuring thirteen local artists. The artists careers span from emerging to seasoned and the show includes drawings, paintings, sculpture and b/w photography. Ed Grusheski had a gentle yet persuasive positive manner that resulted in cultivating like minded friends, colleagues, and communities, inspiring them to become […]