Be an Artist! (Pop-Up Activity)
Come to the Fairmount Water Works every Saturday in June for a day of painting with our friends from Mural Arts. Whether a fish, turtle, or snail, show your creative […]
Events for July 23, 2019 - May 24, 2019
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CANCELLED: Turbine 2015
TURBINE with Leah Stein Dance Company Byron Au Yong, Composer Alan Harler, Conductor In celebration of the Water Works' 200th anniversary, Mendelssohn Club joins forces with the Leah Stein Dance Company and composer Byron Au Yong to present the world premiere of TURBINE, an immersive work for singers, dancers, and instruments, featuring choreography and music […]
Sunday Cinema: FernGully
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. FernGully: Crysta (Samantha Mathis) is a fairy who lives in FernGully, a rainforest in Australia, and has never seen a human […]
Milling Around (Hard Hat Tour)
Eye-level with the Schuylkill, you’ll walk the same underground paths as a royal family and Olympic swimmers during a behind-the-scenes look at Philadelphia’s first tourist destination. Hear about the future expansion and hear about the future expansion of the landmark that pioneered engineering, tourism, and environmental awareness in Philadelphia. This is a hard-hat tour, and […]
Sunday Cinema: FernGully
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. FernGully: Crysta (Samantha Mathis) is a fairy who lives in FernGully, a rainforest in Australia, and has never seen a human […]
Turbine 2015
TURBINE with Leah Stein Dance Company Byron Au Yong, Composer Alan Harler, Conductor In celebration of the Water Works' 200th anniversary, Mendelssohn Club joins forces with the Leah Stein Dance […]
Sunday Cinema: Hoot
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. Hoot: A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight […]
Sunday Cinema: Hoot
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. Hoot: A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight […]
River Reimagined: A Land & Water Tour
Learn about Philadelphia’s first tourist attraction, and cruise the Schuylkill for a new perspective on sites along this historic river. After passing through FWW’s beautifully landscaped South Garden, stroll along the ‘Schuylkill Banks’ for a 1.5 mile walk to the Walnut Street dock to board a boat for a one-hour narrated cruise. PLEASE NOTE: in […]
Hot Yoga at the Fairmount Water Works
Our yoga series continues with a "hot yoga" session with Priya Hot Yoga. Priya Hot Yoga will guide students through a unique sequence of yoga poses linked together by breath. […]