“Ripple Effect”: The Ed Grusheski Memorial Exhibition
2022-04-27 - 2022-06-25 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
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 Fairmount Water Works came to be. The early 19th Century engineer Frederick Graff designed the Fairmount Water Works to more efficiently and safely supply Philadelphia’s water system infrastructure. Ed emphasized in his discussions and work why it is immensely important to preserve the history and legacy of the Fairmount Water Works and to assure its sustainable future.
Due to flood damage from hurricane Ida we regret to inform the passenger elevator allowing wheelchair access is out of service until a flood proof replacement is procured.

Rob Lybeck
Cascade, 5/2020
Archival digital B/W photograph, 16” x 20”

LIST of ARTISTS
Joan Becker
Henry Bermudez
James Brantley
Moe Brooker
Corliss Cavalieri
Patrick Connors
Peter Cunicelli
Thom Duffy
Jung Taesook
Rob Lybeck
Eddy Rhenals
Pamela Tudor
Gary Weisman
SPECIAL THANKS
Thom Duffy, Curator
Pamela Tudor, Exhibition Coordinator
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia
Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia
Thom Duffy Fine Art, Philadelphia

RIPPLE EFFECT: Curator and Artists’ Tours
2022-04-30 11:00 - 11:30, 2022-04-30 12:30 - 13:00, 2022-05-14 11:00 - 11:30, 2022-05-14 12:30 - 13:00, 2022-05-28 11:00 - 11:30, 2022-05-28 12:30 - 13:00, 2022-06-11 11:00 - 11:30, 2022-06-11 12:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) and 2 more dates | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
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 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 Fairmount Water Works came to be. The early 19th Century engineer Frederick Graff designed the Fairmount Water Works to more efficiently and safely supply Philadelphia’s water system infrastructure. Ed emphasized in his discussions and work why it is immensely important to preserve the history and legacy of the Fairmount Water Works and to assure its sustainable future.

Closing early for Memorial Day holiday
2022-05-27 13:00 - 17:00

Summer Splash Early Literacy Program
2022-07-09 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-07-16 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-07-23 10:00 - 12:00, 2022-08-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join us for lively family expeditions at the Fairmount Water Works along the Schuylkill River on select Saturday mornings!
Explore the area with guided activities and continue the fun with take-home books and kits full of water-themed activities to do in your neighborhood.
Serving our neighboring neighborhoods: Brewerytown, Fairmount, Strawberry Mansion, Francisville, North Broad
Held on the following Saturday dates from 10am – 12pm: July 9, July 16, July 23, and August 6.
Pre-registration is suggested but not required.
Sign up for all 4 or individual sessions. Space is limited!

Aqua Marooned!
2022-08-13 13:00 - 15:00, 2022-08-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Aqua Marooned! is a new game that explores nature using quick wit, physical activity & creative invention. Come play for yourself at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center on August 13, August 27, and September 17 from 1pm – 3pm.

Aqua Marooned!
2022-09-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Are you up for the challenge?
On Saturday, September 17 from 2pm – 4pm, join our team at the Fairmount Water Works Boardwalk for Aqua Marooned!, a card game that explores the environment using quit wit, physical activity, and creative invention.
No registration needed.

We Drink the River
2022-09-19 16:30 - 16:31
Where does our tap water come from? Where does our water water go? Join the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center for a behind-the-scenes bus tour of the Philadelphia Water Department’s drinking water system. Learn how it’s connected to our rivers, including past and present-day infrastructure that brings us clean and safe drinking water every day.
Meet at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center

Honoring Our Past: Lenni Lenape Origins in Our Urban Watershed
2022-10-08 12:00 - 15:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Our River Days Program aims to honor and recognize the Lenni Lenape as the original shepherds of this region and provide community members with an opportunity to explore our watershed through games, hands on activities, and walking tours.

We’ll host the Aqua Marooned Game, lead a water quality testing activity, and wrap up the day with a Lenni Lenape land acknowledgement and interactive presentation.
No registration required.

Book Party & Exhibition Opening - "Inland: The Abandoned Canals of the Schuylkill Navigation"
2022-10-11 17:00 - 18:30 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Please join Sandy Sorlien and other contributors to celebrate the launch of Inland, a new book of photographs, maps, and essays about the historic Schuylkill Navigation system and its mostly-hidden ruins. Inland was published in hardcover by George F. Thompson Books, designed by Deborah Larkin in Philadelphia, and printed by Brilliant Graphics in Pennsylvania.

Main Point Books will be on site with books available for purchase ($45).

An exhibition of prints and maps from the book will be on view in the Media Gallery through January 8, 2023.

Clean Water Act @50: History Talk With Philadelphia Water Historian Adam Levine
2022-11-02 19:00 - 20:00
Thanks largely to investments and regulations stemming from the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers are now cleaner than they have been at any time in the past century.
Philadelphia Water Department Historian Adam Levine will look at how a rising tide of pollution in the 19th and early 20th centuries affected the well-being of the city’s residents and the region’s overall ecological health, and how that tide has since abated.
Levine will illustrate how tighter controls on industrial and sewage discharges in Philadelphia and in upstream communities have led to significant improvements in both the quality of the river water and the livability of the riverfronts.
Register for this free talk here.

Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Event
2022-11-05 09:00 - 15:00
Help keep household hazardous waste out of our rivers and streams by scheduling a drop-off appointment at one of the City’s upcoming collection events on October 22 and November 5 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.! Learn more here.

Clean Water Act @ 50: Virtually Tour the Plants that Saved Our Rivers
2022-11-10 10:00 - 11:00
This virtual tour will take virtual visitors behind the scenes at the City’s Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant to follow polluted wastewater step by step through the treatment plant until the cleaned wastewater is cleaner than the Delaware River itself and can be discharged safely to it.
Philadelphia’s sewers and the City’s three water pollution control plants, including its award-winning Southeast Plant – all repaired, rebuilt, and/or expanded under the Clean Water Act – have played a major role in making the region’s streams, small and large, cleaner from the City’s northern limits to the mouth of the Delaware Bay. These streams 50 years ago were: polluted with sewage, industrial waste, and trash; unfit for recreation; unhealthy for habitation by aquatic wildlife; and, barely useable as potable water supply. Today, 50 years after passage of the Clean Water Act, the region’s streams are valued by the public for their abundant natural resources, for the many recreational opportunities they offer, and as the source of drinking water that is potable and tastes good.
Register here.

FWW Closing at 2pm
2022-12-23 14:00 - 17:00

2023 Green Schools Conference
2023-02-27 08:00 - 2023-03-01 17:00
Don’t forget to register for the 2023 Green Schools Conference in New Orleans February 27- March 1! This is the only national event to convene professionals involved in making #greenschools a reality. https://bit.ly/3G7edXE

2023 World Water Day Program: United Nations of Rivers Walk
2023-03-17 12:00 - 17:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Facilitated by the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, in partnership with TU Delft, PortCityFutures, Philadelphia Water Department, Global Philadelphia, and the Alliance for Watershed Education, along with Schuylkill Banks, Schuylkill River Development Corporation, and Delaware River Development Corporation
Friends and colleagues of all ages are invited to walk downstream along the Schuylkill River trail, starting at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center. Along the way, participants will be recorded answering a series of questions about the river, to give voice to all living things and how much we depend on the river and the river depends on us.
Returning together is optional.
This River Walk is part of a global program to record voices throughout the world. Recordings will be compiled and shared at Spitzer School of Architecture on Sunday March 19th as a pre-UN Water Conference 2023 Event. All are welcome to attend. Concurrent walks will take place along the Delaware River and Pennypack Creek (with students from Baldi Middle School)
Schedule:

12pm – Gather at Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center
12:30pm – Start Schuylkill River Walk downstream.

Note:

Brown bag lunch. Philadelphia tap water provided.
The walk has no end time—weather and people dependent

Open invitation to friends and colleagues of all ages to walk downstream along the Schuylkill River.

2023 World Water Day Program: Water, Heritage Sites & Sustainability
2023-03-18 10:00 - 17:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
DAY 2: WATER, HERITAGE SITES & SUSTAINABILITY (SATURDAY, MARCH 18 from 10am – 5pm)
Facilitated by the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, In partnership with TU Delft, PortCityFutures, Philadelphia Water Department, Global Philadelphia, and the Alliance for Watershed Education.
A full day program open to everyone about water as a lead up to the UN Water Conference 2023 in NYC March 22-24th, a mid-term review of the objectives of “Water for Sustainable Development (2018-2028) hosted by Tajikistan and the Netherlands.
A Delegation from the Netherlands will gather with Philadelphians at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center to affirm the central role water plays in sustainable development.
Program highlights include: speakers, lunch, guided tours of the Water Works, viewing of the award-winning “POOL: A Social History of Segregation”, and a closing preview of our latest exhibit “Inland: The Abandoned Canals of the Schuylkill Navigation” with Sandy Sorlien. Join us for informal conversations and serious game playing that will celebrate water, public engagement, place-based education and the conservation of historic and cultural sites associated with water.

Reopening of "POOL"
2023-03-22 11:00 - 17:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
More at www.poolphl.com.
