Fairmount Water Works

Sunday Cinema: "Hoot"
2016-07-17 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-07-10 15:00 - 17:00 (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. (Film selection subject to change.)
Hoot: A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he’s compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.

Family Tour with Let's Go Outdoors
2016-07-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join Let’s Go Outdoors for a general family-friendly tour of the Fairmount Water Works!
Learn about amazing grounds outside of the historic site, including the Fishway Dam, then head inside for a guided orientation to “Water in our World” and watch a 15-minute film about the building’s important role in Philadelphia’s history. Let’s Go Outdoors inspires an appreciation for the outdoors through education and recreation programming, especially among people of color and those that live in city communities.
After the tour, stick around for our weekly Science Saturday activity that starts at 2pm.
The tour is FREE, but registration is required, as space is limited.

Invisible River 2016
2016-07-15 19:30 - 2016-07-16 14:00 | Unnamed Venue, 2200 Kelly Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19121, United States
Spend the weekend of Friday, July 15th and Saturday, July 16th with INVISIBLE RIVER on the Schuylkill in East Fairmount Park! Take out a kayak or canoe as dancers twirl, dangle, and mesmerize above your head during BECK EPOCH, the evenings of Fri, July 15th and Sat, July 16th at 7:30pm. Bring the entire family for a festive exploration of the river all day on Saturday, July 16th from 10am-2pm during Schuylkill River Arts Day with dance and music performances, free boating, fishing, interactive watershed lessons, local food and more!
To find out more about these events, visit www.invisibleriver.org.

CANCELLED: Pop Up Yoga
2016-07-15 18:15 - 19:15 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join us for a special yoga class with Pop Up Yoga Philly by the serene waters of the Schuylkill River at the Fairmount Water Works Pavilion! A portion of the proceeds of these classes will benefit educational programs at the Fairmount Water Works.
Register here.

Sunday Cinema: "Hoot"
2016-07-10 13:00 - 15:00 | 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. (Film selection subject to change.)
Hoot: A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he’s compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.

River Reimagined: A Land & Water Tour
2016-06-30 14:30 - 16:30, 2016-06-16 14:30 - 16:30, 2016-06-02 14:30 - 16:30 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Learn about the Fairmount Water Works, one of Philadelphia’s first tourist attractions, and cruise the Schuylkill for a new perspective on sites along this historic river. After a brief tour of the Fairmount Water Works, stroll through the beautifully landscaped South Garden, and along the Schuylkill Banks for a 1.5 mile walk to the Walnut Street dock to board a boat for a 1-hour narrated cruise. Purchase tickets here:
PLEASE NOTE: Comfortable and sturdy shoes are strongly recommended for the 1.5-mile walk. Transportation from the Walnut Street dock back to the Fairmount Water Works is available. In the event of inclement weather, we may have to cancel the tour. You will be notified by email if the tour must be cancelled.

Sunday Cinema: "Watermark"
2016-06-26 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-06-26 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-06-19 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-06-19 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-06-12 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-06-12 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-06-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-06-05 13:00 - 15:00 | 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. (Film selection subject to change.)
Watermark: A documentary on how water shapes humanity.

Science Saturday - "Living La Vida Micro in the Schuylkill River"
2016-06-25 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-06-18 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-06-11 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-06-04 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab.
You can see many living organisms that call the Schuylkill River home – e.g., ducks, fish, turtles, and aquatic plants. But there is a whole watery world you cannot see with the naked eye. Come and collect a water sample full of microscopic organisms and view them under the microscope. Learn to identify them and find out why they are so important to river ecology.

Saturday Family Tour
2016-06-25 13:00 - 14:00, 2016-06-18 13:00 - 14:00, 2016-06-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States

Pop Up Yoga
2016-06-17 18:15 - 19:15 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States

CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC (Private Event)
2016-06-11 16:00 - 17:00 | PA

Sunday Cinema: "Rango"
2016-05-29 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-05-29 13:00 - 15:00 | 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. (Film selection subject to change.)
Rango: Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.

Science Saturday - "The Schuylkill River Comes Clean: All About Philly's Drinking Water"
2016-05-28 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Drop in every Saturday between 2-4 pm, and together, we’ll explore different aspects of our environment during fun and interactive sessions in our water lab.
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.

CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
2016-05-22 13:00 - 17:00 | PA
