Fairmount Water Works

Urban Sea Exhibit by Melissa D’Agostino
2016-09-29 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
URBAN SEA, a site-specific textile installation and interactive experience byMelissa D’Agostino, inspires conversation about the river’s historic role as a water mass and its future evolution based on the health of our watershed systems. Engineered to unfurl alongside the river between six of the historic pavilion columns, URBAN SEA will showcase 60 yards of silk organza fabric hand-dyed by the artist’s itajime technique of patterned vertical lines.

Viewers will see the one of a kind patterned tapestries blowing with the breeze, creating the billowing waves of an URBAN SEA.
URBAN SEA will be on display from Monday, September 26 through Thursday, September 29. Exhibit times are as follows (under the FWW Pavilion):

Monday (4pm – 7pm)
Tuesday (4pm – 7pm)
Wednesday (4pm – 7pm)
Thursday (4pm – 7pm)

Throughout the exhibit, D’Agostino invites visitors to express their own thoughts of the experience at a poetry desk and drawing table. She’s also collaborated with a local letterpress maker to develop a commemorative card for URBAN SEA featuring a poem and drawing by the artist, as a special gift for each viewer to remember and share their experience of the installation.

Family Tour w/ Let's Go Outdoors
2016-10-01 13:00 - 14:00, 2016-10-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2016-10-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2016-10-22 13:00 - 14:00, 2016-10-29 13:00 - 14:00
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.

Science Saturday: "Seeing Red (and Yellow and Orange) in the Fall"
2016-10-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-10-08 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-10-15 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-10-22 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-10-29 14:00 - 16:00
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.
Do you wonder why leaves are green in the spring and summer, but change to red, yellow and orange in the fall? Investigate the different colored pigments in leaves, identify different leaves, and perform an experiment to show how one color is really made up of many different colors.

Sunday Cinema: "A Bug's Life"
2016-10-02 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-10-02 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-10-09 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-10-09 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-10-16 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-10-16 15:00 - 17:00, 2016-10-23 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-10-23 15:00 - 17:00 and 2 more dates
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.)
“A Bug’s Life”: A misfit ant, looking for “warriors” to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.

Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry: I Spy...
2016-10-07 10:00 - 11:00
Calling Moms, Dads, and/or Caregivers! Visit Fairmount Waters Works with your preschooler(s) for Week 1 of our Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry, 5-week program series!
Week 1’s theme is “I Spy…”, an adventure in exploring the river/water with our sense of sight!
Using water themes and river connection lessons, your preschooler(s), along with yourself, will have fun through sensory, movement, creative and generic play activities. These popular sessions fill quickly(!) and incorporate toddler/pre-k journaling for early school-based learning techniques.
To register, please visit: Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry

Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry: The Sound of Water
2016-10-14 10:00 - 11:00
Calling Moms, Dads, and/or Caregivers! Visit Fairmount Waters Works with your preschooler(s) for Week 2 of our Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry, 5-week program series!
Week 2’s theme is “The Sound of Water”. Together we’ll explore the natural sounds of water and create “water music”!
Using water themes and river connection lessons, your preschooler(s), along with yourself, will have fun through sensory, movement, creative and generic play activities. These popular sessions fill quickly(!) and incorporate toddler/pre-k journaling for early school-based learning techniques.
To register, please visit: Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry

Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry: Water Recipes
2016-10-21 10:00 - 11:00
Calling Moms, Dads, and/or Caregivers! Visit Fairmount Waters Works with your preschooler(s) for Week 3 of our Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry, 5-week program series!
Week 3’s theme is “Water Recipes”. We’ll sip water and use our sense of taste!
Using water themes and river connection lessons, your preschooler(s), along with yourself, will have fun through sensory, movement, creative and generic play activities. These popular sessions fill quickly(!) and incorporate toddler/pre-k journaling for early school-based learning techniques.
To register, please visit: Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry

Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry: Follow Your Nose
2016-10-28 10:00 - 11:00
Calling Moms, Dads, and/or Caregivers! Visit Fairmount Waters Works with your preschooler(s) for Week 4 of our Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry, 5-week program series!
Week 4’s theme is “Follow Your Nose”, where we’ll explore water using our developing sense of smell.
Using water themes and river connection lessons, your preschooler(s), along with yourself, will have fun through sensory, movement, creative and generic play activities. These popular sessions fill quickly(!) and incorporate toddler/pre-k journaling for early school-based learning techniques.
To register, please visit: Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry

Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry: Touch Points
2016-11-04 10:00 - 11:00
Calling Moms, Dads, and/or Caregivers! Visit Fairmount Waters Works with your preschooler(s) for Week 5 of our Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry, 5-week program series!
Week 5’s theme is “Touch Points”, where we’ll utilize interactive water activities that involve our sense of touch!
Using water themes and river connection lessons, your preschooler(s), along with yourself, will have fun through sensory, movement, creative and generic play activities. These popular sessions fill quickly(!) and incorporate toddler/pre-k journaling for early school-based learning techniques.
To register, please visit: Mommy and Minnow, Father and Fry

Science Saturday: "Ganshewahanna: The Schuylkill River before the Europeans"
2016-11-05 14:00 - 16:00, 2016-11-12 14:00 - 16:00
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.
Native Americans are an important part of our Thanksgiving celebrations. Learn about the original residents of Philadelphia and their reliance on local rivers and streams. We will learn about their culture, lifestyle and diet and about the local environment thousands of years before European settlers arrived. You can weave a mat of natural materials like the Lenni Lenape did!

Sunday Cinema: "Free Birds"
2016-11-06 13:00 - 15:00, 2016-11-06 15:00 - 17:00
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.)
“Free Birds”: Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history – and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.
