Fairmount Water Works

Sunday Cinema: "Free Birds"
2015-11-08 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-11-08 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-11-01 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-11-01 08:00 - 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.)
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.

Trails Through Time Tour
2015-11-07 13:00 - 17:00 | Tacony Creek Park Gateway, I Street & Ramona Avenue, Philadelphia, 19124, United States
Join Philadelphia Water Department’s Drew Brown and Adam Levine on this bus tour that will follow the winding course of the Wingohocking Creek.

Philadelphia was once laced with a system of streams and their tributaries, most now hidden underground. In the 19th and 20th centuries, city engineers re-channeled most of these waterways into massive sewers that run far beneath our streets.

Once a major tributary to Frankford Creek, the Wingohocking now runs in a sewer that drains Mt. Airy, Germantown, Olney, Feltonville, and Juniata. Points of interest along the way will include Awbury Arboretum and Belfield, home of Charles Wilson Peale. Learn about watersheds and how you can help protect the streams in your neighborhood. -Adam Levine, Philadelphia Water Department

Parking available at starting location & rest stops along the way.
Limited space. RSVP required.
RSVP to Robin Irizarry
robin@ttfwatershed.org | 215.744.1853

Hazardous Household Waste Event
2015-11-07 09:00 - 15:00 | Unnamed Venue, 3901 Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19137, United States
Handling and disposing of hazardous waste materials requires a special set of regulations due to the potential damage they can cause to people, pets and the environment. Residents can bring their hazardous waste to Household Hazardous Waste Events, sponsored by the Philadelphia Streets Department.

Science Saturday: "Autumnal Color Box: Fall Leaves"
2015-10-31 14:00 - 16:00, 2015-10-24 14:00 - 16:00, 2015-10-17 14:00 - 16:00, 2015-10-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
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.
(Sessions run every 30 minutes.)

Sunday Cinema: "A Bug's Life"
2015-10-25 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-10-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-10-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-10-18 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-10-11 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-10-11 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-10-04 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-10-04 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.)
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.

Household Hazardous Waste Event
2015-10-10 09:00 - 15:00 | Unnamed Venue, 3033 South 63rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19153, United States

Mommies & Minnows, Fathers & Fry ("Geometric Places")
2015-09-30 10:30 - 11:30 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
September 30 – Geometric Places – Learn about the building blocks that shape the architecture of the Fairmount Water Works.
Head down to the Fairmount Water Works with your preschoolers (ages 3-5), and learn all about water! Starting August 26, join us Wednesday mornings from 10:30am – 11:30am to splash around and discover new things about water through interactive story telling, movement activities, arts and crafts and hands-on experiments.
To support of the fun hands-on activities, a one-time $5 donation is suggested (but any amount is appreciated).
This class is full!

CLOSED
2015-09-25 10:00 - 2015-09-27 17:00

Mommies & Minnows, Fathers & Fry ("Turtle, Turtle")
2015-09-23 10:30 - 11:30 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
September 23 – Turtle, Turtle – Shellebrate these reptiles lean about how they live what they like to eat.
Head down to the Fairmount Water Works with your preschoolers (ages 3-5), and learn all about water! Starting August 26, join us Wednesday mornings from 10:30am – 11:30am to splash around and discover new things about water through interactive story telling, movement activities, arts and crafts and hands-on experiments.
To support of the fun hands-on activities, a one-time $5 donation is suggested (but any amount is appreciated).
This class is full!

Sunday Cinema: "The Day After Tomorrow"
2015-09-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-09-20 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-09-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-09-13 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.
The Day After Tomorrow: Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek across America to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.

Science Saturday: “Weather or Not: Weather Patterns, Hurricanes and Climate Change”
2015-09-19 14:00 - 16:00, 2015-09-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
September is considered the most active month in hurricane season. Do you wonder why hurricanes happen at certain times of the year or how they form? Come learn how water temperature affects hurricane formation and how that might change with a changing climate. We’ll show you a hurricane in a bottle and give you instructions to make your own at home! (Sessions run every 30 minutes.)

Lunch & Learn
2015-09-16 12:00 - 14:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
This special monthly program for lifelong learners combines an intimate one-hour tour of the Fairmount Water Works facility with an outdoor lunch on the grounds overlooking the scenic Schuylkill River. Enjoy learning about the history, engineering, architecture and environmental significance of the historic landmark. Purchase tickets here.

Mommies & Minnows, Fathers & Fry ("The Very Thirsty Caterpillar")
2015-09-16 10:30 - 11:30 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
September 16 – The Very Thirsty Caterpillar – Staying hydrated is important to staying healthy!
Head down to the Fairmount Water Works with your preschoolers (ages 3-5), and learn all about water! Starting August 26, join us Wednesday mornings from 10:30am – 11:30am to splash around and discover new things about water through interactive story telling, movement activities, arts and crafts and hands-on experiments.
To support of the fun hands-on activities, a one-time $5 donation is suggested (but any amount is appreciated).
This class is full!
