Weeding Wednesdays 2022
2022-05-11 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-05-18 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-05-25 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-06-01 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-06-08 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-06-22 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-06-29 18:00 - 19:30, 2022-07-06 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) and 9 more dates | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Join us every week as we weed, mulch, tend bushes and blossoms, sometimes plant and water (if necessary). We have tools and gloves (but bring yours if you have them). Bring a water bottle. Everyone welcome but please note in your sign up if you are bringing others. See you there!

Please register.

Spring Planting & Park Cleanup
2022-05-14 10:00 - 13:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park for a major planting and park clean-up at Bushwick Inlet Park. This is a makeup day for Riverkeeper Sweep that was canceled.
Volunteers will meet at Bushwick Inlet Park at 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn NY, by the water/gardens.
We ask all Sweep volunteers to wear sturdy shoes or boots, clothing that they can get dirty, and to bring a hat, sunscreen, a full reusable water bottle, and a face mask, work gloves and hand sanitizer.
This site is suitable for elementary-aged children with adult supervision.
Registration is required.

Movies Under The Stars: Sound of Metal
2022-05-26 20:15 - 22:15 | Bushwick Inlet Park (50 Kent Ave), 50 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Grab a blanket and come enjoy a movie in a neighborhood park or playground! This summer, NYC Parks and The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment will host family-friendly movie showings across the five boroughs.
A heavy-metal drummer’s life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.
Release date: November 20, 2020 (USA)
Director: Darius Marder
Starring: Riz Ahmed; Olivia Cooke; Paul Raci; Lauren Ridloff; Mathieu Amalric
Movies begin at dusk. This event is FREE and open to the public. Glass bottles and alcoholic beverages are strictly prohibited. In the event of heavy rain or extreme weather, the screening may be canceled. The decision to cancel the event will be made prior to the screening and will be prominently posted on our website.
For more information visit nyc.gov/parks or call 311. Contact (212) 360-1430 or accessibility@parks.nyc.gov for more information regarding accessibility.

Summer Music in BIP 2022: Alma Adentro
2022-06-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
For the second summer FBIP brings music to the beautiful waterfront in Bushwick Inlet Park with our Summer Music in BIP 2022 series. Come take in a skyline river sunset on the 86 Kent shoreline esplanade while absorbing great musical vibes from multiple genres.
We’re kicking off this season with Alma Adentro for the first El Puente CADRE show!
Alma Adentro is a New York City-based Puerto Rican musical ensemble that brings back the nostalgia of the Latin-American Boleros, Guarachas & Cha cha chás with a dash of Danza Puertorriqueña. Named after the Sylvia Rexach song “Alma Adentro” or “Inside of your soul” in English, this group of musicians seeks to touch our hearts through music with Yazmín Morales-Vicente (vocals), William Vázquez (guitar), Luis Rodríguez (Cuatro) and Elías De Jesús (percussion). To learn more about Alma Adentro, you can follow them on Instagram @almaadentro787.
A big thanks goes out this year’s sponsors:

City Parks Foundation
El Puente
NYC Ferry
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance
25 Kent
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Jazz Foundation of American
Rubenstein Partners
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Brooklyn Arts Council
New York State Council on the Arts

Please join us!

Bushwick Inlet Oyster Monitoring Summer 2022
2022-06-25 13:30 - 15:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Please join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and our partners from the North Brooklyn Community Boathouse, Billion Oyster Project, and New York Harbor School for the summer survey of our oyster restoration project in Bushwick Inlet.
This summer we will be meeting at the East River waterfront *in* Bushwick Inlet Park. (Enter at 86 Kent Ave. [soccer field] and walk all the way back to the water.) Bring water, a hat, and sunscreen; wear old clothes and plan to get a little dirty!
Spaces are limited and registration is required.

Summer Music in BIP 2022: Alvin Flythe
2022-06-30 18:30 - 20:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
For the second summer FBIP brings music to the beautiful waterfront in Bushwick Inlet Park with our Summer Music in BIP 2022 series. Come take in a skyline river sunset on the 86 Kent shoreline esplanade while absorbing great musical vibes from multiple genres.
Next, the Jazz Foundation of America brings us Alvin Flythe and the Flythetime.
Queens native Alvin Wink Flythe started playing music at the age of six and has been a professional saxophonist for more than 50 years. At the age of 12, he had the honor of playing with his cousin Duke Ellington, and has since shared the stage with greats like Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Haynes, and Dr. Lonnie Smith, touring Europe and the Caribbean. Flythe’s style is influenced by John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, and Sonny Stitt, and combines a funk aesthetic with classic jazz tones.
A big thanks goes out this year’s sponsors:

City Parks Foundation
El Puente
NYC Ferry
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance
25 Kent
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Jazz Foundation of American
Rubenstein Partners
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Brooklyn Arts Council
New York State Council on the Arts

Please join us!

Movies Under The Stars: Joe Papp in Five Acts
2022-06-30 20:30 - 22:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (50 Kent Ave), 50 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Through Movies Under the Stars, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and NYC Parks bring more than 150 film screenings to parks throughout the five boroughs. Enjoy family-friendly entertainment in the city’s parks and playgrounds, ranging from great new movies to all-time classics. Our movies have chairs reserved for seniors and people with disabilities, so that everyone can enjoy a good movie. Bring some food, find a great spot, and enjoy the show!
Joe Papp in Five Acts (2012, Directors Tracie Holder, Karen Thorsen) tells the story of this indomitable, feisty, street-wise champion of the arts. As founder of The Public Theater, Free Shakespeare in the Park and producer of groundbreaking plays like Hair, A Chorus Line and for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, Papp believed great art was for everyone, not just a privileged few. A cultural change agent for more than fifty years, Papp’s stages held up a mirror to society with work that reflected the reality of people’s lives.
Papp worked to expand public access to the arts. “We have public libraries,” he would argue, “Why not public theaters?” He recognized the role artists could play in building a more democratic, inclusive society. At a time when theatre was largely the domain of white men, he was convinced that women, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC and other marginalized communities, denied power elsewhere in society, could develop it on the stage. His goal was a “theater of inclusion” on-stage, backstage, and in the audience.
Featuring rare footage from the 50s to Papp’s death in 1991, and up-close scenes from the performances themselves, Joe Papp in Five Acts tells his own story without narration. His great accomplishments and his own, often tumultuous, personal history is told by the artists he helped create—and, in some cases, tried to destroy—including actors Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, Meryl Streep, Olympia Dukakis, Mandy Patinkin, Martin Sheen, Christopher Walken and playwrights Larry Kramer, and David Hare among others.
***Directors Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen will introduce the film.

Summer Music in BIP 2022: Ali Dineen with Feral Foster
2022-07-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
For the second summer FBIP brings music to the beautiful waterfront in Bushwick Inlet Park with our Summer Music in BIP 2022 series. Come take in a skyline river sunset on the 86 Kent shoreline esplanade while absorbing great musical vibes from multiple genres.
Next, Jackson Lynch & Friends brings us Ali Dineen with Feral Foster.
Ali Dineen is a poet-composer born and raised in Queens, whose lyrics are poetic and deeply personal, and highlight the intersections between personal experience, larger histories, and systems of power. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival, among other wonderful venues, and was awarded the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in 2020. Ali is also the music director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective, arranges music and sings with Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir, and is part of a duet with the inimitable Feral Foster. Ali released a third album, Hold On, in 2020, and is currently working on a new piece about Joan of Arc.
A big thanks goes out this year’s sponsors:

City Parks Foundation
El Puente
NYC Ferry
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance
25 Kent
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Jazz Foundation of American
Rubenstein Partners
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Brooklyn Arts Council
New York State Council on the Arts

Please join us!

Summer Music in BIP 2022: George Braith
2022-07-14 18:30 - 20:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
For the second summer FBIP brings music to the beautiful waterfront in Bushwick Inlet Park with our Summer Music in BIP 2022 series. Come take in a skyline river sunset on the 86 Kent shoreline esplanade while absorbing great musical vibes from multiple genres.
Next up in partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America we welcome the George Braith Quartet.
George Braith (born George Timothy Braithwaite on June 26, 1939) is a soul-jazz saxophonist from New York. Braith is known for playing multiple horns at once, a technique pioneered by Roland Kirk. Braith is credited with the invention of the Braithophone, two different horns (straight alto and soprano) mended together by extensions, valves and connections. Braith is featured in a mosaic in the 72nd street station of the Second Avenue Subway in the New York City Subway system.
A big thanks goes out this year’s sponsors:

City Parks Foundation
El Puente
NYC Ferry
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance
25 Kent
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Jazz Foundation of American
Rubenstein Partners
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Brooklyn Arts Council
New York State Council on the Arts

Please join us!

Summer Music in BIP 2022: Ed Martinez & Conjunto Sabor
2022-07-21 18:30 - 20:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
For the second summer FBIP brings music to the beautiful waterfront in Bushwick Inlet Park with our Summer Music in BIP 2022 series. Come take in a skyline river sunset on the 86 Kent shoreline esplanade while absorbing great musical vibes from multiple genres.
Next up is Ed Martinez & Conjunto Sabor for another El Puente CADRE show! Ed and his ensemble lit up the esplanade last year. We’re excited to have him back on the shoreline again.
A big thanks goes out this year’s sponsors:

City Parks Foundation
El Puente
NYC Ferry
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance
25 Kent
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Jazz Foundation of American
Rubenstein Partners
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Brooklyn Arts Council
New York State Council on the Arts

Please join us!

Summer Music in BIP 2022: Folk Show #2
2022-07-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
For the second summer FBIP brings music to the beautiful waterfront in Bushwick Inlet Park with our Summer Music in BIP 2022 series. Come take in a skyline river sunset on the 86 Kent shoreline esplanade while absorbing great musical vibes from multiple genres.

Next, Jackson Lynch & Friends brings us another gem folk artist. Stay tuned for details….

A big thanks goes out this year’s sponsors:

City Parks Foundation
El Puente
NYC Ferry
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance
25 Kent
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Jazz Foundation of American
Rubenstein Partners
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Brooklyn Arts Council
New York State Council on the Arts

Please join us!

Summer Music in BIP 2022: Gerry Eastman
2022-08-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
For the second summer FBIP brings music to the beautiful waterfront in Bushwick Inlet Park with our Summer Music in BIP 2022 series. Come take in a skyline river sunset on the 86 Kent shoreline esplanade while absorbing great musical vibes from multiple genres.
Next, the Jazz Foundation of America brings us guitarist Gerry Eastman and his sextet. (From Brooklyn Buzz:) Gerry Eastman is a prominent musician of the New York scene and is known for his work as a guitarist, composer, producer, bassist, arranger, conductor, and bandleader. He founded the Williamsburg Music Center in 1981 to foster the creation, performance, and appreciation of American classical music.
A big thanks goes out this year’s sponsors:

City Parks Foundation
El Puente
NYC Ferry
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance
25 Kent
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Jazz Foundation of American
Rubenstein Partners
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Brooklyn Arts Council
New York State Council on the Arts

Please join us!

Summer Music in BIP 2022: Bomba Yo
2022-08-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
For the second summer FBIP brings music to the beautiful waterfront in Bushwick Inlet Park with our Summer Music in BIP 2022 series. Come take in a skyline river sunset on the 86 Kent shoreline esplanade while absorbing great musical vibes from multiple genres.

We are winding way up with Bombay Yo for our final El Puente CADRE show!

Bomba Yo ignites the ancestral rhythms of Bomba, an African derived music and dance tradition developed in Puerto Rico. The synergy of call and response singing, drumming and dance provide the foundation for a dynamic interplay between the solo drummer and dancer. BombaYo stirs the soul in a way that only music and dance can to uplift and celebrate our deeper humanity. BombaYo creates an intergenerational and participatory experience that honors people of all ages and abilities.

A big thanks goes out this year’s sponsors:

City Parks Foundation
El Puente
NYC Ferry
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance
25 Kent
NYC Department of Parks & Recreation
Jazz Foundation of American
Rubenstein Partners
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Brooklyn Arts Council
New York State Council on the Arts

Please join us!

Weeding Wednesdays 2022
2022-09-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Bushwick Inlet Park (50 Kent Ave), 50 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Join us every week as we weed, mulch, tend bushes and blossoms, sometimes plant and water (if necessary). We have tools and gloves (but bring yours if you have them). Bring a water bottle. Everyone welcome but please note in your sign up if you are bringing others. See you there! *This week we are working at 50 Kent Ave @ N11th Street, 2 blocks north of the usual spot.
Please register.
