March 2019
2019 Vernal Convocation (General Meeting)
We will be warming up for our upcoming gardening activities in BIP. Meet BIP Garden Design Workshop leader, landscape designer Emily Bauer. Hear about the SP19 Garden Making Program. Also! Curious about our Oyster growing program in Bushwick Inlet? There will be a short presentation by our partners at NY Harbor School + Billion Oyster Project. Find out how to get involved with monitoring and stewardship of out nightly bivalve friends! And! We are looking for help in all these…
Find out more »Gardening Design Workshop Bushwick Inlet Park
Calling all park-lovers! Spring is here! Join us this Saturday for a workshop to design the gardens at Bushwick Inlet Park. This spring the planters by the park’s waterfront will be reinvigorated through our BIP Garden Initiative. The gardens will be designed in this hands-on afternoon workshop where we’ll discuss opportunities for the area, community and ecology-friendly principles, and together design the gardens that will be planted later this Spring. The workshop will be lead by Emily Bauer, a landscape architect…
Find out more »May 2019
Riverkeeper Sweep 2019 – Garden Planting & Shoreline Cleanup
Join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and Riverkeeper for a planting and cleanup project at Bushwick Inlet Park on Saturday, May 4, 2019 for the 8th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep, a day of service for the Hudson River. We will be collecting and analyzing debris as well as planting native sustainable plant species to enhance wildlife and entice the senses. Landscape Architect Emily Bauer will culminate the teaching, input & design process she has led by guiding us through physical…
Find out more »Watercolor Painting Series at Bushwick Inlet Park
Arts, Culture & Fun: Watercolor Painting Series Join us for an adult watercolor painting series with beautiful views along the river. Learn how to use line, shape, and color to render an image. Bring an image you would like to paint. Supplies will be provided and all levels are welcome. RSVP for one or all three on Eventbrite at watercolorbip.eventbrite.com. New York City Department of Parks & Recreation in partnership with The Art Students League of New York, founded in…
Find out more »June 2019
Watercolor Painting Series at Bushwick Inlet Park
Arts, Culture & Fun: Watercolor Painting Series Join us for an adult watercolor painting series with beautiful views along the river. Learn how to use line, shape, and color to render an image. Bring an image you would like to paint. Supplies will be provided and all levels are welcome. RSVP for one or all three on Eventbrite at watercolorbip.eventbrite.com. New York City Department of Parks & Recreation in partnership with The Art Students League of New York, founded in…
Find out more »Movies Under the Stars: Bohemian Rhapsody
Celebrate Pride and join us to watch the movie Bohemian Rhapsody in the park with NYC Parks and NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment! Bohemian Rhapsody is a biopic which follows the life of Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the British rock band Queen, as he rose to stardom. This film features the iconic rock music of Queen and an Oscar-winning performance of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury. Know Before You Go You should arrive before 8:30 p.m. to get your spot for…
Find out more »Weeding Wednesdays! I
Please join Friends of Bushwick Park's Gardening Committee for Weeding Wednesdays - an hour of after-work weeding every Wednesday through the summer. Mugwort waits for no woman, child, or man - and we want to keep our newly planted gardens at BIP looking good and as weed-free as possible. Thanks for your help and we look fwd to seeing as many of you as possible in the gardens at BIP starting Wednesday June 12, and every Wednesday thereafter through August.
Find out more »Summer Oyster Monitoring
Please join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and our partners from the North Brooklyn Boat Club, Greenpoint Monitor Museum, Billion Oyster Project, and New York Harbor School for the summer monitoring session of our oyster restoration project in Bushwick Inlet. We will pull the oyster cages from the water; count, weigh, and measure them; and observe all the creatures that live on and around our BIP bivalves. (Preview - there are A LOT of creatures 😉 ) This is a…
Find out more »Weeding Wednesdays! II
Please join Friends of Bushwick Park's Gardening Committee for Weeding Wednesdays - an hour of after-work weeding every Wednesday through the summer. Mugwort waits for no woman, child, or man - and we want to keep our newly planted gardens at BIP looking good and as weed-free as possible. Thanks for your help and we look fwd to seeing as many of you as possible in the gardens at BIP starting Wednesday June 12, and every Wednesday thereafter through August.
Find out more »June Bug Jazz Thursdays: Craig Holiday Haynes at BIP
This June the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance is partnering with the Jazz Foundation of America for the first time to bring free jazz to your neighborhood park. Every Thursday throughout the month, you can enjoy a sunset concert as part of the Jazz Foundation’s Gig Fund, a program that creates much-needed work for accomplished musicians and brings free concerts to underserved audiences across the country. Bushwick Inlet Park (* location change: 86 Kent Ave) brings Craig Holiday Haynes. Mr. Craig Holiday Haynes (named after…
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