Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park

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2022-12-07 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 86 Kent, 86 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Weeding Wednesdays 2025

86 Kent Avenue

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Movies Under the Stars: Dear Evan Hansen 2
2022-12-23 20:30 - 22:30 | Bushwick Inlet Park (50 Kent Ave), 50 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Dear Evan Hansen
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.
Film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high school senior with Social Anxiety disorder and his journey of self-discovery and acceptance following the suicide of a fellow classmate.
2021. Director: Stephen Chbosky
Starring: Ben Platt; Kaitlyn Dever; Amandla Stenberg; Nik Dodani; Colton Ryan; Danny Pino; Julianne Moore; Amy Adams
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.

Bushwick Inlet Story: Accordion Bookmaking and Collage Class
2023-01-28 13:30 - 16:30 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Please join us for an afternoon of book making utilizing collage, writing or drawing.
Hear a short history about Bushwick Inlet, once Bushwick Creek, along the East River, nowpart of Bushwick Inlet Park, on the border of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
We’ll start with a 20 minute slide show exploring some of its past, including its connection to McCarren Park, environmental changes, its role in the Civil War, and modern-day political battles and the environmental challenges ahead for our vulnerable waterfront.
Then enjoy a guided art session on making a mini 8-page accordion book with an antique paper collage cover and filling it with your own story. Antique books to use for collage, colored pencils and watercolors to decorate and fill your book are provided. Ideas on how to fill your book could include journaling, poetry, a short story, illustration, drawing, collage or anything else you might imagine or want to incorporate into your design.
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park will provide art supplies, but feel free to bring your own (if you have!) for this guided art project for beginners and artists of all levels. Materials provided will include include paper, cardboard book cover, antique books to use for collage, watercolors, colored pencils, glue, and other art materials.
If you’d like to bring your own, we recommend:

A piece of drawing, multimedia, or watercolor paper (at least 16″ long),
A piece of cardboard to cut two book covers from. Delivery box, food box, anything stiff. At least 2″ x 4″ or larger.
Decorative paper for the covers Old book pages, magazine pages, wrapping paper.
A ruler
Scissors, exacto, or cutter – any tool that will cut your cardboard
Pencil
Paper glue, glue stick, or white crafting glue
Paints, colored pencils, markers, or pens.
Old book pages, magazine pages, wrapping paper.

No experience necessary.
Taught by Monica Schroeder, scientific illustrator & kayaker. monbertkayak@gmail.com
Registration required.
* Please register only if you plan to actually attend. The class size is small to ensure an intimate hands on learning experience.
Children 14 and over (high school students) are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

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2023-02-09 18:00 - 20:00 | 86 Kent, 86 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
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Celestial Watercolors: Painting the Night Sky
2023-02-25 13:30 - 16:30
Please join us at the Bushwick Inlet Park Community Center for an afternoon of painting with watercolors.
As the days start to get longer, we still have plenty of opportunity to view the night sky which has fascinated people since the beginning of time. The ancients saw mythological beasts, gods, and goddesses; mariners once navigated using the constellations as their guide; and today we look to the future of humanity with space tourism and experiments with astrobotany.
There’ll be a short astronomy presentation to inform and inspire you for a fun afternoon of celestial watercolor painting.
Guided projects include painting a sunset or the night sky with stars, the Milkyway, and nebulae in either a rectangular or one-point perspective (a circle). A third option will be a moon painting.
Skills we’ll cover are wet in wet and wet on dry watercolor, one-point perspective, using liquid frisket (masking fluid), color layering, and other watercolor basics. Beginners to advanced welcome.
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park will provide art supplies, but feel free to bring your own (if you have!) for this guided art project for beginners and artists of all levels. Materials provided will include include paper, watercolors, colored pencils, and other basic drawing supplies.
If you’d like to bring your own, we recommend:

multimedia or watercolor paper
watercolor paints
pencil, eraser, ruler, tape (for masking edges)
colored pencils, markers, or pens

No experience necessary.
Instructor Monica Schroeder is a professional scientific illustrator. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, countless textbooks, natural history museum exhibitions, and on the TV Show Jeopardy.
She has been an adult art instructor since 2018. monbertkayak@gmail.com
* Registration required.
* Please register only if you plan to actually attend. The class size is small to ensure an intimate hands on learning experience.
Children 14 and over (high school students) are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Vernal Convocation ‘23
2023-03-01 18:30 - 20:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park Building, 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Come hear about all things Bushwick Inlet Park! Also engage in a panel presentation and discussion about resilient park design!
What’s going on with the various parts of Bushwick Inlet Park? What kind of programming is FBIP creating this year? Parcel status, stewardship, programming, gardening, volunteer opportunities (we need you!), oyster surveying, and this year’s Summer Music Series – we’ll tell all!
Also, join us for The New Resilience- Beyond USACE HATS, a seminar presentation & panel discussion with:

Alice Shay & Mikalya Hoskins, leading urban design and strategic planning projects with Buro Happold’s Cities team, Buro Happold
Tyler Taba, Senior Manager for Climate Policy, Waterfront Alliance, Rise2Resilience
Willis Elkins, Executive Director, Newtown Creek Alliance

The Buro Happold team will explore how public open space can be designed to serve as a resilient defense in the face of current and increasing climate impacts, and as a more thoughtful alternative to blunt hard infrastructure options.
Tyler Taba and Willis Elkins will tie this directly to the USACE NYNJHATS storm risk management concept and to the local North Brooklyn landscape.
Q&A to follow.
Free registration required.

Painted Paper Collage
2023-03-25 14:00 - 16:30 | Bushwick Inlet Park Building, 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park for an afternoon of painting & cut paper collaging with local gardener, artist & card designer Llubav.
Llubav is a member of the Java Street Community Garden in Greenpoint, a neighborhood of north Brooklyn, NY. The plants from her plot and around the garden are often the subjects of many of her paintings and greeting cards. She is also inspired from her trips to other gardens like Wave Hill in NYC and her travels to the South West.
She will share her tips and techniques in creating her beautiful and whimsical designs. We will hand paint on different types of papers using a mix of tempera, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, crayons and colored pencils (or whatever else you might want to bring). Once we have created a mixture of colorful and textured raw materials, we will then cut and make shapes which will be glued to a larger sheet of paper or cardstock to create a unique and playful collage.
www.llubav.com
@llubav
No experience necessary. Registration required.
*Meet inside the park building.
Suggested Supplies:

Paper or Tissue Paper you might want to use
Scissors (comfortable size to cut small shapes)
Big and medium sized brushes
Elmers liquid glue, paste or glue stick
Colored Paints (Acrylic, Guache, Tempera, Watercolor)

Children 14 and over (high school students) are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Weeding Wednesdays 2023
2023-04-12 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-26 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-05-03 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-05-10 18:00 - 20:00 | 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. Unless otherwise noted, meet at 86 Kent Ave at beyond the soccer field. See you there!
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Weeding Wednesdays 2023
2023-04-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-04-26 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-05-03 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-05-10 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-05-17 18:00 - 20:00 | 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. Unless otherwise noted, meet at 86 Kent Ave at beyond the soccer field. See you there!
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Drawing Landscapes: Pencil, Ink, Watercolor & Gouache - Techniques & Tips
2023-04-22 14:00 - 16:30
Join us on Earth Day at the Bushwick Inlet Park Community Center for an afternoon of sketching.
Brooklyn will be gaining many new trees – you can even request a tree to plant yourself! Following a big push to plant many more street trees in the neighborhood, we will focus this month on landscapes, especially how to represent trees in their surroundings. After an introductory slide presentation, we’ll practice techniques with a few exercises, each focusing on a different aspect of a landscape: trees, waterways, the sky, and clouds.
We’ll discuss principles such as focal point, atmospheric perspective, simplification, using space in a composition, and the importance of planning. We will practice recognizing shapes and scale, mark making, using thumbnail sketches for composition and light, and choosing colors. Tips on putting together an outdoor art kit for drawing, watercolor, or gouache for those who would like to paint and draw outdoors will also be touched upon. Bring your own travel art kit if you’d like to share what tools work best for you.
Then we will create pieces using some of these skills. Weather permitting, we might head outside to draw or paint together.
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park will provide art supplies, but feel free to bring your own (if you have!) for this guided art project for beginners and artists of all levels. Materials provided will include paper, watercolors, colored pencils, and other basic drawing supplies.
If you’d like to bring your own supplies, we recommend:

multimedia or watercolor paper
watercolor paints and brushes
pencil, eraser, ruler, tape (for masking edges)
colored pencils, markers, or pens

No experience necessary.
Registration required.
Instructor Monica Schroeder is a professional scientific illustrator. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, countless textbooks, natural history museum exhibitions, and on the TV Show Jeopardy.
She has been an adult art instructor since 2018.
monbertkayak@gmail.com
* Please register only if you plan to actually attend. The class size is small to ensure an intimate hands-on learning experience.
Children 14 and over (high school students) are welcome but must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

It's My Park Day Spring 2023
2023-04-30 10:00 - 13:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (50 Kent Ave), 50 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park to help wake up the gardens in Bushwick Inlet Park.
Come lend a hand weeding, mulching and planting the garden beds in BIP’s 50 Kent Ave section (map: 41 N 11th St). We have tools and gloves (but bring yours if you have them)! Wear clothes that can get dirty and a bring a water bottle. It’s lots of fun- meet other garden aficionados, identify plants, discuss best weeding practices :).
Please register.
We are grateful for support from NYC Parks, Partnerships for Parks and North Brooklyn Parks Alliance.

12th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep at Bushwick Inlet Park
2023-05-06 13:00 - 16:00 | Bushwick Inlet Park (86K), 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Come clean your River! We welcome you to take part in the 12th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep, our annual day of service for the Hudson River and its tributaries.
Join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and Riverkeeper for a park clean-up at Bushwick Inlet Park
Volunteers will meet at Bushwick Inlet Park, 86 Kent Ave, Brooklyn NY, at the Bushwick Inlet Park Building. There is street parking but it is easier to arrive by bike, public transit or ferry!
Registration is required.
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 not suitable for elementary-aged children.
Questions? Contact Riverkeeper at sweep@riverkeeper.org or Katherine Thompson at bushwickinletpark@gmail.com.
*IMPORTANT! To ensure the safety of volunteers, Sweep Site Leaders, park staff, and our communities, we ask that volunteers adhere to the following guidelines:

Volunteers are required to pre-register for Sweep, and bring their own masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, and water.
Volunteers should not participate if they have ANY signs of illness or if they have potentially been exposed to COVID-19 within the previous two weeks.

Movies Under the Stars: Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023-05-11 20:00 - 22:30 | 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 middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
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 promptly 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.
