(Re)Imagining Greenpoint’s Green Waters integrates artistic programming with community sustainability initiatives to bring wider attention to the polluted waters of Newtown Creek, offering methods that use community participation, techniques of ARTIVISM within an abolitionist framework, and aesthetics of “Theater of the Oppressed” to promote remediation of the Creek and bring the climate justice conversation to marginalized communities. Local residents will go on a canoe tour of the Creek and experience the water up close, while also witnessing (and being a part of) a community performance celebrating the waterfront.

Performances at Newtown Creek Nature Walk
June 24, 25 and 26 from 6-8 pm

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Water Connectors

2021 Triennial Exhibition - October 31th (going with the rain date)

This installment of Works on Water’s three year triennial turns to concepts of long-term care for our urban waterfront ecology and reconsideration of water time-scales. WoWhaus Resident artists’ and Tending the Edge artists’ projects call attention to marginalized ecological community members, and to water’s cycles of time and being.

2020-2022 Triennial

We have adapted our 2020 Triennial into a three year exhibition! Despite the pandemic, we produced virtual projects and exhibitions, and are excited to continue this summer. Tending the Edge, a continuation of Walking the Edge (2020), kicks off our 2021 triennial summer with an incredible group of artists making work through the lens of the Comprehensive Waterfront Plan that invites NYC mayoral candidates and New Yorkers alike to see themselves as island inhabitants and flex their power to affect change.