Join us on Saturday, July 15 from 12p-4p for the Bronx River Living Festival, in celebration of City of Water Day 2023, at Starlight Park! *Please note, this event’s location has changed to Starlight Park due to emergency construction taking place at Concrete Plant Park during July*
This fun, free, family-friendly event will be a celebration of our waterfront park, and an opportunity to participate in dialogue about our community’s resiliency in the face of climate change.
The Festival will include:
- Canoeing paddle-and-pick-up: Participants help clean up the Bronx River, while on a guided canoe tour to learn more about this incredible natural resource and ways to protect, improve, and restore it. Spots are limited, find more information below.
- Native Plant ID Walk: Learn about the native plants of the Bronx River, and how to identify them.
- Hydration Station: Enjoy teas made with local plants from the Bronx River Foodway, and learn how to make your own!
- Eastern Woodlands Exhibit: Learn how local indigenous people lived along the Bronx River for thousands of years.
- Community Art Project about the life of the Bronx River
- Informational tabling for the Bronx River Watershed Plan: Help develop a Climate Resiliency Plan for the Bronx River.
- Healing Drumming Circle
- Live Music
- educational tabling from partners and more!
No registration is required, unless you’d like to participate in the Paddle-and-Pick-Up (space is limited for safety). To find more information and register for the paddle-and-pick-up, click here.
Funding for this event has been provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under agreement to the Hudson River Foundation for the New York-New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program.
