Marie Lorenz and the North Brooklyn Boat Club will lead an unusual floating picnic in canoes on Sunday as part of Brooklyn Museum program (photo © Marie Lorenz)
CROSSING BROOKLYN: ART FROM BUSHWICK, BED-STUY AND BEYOND
Newtown Creek to Wallabout Channel and back
Sunday, October 12, $15 (use password picnic), 4:00 – 10:00 pm
www.brooklynmuseum.org
www.marielorenz.com
Back in May, we took Brooklyn-based artist Marie Lorenz’s Tide and Current Taxi from the Frieze Art Fair on Randall’s Island to the FDR Drive walkway, as Lorenz and Charlie rowed us across the East River. (You can see photos and video here.) Lorenz has been inviting adventurous souls to join her on her waterway journeys since 2005, documenting every trip. On Sunday, October 12, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum exhibition “Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy and Beyond,” Lorenz is teaming up with the North Brooklyn Boat Club for “East River Drift,” in which a pair of twenty-five-foot canoes will be piloted from the NBBC’s dock under the Pulaski Bridge on Newtown Creek toward the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where everyone will convene for a floating picnic in Wallabout Channel at sunset. The project will include discussions about water ecology and a safety briefing; participants will be provided life jackets, and once you get on the boat shortly after 4:00, there is no turning back until the canoes return to the dock at 10:00. As of this posting, there are still eleven spots left; tickets are $15, which include picnic snacks. Lorenz is an engaging figure, so we highly recommend this unusual adventure.