Do it Yourself Red Hook Walking Tour and Scavenger Hunt
How much of Red Hook do you really know?
Take a curated walk and join our community scavenger hunt, all the way up from Red Hook Initiative down to the Waterfront Museum.
Made in collaboration with youth from Red Hook Arts Project.
We’ll be highlighting the amazing work already happening all over the community, the stories behind the scenes, the flowers coming out of the cracks, and the work that still needs to be done.
Learn about Red Hook Initiative’s community organizing and climate justice work, creating change from within for over 6,500 residents of the Red Hook public housing community. Come volunteer at the RETI Center, an educational floating barge at GBX terminal where you’ll learn about models for a viable 2100. Get your hands dirty at youth-centered Red Hook Farms, with their groundbreaking compost program and outdoor classroom. Step onto living history on the floating Waterfront Museum atop a 100-year-old + barge. Check out the art from RHAP, transforming the lives of youth through creative self-expression. Head over to Pioneer Works to check out the exhibit Climate Futurism in partnership with Headlands Center for the Arts, curated by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.
Participants will be encouraged to learn more along the way with the interactive map app Final Notice started in 2018 by the artists and technologists of Danielle Russo Performance Project and the Youth Leaders at Red Hook Initiative and El Puente in collaboration with over 50 local activists, conservationists, environmentalists, historians, non-profit organizations, and grassroots initiatives across coastal Brooklyn. Final Notice exposes the ongoing effects of climate change, environmental racism, and historical erasure on the Brooklyn Waterfront.
Anyone who collects all the clues of the scavenger hunt can come to Strong Rope Brewery for a free pour or nonalcoholic treat for those underage or abstaining from alcohol.
The tour is free and all ages are welcome.
Please register so we can send you the walking tour map and link to the interactive map app Final Notice.
If you can, please consider giving something to the initiative here. Any donations are extremely appreciated and will go to compensating the organizations. Nothing is too small and nothing is too big.
This is part of Imagined Futures: Red Hook from October 13th-15th. For the full itinerary of all the weekend programming, go here.
Time: 12:00-4:30 pm EDT
Free!
