Need A Quiet Place To Work? Check Out Proteus Gowanus' Study Hall

Proteus Gowanus, the wonderful gallery and reading room located in the Gowanus Canal area, is opening its door to all those freelancers in the community. Their Study Hall is a wonderful, reasonably priced alternative to your own apartment or nearest coffee shop. Check it out.

"Study Hall" Offers A Non Traditional Space For Co-Working In Brooklyn Art GalleryMore Americans are working as freelancers, temps, independent contractors and solopreneurs. While working at home has its benefits, such as zero commute time, often independent workers feel, well, a little too independent. Social media can help create the feeling of a ‘virtual water cooler’, but many freelancers miss the camaraderie that can be found working within an office. As a result, co-working spaces are becoming more popular. But for anyone who shudders at the thought of working in a sterile white cubicle again there is the unique experience of working, studying or simply reflecting at the Brooklyn gallery known as Proteus Gowanus.Study Hall is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The cost of becoming a member of Study Hall is just $50 a month. There is a special offer to join Study Hall which expires December 21, 2013: Sign up for six months and receive an additional one month for free!For more information on joining study hall, please contact Tammy Pittman at info@proteusgowanus.org.

Proteus Gowanus

543 Union Street, Brooklyn

718.243.1572

info@proteusgowanus.com

Tide Mill Extravaganza At Proteus Gowanus This Saturday

Rendering of Adam Brouwer's mill in Gowanus, Brooklyn

Here is a great event for the entire family. Angela Kramer, a museum educator who is passionate about history amd the Gowanus Canal, has organized a tide mill workshop for children and their parents.
It's this Saturday. Don't miss it.

Here are the details.
One of the first tide mills in America once stood not far from where Proteus Gowanus stands today. Brouwer’s Mill, built in the mid-17th century, used the power of the Gowanus Creek’s rising and falling tides to turn wheat into flour. During the Battle of Brooklyn, the mill and its bridge burned, forcing soldiers to cross the rising waters of Gowanus Creek. This workshop will uncover the little known history of tide mills in Brooklyn, as families work together to build their own miniature mills.
Angela Kramer is a museum educator who loves history and who recently discovered a passion for the tide mills of the Gowanus.

TIDE MILL EXTRAVAGANZA!

FREE FAMILY WORKSHOP!

Saturday, May 4 from 1-4

Proteus Gowanus

543 Union Street, Brooklyn

(down the alley off Nevins Street)

Kids ages five and up! 

Come learn about the TIDE MILLS that once turned wheat 

into flour along the shores of Gowanus Creek!

Use a mortar and pestle to grind wheat to make flour!

Design your own mill wheel and test it to see if it works!

Observe the tides that still rise and fall on the Gowanus today!

See the original footprint of the miller’s house, and help us decorate it with sidewalk chalk!
One of the first tide mills in America once stood not far from where Proteus Gowanus stands today. Brouwer’s Mill, built in the mid-17th century, used the power of the Gowanus Creek’s rising and falling tides to turn wheat into flour. During the Battle of Brooklyn, the mill and its bridge burned, forcing soldiers to cross the rising waters of Gowanus Creek. This workshop will uncover the little known history of tide mills in Brooklyn, as families work together to build their own miniature mills.
Angela Kramer is a museum educator who loves history and who recently discovered a passion for the tide mills of the Gowanus.

Bring Your Broken Thing To The Fixers Collective This Thursday

The folks of the Gowanus Fixers Collective, "the social experiment in improvisational fixing and mending," are ready to help you fix your broken gadget. The Fixers will be meeting at Proteus Gowanus, 543 Union Street #1C this Thursday at 7 PM.
Here is more info:
"Bring your broken thing and get some help with the fixing — or help others. Sewing, computers, electric lamps, old shoes – you name it, the Fixers Collective will try to fix it! If you have questions before you come in, email info@fixerscollective.org."

Fixers Collective Meets This Week

Thursday, February 21, 7pm

 543 Union Street #1C

$5 admission

Heartbreaking Photos Of A Sad End: The Gowanus Dolphin

The dolphin which got stranded in the Gowanus Canal on Friday and sadly died after hours of struggling in the polluted waterway, was still very much on everyone's mind the day after the event.
The unusual story made its way through media all over the United States.

My friend Eymund Diegel sent me the heartbreaking photos above which he took earlier today. The dolphin was still lying close to the shore near the Union Street Bridge.
The images are now part of the permanent Proteus Gowanus photo archive of  The Fauna of the Gowanus Canal.  More photos of the poor creature can be accessed here.

Thank you for sharing them, Eymund.

UPDATE:
According to the Huffington Post,  the dolphin has been removed and has been sent to a lab on Long Island for a necropsy.