Calendar
Learn more about upcoming park events using our calendar! In the model of a bulletin board, anyone is able to submit their events to our website.
Keep an eye out for event “tags” that will tell you if the event is led by us at The Conservancy, one of our Partner-led events, or if it’s a Community-led event. Please keep in mind that we are not in control of community led events in the park, and anyone is welcome to share their event on our website pending approval from staff.
Learn more about all our programs here.
Have an upcoming event in Fort Greene? Share your event with us! Shared events have the chance to be featured on our website pending Conservancy Staff approval.
Kids and Family: Bug Catching
Join the Urban Park Rangers at the Visitors Center for family-friendly outdoors activities. This event is free and open to all!
Archery: Magnetic Archery
Learn the art of archery with free lessons taught by our expert Urban Park Rangers. This program uses safe equipment with magnetic arrows and targets. All equipment will be provided.
Kids and Family: Chalk Forest
Join Urban Park Rangers to draw a chalk forest. Learn about the native plants and animals that call Brooklyn home and get to touch and feel some pelts and biofacts.
Outdoors Skills: Fireside Storytime
Join the Urban Park Rangers at the Visitors Center for fireside storytime. This event is free and open to all!
Storytime in the Park
Sing, read, and play with librarians from Brooklyn Public Library this Summer! Have fun hearing great picture books read aloud and playing with other children every Thursday at Fort Greene Park, from June - October.
Storytime in the Park
Sing, read, and play with librarians from Brooklyn Public Library this Summer! Have fun hearing great picture books read aloud and playing with other children every Thursday at Fort Greene Park, from June - October.
Storytime in the Park
Sing, read, and play with librarians from Brooklyn Public Library this Summer! Have fun hearing great picture books read aloud and playing with other children every Thursday at Fort Greene Park, from June - October.
Storytime in the Park
Sing, read, and play with librarians from Brooklyn Public Library this Summer! Have fun hearing great picture books read aloud and playing with other children every Thursday at Fort Greene Park, from June - October.
Storytime in the Park
Sing, read, and play with librarians from Brooklyn Public Library this Summer! Have fun hearing great picture books read aloud and playing with other children every Thursday at Fort Greene Park, from June - October.
Storytime in the Park
Sing, read, and play with librarians from Brooklyn Public Library this Summer! Have fun hearing great picture books read aloud and playing with other children every Thursday at Fort Greene Park, from June - October.
Outdoors Skills: Shelter Building
Join the Urban Park Rangers at the Visitors Center to learn outdoor skills. This event is free and all materials will be provided!
Nature Exploration: Fire Meditation
Join the Urban Park Rangers at the Fort Greene Visitor Center for an afternoon of mediative exercises by the warmth of a fire.
Kids Week: Abstract Floral Paintings
Learn about flower species that can be found in the park and use natural materials to make an abstract painting.
Kids Week: Gather Around the Campfire
Gather by the campfire to enjoy an afternoon of storytelling and fireside activities.
Wildlife Viewing: Birding
Join the Urban Park Rangers on a birding adventure around Fort Greene Park!
Outdoors Skills: Shelter Building (CANCELLED)
Join the Urban Park Rangers at the Visitor Center to learn outdoor skills. This event is free and all materials will be provided!
Kids and Family: Fireside Storytime
Join the Urban Park Rangers at the Visitor Center for fireside storytime. This event is free and open to all!
Nature Exploration: Hike Fort Greene
Join the Urban Park Rangers at the Visitor Center to hike around Fort Greene Park. This event is free!
Arts and Crafts: Nature Bandanas
Join the Urban Park Rangers to make nature bandanas. They will provide the necessary materials.
Historic New York: Downtown Brooklyn History Super Hike
Rangers will lead from Fort Greene to the entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge, explaining early Brooklyn life and the fascinating story behind New York's most iconic bridge.
Outdoor Skills: Orienteering
Join the Urban Park Rangers atop Fort Greene Park and try your hand at their navigational challenge. Borrow instructions and a compass to find the secret word scrambled within the park. Return to the Rangers with the word for a Fort Greene prize.
Outdoor Skills: Orienteering
Join the Urban Park Rangers atop Fort Greene Park and try your hand at their navigational challenge. Borrow instructions and a compass to find the secret word scrambled within the park. Return to the Rangers with the word for a Fort Greene prize.
Outdoor Skills: Shelter Building
Join the Urban Park Rangers at the Visitor Center to learn outdoor skills. This event is free and all materials will be provided!
Kids’ Week: Nature Tools: Clay Crafts
Join the Urban Park Rangers in creating tools and art using clay. Learn how the Earth creates clay and how humans have used it for thousands of years. Take home a clay craft of your own creation!
Historic New York: Prison Ship Martyr’s Monument Tour
Join the Urban Park Rangers at the Visitor Center to learn about Fort Greene Park’s history. This event is free!
Outdoor Skills: Fire Building
Join the Urban Park Rangers at the Visitor Center to learn outdoor skills. This event is free and all materials will be provided!
Colonial Cooking
Join the Urban Park Rangers for a demonstration of the practices of cooking back in colonial times.
Arts and Crafts: Friendship Bracelets
Join the Urban Park Rangers to make friendship bracelets. They will provide the necessary materials.
Nature’s Workshop: Introduction to Woodworking (Urban Park Ranger Program)
Learn techniques of traditional wood crafting with the Urban Park Rangers. Participants must be 12yr+ to engage in this advanced tool activity.
Mulchfest
Wrap up your holiday season and say goodbye to your tree at Mulchfest! Join NYC Parks in the holiday tradition of recycling your Christmas tree. We’ll chip your tree into wood chips to nourish trees and make NYC even greener. Drop off your tree at the Myrtle Ave and Washington Park corner entrance during park hours between December 26 and January 7.
Outdoor Skills: Fire Building at the Fort Putnam Redoubt (Urban Park Ranger Program)
Rangers are available to talk to you and will be leading a nature or history activity. Meet the Rangers at Fort Greene Park Visitor Center or Fort Putnam Program Area.
Nature Meditation Hike (Urban Park Ranger Program)
Hiking is the ultimate way to enjoy the outdoors and a fun way to reduce stress. Take a stroll through Fort Totten Park and immerse yourself in tranquility. Free!
History: Monument Tour Prison Ship Martyrs (Urban Park Ranger Program)
Rangers are available to talk to you and will be leading a nature or history activity. Meet the Rangers at Fort Greene Park Visitor Center or Fort Putnam Program Area.
Nature Exploration: Fire Mediation (Urban Park Rangers Program)
Rangers are available to talk to you and will be leading a nature or history activity. Meet the Rangers at Fort Greene Park Visitor Center or Fort Putnam Program Area.
The 2023 Great Pupkin
The 25th annual Fort Greene PUPS Pupkin is here! Join Fort Greene PUPS on Saturday before Halloween Fest at the bottom on the monument stairs to see the best costumes that Brooklyn dogs have to offer!
Shala Yoga
Join Shala Yoga in Fort Greene Park, on the lawn south of the monument for Yoga in the Park.
Storytime in the Park
Sing, read, and play with librarians from Brooklyn Public Library this Summer! Have fun hearing great picture books read aloud and playing with other children every Thursday at Fort Greene Park, from June - October.
Fort Greene Park: Jazz Festival
NEW DATE: SATURDAY, OCT. 7TH! The Jazz Festival provides live jazz entertainment for families, neighborhoods, communities, and New Yorkers each year. Bring a blanket and some friends to this event!
Shala Yoga
Join Shala Yoga in Fort Greene Park, on the lawn south of the monument for Yoga in the Park.
Share Your Event
Have an upcoming event at Fort Greene Park? Share your event with us! Shared events have the chance to be featured on our website’s calendar pending conservancy staff approval.