{"id":289851,"date":"2026-09-19T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289851\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:06:08","slug":"fairmount-water-works-welcomes-fall-with-new-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/289851\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairmount Water Works welcomes fall with new programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Fairmount Water Works is hosting a series of events this fall, educating families on the connections between water, land and how they live.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1815 along the Schuylkill River, between Boathouse Row and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Justine O\u2019Gara of Fairmount Water Works said the institution lives up to its position and purpose by educating Philadelphians about the connections between the environment and everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are super busy this year. As you know, it\u2019s America\u2019s 250th, lots of tours going on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Water Works hosts free STEAM programming for students of all ages and year-round educational programming for adults. <\/p>\n<p>Next up on the calendar is a series of dance performances, beginning Sept. 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaked Stark is a dance group we\u2019ve partnered with in the past. They are a multidisciplinary dance team. They utilize our space in very site-specific ways and do things like moving with these old pieces of our building and its history,\u201d O\u2019Gara said.<\/p>\n<p>Fairmount Water Works is free and open to the public Wednesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of events, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/fairmountwaterworks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fairmountwaterworks.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Fairmount Water Works is hosting a series of events this fall, educating families on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[18346,52008,69,71,70,33486,5595],"class_list":["post-289851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-clean-water","tag-fairmount-water-works","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-schuylkill-river","tag-water-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}