Newburgh Arts and Cultural Commission is a resident-led advisory group to the City of Newburgh. Together with NACC and other community partners, we are pursuing the Newburgh Arts + Cultural Study—the city’s first survey to inventory and assess our diverse arts-and-culture ecology in Newburgh, NY.

The Frederick Douglass in Newburgh Project together with Newburgh LGBTQ Center, will start a reading series in January 2020. Lasting six sessions, facilitator(s) and participants will explore the work of Audre Lorde using Lorde’s poems, essays, and excerpts.

Inspired by Newburgh's vibrant cultural heritage, rich church communities, and Resistance Revival Chorus , we are organizing Newburgh Peoples Chorus, a community-based chorus project. This chorus is an action of remembrance, solidarity, and empathy through music.

Urban Archive is a location-based mobile platform that empowers New Yorkers to learn about history where it happened. Newburgh is the first city in the Hudson Valley region to digitize its archives to the platform.

Join us for a discussion about urban renewal in the Hudson Valley and exploring creative ways communities mobilize around contested landscapes.

Get ready to add some books to your personal library! We are kicking off our seasonal Book Exchange at the Carriage House! Seven years running and over 2,000 books to explore to suit your curiosity.

Join The Fullerton Center for an intimate book launch featuring Danielle Postel-Vinay. How do the French create the elusive and alluring sanctuaries they call home?

In 1895, Newburgh hosted the Suffragette Convention which marked a transition in leadership and continued the momentum for women obtaining the right to vote until November 6, 1917. What is the legacy of this struggle and what does it look like today in Newburgh?

Marina has devoted her life to books. On June 24, 2017 at 7pm join us for a reading from her first published novel, the well-reviewed “Roads,” set in Yalta and Germany at the end of WWII.

On Sunday July 9 at 7pm, cellist, composer Daniel Blair Frankhuizen will perform varied works for solo cello, ranging from early pieces composed by Johann Sebastian Bach to his own post-modern compositions for cello and electronics.

Bring books, take books!! You keep what you take. Or if you want, return what you took and take another.

On April 6, 2017 at 7pm join us to hear Elizabeth Crane speak about her new book “The History of Great Things”.

The Hudson River Poets will recite poems dedicated their love for the City of Newburgh this St. Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 2pm.