Event Details

Green Up Newburgh! 2026 will bring together local environmental organizations, youth programs, and residents to highlight the incredible work happening across our city. From urban forestry, community gardens, and composting to walking trails, pollinator pathways, park revitalization, and healthy outdoor activity, this event celebrates the collective efforts making Newburgh healthier and greener.

Attendees will receive a Green Up Newburgh! Stamp Card, encouraging them to visit each table and engage directly with participating organizations. Once completed, stamp cards can be entered into a raffle for a great prize sponsored by the Newburgh Waterways Center.

So, join us for a great afternoon with food, music, to fun games to celebrate a greener Newburgh and to take meaningful actions like:

• Creating a seed bomb or pollinator-friendly craft

• Planting, weeding or mulching at the Calvary Presbyterian Church

• Discovery urban biodiversity and helping with a BioBlitz

• Adding food scraps to a composting bin

• Kids’ eco-art station (recycled materials)

• Writing a physical letter or postcard to a local representative

• Calling or emailing a local representative in real time

• Youth program enrollment

• Signing up for an upcoming volunteer opportunity

• Story-sharing  (“Why are trees and parks important to you?"

• Pledging a sustainability action (at home, school, or work)

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

1. Calvary Presbyterian Church

2. Cary Institute & Scenic Hudson

3. Downing Park Conservancy

4. Goudy Wildlife Club of Newburgh

5. Greater Newburgh Parks Conservancy

6. Hudson Highlands Nature Center

7. Land to Learn

8. Little Friends Learning Loft

9. Marc’s Friends

10. Newburgh Farm and Food Initiative

11. Newburgh Farmers’ Market

12. Newburgh Waterways Center 

13. Newburgh Yoga Shala

14. Our Core

15. Outdoor Promise

16. Quassaick Creek Watershed Alliance

17. Riverkeeper

18. Walden Savings Bank

Join us for our Last Fall Cleanup Thursday November 13th from 3 to 5 p.m. Join Downing Park Conservancy and community members in helping to clean up your park during our bi-weekly weekday cleanup. We'll be sprucing up the flower and tree beds and collecting trash. Gloves and tools provided. Hope to see you at the park!

Join us for our monthly meeting to learn about what’s going on in the park and how to get involved. Held this week at Calvary Church, South Street, Newburgh.

This is a public meeting. The public is invited to attend and to speak.

Every other Thursday from 5-7 p.m., join Downing Park Conservancy and community members in helping to clean up your park during our bi-weekly weekday cleanup. We'll be sprucing up the flower and tree beds and collecting trash. Gloves and tools provided. Hope to see you at the park!

This Saturday September 6, from 11am - 1 pm., join Downing Park Conservancy and community members in helping to clean up your park. We'll be sprucing up the flower and tree beds and collecting trash. Gloves and tools provided. Hope to see you at the park!

Every other Thursday from 5-7 p.m., join Downing Park Conservancy and community members in helping to clean up your park during our bi-weekly weekday cleanup. We'll be sprucing up the flower and tree beds and collecting trash. Gloves and tools provided. Hope to see you at the park!

Every other Thursday from 5-7 p.m., join Downing Park Conservancy and community members in helping to clean up your park during our bi-weekly weekday cleanup. We'll be sprucing up the flower and tree beds and collecting trash. Gloves and tools provided. Hope to see you at the park!

Every other Thursday from 5-7 p.m., join Downing Park Conservancy and community members in helping to clean up your park during our bi-weekly weekday cleanup. We'll be sprucing up the flower and tree beds and collecting trash. Gloves and tools provided. Hope to see you at the park!

Join us for our monthly meeting to learn about what’s going on in the park and how to get involved

Every other Thursday from 5-7 p.m., join Downing Park Conservancy and community members in helping to clean up your park during our bi-weekly weekday cleanup. We'll be sprucing up the flower and tree beds and collecting trash. Gloves and tools provided. Hope to see you at the park!

Every other Thursday from 5-7 p.m., join Downing Park Conservancy and community members in helping to clean up your park during our bi-weekly weekday cleanup. We'll be sprucing up the flower and tree beds and collecting trash. Gloves and tools provided. Hope to see you at the park!

Join us for our monthly meeting to learn about what’s going on in the park and how to get involved

Every other Thursday from 5-7 p.m., join Downing Park Conservancy and community members in helping to clean up your park during our bi-weekly weekday cleanup. We'll be sprucing up the flower and tree beds and collecting trash. Gloves and tools provided. Hope to see you at the park!

Location change to: 85 Grand Street

You Are Not Here-mark, leave, take, plant: an interactive installation/Bam Bowen + Sara Gurevich

his summer series is produced by Chapman Steamer Arts and supported by the Downing Park Conservancy.

Arts in the Park! 2025 is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

Location change to: 85 Grand Street

This hands-on workshop is designed for all ages and experience levels. Together, we will co-create a work of art that will be a combined result of each person’s participation. The painting will be a record of the community that came together to make it. Come ready to collaborate, experiment, and embrace the joy of creating art in community.

All materials for this workshop are provided. Wear clothes that can get paint on them.

RSVP suggested: chapmansteamerarts@gmail.com

This summer series is produced by Chapman Steamer Arts and supported by the Downing Park Conservancy.

Arts in the Park! 2025 is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

Location change: Calvary Church 120 South Street

Back by popular demand, Christopher Dean Sullivan Quartet will grace the parkland with the deep soulful sounds of Mala Waldron (vocals, keyboard), Bobby Sanabria (percussion), Jay Hoggard (vibes), and Christopher Dean Sullivan (bass).

Join us on the grass in the sunshine for a delightful afternoon of live music.

This summer series is produced by Chapman Steamer Arts and supported by the Downing Park Conservancy.

Arts in the Park! 2025 is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

Location change to: 85 Grand Street

This hands-on workshop is designed for all ages and experience levels. Together, we will co-create a work of art that will be a combined result of each person’s participation. The painting will be a record of the community that came together to make it. Come ready to collaborate, experiment, and embrace the joy of creating art in community.

All materials for this workshop are provided. Wear clothes that can get paint on them.

RSVP suggested: chapmansteamerarts@gmail.com

This summer series is produced by Chapman Steamer Arts and supported by the Downing Park Conservancy.

Arts in the Park! 2025 is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

Join us for our monthly meeting to learn about what’s going on in the park and how to get involved

Musical Discovery Workshop(around the dome) on Sunday, June 1 at 4-6 pm.

This weekend-long installation will feature a mobile geodesic dome and artistic actions led by Parents in the Avant Garde.

Parents in the Avant Garde, organized by Nicole Lattuca and Matt Mottel, will present Scribble Scores, an interactive performance. The event begins with a workshop where children create colorful scribble scores on Bristol paper, which will then be interpreted live, starting at 5 PM, by parents, neighbors, and the young artists themselves in an improvisational sound performance using the artist-built geodesic dome as the display for the graphic musical scores.

RSVP encouraged both for workshop and performance (bring your instruments): chapmansteamerarts@gmail.com

This summer series is produced by Chapman Steamer Arts and supported by the Downing Park Conservancy.

Arts in the Park! 2025 is made possible with funds from the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

Seasonal Saturday Community Park Cleanup on Saturday, May 31 from 9:00 am to Noon.

Join Downing Park Conservancy and community members in helping to clean up your park. We'll be sprucing up the flower and tree beds and collecting trash. Gloves and tools provided.

Invite your family, neighbors & friends. Hope to see you at the park!

Come join us for our monthly park clean up. Come get your hands dirty, we need your help keeping our park clean and looking its best.