Members of Happenstancery perform at Lemon Squeeze every 3rd Sunday through December. The evenings are presented by American Legion POST 176.

Flyer here. 

Happenstancery Improv meets at the Community Center every Thursday at 7:15. 

Join us for an evening soundscape with Peter Blum. He will play a variety of gongs, Himalayan singing bowls, Sabian resonating bells, handpan, tamboura, ngoni, frame drum, and vocals.

Saturday, November 8 from 7:00 to 8:00pm (Community Center)

New Paltz Gardiner Seniors enjoying a game day - in costume - at the Community Center.

On September 4th, Mike Murphy of Cornell Cooperative came to our Community Center compost bins to advise new SUNY student interns Aiden and Ben on compost maintenance. SUNY professor Eric Keeling will advise them on a research exercise pertaining to the compost. The interns will also be helping to aerate and maintain the compost system on Thursday afternoons. You are welcome to say hi!

Here is a picture of Mike explaining to Aiden, Ben, Eric, and community volunteer Steven that the compost should reach 130 degrees or more for peak decomposition activity.

Here the decomposing material is laid out on a tarp to search for the organisms that do that work.

Here is an example of one such organism.

Here a participant adds her kitchen scraps while the guys shovel the compost from one bin to another. The larger the pile, the more efficiently it will decompose, the faster it will turn to ready compost.

Here they are adding moisture to the pile with buckets of water. Water is important for keeping the microbial activity alive.

Here is a picture of the ready compost. Please take! Bring your gloves so you can sift out the plastic bits.

Elisa Parker is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and creator of Dance Groove. This class incorporates elements of Latin and Contemporary music genres into aerobic-style dance classes. It will run for 8-weeks, from September 15th through November 10th. Drop-ins are welcome and there is no prior dance experience necessary. The class fee is $10.

Monday's from 5:30 to 6:15pm. (Community Center)

Great article about Happenstancery Improv group! They meet every Thursday at 7pm at the Community Center, and it's free!

Read it here. 

Thank you to our wonderful student teachers for bringing fun and inspiring art classes to our Center! Participants loved the sessions! We look forward to more Creative Corner Fridays starting in September!

Open to middle school students, SUNY New Paltz Art Education students rotate to provide a new project every week. They will post updates on their Instagram at np.creativecorner.

To register for the new FALL 2025 sessions, click here.

FREE

Fridays from 5:00 to 7:00pm starting mid September. Please keep an eye on their Instagram for starting date. (Community Center)

Bug hotel built and delivered to our Community Center Pollinator Paradise Garden by Girl Scouts troop #60383. Thank you, Girls Scouts!

We have a beautiful new flower mural in the Community Center hallway, thanks to New Paltz High Piglets Ady, Ella, and Joe, with the assistance of Alex! They will be adding a seed library to the display soon! Thank you, Piglets!

Pictures: The sketch, starting to paint, in progress, and finished!

The Margaret Wade-Lewis Center's Community Library is now housed at the New Paltz Community Center while the Ann Oliver house is being restored. The Ann Oliver house is the future home of the MWL Center. Come peruse the collection which includes books on African-American art, culture, biography, and history. The book check-out form is on the top shelf.

Click here for the MWL Center's website.