Newark Grounds presents Fall NIGHT FEST
Fall NIGHT FEST, Newark’s evening makers festival, returns on Friday, October 9 at 5pm.
Mark your calendars! Fall NIGHT FEST, Newark’s evening makers festival, returns on Friday, October 9, transforming Mulberry Commons into an evening filled with art, music, food, and hands-on creativity under the night sky.
Presented by Newark Grounds, led by PES in partnership with the Newark City Parks Foundation and the Newark Art Festival, the festival invites artists, families, neighbors, and visitors of all ages to gather for an evening of making, learning, and celebrating creativity. Throughout the park, participants can enjoy free workshops, artist demonstrations, live performances, and more!
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About Newark Grounds: Led by Project for Empty Space, this initiative is a collaboration with the City of Newark Division of Art and Cultural Affairs, the City of Newark Arts and Education District, the City Parks Foundation, the Newark Alliance, the Greater Newark Convention and Visitors Bureau, Newark Arts, the Four Corners Public Arts Partnership, and the Rutgers University-Newark Design Consortium. The project connects Newark Penn Station to Teachers Village through a dynamic arts path. The initiative bridges public art projects from Four Corners Public Arts, Project for Empty Space, and Gateways to Newark: Portraits, along with selected works from New Jersey Transit’s public art program at Newark Penn Station. It is strategically situated within the Arts and Education District, established by Mayor Ras J. Baraka in Fall 2022.
Project for Empty Space (PES) is a multifaceted arts organization that includes Exhibitions, Artists Residencies, Public Art initiatives, subsidized Artist Studios, and Artist Professional Development/Granting opportunities. Our programs lean into social discourse, including narratives that have been historically and systemically erased. We strive to course-correct historic instances of forced marginality, in-equity, and in-visibility. Today, in our efforts to support socially-oriented artists, we maintain a commitment to holding space for both looking back and looking to new potentials and futures.
Newark City Parks Foundation, Inc., a public-private partnership created by Mayor Ras J. Baraka and the Newark Municipal City Council in April 2021 to manage, maintain, program, and raise funds for Newark’s Downtown Parks including the historic Harriet Tubman Square, Lincoln Park, Military Park, Mulberry Commons, and Riverfront Park.
The organization is committed to ensuring that all five of Newark’s downtown parks are vibrant and provide free, outdoor public programs that are inclusive for all Newark residents, workers, and visitors. NCPF works closely with the City of Newark, anchor stakeholders situated around Newark’s parks, local non-profits, and residents who are committed to making the downtown parks world-class public spaces.
Since its creation in 2021, NCPF has consistently produced over 200 annual programs in the areas of arts & culture, health & wellness, on water activities, and environmental education that attracts thousands of visitors annually.
