Category: Literature
- Adirondack Center for Writing Franklin County
- With the mission of "creating a sense of place through literature," the Adirondack Center for Writing suports local writers by offering workshops and presenting readings year-round. Based at Paul Smiths College, the center also co-sponsors the Annual Gathering for Talk and Tales, a one-day festival of local folklore and crafts, with the Old Forge Public Library.
- Allegra Vida Schoharie County
- A literary arts center in Gilboa, Allegra Vida hosts writing workshops, a scholarship program for aspiring writers as well as fiction and poetry readings.
- Arts Society of Kingston Ulster County
- Made up of visual and performing artists and their supporters, this busy arts center in downtown Kingston hosts monthly exhibits in its two galleries and organizes theater performances, readings and off-site exhibitions. Special events include an Open Studio Tour each October and the Kingston Sculpture Biennial in odd-numbered years. The biennial displays numerous sculptures sited in public places around Kingston, thus giving the local community and visitors a chance to view art for free and at their leisure.
- Bright Hill Press Delaware County
- A literary organization in Treadwell, Bright Hill Press hosts readings and workshops, manages the New York State Council on the Arts' literary Web site and houses a library. The press also publishes the work or up-and-coming authors to ensure the presence of alternate voices in contermporary literature.
- Catskill Mountain Foundation Greene County
- This multifaceted organization in a busy new complex in downtown Hunter runs two farms at separate locations that promote a kind of farming known as natural agriculture; hosts literary programs and performing arts events; and houses a gallery, a performing arts center, a cinema, and a bookstore. The gallery specializes in “everything from outsider art to 6th-century Japanese scrolls” and also shows many local crafts.
- Center for the Arts of Homer Cortland County
- Housed in a renovated church in Homer, the center offers a vast array of cultural events throughout the year, including exhibitions displayed in the Borg-Warner Morse TEC Gallery, performances staged in Whiting Theater, and a broad array of lectures, art classes and workshops held on-site.
- Greene County Council on the Arts Greene County
- Since 1975, GCCA has been supporting the arts of the Catskill region through exhibitions of local artists’ work, lectures, musical performances and poetry readings. GCCA maintains two year-round gallery spaces, the GCCA Catskill Gallery in downtown Catskill and the GCCA Mountaintop Gallery in the resort town of Windham.
- Hudson Opera House Columbia County
- A nonprofit group has turned the former Hudson City Hall (1855) into a thriving center for numerous artistic activities, with more than 700 programs and events for people of all ages throughout the year, including exhibitions, lectures, readings, workshops, concerts and after-school programs. The building itself is of historical interest not only because Frederic Church and Sanford Gifford showed their paintings here, but the performance hall on the second floor (scheduled to open in 2010) is one of the oldest surviving theaters in New York State.
- Hudson Valley Writers' Center Westchester County
- Housed in the former Philipse Manor train depot since 1996, the nonprofit Hudson Valley Writers’ Center hosts readings, classes and workshops. The center is also the parent of the Slapering Hol Press (the name is a corruption of the Dutch—see Sleepy Hollow above), a small independent publishing imprint.
- Just Buffalo Literary Center Erie County
- Founded in 1975, Just Buffalo Literary Center hosts regular readings and lectures by the luminaries of literature including Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, Poet Laureates of the United States and best-selling authors from around the world.
