Rhythm Changes

Rhythm Changes

Express Newark’s 2025-2026 annual theme, Rhythm Changes, embraces improvisation and courageously dances with the inevitable rhythm of change. As a community, we seek flow, choose joy in uncertainty, and create unity in the rhythm of people's hearts. Through art, design, digital storytelling, music, and performance, we’ll explore how rhythm helps us move together through change.

On October 9, 2025, Express Newark will host a season kick-off with a fireside chat featuring Stefon Harris and Chancellor Tonya Smith-Jackson, presentations by our community partners and studios, followed by the opening of four exhibitions and the extension of two others.

Info: Lecture Hall. Program begins with Express Newark Welcome. Remarks by Exhibition Organizers: Newark Arts, Design Consortium and City Parks Foundation, Community Media Center. Fireside chat between Rutgers University-Newark Chancellor Smith-Jackson and EN Co-Director Stefon Harris.

Info: Pure Joy, Newark Arts, (Paul Robeson Main Gallery @ EN);
"Touching the Earth, Community Media Center Filmworks Featuring Newark’s Parks.”;
“Reimagining And Uniting Newark’s Downtown Parks. A Collaboration: Design Consortium And Newark City Park Foundation.”;
"Laylah Amatullah Barrayn: Grounds of Memory: Self-Portraits in Senegal"

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Express Newark, 54 Halsey Street, Newark, United States