Camphill Hudson community residents make a life for themselves with a particular focus on the social arts and an integrated theater program.
Camphill Hudson
Camphill Hudson
A thriving urban community
Camphill Hudson is a thriving urban community in downtown Hudson, New York—two hours north of New York City by train. As a community of people of all abilities, Camphill Hudson supports individuals in contributing to community life while participating fully in the wider life of the city. Its work centers on the social arts, community service, and the integrated theatre program of the Camphill Hudson Players.
A visitor need only step inside one of Camphill Hudson’s residences to experience a sense of warmth and home. In our life-sharing homes, adults with developmental disabilities live alongside resident coworkers in extended-family households. Meals are shared around a communal table, beginning with a lit candle and grace before meals. Each person contributes to home life in ways that reflect their abilities, fostering both independence and interdependence.
In semi-independent residences, that same sense of warmth and home is paired with greater individual expression and flexibility. Residents may cook meals together, manage household chores, plan social schedules, pay bills, and build the practical skills that support meaningful, self-directed lives. Birthdays, seasonal festivals, and other important occasions are celebrated together, while evenings and weekends offer time for housekeeping, worship, social outings, and enjoying all that Hudson has to offer.
Weekdays are shaped by meaningful, rhythmic engagement with the wider community. Members gather at Solaris each morning for song, verse, and a shared review of the day ahead. Activities include preparing lunch, maintaining the building, craft work, volunteering locally, and creating original work with the Camphill Hudson Players. Community members contribute hundreds of hours of service through efforts such as supporting the Salvation Army kitchen, volunteering at community cleanups, at a local community college cafe, and visiting elders in a retirement community.
Solaris, Camphill Hudson’s Center for the Social Arts on Warren Street, is a gathering place for creative work and connection. Camphill Hudson also hosts free community dinners there on the first Tuesdays of each month. Cooked and served by community members and volunteers, these meals welcome anyone from the greater Hudson neighborhood to share a family-style table. Each holiday season, Camphill Hudson brings together local community members to present holiday-themed productions.
Hudson is a thriving, diverse small city, and Camphill Hudson residents actively participate in its cultural life – and transform the wider community through acts of positive neighboring. They attend riverfront festivals, parades on Warren Street, plays, concerts, and talks at local venues—and make contributions of their own.
Camphill Hudson
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