Street Works
Image: 2025 Street Work Earth. “We’re Here.” By Street Works. Photo by Brentton Wilson.
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We are seeking volunteers for Street Works Earth, our annual climate, justice, and art festival in Queens, scheduled for 9/20. Sign up by 8/20 to get integrated into our awesome community and get to know the festival alongside us!
Several community members have asked if they can model in the 2026 Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards Show. So we created this interest form! By submitting, you'll be added to a pool of potential models that we share with designers connected to Street Works Earth 2026.
Below are the questions registered designers for the Sustainable Fashion Designer Awards will fill out when they submit designs after June 26.
We’re setting a minimum standard for sustainability for individual designers, while creating space to see how standards should go up as they start selling their work.
When: September 20 (Sept 27 rain date). Where: 34th Avenue Open Street @ 78th Street, Jackson Heights, Queens.
Join us for our 3rd annual street arts and climate action festival! If you’re interested in participating, please submit to the form here by June 26.
This September, we’re bringing a fashion competition to Street Works Earth to celebrate designers, artists, and neighbors creating outfits that show how care for people, communities, and the planet can be gorgeous, inventive, and stylish.
We’re inviting fashion designers at any level — self-taught, students, emerging, or established — to submit one original wearable outfit that demonstrates sustainability. Designers must be available in person in Queens, NYC, September 20-27 to present their work (exact day to be confirmed.)
CRECE + Street Works are building a directory of Queens artists interested in presenting work in CRECE's beautiful community space, scheduled to open in May 2026. Submit your art here!
Climate crisis, rising costs, and political instability are reshaping what work—and stability—look like. Join us the day after International Workers’ Day for a gathering that brings together people at different points in their career to share journeys reflecting on how we build livelihoods through turmoil, while also building a more just world.
2024 Street Works Earth
Street
An idea, or ideal, of public spaces as a collective asset & connector of neighborhoods that is just — a source of healing, not harm; steps from your home; that everyone can touch; where everyone belongs.
Image: 2024 Street Work Earth. “The Art of Letter Writing to Get out the Vote.” By Make Justice Normal. Photo by Brentton Wilson.
Queens Mutual Aid
Space for art-centered mutual aid networks, civic education, mental wellness, and being together to support justice, including climate justice.
Join a virtual meeting on 3/12 at 7pm to collaborate on financial literacy trainings, food drives, and more.
Join a virtual meeting on 2/12 at 7pm to collaborate on financial literacy trainings, food drives, and more.
Join a virtual meeting on 1/15 at 7pm to shape vision for 2026, which includes collaborating on: financial literacy trainings, food drives, and more.
Join a virtual meeting on December 11th at 7pm to: Check in with one another & rebuild collective rhythm; share updates about ongoing efforts and neighborhood needs; discuss what support systems we want to strengthen or restart.
Join us on July 27, 5-7pm on zoom for the third mental wellness co-share, to check in with one another and build on the plans as they’ve evolved.
Works
Art objects, to spend your energies, to earn a living, and when things function the way they're supposed to.
Image: 2025 Street Works Earth. “Mean. Equity.” By Ernest Verrett & Anjali Deshmukh. Photo by Derrick Seymore.
Climate Justice, for New Yorkers and Beyond
In 2019, New York passed one of the most ambitious climate laws in the US: the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Under CLCPA, New York must be off fossil fuels, the drivers of climate change, by 2050. Spoiler: As of 2025, we are not on track.
Disasters don’t befall all communities equally, and public infrastructure for disaster relief doesn't either: BIPOC communities are more likely to be hit harder on both fronts. We hope some of these tips help us take steps and build community along the way.
Extreme heat is a serious threat, and it is likely to get worse with climate change. To prepare, we share a few things you can do.
NYC Local Law 97 places carbon caps on most buildings larger than 25,000 square feet. Caps phase in starting in 2024 and get more stringent from there.
street works
When the street is a work of art; when works of art are on the street; when we work for the street; when the street works for us, the collective.
Image: 2024 Street Work Earth. Próxima Tierra. By Kaleidospace. Photo by Derrick Seymore.