2025 Street Works Earth
Activities
Use the buttons to filter. You can stop by “all-day” installations 11am-5pm. Timed workshops/discussions have a beginning, middle, and end, so come early to get your bearings.
Dear Mayor: Green My School!
All Day, ALIGN & Climate Works for All
Send a postcard to the Mayor on changes you want to see in schools, as part of our Green, Healthy Schools campaign call for climate upgrades in public schools.
Landscaping our Climate Future
All day, Frontline Resource Institute
What does a joyful future, free of climate change, look like to you? Add to a collaborative drawing with your response to this question.
Fresh & Cool: DIY Air Purifiers & Heat Safety
All Day, CHIMES
Join hands-on workshops on how to build your own low-cost air purifier. We’ll also sharing practical heat safety tips and more.
Hip Hop 50 Boombox
All day, Bayeté Ross Smith
Contribute songs on freedom and liberation to Bayeté Ross Smith’s sculpture made of sugarcane & cotton boombox replicas.
Safe Paint: Cosmetic Toxin Safety
All Day, We Act for Environmental Justice
Learn how to spot toxic beauty products and how cosmetics connect to justice and health—especially in BIPOC communities.
Mean. Equity.
All Day, Ernest Verrett & Anjali Deshmukh/Street Works/MJN
In 2024, this installation invited passersby to add to a bead curtain reflecting on climate change. In 2025, it weaves in the story of wealth inequality, thanks to support from Stella Muti and the World Inequality Database.
Autobio Comic Collage
All Day, Memo Salazar
Add your memories — of planet, community, and more — to a growing wall of comic panels.
Headlines of our Future
All day, Grist
Imagine what a clean, green, and just future can look like by writing your own hopeful climate headline for the year 2050.
Affirmation Station
All day, Queens Mutual Aid
Recharge with calming prompts, reflective questions, and affirmations rooted in care for self, community, and the Earth.
Green Gratitude Wall
All day, Queens Mutual Aid
Honor the people, places, and acts that sustain you and our planet. Add a note or drawing to help build a shared story of climate resilience, care, and community power.
When the Water Rises, So Do We
All Day, Southeast Queens Residents Environmental Justice Coalition
Learn about Southeast Queens’s fight against groundwater flooding and the siting of lithium-ion battery storage in stones throw from homes and a hospital. You’ll walk away with tips on how to prepare for floods from folks who’ve learned by doing.
Strong Roots, Safe Future / Raíces Fuertes, Futuro Seguro
All day, Latin Academy
Learn how climate change impacts the Latiné community while learning Spanish nature words, games, and free face painting.
Painted By The Sun
All Day, Team AOC
Join a hands-on creative project using sunlight and light-sensitive paper to make unique sun print. As you create, we’ll explore the Green New Deal, jobs and justice-centered plan to decarbonize the U.S. economy in ten years