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.
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.
Cinema Club
11am-4pm, Kaleidospace & More
Join us for an micro-theater featuring short films on climate justice and local stories, including work by Queens filmmakers.
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.
Draw Your Climate Hero—Anime Style
2-2:30PM, Khalil Remtula
A drawing workshop, where you’ll design your own climate hero, in anime style, reflecting your values & vision for change.
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.
Improv: Adaptation & Resilience for a Changing World
2:30–3:25pm, Improv Draft
In a time of climate change, adaptability is everything. And that’s exactly what improv is all about. Join us for a performance and workshop where you help shape what happens next.
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