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.
Chat Series: Journey Shares
TBD, TBD
Chat with folks at different points in their career about how they got to where they are and the challenges along the way.
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.
Workshop: Becoming the Elder You Envision
1:15–2:10pm, Queens Mutual Aid
Step into a quiet circle for a guided visualization to meet your future self as an elder, an ancestor, a wisdom keeper.
Workshop: Relationship mapping for care & connection
1:15–2:10pm, Sunny Roberts & Jessica Bauman
Reflect together on who is part of our support systems for daily needs, growth, and work, and how we can expand our circles together.
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.
Day Navigators
All day, (Focus on Future@Work 12-2PM), Satia Koroma & Natalie Bedon/Street Works/MJN
Navigators will help you make sense of the environment, learn about the event, and offer ideas about which activities might best match your interests.
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
Tiny Worlds in Balance: Terrarium Making
2PM onward, (until materials run out), MJN
Join us in making sealed gardens that can thrive without you ever needing to water it. Terrariums show us how ecosystems sustain, a reminder that balance makes life possible in a jar, a neighborhood, or the planet.