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.
Know Your Rights: Community Safety & Rights Workshop
2:30–3:25pm, Queens Neighborhood Safety
Practical tips to stay informed and prepared, with tools to help you understand your rights, respond safely in challenging situations, and support your neighbors.
Workshop: Creating a Resume
12-12:55PM, NYS Department of Labor
Breaking down the essentials of building a resume that reflects your path, passions, and potential.
Workshop: How to apply for college
1:15–2:10pm, Dabima
How to apply for college, including important fall deadlines and how to navigate complicated application processes.
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.
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.
Listening: What Would You Say to the Future?
Table 2:45-4:45, roaming before; Street Works, El Puente, Global Citizens’ Assembly
Share your perspective at a station collecting video interviews on climate change, public space, and more.
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.
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.
1-on-1 Resume Reviews
~15-20 min each, sign up if interested
Bring a draft of your resume and meet 1-on-1 with a participant for advice on how to organize your story. You must sign up in advance!
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.
Cloth Culture: Workshop
1:20-3:20pm, Kaleidospace
We’re turning old fabric into fresh art with paint, stamps, and stencils. No experience needed!
Workshop: Electricity Basics
12-12:55PM, New York Power Authority
Stop by to learn how electricity works, and career paths in energy and engineering.
Cloth Culture: Cut from the same Cloth
5-6pm, Kaleidospace
We’re turning old fabric into fresh art with paint, stamps, and stencils. No experience needed!
Reclaim Your Sole
2-4pm, Mikayla Yi/Cari Hanson/Street Works/MJN
Customize and refurbish your sneakers with paint & patches.
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.
Rising Leaders: Youth Organizing Workshop
2:30-4PM, Veggie Nuggets
A 90-minute workshop, by and for youth, to explore the basics of advocacy and community organizing together.
Local Grassroots Climate Onramp
2:30–3:25pm, Queens Climate Project
Hear how organizing with your neighbors can drive real change, and how you can shape local actions
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.
Workshop: Intergenerational Community Organizing
1:15–2:10pm, Durga Sreenivasan
A workshop on building coalitions across generations for meaningful climate action.
Workshop: Applying to High School in NYC
TBD, TBD
How to apply for public high school in NYC, from deadlines to exploring schools that match your interests, including climate.