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.
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.
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.
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.
1-on-1 Resume Reviews
~10-20 min each, 11AM-12PM & 1-2:45PM, Department of Labor; 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!
Workshop: Supporting Success: A Parent's Guide to NYC High School Admissions
12:00-12:55 PM, Jennifer Blair, Ma.Ed.
How to apply for public high school in NYC, from deadlines to exploring schools that match your interests, including climate.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Reclaim Your Sole
2-4pm, Mikayla Yi/Eleanor Leider/Street Works/MJN
Customize and refurbish your sneakers with paint & patches.
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.
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.