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Designer Registration Open: Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards
This September, we’re bringing a fashion competition to Street Works Earth to celebrate designers, artists, and neighbors creating outfits that show how care for people, communities, and the planet can be gorgeous, inventive, and stylish.
We’re inviting fashion designers at any level — self-taught, students, emerging, or established — to submit one original wearable outfit that demonstrates sustainability. Designers must be available in person in Queens, NYC, September 20-27 to present their work (exact day to be confirmed.)
03/22/26 @3:00pm: Time bank planning
Join the second time bank planning meeting, immediately following the open house. Attend the open house to find out if this meeting is right for you!
03/12/26 @7PM: Queens mutual aid Meeting
Join a virtual meeting on 3/12 at 7pm to collaborate on financial literacy trainings, food drives, and more.
03/08/26 @1:30pm: Making sense of money: art + dialogue
Join us for a creative brainstorm on how to build wealth in and for our families & communities. We’re first clarifying what's needed, grounding in art, and getting feedback on the sketch of a curriculum for our community.
CANCELLED! 02/22/26 @1:30pm: Open house + resume reviews
Join an open house where neighbors can drop in and connect with people involved in local community practices. A guest from the Department of Labor (DOL) will be there to offer resume feedback!
02/13/26 @4:30pm: Street Works blueprint preview & feedback
Are you an artist, community organizer, or neighbor who wants to gather people in public space but feels blocked by cost, bureaucracy, or not knowing where to start? We’re creating a Blueprint to help you. See a preview before an official launch by April.
Tell Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani: Invest in Green Healthy Schools
In 2026, Climate Works for All will deliver hundreds of postcards created by children at Street Works Earth 2024 and 2025 to Mayor Mamdani calling for green, healthy public schools, alongside messages from educators, families, and community members. Sign the petition to join!
02/12/26 @7PM: Queens mutual aid Meeting
Join a virtual meeting on 2/12 at 7pm to collaborate on financial literacy trainings, food drives, and more.
01/15/26 @7PM: Queens mutual aid Meeting
Join a virtual meeting on 1/15 at 7pm to shape vision for 2026, which includes collaborating on: financial literacy trainings, food drives, and more.
01/11/26 @1:30pm: Exploring a community timebank
Initiated by Meredith Faltin, we’re exploring what it would take to start a neighborhood timebank, a system where one hour of your help = one hour of someone else’s help. We don’t need to exchange money to support one another!
12/11/25 @7PM: Queens mutual aid Meeting
Join a virtual meeting on December 11th at 7pm to: Check in with one another & rebuild collective rhythm; share updates about ongoing efforts and neighborhood needs; discuss what support systems we want to strengthen or restart.
Draft 2026 Events Calendar, Jan-Sept: Open for Feedback!
We’re releasing 3 quarters of the Street Works 2026 calendar in draft form, so members of our community can weigh in. Before we lock in content, dates, and times, take 1 minute to share feedback.
09/21/25, 11AM—6PM: Street Works Earth details
Street Works Earth is this Sunday, 9/21, from 11 AM-6 PM! This is your at-a-glance guide to what’s going on, when, and how to get here. Directions and schedule inside!
A note from Thread Lightly organizers: Fashion in an arts festival, 9/21
The way we decorate ourselves is an artistic act. But it’s also shaped by systems. Thread Lightly was a fashion focus in Street Works Earth 2025, co-designed this year with We Act for Environmental Justice and Kaleidospace. Let us know if you have ideas for how we can carry this into 2026 and beyond.
A note from Future@Work organizers: a career fair in an arts festival, 9/21
A not from co-designers of Future@Work, a career fair within 2025 Street Works Earth, and co-dreamers of a future that works for all of us.
09/21/25: Save the Date for Street Works Earth
Join Make Justice Normal and Street Works for a joyful street arts and climate action festival in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC, on September 21 (Sept 27 rain date).
Calling Volunteers for Street WorKs Earth
We’re looking for volunteers to help bring Street Works Earth to life. Read here for roles. To sign up, email collective@makejusticenormal.org. What we most need is flexibility and reliability, but we’ll do our best to match people with roles that fit their interests!
Sign letter to support Western Queens Community Land Trust
Street Works has written a letter to support the Western Queens Community Land Trust’s important proposal to turn the former Dept. of Education building in LIC into the Queensboro People’s Space—a permanently affordable, community-owned hub for artists, cooperatives, food justice groups, and more. This is not a lease or a commitment—just a way to demonstrate public support. To join the effort, please sign the letter if it resonates and share this far and wide with folks you know who would be willing to sign.
06/24/25: Fight for Tonawanda Seneca Nation’s Way of Life
Join the NYRenews coalition on July 24th at 6:30pm ET for a virtual screening of the short documentary film “Unheard Voices: The Fight for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation’s Way of Life,” followed by a panel discussion featuring Nation citizens and Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.
9/21/25: Future@Work, Career Fair at Street Works Earth
Take the survey for a career fair, called Future@Work, as part of Street Works 2025, concentrated mostly from 12-2pm on Sept 21.