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Exploring a Community Timebank: Are We Ready?
Initiated by Meredith Faltin, we’re exploring what it would take to start a neighborhood timebank, a system where neighbors exchange time.
The idea is simple: one hour of your help = one hour of someone else’s help, and 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 for mutual aid collaboration in Queens
Share updates about ongoing efforts and neighborhood needs
Discuss what support systems we want to strengthen or restart
Explore intentions, capacity, and possibilities for the next phase of our work
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: ALIGN, El Puente, We Act for Environmental Justice, Waterfront Alliance, Kaleidospace, Veggie Nuggets, Street Works, Make Justice Normal
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).
We’re bringing together artists, neighbors, and changemakers to co-create art, share stories, and learn about how we can care for our planet and each other.
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
ALIGN, El Puente, Street Works, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Waterfront Alliance, Kaleidospace, and Veggie Nuggets are teaming up to design a career fair, called Future@Work, as part of Street Works 2025. Concentrated mostly from 12-2pm on Sept 21, we’re creating space for mentorship, job opportunities for all, and creativity.
07/27/25: Mental wellness resource co-share 3
Join us on July 27, 5-7pm on zoom for the third mental wellness co-share, to check in with one another and build on the plans as they’ve evolved.
June 2025 sundays: Street resource share
Join Woodside on the Move, Waterfront Alliance, Street Works/MJN, Queens Mutual Aid, and more for Sunday meetups this June, 1-3pm on June 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29 to share resources, including voter education ahead of the June 24 primaries.
07/25/25: Vote in the “People’s Money”
From our friends at the Civic Engagement Commission: Folks in New York City, please vote in the nonpartisan, citywide participatory budgeting process by June 25! Projects on the ballot came from New Yorkers, and all New Yorkers 11 +, regardless of citizenship, can vote.
04/26/25: Earth Day in NYC
The Street Works team was out on the streets April 26th for Earth Day, along with hundreds of others participating in activities, DOT’s Car Free Earth Day!
Call for a Just Transformation of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Add your name to this collective call to the NYC and NY State Departments of Transportation to invest in planning and implementation of am environmental justice-centered plan to transform the BQE, a highway carrying nearly 150,000 trucks and cars every day through neighborhoods where more than 280,000 people of color, low-income people, and immigrants live, learn, work, play, and pray.
03/23/25: Mental wellness resource co-share
Queens Mutual Aid held an in-person mental health resource sharing session on March 23, 3-5 p.m. ET at beloved 2nd Story Pilates & Yoga inviting the community to share what community led mental wellness spaces look like and how we should move forward.
02/15/25: South Queens Women's March welcome
Join Queens mutual aid for an intro to South Queens Women’s March on Feb 18, 6pm, on zoom. The SQWM amplifies the voices of South Queens’ diverse women. They are an all-volunteer multi-generational, intersectional platform taking sisterhood to the streets.
05/25/25: Mental wellness resource co-share 2
Join us on May 25, 3-5pm on zoom for the second mental wellness co-share, to check in with one another and build on the plans as they’ve evolved.
05/10/25: Tabling with Woodside on the move
Join us tabling at Woodside on the Move's Spring Festival, May 10 from 1-4 at 61st St between Woodside Ave & Roosevelt Ave in Queens.
