Draft 2026 Events Calendar, Jan-Sept: Open for Feedback!
We’re releasing 3 quarters of the Street Works 2026 calendar in draft form below, so members of our community can weigh in. Before we lock in content, dates, and times, we want to know what feels missing, and what excites you most. Take 1 minute to help us right-size our energy, invite your leadership, and make sure we’re supporting community needs.
Q1
Exploring a Community Timebank: Are We Ready? Street Works, initiated by Meredith Faltin, is 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. This working session is for folks interested in helping to build a time bank from scratch.
Street Works 2026 Calendar: Pathways to Participate, Partner, and Lead. We’ll walk through the 2026 calendar with 8 months of activities planned ahead. Our goal is to give people more lead time and clearer pathways for getting involved, whether by showing up, volunteering, or co-creating, which is central to our mission.
Future@Work: Neighbor-to-Neighbor Resume Reviews. Street Works brings neighbors together to support each other’s growth and skills. In this meetup, you’ll receive feedback on your resume and/or cover letter from a Street Works community reviewer while also supporting others so we all learn and build together. In the tradition of mutual aid, this structure assumes that everyone has expertise to offer, and teaching and learning can happen at the same time.
How to Organize a Street Event (Part 1): Permits & the Basics. This meetup introduces the Street Works Blueprint: a practical “how-to” for organizing public space events with care, especially for groups with tiny budgets and big visions. In this session, we’ll cover the main permit types used for NYC public space gatherings and how to submit permit requests.
Q2
Street Art Day. A community art-making day in public space for all ages, skills, and backgrounds. We’ll co-create a shared artwork and include Street Works staples, like community beading, local resources, and urgent actions.
Future@Work Mini-Festival. During Earth Month, we're dedicating a mini festival to Future@Work, where we'll focus on community resources meant to help us build wealth, through jobs, savings, or entrepreneurship. The centerpiece will be a collaborative installation tracing networks that sustain us, identifying where support is missing, and building strategies for expanding our support systems.
Future@Work: Neighbor-to-Neighbor Resume Reviews. Street Works brings neighbors together to support each other’s growth and skills. In this meetup, you’ll receive feedback on your resume and/or cover letter from a Street Works community reviewer while also supporting others so we all learn together. In the tradition of mutual aid, this structure assumes that everyone has expertise to offer, and teaching and learning can happen at the same time.
Spending & Saving 101: Building Stability with Justice. Many of us were never taught how to manage money in ways that are realistic while navigating rising costs, low wages, debt traps, and a financial system that favors inherited wealth. In the spirit of mutual aid, we hope to create a welcoming space for people of all ages in Queens to co-learn the basics of spending and saving, how our financial lives are shaped by the systems around us, and support one another on paths to sustainability.
Q3
Advocacy 101: Getting Involved in Your Community (For Beginners). This is a gentle introduction to how all of us can influence decisions, starting in our local communities and recognizing that capacity matters. We’ll cover what advocacy means (and what it isn’t), how decisions are made in New York City and New York State, how to identify the issue you care about, and ways to take action that match your capacity.
Street Art Day. A community art-making day in public space for all ages, skills, and backgrounds. We’ll co-create a shared artwork and include Street Works staples, like community beading, local resources, and urgent actions.
How to Organize a Street Event (Part 1): Permits & the Basics. This meetup introduces the Street Works Blueprint: a practical “how-to” for organizing public space events with care, especially for groups with tiny budgets and big visions. In this session, we’ll cover the main permit types used for NYC public space gatherings and how to submit permit requests.
Street Works Earth 2026: A festival in mid-September that brings together artists, neighbors, & changemakers to co-create art and explore how we can care for our planet and each other.
