STREET WORKS EARTH

September 22, 2024 , 11AM - 5PM

(All photos we use are licensed by artists associated with MJN's The Arisen and reflect their creative works. Feel free to reach out if you want to know the stories behind them.)


Open Discussion: Green Building Focus (and Support!) Group
Sep
22

Open Discussion: Green Building Focus (and Support!) Group

Hosts: Queens Climate Project, Make Justice Normal/Street Works Earth (more coming soon!)

Calling Queens neighbors! We're ready to do our parts to implement Local Law 97, meant to put New York buildings on a path to lower greenhouse gas emissions. But greening a home or building is not easy. Stop by for an open, informal discussion on challenges in greening New York buildings — small and large. We’ll also discuss the challenges for co-ops, resident-owned buildings in which the path to go green comes with unique challenges.

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Landscaping our Climate Future
Sep
22

Landscaping our Climate Future

What does a joyful future, free of climate change, look like to you? Join Frontline Resource Institute in a visioning of our collective future inviting participants to make artwork — with watercolor, pencil, pastel, and more — reflecting on this question. Over the day, we’ll combine everyone's artwork into a single image, like an unfolding puzzle.

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Mushroom Power! By Remember Y(our) Connection
Sep
22

Mushroom Power! By Remember Y(our) Connection

Join Remember Y(our) Connection in a creative exercise inspired by the power of mushrooms to clean our environment. Mushrooms will blossom on a log over the day as participants envision more beauty & compassion in our world. (Image: Connecting to our environment through mobile-making w/ found objects, Remember Y(our) Connection Chill 'n' Grill, Flushing Meadows, 10/23. Photo: Molly Hein.)

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Colorful World, by Jing (Ellen) Xu
Sep
22

Colorful World, by Jing (Ellen) Xu

Small actions can make a big difference in the future of our planet and oceans. Join Jing (Ellen) Xu for an interactive art installation of colorful foam and cardboard rocks reflecting on how small actions can tip the balance. You’ll have about 2 minutes to balance seven foam rocks of different colors. (Spoiler: it's not easy!)

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Flood Sensor Aunty, by Sabina Sethi Unni
Sep
22

Flood Sensor Aunty, by Sabina Sethi Unni

Join Sabina Sethi Unni for a play starring an anthropomorphic flood sensor who wants to be a movie star, designed for brown aunties and communities. Halfway between public theater and culturally competent emergency management, audience members will leave nourished: bellies full of chai and pakoras, good vibes, and emergency planning materials.

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Wasted Potential, by The Veggie Nuggets
Sep
22

Wasted Potential, by The Veggie Nuggets

What are the impacts of food waste on the environment? And what can we do about it? Help the Veggie Nuggets create a painting made of block brints and vegetable dyes that represent the food we waste. The canvas, which rotates throughout the day, will slowly change colors. While you're there, learn from about the benefits of turning food scraps into “black gold.”

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Heat Maps: Jackson Heights, by Nitin Mukul
Sep
22

Heat Maps: Jackson Heights, by Nitin Mukul

Collaborate with Nitin in creating an improvisational artwork made by layering paint in sheets of ice, freezing each layer so it accumulates color and texture, and then watching it melt according to natural weather conditions while it’s filmed. As you're making a new one, you can watch an existing one melt in the open Jackson Heights air.

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Hip Hop 50 Boombox, by Bayeté Ross Smith
Sep
22

Hip Hop 50 Boombox, by Bayeté Ross Smith

Participants contributed their favorite songs on freedom and liberation alongside perspectives on climate change to Bayeté Ross Smith’s mix tapes on the climate change crisis, part of a sculpture made of sugarcane and cotton boombox replicas. Their songs and voices were mingled with pre-recorded perspectives from Street Work participants. (Photo by Cindy Trinh.)

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Green Card by Purvi Shah & Troy Woodley
Sep
22

Green Card by Purvi Shah & Troy Woodley

Green plays hide & seek in a tapestry of grey asphalt and brown buildings in Jackson Heights. A lack of trees means a dearth of places birds can call home. Participants joined Purvi & Troy in explorations of how green space helps increase clean air, limits the heat index, and gives space for our feathered friends (and people!) to nest & soar. (Photo by Cindy Trinh.)

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Societal Composting, by Mazorca Colectiva
Sep
22

Societal Composting, by Mazorca Colectiva

"Prepare for an impending collapse!" is how the government and the media express the failure of our society to support our lives. Colonial-capitalist systems continue to profit from disaster, without contributing solutions. Join Mazorca Colectiva in healing circles reflecting on collapse. Participants will create poetical work, which will be composted into something beautiful. In a space of rest, they’ll imagine the seeds to plant for the future that will emerge. 

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  • “We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”

    — Maya Angelou

  • “We are on Earth to take care of life. We are on Earth to take care of each other.”

    — Xiye Bastida

  • “I love this beautiful, mysterious, complicated planet we get to call home. I don’t mean any simple, sappy kind of love. I don’t mean anything cute or tame. I mean living, breathing, heart-beating love. Wild love. This love is not a noun, she is an action verb. She can shoot stars into the sky. She can spark a movement. She can sustain a revolution.”

    — Mary Annaïse Heglar