Holes in the Wall Collective

Holes in the Wall Collective We hold space for creatives everywhere who are working to rebalance the future. Through creative residency, public happenings and socio-messaging.

We don't just do one thing on purpose. We are a collective of people who think outside the box, who work to move things forward by understanding how we got here, who work to re-examine and reimagine the world around us. That is what art does, and that is what creativity can do.
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We figure the best shot we have at making something better ​is to support creative work with as many representations of

people & ideas as possible.
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We recognize that the work of the educator, the economist, the lawyer, the mother is just as creative as any. And to revalue creative thought and action is essential to rebalancing our planet. "My job is not to make political declarations but to make holes in the wall... The things which were forbidden before me should be permitted after me... I must solve the problem of liberty & tyranny in practical ways-- that means that my activity must leave behind traces, examples of liberty. It's not the same about leaving complaints about the subject of freedom... you must actually get things done."

Beyond the red, white and blue, the fireworks and bbqs - there’s a longer story, a great conversation* of our living lan...
06/16/2026

Beyond the red, white and blue, the fireworks and bbqs - there’s a longer story, a great conversation* of our living landscape.

Come walk with us.

July 4th, 2026

Join us for a water walk from Pier 26 or Catherine Slip to Collect Pond Park, where we will gather to ceremoniously fill the fountain at the site of the former Collect Pond.

10:30 – meet at one of the rivers
Hudson Pier at Pier 26 or
Catherine’s Slip + South St.

Walk together to Collect pond.

11:15am Gathering at Collect Pond Park

What to Bring:

Bring a small container/vessel to carry water from the river to the fountain (a 20-minute walk)

Water to drink, a snack, sun protection and/or an umbrella if inclement weather is upon us

RAIN OR SHINE

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The West walk from the Hudson will be loosley led by artist Jo Wood-Brown , connected to her project Excavations of Canal Street and Julia Meeks, co-director of Holes In The Wall Collective

The East walk from the East River will loosely be led by beth Maria as well as Dhira Rauch, co-director of Holes In The Wall Collective

At Collect Pond, we will be joined by Noelle Ghoussaini of Noelle G

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*The Great Conversation refers to geologian Thomas Berry’s lament “We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation.” Thank you to to guiding us this quote from his amazing book “Is a River Alive?”

Beyond the red, white and blue, the fireworks and bbqs - there’s a longer story, a great conversation* of our living lan...
06/16/2026

Beyond the red, white and blue, the fireworks and bbqs - there’s a longer story, a great conversation* of our living landscape.

Come walk with us.

July 4th, 2026

Join us for a water walk from Pier 26 or Catherine Slip to Collect Pond Park, where we will gather to ceremoniously fill the fountain at the site of the former Collect Pond.

10:30 – meet at one of the rivers
Hudson Pier at Pier 26 or
Catherine’s Slip + South St.

Walk together to Collect pond.

11:15am Gathering at Collect Pond Park

What to Bring:

Bring a small container/vessel to carry water from the river to the fountain (a 20-minute walk)

Water to drink, a snack, sun protection and/or an umbrella if inclement weather is upon us

RAIN OR SHINE

++++

The West walk from the Hudson will be loosley led by artist Jo Wood-Brown, connected to her project Excavations of Canal Street and Julia Meeks, co-director of Holes In The Wall Collective

The East walk from the East River will loosely be led by beth Maria as well as Dhira Rauch, co-director of Holes In The Wall Collective

At Collect Pond, we will be joined by Noelle Ghoussaini of Noelle G

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*The Great Conversation refers to geologian Thomas Berry’s lament “We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation.”

What a joy to make our way to Inwood at the top of Manhattan to the hidden beach and garden oasis of Swindler Cove that ...
06/15/2026

What a joy to make our way to Inwood at the top of Manhattan to the hidden beach and garden oasis of Swindler Cove that and the community has transformed the last decade from illegal dumping ground and inaccessible shoreline.

We met with Caio Caneiro of New York Restoration Project who told us how the whole park came to being because one of the last marshlands in nyc was nestled between the dumped tires and polluted ___ and the state had allocated money to save the w marshes.

Swindler Cove and Sherman Park are one of our highlighted sites this fall and we couldn’t be more excited to introduce New Yorkers to one of the more beautiful spots in NYC, even as two cap’s still drain out into the water after every big rain.

We headed down to Far Rockaways to continue our field work for this year’s Imagined Futures program. We met with Juvie ...
06/11/2026

We headed down to Far Rockaways to continue our field work for this year’s Imagined Futures program.

We met with Juvie Alfeche of RISE (Rockaway Initiative for Sustainability and Equity) to learn about their dune plantings, check out the garden, say hi to the big mama Atlantic, and talk fall activations.

We’ll be highlighting them more throughout our program, but RISE is a rad org based in the Rockaways that works for climate resiliency by connecting people to place, youth especially.

This site is particularly special because in a matter of a few blocks, you can go from Jamaica Bay to the big Atlantic Ocean, making it one of the skinniest populated peninsulas in the region.

This also makes it one of the most vulnerable communities for our intensifying climate. When Sandy hit, water flowed in from both sides, and while there has been so much done since to prepare, only the next great flood will tell us how much we’ve learned this last decade as a city.

The dune grasses have a lot to reach us about what to hold onto and what to let flow through, and luckily, class is always in session…

First peek at Coney Island Creek—- one of 7 highlighted waterways for this year’s Imagjned Futures program.We met artist...
06/04/2026

First peek at Coney Island Creek—- one of 7 highlighted waterways for this year’s Imagjned Futures program.

We met artist/librarian/field researcher to learn more and scope it out. In two hours, we talked history and advocacy and the changing tides of the creek, filled a whole trash bag worth of micro plastics, saw a park barrier buried in sand, a baby stingray skeleton cuddled up to a plastic bag, a baby blue heron looking for lunch, and most unbelievably- and endangered and majestic sturgeon carcass, freshly beached.

A reminder that our waters and shorelines are living ecosystems needing care and marveling.

Stay tuned for more sneak peeks and development insights towards our fall program.

Apple, reprocessing. Dhira Rauch and Julia Meeks 2015. A little shout out on this Arbor day during Earth week and Nation...
04/24/2026

Apple, reprocessing. Dhira Rauch and Julia Meeks 2015.

A little shout out on this Arbor day during Earth week and National Poetry Month

Amid so many celebrations happening around the city and world that ask us to activate our longing towards taking care of what we already know is our best home…

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For everyone who has ever heard a symphony in the grass

or felt the best restaurant is eating for free right off the vine

who celebrates the social media of mycelial networks
or studies the eXtended realities of soil...

to everyone who works so hard
so that we can sip clean water without a thought
and eat all the colors of the rainbow all year long
– thank you –

though maybe everyone wouldn’t have to work so hard
if all of us started to really listen
to the whales that gossip in slow motion
or the ants that outnumber us in the billions but leave no trademarked trace
or the trees that might soon start finally throwing some other shade our way
if we don’t get with the big picture
or finally to the people who have been treated like the land- taken from again and again...

every day we’re alive we have a choice of how to live

🐚if you put your ear to our ears, maybe we’ll hear the ocean🐚

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We’ll tell you soon about all the programs we’re cooking up for the next two years in collaboration with artists and community orgs, but today, we just wanted to shine the real rainbow on the real apples. We ♥️ you Earth.

For now, go celebrate and support an organization today with your hands, your heart and your honey’d money.

We suggest , , , , , , and us, , along with so many other orgs doing so much despite so much.

We are honored to support the New York theatrical premier of the Oscar qualifying documentary Remaining Native- showing ...
11/19/2025

We are honored to support the New York theatrical premier of the Oscar qualifying documentary Remaining Native- showing 11/21-27th at DCTV, and powerfully over the thanksgiving holiday...

As a continuation of our work at Collect Pond, and stepping deeper into what it means to decolonize and reindiginize in right relationship to the original peoples of NYC, we invite you to join us on 11/26 at our closing circle 10am honoring the deep past present and future of Collect Pond and wider ecology.

Join us November 26th at 8 AM for the Community 5k hosted by and and us. Come run with the film's protagonist and Seaconke Wampanoag athlete/actress

Open to all native runners, allies, friends, and families. Honoring running as medicine and community connection. All levels welcome.

8 am arrive and closing at Collect Pond. Registration required. Link in bio

Screenings run three times a day Nov 21-27th telling the story of (Taboosi Dicutta • Northern Nevada Paiute), native long distance runner who's path into collegiate athletics is guided By the legacy of his great grandfathers escape from an Indian boarding school. It's a reminder that our past present and future move together- centered on running, healing and generational resilience.

It's beautiful and deeply moving.

Community members can use the code "runner20" for 20% off tickets and groups of 10+ receive 50% off.

For screening times, special guests, and more info, visit

**We will be at the 7pm screening 11/25 and the 3pm 11/26**

Just a shout out to continuing community. rolled up for our Youth Climate Justice Throwdown last week 8 years after sh...
09/29/2025

Just a shout out to continuing community. rolled up for our Youth Climate Justice Throwdown last week 8 years after she was our first intern !

We had to take a throwback picture.
Notice that Co-Ed Dhira Rauch is literally wearing the same thing and making the same face. A lot has changed but some things never will.

Thank you Jahmya for staying with us through all the seasons!

Thank you to who threw a stellar regatta with us for Youth Climate Justice, despite the gray skies and holiday vibes.Co...
09/25/2025

Thank you to who threw a stellar regatta with us for Youth Climate Justice, despite the gray skies and holiday vibes.

Congratulations to Jesus Cuate, an intern with in Minneapolis who won the competition! Metro Blooms is a nonprofit in Minneapolis that supports water and food access. Jesus travelled to Climate Week from MN with a team of youth activists for environmental Justice, and we’re thrilled to connect the work across cities.

Thank you to for the grand prize 2023 16” MacBook Pro!
We ♥️ you.

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What a great day Saturday in Soundview Park as part of and . We joined and to pick up trash, pull A LOT of mugwort...
09/24/2025

What a great day Saturday in Soundview Park as part of and .

We joined and to pick up trash, pull A LOT of mugwort, and plant native trees and shrubs.

Meanwhile, a special sequence of our Water/Ways scavenger hunt had two teams going hard, ending in a question game showdown for our giveaway cup including a refurbished Apple Watch from .

Thanks also to for the sweet swag.

But mostly- thanks to Bronx River Alliance’s guidance and continuing restoration of the South Bronx beloved green spaces. They always bring it with tools, knowledge, food and spirit.

Shout out to Nathan and Jenn for holding it down with grace and action.

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