In 2026, we celebrated the fourth PLUMES. Here are some beautiful images by Ally Caple.

Plumes Mission Statement (written collectively in December 2022)

Plumes is a new ritual which will inhabit and expand the public space that we community activists in North Brooklyn) have been carving out and maintaining since 2020.

Our Open Street and Mutual Aid organizing is intentionally inviting and inclusive, which allows us to deploy a broad vision for the future through collectively created and performed characters. Plumes will project a version of creativity that brings together members from a number of communities who are directly in contact with the audience. For the audience, who are neighbors and passersby, Plumes will be a surprising, mysterious and absurd experience. We hope to expand the face of our civic engagement with fun and play.

Formally, Plumes draws on rituals for chasing out evil, performed in many cultures. We've developed our concept and characters through a year's long process of writing, drawing and talking together on our Open Streets.

Each year, from January to the beginning of May, we will develop and build costumes, design behaviors, choreographies and music for our characters. At the beginning of May PLUMES hit the streets.

In 2023, we celebrated the first PLUMES by launching a publication which includes collectively made collages and commissioned texts by Emmny Catedral, Will Heinrich and Elizaveta Shneyderman.

Download the PLUMES 2023 Publication here.

In 2025, we celebrated the third PLUMES by writing about what PLUMES means to us and RISO printing a publication at Shandaken Projects.

We launched it with coffee and cake at the Sunview.

Greenpointers wrote about it.

Download the pdf of that article here.

Download the PLUMES 2025 Publication here.

If you would like the physical version, please get in touch.