Dear Crisis is a New York City community founded by 📝Benjamin Von Wong for people who refuse to navigate the metacrisis alone.
The community gathers activists, artists, and everyday people to make sense of the interconnected crises of the era — climate change, political polarization, institutional decay, economic inequality, loneliness, the erosion of trust — through in-person connection rather than more information. Its programming includes monthly Metacrisis Salons in Brooklyn, a creative incubator called The Creationship, and community-generated gatherings.
The premise is that the antidote to overwhelm is not more information but meaningful relationship: when people come together in the same room, crisis becomes a starting point rather than an endpoint. Dear Crisis extends the participatory logic of Von Wong's installations from art-making into everyday community — the monument, in this case, is the room itself.