JOIN OUR FIELD
Volunteer creative investigators wanted
RESEARCH TEAM
APPLY BY 8.31
Join The Civilians’ FIELD RESEARCH TEAM, a group of volunteer creative investigators who work with the company by conducting interviews with real live people.
Experience with this kind of research is great but not required. The Civilians’ Artistic Director Steve Cosson and its artistic staff will offer training in our methodology.
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Applications welcome from anywhere. All meetings will be held virtually over Zoom.
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Fall availability needed. We'll be kicking off our process in September and concluding in early October.
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Applications due 11:59PM ET on August 31, 2026.
Our Inaugural Project
50 STATES OF
RESISTANCE
Our 2026 project, 50 STATES OF RESISTANCE, brings artists and activists together to shine a light on the many different ways that people can fight back against authoritarianism and support democracy. On October 2nd, 3rd and 4th, artists of any discipline will sit down with activists, in person if possible, and listen to their stories. The conversations will express what actions activists have taken, what motivates them, how it feels, what’s worked, what hasn’t, and all the myriad human interactions that taken together are our country’s resistance. The interviews will be used for a live performance in New York City and they will be made available to the Fall of Freedom network to create performances in other parts of the US. And some of them will be turned into songs which we will share live and online.
