PAID OPPORTUNITY
APPLY TO BE A FELLOW
The Ghost Bike Fellowship is a four-month paid creative residency for Brooklyn-based cyclists, pedestrians, and drivers to process the crisis of traffic violence in our borough. Fellows will participate in workshops with local leaders in Transportation Justice, help maintain existing Ghost Bike memorials, and collaborate on an interactive public art event that pays homage to Ghost Bikes and envisions a joyful future of safe streets in NYC.
Ghost Bikes are white painted bicycles memorializing neighbors who have died while cycling. These memorials exist to warn drivers and cyclists of a dangerous intersection, and to honor the deceased person as a herald of safe streets advocacy. More than a cautionary tale, a Ghost Bike is a monument to the joy of biking, the right to free movement, self-determination, and the vision of safe streets for all.
The Fellowship is facilitated by Superhero Clubhouse Core Member Jackie Rivera (they/them), an avid cyclist and community-centered performance-based artist.
The Ghost Bike Fellowship aims to:
- Bring together different stakeholders around the topic of transportation justice in Brooklyn.
- Create space for grief, joy, and discussion.
- Increase public awareness of the Ghost Bike Memorials and activate them through art.
- Offer popular education on Safe Streets infrastructure and invite collective envisioning.
- Support existing advocacy groups and community leaders by amplifying their work.
Fellows will be paid a flat fee of $1,500 (based on $30/hr) over the course of four months. Fellows will be hired as independent contractors, paid on a 1099.
PAID OPPORTUNITY
SEEKING COMPOSER-PERFORMER
Superhero Clubhouse is hiring a “Balladeer” to write and perform original songs about migratory fish in collaboration with high school students at the New York Harbor School as part of the 15th annual Big Green Theater program.
Big Green Theater (BGT) is an eco-playwriting program for public school students that uplifts the imaginations of young people most impacted by climate change and environmental injustices and brings their ideas to life on stage. BGT aims to inspire students to manifest a sustainable and just community by using the power of their creative voice.
This year’s BGT program, taking place at the marine-focused New York Harbor School on Governors Island, will be focused on the amazing migratory fish of the Mahicantuck (Hudson River). Students will create original songs, monologues, and fish puppets, and their work will be included as part of Riverkeeper’s Fish Migration Celebration, happening in June.
We are seeking a skilled composer-performer with experience working with teenagers to conduct songwriting workshops, compose a series of original songs in collaboration with teenage students, and perform students' songs as well as their written monologues at the program's culminating events.
The Balladeer will be paid a flat fee of $2,400, (based on $30/hour, including ferry commute time) over four months.
The N.Y. Harbor School is a public high school serving all five boroughs of NYC. To best respect and reflect our student writers, we are specifically hiring a composer-performer who identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color.
SUPPORT OUR 2025 SEASON
SUPPORT OUR 2025 SEASON
Get ready for a very fishy 15th annual BIG GREEN THEATER climate justice playwriting program for public school students. This spring we’re partnering with the NY Harbor School as well as legendary environmental advocates Riverkeeper to celebrate the magical migratory fish species of the Hudson River. Students will learn about the body-altering journeys of local diadromous fish like sturgeon, eels, and shad, the threats they face, and proposed strategies to protect them. Our young collaborators will bring these fishy adventures to life through word, song, and puppets, and their creations will contribute to a Fish Migration Festival that Riverkeeper is piloting in June.
We offer the Big Green Theater program to schools free of charge, which means we need your support to keep it going!
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Applications are open for the GHOST BIKE FELLOWSHIP, a six-month paid residency in which community members who have been impacted by traffic violence are invited to compost their grief and grow their activism through creative processing. Through workshops with local leaders in transportation justice and hands-on service and design projects, the fellows will collaborate on a public performance that activates existing Ghost Bike Memorials and envisions a future of safe streets for NYC.
We pay fellows to participate so that their creative labor is valued and money is not a barrier for those who might not otherwise be able to apply. Help us invest in arts work and transportation justice by making a donation!
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We’re in the midst of bookings for another year of our signature WORKSHOPS, Eco-Performance Lab and Science Storytelling, offering tools and frameworks for creative response, collaboration, and communication surrounding climate science and environmental justice. Accessible to a wide range of participants, our workshops can be run virtually or in person, and are adaptable to meet a variety of curricula, participants, and time frames.
We subsidize our workshops via a sliding scale in order to keep them affordable for all.
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Look out for more opportunities in 2025 to play THERE WILL BE MONSTERS, a theatrical game experience for a hopeful climate future. Travel through a magical version of the Hudson River bioregion, meeting a colorful cast of multi-species inhabitants along the way. Use your characters’ unique abilities to grow a movement against the monsters. Gain tools and allies by helping communities with adaptation projects. Discover root causes and hone your strategy. Can you increase the health of the bioregion before new monsters arrive? The future depends on your collective decisions, and time is of the essence…
It takes a village to develop and produce such an ambitious project, and we are dedicated to ensuring that everyone who works with us is paid equitably. Your support is paramount to meeting our production budget– we truly can’t do it with you!
We rely on the support of our community to create our work and keep it accessible. Consider making a tax-deductible donation and joining us in modeling a better world through innovative, creative programming for all. Every contribution, big or small, makes a significant impact.