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Applications open !

2025 Storytelling Fellowship

apply by August 25 !

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You are invited to apply to the second cohort of All the Farm’s a Stage: A Farmworker Storytelling Fellowship ! Not Our Farm (NOF) is hosting a 6 month storytelling fellowship for QTBIPOC farmworkers, culminating in a virtual performance and multimedia exhibit of the fellows' projects. This year’s fellowship will be centered on the theme of farmworker organizing and movement histories. Fellows will be compensated. Interested applicants can find further details below.

The fellowship will support 10 accepted farmworkers in creating a project about their experiences working on farms as they intersect with farmworker organizing and movement histories + presents. This fellowship aims to build relationships among the accepted cohort of farmworkers and their communities, as well as explore how farmworkers can be in material solidarity with one another. Fellows will be encouraged to research and share with each other the farmworker organizing happening in their regions, lineages, and areas of interest. NOF will provide educational sessions about the history of U.S. agriculture and how it impacts farmworkers today. We will collectively discuss how our stories and experiences relate to this history. We will guide one another in shaping and sharing our stories, as well as bring in outside facilitators/educators/artists for additional support. 

Possible mediums include visual art, poetry, dance & movement, comedy, archival & interview projects, video & film, zines, protest art, land or ecological art, sound & music, social practice, and whatever else you can think of! Inspired by grassroots storytelling and participatory art making such as Theatre of the Oppressed and Bread & Puppet, NOF hopes this fellowship can be a space for farmworkers to feel empowered and share their embodied knowledge. 

Not Our Farm will compensate each fellow with a $3000 stipend, distributed through staggered payments of $500/month. Stipends will be taxed and fellows will need to complete a W-9. Fellows will be expected to attend two hour meetings twice a month from October 6-March 30 (Mondays at 4pm PT/5pm MT/6pm CT/7pm ET) and the final event + exhibition on Friday evening, April 3. The cohort’s community, friends, and family will be invited to this final virtual performance. Please ensure that you can attend the majority of these dates, at least 10 out of 12 sessions, before applying. Attendance at the final performance is mandatory for completion of the fellowship.

We aim to have a cohort of queer + trans + BIPOC farmworkers from different regions, ages, farming backgrounds, and seasons of experience. Fellowship will be facilitated in English. Final projects can be in any language. The final performance will be simultaneously interpreted and transcribed into Spanish. You can learn more about the 2024 fellows and their projects here!

Full application here

We use “farm employees” and “farmworkers” to refer to individuals who do not have ownership in the farm business that employs and compensates them. This fellowship is for U.S. based farmworkers, including its colonies. 

We recognize that farmworker can be more expansive and nuanced than this definition. If you have questions about whether you are eligible to apply or fellowship questions in general, contact Mallika Singh, NOF Programs Assistant, at mallika@notourfarm.org 

Additionally, if you would prefer to complete this application in the form of a phone call/interview, please reach out by August 4, 2025.