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Volunteers:
Yep! That's what this
festival runs on.
Volunteering
at the Festival
Dozens of dance and music
lovers help the Festival run by volunteering to help with the many
tasks that need to be done during the weekend of the Fest. Many of
our daytime Festival performers also volunteer their talents instead
of sharing in the proceeds.
Volunteers who want to
work at the Festival may sign up beginning in February. When it's
time to sign up, there will be a downloadable sign-up forms here.
Meanwhile, scan this page for lots of ways you might be able to help
and be involved.
Three hours
volunteer time during the Festival weekend gets you free admission
to Friday and Saturday festival events (Survivors' Dance not included).
Super Volunteers
The Festival is fortunate
to have some "Super Volunteers", that is volunteers who
do a great deal of work beyond just the festival weeekend, but are
not on the Board. These include Jeff Zabik, a former Board member
who still managers housing for dancers and performers, and Laurie
Sims who has done a lot of computer work and general helping out with
just about anything we ask her to. Several current members of the
Board were Super Volunteers before they become Board Members.
The DownEast
Country Dance Festival Association (DECDFA) Board
The DECDF and all
associated events (the Survivors dance, fundraisers, our booth at
the Common Ground Fair, etc.) are planned and managed by a volunteer
board. The board meets approximately monthly for planning sessions,
and, along with some other volunteers, does the work associated with
running the Festival between meetings. Meetings are collaborative,
including discussions of ideas and proposals and delegation of work
to be done. Typically we meet in Board members' homes or free public
meeting space and meeting dates are set as much as possible to accommodate
members' already busy calendars (none of our Board members have a
shortage of other activity in their lives!).
Other Ways
to Help Make it Happen
If you are interested
in helping to accomplish the work of making our festival a success
and helping it run better and smoother please contact us! You might
have an idea we can use, or we might have a task you can help with
during the year. Special computer skills? Publicity skills or experience?
Bake Sale talent? Willingness to distribute fliers/t-shirts/other
Festival items at dances and events? Want to help out at our booth
at the Common Ground Fair (we won't be there
in 2007, but hope to be again in 2008)? Something else you'd like
to offer? If you'd like to help, even if you don't know what you might
want to do, you can talk with a Board member
or sit in at a future board meeting.
You can also support
the festival by buying and wearing a festival t-shirt
(available at the festival and sometimes at local dances in Maine
during the month preceding the festival).
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