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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 form posted
with a link on this page. 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).
Download a Volunteer Form
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. Laurie Sims is one of these. She 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 (DECDF) Committee
The DECDF and all
associated events (the Survivors dance, fundraisers, our sometimes booth at
the Common Ground Fair, etc.) are planned and managed by a volunteer
committee of . The committee 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 committee 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 committee 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 weren't be there
in 2009, but with sufficient volunteer interest could be back in 2010)? 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 Committee member
or sit in at a future committee 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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