Wednesday night, March 9th
6pm-8pm

Gather at the Goddess Festival venue
Spring Creek Centre, 637 East Joyce Avenue, Fayetteville
(in front of Home Depot and right beside CiCi’s Pizza)

Meal Provided:
We will be serving take-out pizza from CiCi’s, and providing salad, drinks and dessert for everyone.

Join us and receive your Goddess Festival 2011 Volunteer Appreciation gift!

The Goddess Festival is produced entirely through the efforts of our volunteers. The Producers Circle is blessed to have dedicated people – - with a variety of professional skills – - working to bring this event to life each year. We invite you to be a part of this magical process.

We need the contribution of your time, talent, resources, energy, and ideas to ensure the future of this amazing annual gathering. Together we can continue to offer our community a space, a forum, an opportunity to celebrate the Divine Feminine in all creation – - and dare to hope for spiritual wholeness in the world.

We need help in the following areas:

1. Front Desk Sales and Information—These folk will be trained to run the cash register; take art sales; sell t-shirts and other festival products, etc. They will handle door entry fees for paid events. These volunteers will handle general festival questions. The info desk is the go-to place for just about all things festival. First aid box will be kept here as well as general office materials.

2. Ambassadors— These are docent type welcoming and information persons that will be floating around the venue to ‘meet and greet’ and answer questions. Outgoing, gracious, welcoming, they are the connective tissue that personally invites involvement and exploration of the festival for each person that comes through the door.

3. Facility Assistants— These volunteers help with the set-up and break-down of chairs and tables; special event programs; setting up audio visual equipment; hauling equipment; keeping track of supplies and equipment; custodial tasks; and the break-down of the festival at the end.

4. Hospitality and Receptions — These volunteers will help set up and maintain concession sales; help with scheduled receptions; collect food donations; do related shopping; and keep Hospitality Coffee Center cabinet running, stocked, and clean.

5. Work Shop Assistants—These are weekend and weeknight helpers trained to meet and greet workshop participants; introduce the workshop presenter; collect workshop fees if needed; record headcount of workshop participants; assist in securing presenter’s needs and/or requests.

6. Videographer and Photographer — We need someone to be at all scheduled performance events to take video, and someone to take candid and posed pictures throughout the festival.

7. Art Show Hanging and Maintenance — This volunteer team is fully staffed and trained. No further help is needed at this time. Let us know if you have interest here and we will contact you for future involvement.

You’ll be seeing more of our theme soon, as part of the CD packaging, posters and on the website.

Don’t put it off, visit our Submissions page now for consideration.

If you know any poets who would like to be in a Goddess Festival chatbook, tell them the deadline is January 20th.

Do you know of a good venue for the Festival this year? Contact anyone on the Producer’s Circle (or just use the contact form on the website) with addresses and we will follow up.

We’re taking submissions for the 2011 Festival so spread the word! The music, poetry and performance deadlines have been extended to January 20, while art and workshops start deadlining January 10. Vendor submissions deadline January 31. Poetry submissions will either become part of our website or a special edition Festival booklet, depending on how many submissions we get, so if you have goddess poetry, send it to us!

We need volunteers, for the festival itself and leading up to it! Visit the site to sign up. If you’re interested in posting flyers or otherwise working with the Publicity team, we have immediate use for you.

Can’t post flyers but still want to help?  If you know anyone who wants to submit to The Goddess Festival, send them by the website.

1. Someone to write and distribute press releases to newspapers, TV and other media. This will become increasingly important the closer we get. We’ll happily let you know when we need one and about what, you send it to us for a good look so we make sure we didn’t forget anything, and then keep us informed about who’s gotten it and who’s using it.

2. Someone who has good media contacts would be invaluable.

3. Someone to collect good informational links related to the goddess, restoring the balance and our themes so we can expand our education section.

4. Many people willing to tweet our updates, share our updates on Facebook, etc.

We’re also open to other types of volunteers and may have more specific ideas later. So if you’re good at any facet of publicity and are available and willing to commit to any amount of time for the Festival, email Christy Lindsay at christy [at] tribaldancer.com.