My roles leading up to and during the Viva la gong festival were extremely varied. Over the course of three days (during, and two days prior to the event) I was given 4 official roles and one small minor role, but was expected to fill in and help out wherever and whenever needed during the day.
My official roles were: Promotional distribution, Greenroom management, Bump in/out crew and Assisting stage manager.
Promotional distribution was handled at the community booth with Karen the Volunteer co-ordinator, in the Crown street mall. My Job as a volunteer was to help set up the booth (pinning the flyers, postcards and programs around the notice board and desk). After convincing all the smaller shops to let us leave the material in or near their shops, we worked in format to cover the busiest parts of the outside mall in a mostly vain attempt to convince the general population that they should be attending the festival. Interpersonal skills as well as an iron will were esstential aptitudes during this two day marketing phase. Getting and holding the attention of uninterested people was quite a difficult task, and it almost felt like we were trying to sell them the idea of going to the festival.
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