Volunteer Information

The Cygnet Folk Festival needs help to run!

The Cygnet Folk Festival is a non-profit event run by the community for the community.

It is the aim of the organisers to provide fantastic entertainment for the enjoyment of the Cygnet community (which includes anyone who is there on the day, irrespective of where you're from) with ticketed workshops and concerts as many free events as is practical. We rely heavily on volunteers to make this all happen, as our budget simply cannot support paid staff.

THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN HELP US!
Online applications are closed for 2010. You may still be able to help by approaching the volunteer desk at the Festival office over the weekend.

Volunteers
The festival needs around 100 volunteers to make it operate over the course of the weekend. Volunteer jobs are varied - Some are very involved, while others are quite straightforward, some are physical and others are more administrative – in our online booking form, please give us some relevant information so we can choose the tasks and level of commitment that suit you.

Some examples of volunteer jobs are:

• Selling tickets and merchandise at the box office or at the venues
• Dressing up the town, the venues and the park
• Helping to load in gear and set up the venues
• Being on the doors of the concert and workshop venues
• Stage managing individual concerts
• Housing some of the visiting musicians for the weekend
• Transporting interstate performers down from and back to the airport ...and many more....

In the past, the festival's fantastic reputation has rested on our enthusiastic, resourceful, friendly volunteers: some come back to help year after year and their experience and loyalty is inspiring. Others just happen to be coming down to Tassie or down from Hobart and bring new energy, talents and experience from other events. Everyone's contribution is valuable! It is only through the efforts of the volunteers that the festival can continue to run into the future. The festival organisers are all unpaid and all started as volunteers of previous festivals, and they can assure you that being on the ‘inside’ of the weekend’s events is extremely rewarding!

We ask you for 8 hours of work and in return we give our volunteers a weekend pass. We won't stop you helping out for longer than 8 hours if you want to.

If you tell us you would like to do your voluntary hours on the Monday morning after the festival, you are required to buy a ticket and the money will be refunded to you after the clean up.

If you are unable to register online, email us.