Volunteer Positions
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Safety:

Volunteers are responsible for helping to look out for the safety and well-being of ComFest participants, with responsibilities including:

• Helping lost kids and parents find each other.
• Manning (womanning)/Watching the street barricades.
• Enforcing the rules of Comfest & Goodale park, which mainly consist of making sure people are having a good, safe time.
• Roving the streets to give a helping hand.

Police are on the park premises to handle any serious situations.

Cleanup & Recycling

The Cleanup/Recycling committee is responsible for keeping the park and the surrounding area clean.  Volunteers are always needed for this dirty but essential job.  We are responsible for picking up trash, replacing trash and recycling liners, taking trash and recycling to the removal sites and ensuring that the park looks better than it did before the event began.  There are three types of volunteers needed, so we've got something for everyone and always have a great need for volunteers.  KEEP Goodale Park nice & clean AND be an environmentalist also!

Kids' Art Space
Kids' Art Space has activities designed to appeal to a younger crowd.  Kids' Art is situated at the picnic area next to the tennis courts and activities include face painting, tye-dye t-shirts, and other fun.  To volunteer for Kids' Art, go to Volunteer Central during the festival.

Comfest Booth
Volunteers are needed to staff the Comfest Booth, where Comfest merchandise is sold.

Street Fair
All the food booths, organizations and vendors can't set up shop without the assistance and direction of Comfest volunteers. You can help out Thursday evening before Comfest starts, when the street is marked off so booths know where they are to set up. Help is also needed Friday morning, when set-up starts. For the rest of the weekend, volunteers monitor the street fair (walking up and down Goodale and Park), help direct traffic and walk cars to booth spaces. The most crucial time to help with street fair is during tear-down in the evenings from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m.  Sign up for Street Fair tear-down via the web site. 

Entertainment
Entertainment stage crews help load equipment on and off in between sets on the five stages. It's a good idea to be sober, and have careful hands and a sturdy back for this job, because it involves carrying the equipment Comfest musicians use to make a living. Crews are usually recruited before the event, so sign up via the web site if you are interested.

Beer Booth
This is a job for trustworthy folks who understand that Community Festival has survived, in no small part, through its beverage sales. As a cashier, you  check IDs and exchange money for tokens.  As a bartender, you check IDs, take the tokens, pour the beer, check IDs, take the tokens, pour the beer. You understand that any drinks you give away come out of Comfest's pocket, and that although the festival looks huge, it is weather dependent and can struggle to break even. 

You understand that if beer or wine is furnished to a minor or if some violation occurs, you and Comfest could be in deep doo-doo. You take the Comfest oath:  "I Love Community Festival and I want it to be here for my kids and grandkids, (or "my neighbor's kids and grandkids," if you don't have any).  I won't furnish beer to a minor or commit some other beer/wine permit no-no and I won't give away any beer!" Okay, so there's no official Comfest oath, but you get the point.  Who wants to be known as the person who ended the festival by costing us our beer/wine permit?

We provide two identical training sessions on ID checking and other legal matters.  They will be held on Sunday, June 3 from 1-3 PM and Saturday, June 9 from noon to 2 PM.  Both training sessions will be held in the large room at the shelter house at Goodale Park.  The trainings are the same information offered on two different days for the convenience of volunteers.  All beer and wine booth volunteers who have not attended a training in the past three years should make an effort to attend one of the training sessions. 

Wine Booth
Three Wine Booths are located at Comfest and we need volunteers to pour wine, act as cashiers, or open bottles.  These roles can of course be interchanged by agreement between volunteers.  Volunteers should also expect to stash empty bottles, usually in the boxes they came in, for pick-up by the recycling volunteers, and generally keep things organized enough to work smoothly.  Please see the paragraphs under "Beer Booths" on the importance of checking IDs and staying in compliance with laws on alcohol.

Volunteer Central
Volunteer Central coordinates walk-up volunteers to the festival.  These volunteers will help place volunteers into open positions.

Electric
Electric volunteers are needed during festival setup to lay out the cabling and afterward to roll it back up.

Voter Registration
Again for 2006 is an intensive voter registration effort.  E-mail Greg at gregb@comfest.com to help with this initiative.

Food Fairy
We are the ultimate loving volunteers. Our job is to take care of all of the other marvelous volunteers at Comfest. We keep the cold drinks flowing and the snacks and other yummies rolling. People interested in joining should be full of energy, dedicated, and like working with food. People interested should bring their wings, magic fairy dust and a great sense of humor and be prepared to have a wonderful time helping out a lot of amazing people!!!

Signage
On Friday, volunteers will be making last-minute signs on posterboard, distributing signs around the park as needed, and working together to make sure internal groups/bars/stages have the signs they need.  On Sunday, volunteers will be removing Comfest signs of all types, shapes, and sizes from around the park and preparing them for transportation and storage.