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Community Festival

June 26-28, 2026

Volunteer

Volunteer sign-ups are now open!

Participate in ComFest year-round by attending a General Planning Committee meeting or joining a committee.

VOLUNTEER NOW
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Behold, the power behind ComFest – YOU!

ComFest is an entirely volunteer run festival, which means we literally couldn’t pull this off without each and every volunteer. Energetic, friendly volunteers are needed all over for a variety of jobs. We have roughly 3,000 volunteer shifts to fill each year, so there’s plenty of room for you to join the ComFest family!

What do you get when you volunteer? 

You get that year's ComFest t-shirt - in fact, it's the only way to get one.
You also get volunteer chips.

Each volunteer chip can be used for any of the following:

  • Any ComFest Libation (from the faster Volunteers line!)
  • $5 towards ComFest Merch
  • $4 towards food vendors
  • Entry to the Silent Disco

Want to volunteer, but not sure where? Read about just a few of the many different volunteer roles we have available at the festival to see where would be the best fit.

Click on the Volunteer Now button when you're ready to sign up! More detailed information on your volunteer duties can be found on the volunteer application.

Cleanup & Recycling Volunteer

Explore the festival and help care for the park by collecting recycling and trash.

Committees: Cleanup & Recycling

Video: Training

Roving Safety Ambassador

Tour your designated area looking to help fellow ComFesters in need. You'll coordinate between the Safety base station and ComFesters to make sure we all have a safe and happy ComFest.

Committee: Safety

Click HERE for Training information

Bartender

Serve drinks to fellow ComFesters after checking their ID!

Committee: Libations

Training Videos:

  • How to Pour a Drink
  • How to Check IDs

Barricade Volunteer

Enjoy a shady seat under an umbrella at the main barricades. You'll assist cars with the proper access and remind your fellow ComFesters don't take open containers out of the festival.

Committee: Safety

Bar Cashier

Help your fellow ComFesters turn money into ComFest drink chips and souvenir mugs.

Committee: Libations

Merch-In-Teer

Help your fellow ComFesters get their unique ComFest Swag at one of our booths.  You'll also help provide festival directions and general information so they can have even more fun at ComFest!.

Committee: ComFest Merch Booth

Stage Crew

Want to help the stages work like well-oiled machines? This role will have you helping move gear for performers and working the back-stage areas.

Committees: Entertainment, Peace & Healing

Program Distribution Volunteer

Give your fellow ComFesters the official program guide as they pass through the park.

Committees: Program

First Aid Assistant

Use your caring nature and first aid skills to help your fellow ComFesters, with the support of our EMTs when needed.

Committee: First Aid

Site Operations Volunteer

Help keep ComFest running! You'll work with the nuts and bolts of the festival site - fencing, golf carts, and water and ice distribution.

Committee: Logistics

Voter Registration Advocate

Spend time on the Street Fair registering your fellow ComFesters to vote!

Committee: Voter Registration

Electrical Assistant

Help our electrical experts lay out and clean up all of the electrical wiring for the festival.

Committees: Electrical

ComFest Docent

Share your deep familiarity with ComFest and its history with your fellow ComFesters, helping them learn our roots.

Committees: Archives

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Happy ComFest!

Welcome to Community Festival 2026! For 54 years, ComFest has been the progressive heartbeat of Columbus and central Ohio.

ComFest is a free event, powered by Community and sustained without corporate sponsors. Featuring the very best local music, progressive political activism and community organizing, local artisans and craftspeople and your favorite summer foods, ComFest brings the community together.

ComFest has nurtured the Columbus arts and entertainment scene, nourished small businesses, energized generations of community activists, and positioned progressive ideals front and center in our growing city.

The costs to put on this extraordinary event increase every year. Whether its permits, safety and security, trash and recycling supplies, stages and sound equipment, libations or any number of expenses, the costs of putting on this free and all volunteer weekend continue to outrun the revenues.

We’d like to take a moment to ask you to consider supporting ComFest financially. Now more than ever, this unique and vital event must be here for the next generation of ComFesters and your support can ensure the legacy begun 54 years ago lives on.

Thank you for being here: For volunteering, for supporting local music, for purchasing ComFest beverages, for shopping at Street Fair, and for signing up to protect the principles and values we all stand and fight for.

Please click here to keep the “Party with a Purpose” going strong.
Have a great ComFest.