Wanna help? We have room for folks to join the fun. Doesn’t have to be every show, but it can be. We’d sure like it if you did! We know time ain’t hay… we’re volunteers too. All of us.
(In addition to show-day stuff, we have a work-from-home thing on the plate too if you’ve got a little computer and cataloging skills.)
Everything happens in one room, so you won’t be stuck out in a lobby or anything. Some shows are matinees and some are evenings. Most are on Sundays but not always. Most are folky but not always.
No special experience needed, but if you have some we’ll try to capitalize on it.
There’s a couple different volunteer tracks, a basic one and a technical one.
The basic one is basic stuff — room setup & teardown including setting up chairs and taking them down again, giving the floor a sweep or the stage a vacuum, giving things a wipe, snack setups, signage, working door, chatting with attendees before and after the show (this may seem trivial but it’s really important — if you’re naturally chatty, this is right up your alley), a hundred little needfuls and niceties. Come in an hour (or more) early, stay an hour (or more) after. Low stress. Unless time is tight and things are going wrong, then a little stress.
If you wanna get in on helping with the tech stuff, even in a learning capacity, that door is open too! It does carry higher expectations and more time commitment though. It involves handling and fussing with sound reinforcement and lights and cameras; being a stagehand and troubleshooter during the show in case something goes south; etc. Start setup at least three hours before the show, and teardown takes an hour and change after the show finishes. All of it involves some lifting, and the camera stuff requires being on a ladder a bit. If you have an interest but no knowledge or experience, that’s OK! If you DO have some knowledge and experience, we’d be over the moon.
There’s basically one rule for volunteering: Don’t no-show, it really does throw a wrench in things if we’re expecting you and you ghost us.
Email us if you’re into it, stage33@stage33live.com
Oh, and there’s another opportunity for a couple special kinds of geeks: postproduction, mixing the audio and cutting the video. It would have to be on your own equipment and in your own place, since we don’t have a proper production studio. We’d get the files to you, and you’d take it from there. Or if you’re also working in-house, you could bring a drive and take them home. The turnarounds are generally pretty tight, you’d be working faster than is probably comfortable. We use Reaper for audio and Resolve for video, but you can use whatever you’d like.
We do realize what a total long-shot this one is.
