The Ottawa Fringe Festival needs YOU!
The Ottawa Fringe Festival is less than a month away.
With 65 different shows at 16 different venues over ten days (June 17–27), it promises to be the biggest, most ambitious Fringe that Ottawa has ever seen. The theatre community is in overdrive.
Performers are rehearsing and perfecting their shows. Playwrights are making last-minute changes to scripts. Stage managers are sourcing props. Set designers are painting, sawing, stapling, and gluing. The Fringe staff are working long hours in the office (dubbed “the kitchen” in keeping with this year’s Fringe Feast theme) proofing the Festival brochure and making things work behind the scenes. Families are preparing to host out-of-town performers in their homes. Theatre reviewers are sharpening their pencils.
You’d like to be part of that, right?
Louisa and Julie from the Ottawa Fringe Festival Volunteer Co-ordination Team invite you to volunteer with the Ottawa Fringe Festival. As someone who spent last summer volunteering for the Fringe, I strongly suggest that you take them up on the offer.
Two happy Ottawa Fringe Festival volunteers. This could be you!
Each volunteer gets:
- A lovely Fringe t-shirt;
- Free admission to one Fringe performance for each volunteer shift worked;
- To meet interesting people and have tons of fun!
I still regularly wear my Fringe volunteer shirt with pride. The free admissions let me see shows I wouldn’t otherwise have had the chance to see (like the fabulous Pitch Blonde). As for meeting people, I met other volunteers, local performers, performers visiting from across Canada, the US, and from the UK, and plenty of local media. It was an immensely rewarding experience. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Sign up to volunteer by visiting the Ottawa Fringe website or e-mailing volunteer@ottawafringe.com.
Tell them OttawaTonite sent you.
Andrew Snowdon is busily sharpening his pencil in preparation for a tight review schedule, but may take a few volunteer shifts too.
Tags: festivals, Fringe, Ottawa Fringe Festival, Theatre, volunteer
