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Helping Out

We rely heavily on people like you to make this festival happen! There are many ways for you to help out both during and in preparation for the festival, whether it be helping clean up after meals, taking out the garbage or helping pay for a musician's ferry ticket. If you want to sign up to help in any of the ways below (or you have your own idea) just let us know on your registration form! We appreciate it! A little help goes a long way!

During the Festival

Setting Up:
   We'll be setting up tents, tables, chairs, booths and sound equipment for the festival on Wednesday July 24th and Thursday, July 25th. Come early and move picnic tables, clean off chairs and raise tents with us!

Preparing for the Catered Dinners:
     We haven't found anyone to replace our caterer so we have decided to divide up the work with as many people as possible. We plan to have a sandwich bar and a burrito bar like last year. We would buy the ingredients and have you chop/slice/grate one of the ingredients or make brownies or be in charge of a drink etc.

Hosting a Musician:
     Have a spare bedroom? We are looking for people who would be willing to let a musician crash at their home during the festival!

Garbage Duty:
   Garbage and recycling bins will need to be emptied periodically during the festival. If you want to help out with garbage duty, you'll just need to tie up the garbage bags, carry them to a dump truck on-site where they'll be stored, and place an empty bag back in the bin. Just sign up for one of the following times:
   After Breakfast Saturday and Sunday
   After Lunch Friday and Saturday
   After Dinner Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Dinner Set Up:
    Help set out food, plates, silverware and drinks before the catered dinners on either Friday or Saturday.

Dinner Clean Up:
   After dinner on Friday and Saturday, you can help by packing up the food, wiping down tables, and picking up any loose garbage.

Selling CDs:
    Artists will be bringing their CDs to the festival to sell. We'll need people to sell CDs in the CD booth both Friday and Saturday. You can sign up for one of the following slots:
    Friday from 12-2pm, from 2-4pm, from 4-6pm, from 6-8pm,
         from 8-10pm, or from 10pm on
    Saturday from 12-2pm, from 2-4pm, from 4-6pm, from 6-8pm,
         from 8-10pm, or  from 10pm on

Pancake Breakfast:
    You can help out with the potluck pancake breakfast on Saturday morning by:
   Making coffee, tea, cocoa and juice
   General organization of toppings and cleaning up the area

Waffle Breakfast:
    You can help out with the potluck waffle breakfast on Sunday morning by:
    Making coffee, tea, cocoa and juice
    Mixing up waffle batter
    Cooking waffles
    General organization of toppings and cleaning up the area

Take-Down:
     We'll be taking down the festival tents and packing up the picnic tables on Monday, July 29th. Help us put away tents and booths, organize the lost and found, pick up trash, stack picnic tables and set aside chairs.

Ahead of Time

Donate Frequent Flyer Miles
   Have some spare frequent flyer miles? Let us know and you can donate them in order to provide a musician with an airline ticket to the festival.

Sponsor-A-Ticket
   Even if you don't have frequent flyer miles, you can still "Sponsor-a-ticket" for a musician. Donate a few bucks to get one lucky musician to Shaw island . . . nearly there!. . . just a bit more cash will get them all the way to Orcas!
If you're itching to do more, you might want to consider our second ticket option - Sponsor-an-Airline-Ticket. Our current package deal includes the opportunity to sponsor not only the airfare, but a delicious and nutritious airline meal for the performer as well! Contact us now for more details!

Donate Craft Supplies
  A few wonderful "craft ladies" have graciously donated not only their time, but a great deal of art supplies each year so that the Woodsong Festival can offer a craft tent free for anyone to use. You can participate in this by donating any spare craft supplies you might have! Be aware that small children may be present, so avoid dangerous supplies, and no paint please!  A few specific things they're looking for this year are:
   Small items to decorate picture frames (eg. plastic gems,
             feathers, sea-shells, old game board pieces etc)
   Packages of low-temp-mini glue-sticks for the hot glue-guns

Sponsor-a-Port-a-Potty
    The classiest way to get involved is undoubtedly by
Sponsoring-a-Port-a-Potty. For only $100, you can sponsor (and name!) a Port-a-Potty for the festival weekend. (If you want, we can take a picture of it for you to put on your refrigerator back home).  

Festival Questions?
     Contact Burke or Barbara Thomas:
          (360) 376-3424  
          (360) 376-2926   (to leave a message)
          or send an e-mail to:
          thomas7@interisland.net

Website questions, comments or suggestions?
     Contact Carissa Thomas:
          CThomas@agape.twu.ca