North of Nowhere Expo:
Multidisciplinary Festival of Independent Media & Underground Art
Sept. 16-30, 2005
Various Locations, Edmonton
The North of Nowhere Expo is a non-profit activist-arts
festival which is committed to fostering the awareness of the arts as tools
for positive social change. The Expo will include:
- 8 components to an international anti-war art exhibition consisting of over 350 prints and posters, and 14,000 peace cranes commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings
- an underground comic art exhibition (prints, paintings and comix/zines)
- 5 live music/performance cabarets (3 theme events)
- 30 videoactivist & independent film screenings
- a 2-day small press, fair trade & social justice fair
- D.I.Y. workshops & skillshares
- pre-event promotional tabling & volunteer recruitment (August/September)
- production crew (prepping & installing artwork)
- office administration (data entry, copying, web research)
- postering & signage creation & placement/distribution
- front-of-house (taking tickets & providing guest information)
- special event set-up (environmental design & decorating)
- bartenders & servers (receptions, film screenings & live music cabarets)
- hosts/hostesses for theme events (exhibitionist/theatre background an asset)
- media & publicity (drafting & sending releases, liasing between expo producers & media)
- pre-recruitment of new board members (appointments in November; 12-month commitment req'd)
This is an excellent opportunity to gain practical work-experience in a
fun, creative and exciting social environment. All
NoN Expo volunteers will receive full-access passes to all events, hospitality
& other perks, and be honoured at a volunteer-wrap party on Sept. 30.
Previous experience is an asset, but not required.
All orientation meetings will be held in Room #9,
6th Floor, at the Stanley A. Milner Library in downtown Edmonton (7 Sir
Winston Churchill Square) on the following dates:
Wed., Aug. 31: 3pm & 7pm - Specifically pre-event
admin & production volunteers
Wed., Sept. 7 & 14: 3pm & 7pm - Specifically publicity admin & front-of-house/event
volunteers
* IMPORTANT: PLEASE R.S.V.P. IF YOU PLAN ON ATTENDING
ONE OF THE ABOVE SCHEDULED ORIENTATIONS. We do not recommend you
just show up without letting us know in advance (in the case of schedule
changes, etc.)
Anyone who is interested in being a part of this exciting festival should
contact:
Owen Melsness, Volunteer Coordinator,
NoNexpo_vol@shaw.ca or (780) 413-0215
(leave message & phone #)
Alternate #: 434-9236
Download our VOLUNTEER FORM here
See a list of NoN volunteers under the Sponsors
& Credits page
