Volunteer at the Festival

Beloved,

We are really happy to invite you as a full volunteer for the East Coast Tantra Festival 2023. The festival will take place from the 6th-10th September, 2023 at the Camp Timber Trails, Tolland, MA Western Mass.

The Volunteer days are 3rd – 8th September, 2024.

• A Discounted Ticket.
• A $25 referral commission on each ticket that uses your promotional code, which we will give to you upon request.
• Full participation in the festival. While taking on your volunteer tasks is a priority.

• You will be there on the 3rd in the evening for the startup meeting.
• Stay at the end until everything is cleaned up.
• Be prompt responsible authentic and use good communication skills.
• Be self-reliant and able to ask for more instruction if needed
• Be a good example and support festival core values.
• I work in meditation service each day for approximately 4 hours at your team leaders discretion and assignment creating and securing a beautiful festival area with easeful flow, grace and some sweet sweat.
• Becoming an Ambassador of the festival:
  • Share and promote the festival on social media, invite 200+ people to the FB event, and post at least twice on your own wall that you are going including a link to the FB event.
  • People get 10% off coming through you, and you get $25 for each referral.
• Payment for food and accommodations by purchasing your volunteer ticket promptly.

These are the areas of service. Specific roles within these areas will be presented and assigned as we come together onsite as a team. You will select a primary and secondary team in the application that follows this information page.

Kitchen:

This is the team of heroes! The kitchen is the heart of the whole festival. This is the most important team, without food, nothing will work. All other functions can be done on-the-fly but not the kitchen, it needs a team of dedicated heroes. With our awesome chef the kitchen is a workshop in itself, rocking it (literally) the whole day.

• • food preparation, chopping veggies etc
  • serving food, preparing or cleaning the dining area
  • logistics for the dishing station
  • your service time each day are in special shifts supporting the cook for each meal

Physical space keeping:

This team is feeling us organized and taken care of. They are the muscle of the festival. It is the force behind the scene that provides the foundation of our sacred container.

• • Arrive early by 12 PM on September 5 to assist with setting up the venue physical space keepers are expected to arrive early to help with set up an accommodation of cabins communal spaces and prepare the physical festival space.
  • preparing, cleaning & clearing (energy and matter) spaces
  • setting up group rooms for workshops (mattresses, pillows, musician setup, sound support)
  • keeping common areas in buildings clean, like entrances, showers and bathrooms
  • your service time each day is spread out and can mostly be handled during break times
  • physical space keepers must be punctual and self-motivated

Registration & Information:

This team welcomes our festival-goers and keeps them informed about all the opportunities and procedures at the festival. If you connect easily with new people and are able to give clear and decisive instructions (including saying No!) then maybe this is for you.

• • welcoming arrivals, checking them in and give instruction on accommodation and parking (early arrival by 2 PM on September 5 expected.)
  • keeping up on the schedule and answering questions
  • must have basic computer skills ( Google sheets, word processing, printing, website navigation for purchasing tickets etc.)
  • this team requires long hours on arrival days and staffs the info desk during breaks

Love Angel/Assistant: 

This team is responsible for Emotional support and assisting workshops. You should have some experience in this area and be familiar with Tantra to apply and it is a special recruitment team and you will need approval from Organizers.

Our festival team values ease in communication, integrity, authenticity and the ability to be on time. We do expect you to be a great team player and to handle any personal growth work that comes up in a self-reliant way while also completing any tasks that are assigned to you. We do have a schedule and a specific roster of tasks and… we do expect the unexpected and trust that you will pitch in and handle the unexpected with us as a family which is what you are joining.

We are looking forward to creating and celebrating with you!

Thank you for stepping in and for your resounding Yes to joining our East Coast Tantra family.!

If you like to come as a volunteer please fill in our Volunteer Application. Once we receive it we will email you with further instructions including how to pay for the food and accommodation.

Much love,

Becky Gedutis & Andrea Czobor, Festival Manager & Coordinator