Out of your very first pageant expertise, you’ll shortly notice that the festival-goers are the pageant. This truth proves itself most true when taking part in a piece alternate program.
Work alternate implies that you provide your time earlier than, throughout, or after a pageant in alternate for a ticket/wristband. Having the ability to see behind the scenes and the way the magic is constructed is a large piece of what has made me really feel so related to the pageant neighborhood through the years. Let me inform you how!
The primary time I participated in a piece alternate program was at Lightning in a Bottle in 2017. The grounds the place they have been constructing the pageant have been solely a forty five minute drive from the place I used to be dwelling on the time, so I signed up to work in the commissary to feed those building the festival in the months prior.
I anticipated to indicate up and work. I didn’t count on to indicate up and discover myself totally immersed in what it meant to create one thing particular for 1000’s of individuals. Over the subsequent month and a half, I labored 5 6-hour shifts and spent my Saturdays cooking, consuming, making pals, and laughing from morning till night.
When the time got here to lastly attend Lightning in a Bottle, I remember sneaking off from time to time to meet up with my new family within the commissary. Between having fun with dwelling cooked meals to sleeping in a pal’s air conditioned tent when it was too scorching for consolation, the perks of being part of that group simply saved coming.
One evening, we even all met within the commissary to have some drinks earlier than going collectively to look at the headliner on the major stage. I can actually say these recollections are among the greatest recollections I’ve at a pageant—they usually all occurred inside the cozy blanket that is work alternate.
The second time I did work alternate at a pageant was at Dirtybird.
I used to be stationed with the Misplaced & Discovered division for this occasion and it was past enjoyable and so rewarding. You wouldn’t consider the issues folks lose or flip in! It was so cool shadowing the Volunteer Coordinator and seeing firsthand what it meant to run a pageant behind the scenes. Boundaries are damaged on this means. Working alongside those that have been doing this for years in addition to others who’re equally wide-eyed and recent to work alternate.
Out in the true world, I write for a dwelling. So it wasn’t too far-fetched for me to affix the Lucidity Work Change program as a weblog author this yr. Over the previous few months, I’ve beloved having the ability to contemplate the issues that make music festivals particular to me, and share them with the world. Having the ability to faucet into my creativity and keenness to speak about one thing I like (festivals) to be able to do one thing I like (go to a pageant!) simply made means an excessive amount of sense.
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I’m so excited to affix the remainder of the weblog writers and Dream Maker Team at Lucidity and really feel that deep sense of neighborhood once more, realizing that we constructed all this collectively.
Attending a pageant is wonderful, however realizing that you just helped create the expertise for others is completely outstanding. So subsequent time you get the pageant itch, make an effort to see how one can contribute. You may be shocked by the great issues that come your means due to it!
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