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TACA Craft Fair Volunteers
Volunteer at our upcoming TACA Craft Fair in Nashville’s Centennial Park!
TACA needs volunteers who have a positive and friendly way to help us accomplish our work. See if any of the descriptions below seem to fit how you’d like to help and check which day(s) and hours you can volunteer on the application form, which can be found on our website. We find three hour shifts work best, but are grateful for whatever you can give.
 
Volunteer Opportunities with General Descriptions
Leadership role opportunities for volunteer coordinators:
Breakfast Chair: Coordinates the volunteers and oversees the details of the daily breakfast provided for artists, including the purchase, pick-up of food donations, set up, and break down. Budget and volunteer recruitment assistance provided.
1 volunteer needed Thursday through Sunday, 7 – 11 a.m. plus a week prior for planning.
1 volunteer needed beginning September 1
Information Tent Chair: Works with TACA staff to plan and coordinate all other volunteer activities. Use your people skills with our own volunteer group. During the fair this person operates volunteer headquarters, helps with volunteer training, set-up and often steps in to help when emergencies arise. You will be involved with volunteer recruitment and evaluation of the volunteer program. If you are upbeat and ready for anything, TACA needs you!
1 volunteer needed beginning August 1
Exhibitor Check-In Chair: Another organized person adept at directing is needed to run the check-in show. Those on your team provide assistance to exhibitors as they arrive on the park grounds to set-up the day before the show, distributing Welcome Packets to exhibitors and providing answers to frequently asked questions.
1 volunteer needed on Thursday morning beginning at 9:00 a.m., September 22
Parking Chair: A director is needed here to assist with traffic flow during exhibitor check-in and to direct parking throughout the fair.
1 volunteer needed beginning Thursday, September 22, 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.; and Friday through Sunday, 7:30 until 9:30 a.m.
Demonstration Event Chair (for Master Guest Demonstration): Works with TACA staff to plan and coordinate on-site demonstration event Saturday, 10:00 - 3:00 p.m. plus exhibit reception off-site one week prior to fair.
1 volunteer needed beginning September 1
Kids’ Tent Chair: Once TACA staff initiates partnerships with non-profit organizations to provide meaningful arts activities on-site during the three days of the fair, chair is responsible for coordinating and acting as host to the organizations who supply the volunteers.
1 volunteer needed Friday through Sunday, 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
1 volunteer needed beginning September 1
Show up to help for one day or several:
Pre-Show Public Relations Volunteers: If you're energetic and outgoing this is the committee for you. Help in distribution of posters and promotional material for each Craft Fair to local merchants. Lots of running around and meeting new people.
1-3 volunteers needed 3 weeks prior (September 1)
Set-Up of Operations Volunteers: Hard-working volunteers help TACA staff and others prepare the park grounds for the show. Set-up begins as early as four days before opening, and includes everything from staking out the fair layout and gathering supplies from the TACA warehouse, to assisting the day before the show with unloading supplies, painting driving lanes in grassy parking areas, assisting with food vendor set-up, hanging banners and stocking the Info and VIP tents.
2 volunteers needed Monday morning prior to event (September 19)
3 volunteers needed Thursday morning prior to event (September 22)
Check-In Volunteers: Thorough, organized and friendly volunteers are best in this spot. Provide assistance to exhibitors as they arrive on the park grounds between 1 and 7:00 p.m. to set-up, the day before the show. Volunteers distribute Welcome Packets to exhibitors, direct parking, and provide answers to frequently asked questions.
6 volunteers needed on Thursday prior to event (September 22)
Parking Volunteers: We need patient volunteers to help direct exhibitor parking, supervise VIP parking, answer parking-related questions plus make sure parking for exhibitors is done efficiently for maximum capacity. Parking volunteers are especially needed on the day before the show when exhibitors arrive to set up. If your forte is making awkward situations disappear, this is the group for you.
4-6 volunteers needed Thursday from 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
4-6 volunteers needed Thursday 3 – 6 p.m.
Daily News Volunteers: Being awake and friendly are the only requirements to help deliver the morning publication of the TACA Daily News to each exhibitor’s booth. This volunteer opportunity takes place each morning before the show opens, between 8:30 and 10:00 a.m.
1 volunteer needed each morning, Friday – Sunday
VIP Tent Volunteers: Service-oriented volunteers help serve and host exhibitors and VIPs each morning between 8 and 10:00 a.m., under the direction of the Breakfast Chair. Volunteers assist with arranging trays of food, refilling beverages, restocking paper goods, cleaning, as well as running for beverages or ice, and other duties related to exhibitor hospitality.
2 volunteers needed Thursday, 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. for set up
5 volunteers needed Friday, 7:00 – 10:00 a.m.
6 volunteers needed Saturday, 7:00 – 10:00 a.m.
5 volunteers needed Sunday, 7:00 – 10:00 a.m. or 7:00 – noon for break down
Information Tent Volunteers: The volunteers in the Information Tent are the first smiling faces guests will meet, making them Ambassadors for TACA. Under the direction of the Info Tent Chair, these volunteers will man the Info Tent each day during show hours, answer the most frequently asked questions, distribute programs and direct fair patrons around the site for this year’s craft fair. Other opportunities might include anything from handling the recycled containers, selling TACA product, restocking inventory, distributing exhibitor surveys, running errands, to delivering water to exhibiting artists or watering flowers.
2 volunteers needed on Thursday, September 22, between noon – 6 p.m.
6 volunteers needed on Friday, September 23, between 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
8 volunteers needed on Saturday, September 24, between 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
8 volunteers needed on Sunday, September 25, between 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Booth Sitting Volunteers: Just want examine the artworks and talk with people? Relieve craft artists who need to leave their booths for a period of up to 15 minutes. Interested volunteers will receive a hand-out with booth sitting instructions. Peek times to cover include lunch daily and during the demonstration event on Saturday afternoon.
5 volunteers needed at various times on Friday, September 23
6 volunteers needed at various times on Saturday, September 24
6 volunteers needed at various times on Sunday, September 25
Break Down Volunteers: Help pack-up supplies, take down banners, remove signage, and assist with general help where needed. Break down occurs between 4:30 and 8:00 P.M. on the last day of the show and continues on Monday morning. Assistance with break down is one of the most valuable contributions volunteers can provide and is greatly appreciated.
4 volunteers needed Sunday, 4:30 – 8:00 p.m.
2 volunteers needed Monday, 7:00 – 9 a.m.
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