Volunteer

First Night in Fayetteville is a fun, family-friendly celebration for the whole community, but an event of this scale takes a community to pull off! By volunteering just 90 minutes of your time on New Year’s Eve, you’ll be rewarded with undying gratitude and a free First Night Button. It’s a great way to show your support for what First Night in Fayetteville is all about – and save yourself $10 while you’re at it!

For more information about volunteering please contact the volunteer coordinator:
volunteers@firstnightfayetteville.org

Prep & Decoration Volunteers

10 Volunteers needed for 90 minute shifts during the day of December 31. Report to Event Coordinator. You’ll be assisting in the preparation and decoration of the performance sites prior to the beginning of our New Year’s Eve event. Shifts will be from:

• 12:00pm - 1:30pm
• 1:30pm - 3:00pm
• 3:00pm - 4:30pm
• 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Performance Hosts

30 Volunteers needed for 90 minute shifts during the evening of December 31. These volunteers will assist patrons to find seats, take house count at beginning of each performance, hand out programs, provide general information to patrons & collect patron evaluations.

Let us know if you have a preference of stage (blues, jazz, teen, folk, dance or art gallery). Shifts will be from:

• 7:00pm - 8:30pm
• 8:30pm -10:00pm

Imagination Station Assistants

16 volunteers needed for 90 minute shifts during the evening of December 31. Assist patrons with construction of masks, hats, etc. The best volunteers for this area have art or arts/crafts skills and experience working with children. Shifts will be from:

• 6:00pm - 7:30pm
• 7:30pm - 9:00pm
• 9:00pm - 10:30pm

Post-Event Volunteers

10 volunteers needed for the late night shift to help us clean up after the event and take all of our supplies back to our storage space in the mall. All of this work will be indoors, but some heavy lifting will be required.

Puppeteers

For 2010, The Giant Puppet Parade will only be appearing at the Lights of the Ozarks annual lighting ceremony in November. Volunteers that have helped as puppeteers on December 31 in the past are encouraged to volunteer in other areas listed above.