New Yorkers for Culture & Arts seeks 10+ volunteers for The Future of NYC Culture and Arts: A conversation with New York City Council Speaker Candidates at SVA Theatre on November 28, 2017.

About the Forum: One of NY4CA’s immediate goals will be to sponsor a culture and arts Candidates Forum, focusing on the upcoming selection of a new City Council Speaker. The event will help to underscore the Speaker’s role in prioritizing and advancing legislation and public policy in our City.

With the title, “A conversation with Speaker candidates on the value and impact of NYC's Arts and Culture Sector,” the Forum will include discussion of the sector’s impact on the city’s economy and educational system, its value to community identity, livability, and development, and its importance to cutting-edge science and conservation efforts. Through this Forum, NY4CA will build on the past success of One Percent for Culture’s 2013 Mayoral Forum and the many candidate breakfasts by the NYC Arts Coalition during its 30 years as an arts advocacy organization.

Volunteers are needed between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m (shifts below). Anyone interested in volunteering should please contact Roberto Ragone at 917-923-4765 or Roberto.Ragone@gmail.com. Below are potential tasks for each shift. Please note that volunteers may be asked to do a task other than the one requested.

5:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.:
-Two volunteers to do scanned check-in of RSVP ticket holders on smart devices (who have tickets on paper or smartphone)

-One or two volunteers with printed out Eventbrite lists checking names of people who said they registered with Eventbrite but cannot produce their ticket on paper or screen (these volunteers are standing near the "scanning volunteers" or at nearby table)

-Two volunteers to walk along the "waiting list line" (of people who did not RSVP or whose name we could not find on the list) to collect names and email addresses so these folks can be reached about NY4CA in the future

-Two volunteers to help distribute NY4CA marketing information to people who have checked in as they are directed into the auditorium (These volunteers would be interacting with attendees who don't walk over to the NY4CA table.)

-One volunteer to help distribute NY4CA marketing information to people who are on the "waiting list line" (proceeding before/after the people with the clipboards taking down contact information)

-One or two volunteers at the NY4CA table to answer questions, who will also help SVA prep the lobby

-One or two volunteers to greet and direct NY4CA Board Members to reserved seats - These same volunteers would also greet and direct the people who are invited to sit in the reserved section to ask pre-selected questions when called upon by the moderator

6:15 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.:
-Two volunteers within the auditorium to direct people towards empty seats

6:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.:
-Two volunteers to welcome candidates and their staff and escort them to the Green Room and bring them to the auditorium when it is their turn to speak

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.:
-One volunteer to help to keep time so that each Speaker Candidate is timed to speak for only 15 minutes