Community organization booths at the 2024 Skeleton Park Arts Festival
Community Booths: June 22 and 23, 2024
Deadline to Apply: April 19 2024, 5pm
The Skeleton Park Arts Festival offers space for community groups to set up a table in McBurney Park during the festival.
The cost of a community service booth is free, but you must meet our Acceptance Guidelines below.
APPLY: Submit your Application here
Acceptance Guidelines
In accordance with the purpose and policy, the Festival only allows groups who:
- Are not for profit, charitable, or otherwise not a money making corporate entity.
- Are not a political party or religious organization
- Are appropriate for the diverse audience and age range of the festival goers, especially children.
We have a small committee who decides if a group is appropriate for the Festival (ie, meets the above guidelines). We reserve the right to refuse an application that does not align with the Festival mandate or the spirit of the McBurney Park Neighbourhood Association mandate.
Participant Responsibilities
Physical Space:
Community groups are asked to provide their own tables, chairs and tent (strongly recommended).
Ten foot spaces for each group will be clearly marked at McBurney Park. Please take only the space allotted to you, or Festival organizers will have to ask you to move. Groups are asked to keep their displays contained to the area provided for them, so please don’t stick up flyers or posters or flags etc. in other places in the Park on the day of the Festival.
Please pay attention to the weather and adjust materials/activities accordingly (ie: if it is windy, bring weights for poster stacks to keep them from flying away; if it is sunny and you are not bringing a tent, bring an umbrella to shade yourself)
We ask that your group can have the table staffed from 10am until 5pm on Saturday and/or Sunday, so folks have someone to talk to. Set up begins at 9am each day.
The Festival is not responsible for the goods and materials you bring into the park with you. Your booth and its contents are your responsibility.
Materials and Activities:
While at the Festival, community groups are NOT allowed to solicit funds in any way, whether through donations or sales. Additionally, community groups are NOT allowed to have a draw, raffle, or any other kind of gift-giving activity (including food). We can make allowances for some small goods, such as promotional stickers or pens. Please include these in your application for approval.
If you have any special programming or workshop activities planned for your space please include an outline of these in your application. We want to ensure that any community service programming does not conflict with other Festival programming.
Community groups are encouraged to provide leaflets and informational flyers for people to take if they desire: aggressive flyering or leaflet giving will be stopped by festival organizers, and the group will be asked to leave. Groups are also welcome to collect contact information of interested festival goers.
Please keep your display appropriate to the diversity of Festival goers, especially children. Displays that offend or seem intended to create conflict will be removed by the Festival organizers, and the group may be asked to leave. Think “making new friends,” and work from there.
Please note that the Festival reserves space for our sponsors which are in a different category than the community service info booths. These sponsor booths may not comply with the above policy. For more information about sponsors, see About Us.
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