Subscribe with RSSCall for Pestival 2009 volunteers from September 3rd -6th.
Calling all insect workers, educationalists, artists and budding naturalists. We need enthusiastic and sociable people to help out at Pestival 2009 . Reasonable out of pocket expenses paid.
We need explainers, marshals, humpers and all round good eggs!
Pestival 2009 is a rare creature: an international, inter-disciplinary, community-led festival which involves science, art, film and music. Pestival will have a wide appeal (on multiple audience levels) – to the culture-vulture, to families, to schools and to the nature-curious. Pestival seeks to exist to initiate ideas, through a hybrid event entailing both cultural and scientific investigations, which are of both social and ecological significance. It will reconnect people with the insect world by challenging and changing their perceptions.
Do you wish to help revolutionise public understanding of art and the environment and help build awareness of current insect interactions with both the natural world and humankind. Come and take part in a unique event this September by volunteering time and energy. Meet other like minded people and have fun by joining this energetic and innovative community of cutting edge scientists and artists.
Artists and activities include insect ID walks and talks; insect fashion shows with internationally renowned artist in residence Noboru Tsubaki; artist Bob and Roberta Smith’s mobile Brownfield site; insect Comedy with Robin Ince; A termite Pavilion and a insect music with Robyn Hitchcock.
If you would like to volunteer at the event please contact pestivalteam@google.com with VOLUNTEER in the subject and your name and contact details and area of interest in the mail. You can volunteer for a 4 hour day or night shift or for the entire weekend. If you had any other ideas for volunteering just let us know, we’d love to hear form you.
You would have to attend a volunteer training day in August and would be invited to a volunteer meeting in June to get to know each other. Applicants maybe required to be CRB checked. We look forward to meeting you.
Carl and Sandra Sterman writes:
We are both Learning Volunteers at the Natural History Museum. Carl is a Science Volunteer in the Botany Department and Sandra is a Science Volunteer in the Entomology Department and slso works occasionally as a Scince Educator in the Learning Department. We are therefore experienced in interacting with the general public and schools and would love to be explainers at this event.
May 11th, 2009 at 1:58 am