United Helpers Teaming Up With Local Living Venture for Local Living Festival in September

United Helpers is excited to be teaming up with the Local Living Venture in putting on a September Local Living Festival.

We will be getting  more information out  in the upcoming months and we would appreciate your support.

 

If you have  interest in helping out in any way or would like further information, please contact your site Sustainability representative, or one of the following organizational Sustainability team Members.

 

United Helpers staff are welcome participants in making this community festival happen.

Mark your Calendars:

Local Living Festival
~ A Celebration of Resourceful Living Skills ~
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Downtown Canton, NY in the Village Green

There are three ways for people to be involved in the Spring and early Summer. We will have a new set of things come up mid-summer, so if there's absolutely no way you can be involved in any of these activities NOW, rest assure, we'll be in touch later.

The first one is something every one of us should be doing for the festival all the time, really - it's just being a good networker and sharing this idea with organizations, businesses, and people you know.

Help Enlist "Community Partners"
First, there's two levels of recruitment: 

1)  As part of our daily lives we all run across groups or people who are doing good things in the community.  When you do, please send their info to the Organizing Committee at locallivingfestival@gmail.com / (315) 347 4223. Even if you never say a word to them, letting us know who they are is important.

If you do feel comfortable to speak with them about being a community partner, please do.  Feel free to share our email and phone number with them if they have questions you aren't sure about, but be sure we know about them as well please. As much detail (contact person, email, phone) as possible is helpful if you can get it, or just the names and we'll research them.

2)  If you sign on to be a recruiter, we will provide you with some tools to do a good job. This is for someone who is outgoing and a bit of a salesperson or marketer at heart. This would mean that you are taking some names off of those lists of potential community partners that we are compiling and follow up, asking them to sign on in some small or large way, taking part in making this community festival happen.

The list of Theme Tracks for the festival, that community partners would have to choose from, is at the end of this email for your convenience.  As groups (or individuals) take on a part or all of a theme, we'll add them to the main Festival webpage.

There is more detail about what it actually means to be a community partner (benefits, responsibilities, and acknowledgements) at our webpage HERE(www.locallivingventure.org/content/local-living-festival) - please scroll down to the second half of the page (or later there will just be an obvious link to "community partners", when we have more content on the page.)


Outreach Booths
Your time is helpful in staffing booths at local festivals, helping to promote the Local Living Festival.
You will talk up the festival with folks passing by the booth at various events, so this is a good one for you friendly types.  In-booth "training" provided (really, it's not that hard!) and you will have 100% back-up from experienced festival organizers.

Please see the schedule HERE (www.locallivingventure.org/content/llv-outreach-booths). Please note that we have not yet verified a new event for us, the Seaway Valley Festival in July.

Reply to locallivingfestival@gmail.com / (315) 347 4223 with your:

• Contact information (including cell phone if applicable)
• Name of the event
• Day(s) and time(s) you can commit to. 

Please keep in mind there are also set up and break down times (at most an hour before and after) not included at the website! Thank You!


Join or Organize a Festival Committee
The committees listed below need to form at this time in order to accomplish our festival goals. Different committees will come up later, but for now these are important.

All committees will have an experienced festival organizer on board, but we seek leaders who can take on the tasks, as well as worker bees to make sure things go smoothly.

SPRING
Speaker/Workshop (oversee CP's, decide which areas need supplementing by the committee)
Featured speaker (if possible, not necessary)
Fundraising - Priority
Exhibitors (oversee processing of exhibitors)
PR committee (covered)
Home Tours (likely held one week later on Oct. 3)
Food vendors
Farmer’s market
Children’s activities
Audio / Visual
Zero Waste

Perhaps the most important of these NOW is the fundraising effort - we are developing a list of potential sponsors (businesses, organizations, civic-minded donors) and need your ideas of who we should add to the list.

If you are comfortable to approach potential funders on our behalf, all the better. If not, please just share their information with us to follow-up. As with the community partners enrollment, as much detail (contact person, email, phone) as possible is helpful if you can get it, or just send us the names and we'll research them. locallivingfestival@gmail.com / (315) 347 4223

More committees will come as we get closer:

SUMMER
Admissions 

Buildings & Grounds (incl tables and chairs)
Parking
Signage (make, disburse, retrieve)
Exhibitor Assistance (move in and move out)
Speakers Set Up (PP equipment, drinking water, evaluations, etc. in place)

continuation of the Spring committees

FESTIVAL THEME TRACKS

    Food - Cook * Eat * Preserve * Dietary
    Transportation
    Gardening
    Farming
    Hunting & Fishing
    Forestry / Woodlot
    Health & Wellness
    Healthy Hearth (wood heat)
    Green Building
    Living Simply
    Animals / Milk, Meat and Fiber
    Dirty Work (bio-diesel, tractor repair, bike maintenance, etc.)
    Lost Arts / Forgotten Skills
    Women's Skills Building
    Small & Local Business * Buy Local
    Town - Home & Apartment Dwellers Concerns
    College & Dorm Dwellers Concerns
    Community Arts
    Children & Young at Heart + Teens & Young in Spirit!

Local Living Festival Website

Full LLV Events Schedule

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