Volunteers

Performing Arts Burlington was started by a handful of like-minded individuals from the community. Since 2004, volunteers have played an important part in the vitality and growth of the organization. PAB prides itself on having a diverse group of volunteers that truly represent Burlington and the surrounding communities we serve.

PAB Committees include: Communications, the Performing Arts Development Committee (workshop development) and the Fundraising Committee. If you want to receive more information about committee work, please email Information Coordinator, Heather Ableson at info@performingartsburlington.com.

Why volunteer?

• Volunteering can be fun and satisfying.
• Develop your skills.
• A great way of meeting people.
• Give back to your community.
• A way to keep your community strong.
• Help PAB become more effective.
• Fulfill your high school volunteer requirements.

Those wishing to help out with PAB can do so in numerous ways. Below are some of the specific areas where volunteers can play a role in our organization.

Event Administrator (2 hours per week in the office from April 18th - July 13)

Qualifications:

• Ability to type
• Communications through email
• Must be willing to learn Access Program (easy to use)

Responsibilities:

• Processing ticket orders
• Coordinating tour groups
• Creating bank deposit information
• Logging ticket purchaser data into Access database

Web marketer (1 hour weekly)

Qualifications:

• Comfortable with the internet

Responsibilities:

• Look for FREE opportunities to promote us
• Add www.performingartsburlington.com to directories
• Find other appropriate sites where PAB can link to, send reciprocal link info to us

E.g A request for links to and from PAB website, you would determine the validity and appropriateness of these links to our site. Then follow up that the requesting party has reciprocated with adding our link to their site. This is important because it increases our ranking on search engines.

Policy for website links: The site requesting a link must be one of the following:

• A community site, or promote communities
• Be connected to culture - arts, performing or otherwise

Web Information Liason/Co-ordinator (1 hour weekly)

This person would enjoy gathering and organizing information for: Website - On Stage, Events, and other Upgrades

Qualifications:

• Comfortable with emailing attachments
• Use Word and willing to learn Access

Responsibilities:

• Contact member organizations to submit and or update their reviews
• Follow-up on PAB or related events to submit information
• Gather related content for the Website and/or Newsletter event listings

Newsletter Distribution Co-ordinator (4 times per year)

Qualifications:

• Access to a car

Performing Arts Burlington publishes a quarterly newsletter that is distributed at the end of August, November, February and May. We are looking for volunteers to help 4 mornings a year to get the newsletter copies ready for mailing to our membership. We also need volunteers to help with distributing the newsletters to libraries, recreation centres, theatres, tourism locations and Burlington businesses. Performing Arts Burlington would reimburse volunteers for the cost of gas.

Volunteer Application Form

If you can volunteer to help, here are 2 ways to apply:

	Click here for a printable version of the form (in PDF format).
	Click here for an online version of the form.