Volunteering

Volunteering is not just about what you can do for Latitude 53, but how Latitude 53 can help you develop skills, meet new people and find a place within the vibrant arts community in Edmonton.

53 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Bingo
Installation Team
Admin Support
Special Events Committee
Bar Tenders

53 Ways to Leave Your Lover

We are looking for Volunteers for various shifts on Saturday February 20, 2010, before, during and after the event, including bartenders, porters, auction monitors, admissions, and set up/tear down.

Please contact Vicky Wong at development@latitude53.org if you are interested in helping out

Bingo:

If you'd like to help with an upcoming bingo, please contact Latitude 53 at 423.5353 or info@latitude53.org

The PERKS:

free meal
free training
knowing your helping Latitude 53 continue into it’s 35th year

Installation Team:

We are looking to teach/train a team of individuals to be able to prepare the gallery for shows, hang shows, de-install and package art work.

Who: Anyone interested in the hands on work of spackling, hanging, and packaging artwork.

Why: We have decided to try and recruit eight to ten interested people so that we have a team of people trained to help. This should help lighten the workload of our Programming Officer, further helping Latitude 53 grow!

When: New shows open, roughly, every five weeks; team members would need to be available on a weekday.

Contact Latitude 53 at 423-5353 or info@latitude53.org if you’re interested.

NOTE: Team members are not required to help for every install/de-install but we ask that you be available to help with at least every third install/de-install.

Admin Support:

We are currently looking for volunteers interested in office-related administrative support duties, Including:

Archiving art-related news articles
Mail-outs
Photocopying, sorting and compiling documents

Special Events Committee:

Through the hard work of our Special Events Committee Latitude 53 is able to host fun and dynamic fundraising parties like the Summer Rooftop Series, The Fine Art of Schmoozy and 53 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

Who: This opportunity is for you if you are interested in helping to make our fundraisers successful, you like working in a team, you have excellent follow through, you are interested in seeing what happens behind the scenes at fundraisers or you would like to have a fun time with other fun volunteers.

Why: We raise nearly half of our donations through fundraisers/Special Events. This is a large portion of our operating budget, and we strive to improve and grow and raise more so we can do more!

When: We are actively recruiting members to help organize events in 2009.

Bar Tenders:

We are looking to teach/train a team of individuals to be ongoing bar tenders for our opening receptions.

Who: Responsible 18+ individuals who would like to help Latitude 53 host successful opening receptions.

When: New shows open, roughly, every five weeks. Openings are always held on a Friday from 8 pm.

NOTE: Team members are not required to help for reception but, we ask that you be available to help with at least every third opening reception.

For more information, please contact:

Caitlin Ridley
Administrative Assistant and Volunteer Management
admin@latitude53.org
(780) 423-5353

If you think that one of the above opportunities might be of interest to someone you know, please forward this message on.

Thank you for making Latitude 53 such a great place.