Calling all volunteers
Expressions of interest are now closed.
please email [email protected] to join our volunteer mailing list, or if you have already expressed your interest earlier, please log in using your profile details to ArtFuel to add or update your current volunteering preferences.
Our Sorrento Writers Festival 2025 program is taking shape. From Thursday April 24-Sunday April 27, 2025 we will host 160+ speaker guests in 140+ events across 11 venues in Sorrento and Portsea. More than 6000 people are expected to attend and we expect to sell more than 14,000 tickets.
There is much to organise and we are grateful to our army of volunteers. Without their help, there would be no Sorrento Writers Festival and we look forward to welcoming existing and new volunteers in 2025.
More than 150 volunteers are required in the lead-up to, and during, the Festival weekend. We offer morning and afternoon half-day shifts with some evening events. There will also be customer service and venue-ready roles available on Easter Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday April 21-23.
The Sorrento Writers Festival volunteers program is rewarding, fun and of huge community benefit. Among the varied tasks, our volunteers:
- assist Festival attendees with their tickets and seating
- provide information on amenities, venues, the local region – and where to find the best coffee in town
- support our box office team with ticket sales
- ensure venues are tidy after each session and ready for the next guests to arrive
be on hand to help and advise our guest authors - drive those speakers who don’t have a car to venues beyond Sorrento main street
- distribute Festival marketing material
- assist with daily Festival comms
Our volunteers are not paid, but receive free entry to those sessions they attend as helpers. They also receive a blue volunteers t-shirt and goody bag, and are invited to our closing night party on Sunday April 27.
Just prior to our April event, we will host three information sessions for volunteers (dates TBC). For now, if you are keen and available to assist next year, please CLICK HERE to register your interest. If you have already bought tickets or interacted with us before, you can use your same login. If this is your first time, please create an ArtFuel account first, and the complete the Volunteer form.
One of our Festival team will be in touch in the next few weeks. And please feel free to pass this link on to any friends you think might be interested, also.
