Would you like to be part of Liverpool’s annual one-night arts festival? On Friday 17 May 2019

Liverpool city centre will open its doors until late for the tenth annual LightNight, a spectacular evening of over 100 free events.

Open Culture are seeking a team of enthusiastic people who have a passion for Liverpool’s vibrant arts and cultural scene to help at this year’s festival. This is a unique opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting nights in the city’s calendar, and to gain experience working in the arts and with cultural venues.

For 2019 visitors of all ages can join in with everything from large-scale light projection and live music to hands-on workshops, dancing, spoken word, street performance, theatre, late-opening exhibitions and walking tours. It’s a city-centre wide culture crawl like no other as venues large and small, old and new, galleries, museums and unusual art spaces stay open late to celebrate the incredible arts and culture on offer here in Liverpool.

Opportunities:

All volunteers will need to be available on LightNight itself: 4.30pm – 10pm on Friday 17

May 2019 and for one of the briefing sessions which will run 6-8pm on Tuesday 1 and

Wednesday 2 May 2019.

The deadline to apply is Monday 16 April 2019.

VOLUNTEERING ROLES

– Venue Welcome Team

A team of volunteers will be selling festival guides and merchandise in major participating

venues. They will also help direct the public and offer recommendations on which venue

to visit next. This is an important element of the festival as it helps the public get the

most out of the night as well as help raise much-needed funds for LightNight 2020.

– Audience surveys

We need to find out who is coming to LightNight, why they come and what they thought.

This helps us improve the festival, measure the positive impact it has and help us apply

for funding to keep the festival going. We’ll be asking a team of volunteers to attend a

handful of venues on the night to fill out surveys with the public.

– Help with an event

If you’re keen to muck in and help out one of the many event organisers, artists and

venues who stage activity on LightNight then let us know. If you’re interested in helping

with a particular type of event or want to gain experience in a particular role please give

us as much detail as you can and we’ll aim to match you up with a suitable event.

How to get involved

If you are interested, please complete the short online application form

here: https://openculture.wufoo.com/forms/volunteer-for-lightnight-2019/

Deadline to apply: Monday 16 April 2019

We will be in touch as soon as possible after the deadline has passed.

We also request all volunteers share their thoughts on how we could improve the

volunteering experience in future. This is done post-event via email to keep your time

commitment to a minimum.

Contact

For general information contact Open Culture on 0151 478 4550 or email

info@culture.org.uk and for volunteering enquiries email volunteer@culture.org.uk