School Outreach Volunteer
School Outreach Activity Leader
Storytellers and leaders, we want you!
LunarFest is looking for fun and engaging leaders for our School Outreach project. From February 17 – 19, we will be bringing students (grade 4-7) to Granville Island. Students will participate in workshops that include storytelling related to the Year of the Horse and craft-making. In the spirit of our festival, we are using storytelling, arts, and culture to connect with students in a celebration of the Lunar New Year like no other.
Do you have experience with public speaking?
Are you interested in arts and crafts?
Be a School Outreach Activity Leader for a day with LunarFest!
Dates: Feb 17 – 19
Time: 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Learn about LunarFest programs prior to the festival
- Lead and emcee the storytelling and crafts sessions onsite
- Coordinate with staff and teachers onsite according to event schedule
- Able to take charge and work independently
- Able to attend training session prior to Feb 17
- Willing to participate in interview if selected
Required Qualifications:
- Ability to lead craft activity with large groups while following scheduled lesson plan
- Enjoy working with and telling stories to children
- Workshops will be during school hours
- Experience working with school-aged children in arts-related activities is an asset
- Enthusiastic personality
- Willingness to learn
- Good public speaking skills
Mandarin - English Interpreter
This year, we have a family theater group from Taiwan visiting. Interpreters will work with them to translate their workshops to all ages at the festival. Applicants must go through an interview process.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Learn about the workshop details prior to the festival
- Communicate with the artists and staff onsite
- Live interpretation between Mandarin and English for the workshop
- Help set up / takedown of the workshop
- Able to take charge and work independently
- Able to attend training session prior to Feb 17
- Willing to participate in interview if selected
Required Qualifications:
- Ability to lead craft activity with large groups while following scheduled lesson plan
- Enjoy working with and telling stories to children
- Workshops will be during school hours
- Experience working with school-aged children in arts-related activities is an asset
- Enthusiastic personality
- Willingness to learn
- Good public speaking skills
The Society of We Are Canadians Too is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered here, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples of this land while we engage in meaningful conversations of culture and reconciliation.
