Archive for December, 2010

Front of House Manager Required

Saturday, December 25th, 2010

We are looking for an experienced Front of House Manager to organise and manage the Box Office for the Beltane Fire Festival 2011

We have approximately 10,000 people on Calton Hill and the Box Office sells over 2,000 tickets on the night.

The key responsibilities of the Front of House Manager are:

  • To manage the Box Office and Front of House area on the night
  • To liaise with the Producer and Production team to ensure we have the best facilities?To liaise with the Finance Office to set-up good financial practices in the Box Office, including ticket sales, payment of staff, ticket sales data and security of funds.
  • To recruit and manage Front of House and Box Office staff/volunteers
  • Attend as many production meetings as necessary to ensure the facilities are smoothly integrated with the main festival infrastructure
  • To put together a full post-event Box Office report

Please note that this is a paid position and while we are very willing to be flexible about working arrangements we can only consider submissions from people who can make the Beltane Fire Festival their primary focus from the 25th April to the 2nd May 2011.

All applications should be sent to chair@beltane.org before Friday 21st January 2011 as the Board of Directors will be discussing submissions at the end of January.

Beltane Big Ideas Meeting

Monday, December 6th, 2010

It’s that time again and we are organising a Big Ideas Meeting for Beltane Fire Festival 2011.

1 pm – Saturday 11th December – St Margaret’s House

(St. Margaret’s House, 151 London Road, Edinburgh, EH7 6AE).

It’s kind of difficult to be thinking about a spring festival when you are knee deep in snow but we need to start planning now if we want to incorporate any new ideas into the festival.

The purpose of this meeting is for blue sky thinking about the festival. This is the time and place to bring your ideas about big changes, revivals or new directions for an airing and to see how they fare.

Everything is up for discussion including ideas for:

  • Big structures
  • Big changes to the main story arc
  • Big changes with new or existing groups
  • Big changes regarding metaphor and imagery

As you all know one of the main strengths of the festival is that it remains connected to the people who take part and that it remains fresh and exciting. Obviously change is not compulsory and there is plenty of ontinuity but as a previous Producer observed:

“Living things are either growing or dying. The same is true for artistic expression – growth is change and change is good, it keeps Beltane robust and healthy.”

This meeting is open to all members of the Society; everyone is welcome and everyone’s opinion is welcome.