So You Wanna Be a GrassRoots Intern?

Seeking two extraordinary persons with whom to enter a mutually beneficial business relationship in the Summer of 2008. Simply put: we need interns!

Yes, we're looking for a coupla good college-aged superstars to come and work with us in the GrassRoots Office. One intern will work under the festival executive director, and the other will work under yours truly. The directorial intern will work on the more event-planning-y aspects of the festival, and the marketing intern will work on the more you-should-come-to-our-festival aspects.

They're not going to be menial-labor jobs... well... no more menial than any of the jobs the staff already does; Nana Tickets and I spent the afternoon putting $3.06 worth of stamps, in odd combinations, on envelopes. Festival Director Rosa didn't call "not it" fast enough, so she got stuck picking up lunch. Some of it is glamorous, though (or at least highly entertaining), and the internships will involve a whole lot of that fun stuff.

So, if you've got a lifelong interest in non-profit work, arts management, music publicity, or anything of that sort, and you happen to be a college-aged student, give me a holler at promo@grassrootsfest.org and I'll send you full job descriptions and an application.

Also, the internships are for experience only, but we will do everything we can to make sure that you get academic credit for the work you do here - we're already legit with several regional schools, so it shouldn't be an issue, unless your college has an official policy against awesome non-profits, in which case, you shouldn't go there.

Whoa - that went fast!!

So, the GrassRoots off-season basically sailed by for us - about half of the office staff is back in the office, and the rest of us will be starting up by next week. Onsite camping goes on sale on THURSDAY, and all indications point to it selling out QUICKLY this year, so get your tickets as early as possible. Tickets will be on sale both online and over the phone (607-387-5098), so whichever you prefer is fine with us.

Now, I'd like to make a quick open call for comments, suggestions, etc. You'd be amazed at how few people choose to write to us, voicing their complaints, needs, wants, desires, loves, hates, anecdotes... take a minute and tell us what you think. You can even email me personally: megan@grassrootsfest.org, and I will try my damnedest to get back to you. This time of year is the time when, if we love your idea or discover something that we hadn't heard about, we can actually do something about it, so give a holler.

And now, for something completely pointless... in celebration of our official return to work, I give you... this. Yes, my job is officially to send out press releases and stuff, but I was in a weird mood, so here goes. In this - um - extraordinary clip, you'll see me and the rest of my office colleagues (Marie, Rosa, and Nana), as well as our Director Emeritus, Jeb Puryear (of Donna the Buffalo). I'm probably going to get in trouble for posting this and they'll make me take it down, so watch it now or forever hold your peace. Hee hee hee....

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