WGBH Food & Wine Festival: Food Fight Event

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Calling all food and wine enthusiasts!

WGBH is excited to host the sixth season of the Taste of WGBH Food & Wine Festival October 5 - 8, 2017. We are again collaborating with the best chefs, producers, wineries and breweries to deliver the finest food and wine in the region. The four-day festival will give guests premier access to enjoy delicious food trends, educational seminars offering insight into the minds of chefs, live music from some of today’s best artists, and the most refreshing adult beverages from around the globe. We’ve even moved this carefully curated festival to the Columbus Day Weekend to allow guests and volunteers more opportunities to join us.

We need your help to ensure this year’s festival is even bigger and better than last year’s. Volunteer positions range from set-up crew, on-site event assistants and breakdown crew...this will be an amazing opportunity to get on-site events/festival experience and help produce one of Boston's most fun food festivals!

Please review all The Taste of WGBH: Food & Wine Festival volunteer activities listed below and email me at jaime_reese@wgbh.orgno later than Friday, September 29 if you'd like to help. Volunteer positions are sure to fill up fast as we prepare for this increasingly popular festival. Please make sure to include the following information in your email response:

- Your full name

- Preferred activity including date (e.g. Opening Gala Reception Prep - 10/4)

- Preferred shift (if there are multiple shifts)

- Prior related experience (e.g. volunteer work, customer service and food-related experience, etc.)

Please note that volunteers should be comfortable standing for 4-6 hours. Volunteers working with set-up and/or breakdown must be 16+, and volunteers working during the event must be 21+.

Sunday, October 8: Food Fight

Positions: Event Flipper, Ticket Sales/Will Call,Ticket Taker, Bag Check, Community Ambassador, Glass/Program Distributor, Certified TIPS Pourer/ID Check, Merchandise/Membership Sales, ID/Wrist Band Greeter, Table Runner (refill water pitchers, replace ice, clear trash around booths), VIP Lounge Assistant (restock magazines, replenish water station, keep area tidy), Volunteer Photographer and Photographer’s Assistant (WGBH Volunteers must be 21+ to participate)

Shift: 3:30-8pm

Event Description: If our Chef’s Gala takes you down the Red Carpet, our Food Fight moves you with a Magic Carpet! Be transported beyond borders through the streets of Bangkok, alleyways of Oaxaca, and the dusty roads of the East Bank to enjoy delicious bites from 15 chefs delivering their best interpretation of Global Street Food. The Food Fight offers exciting activities for attendees culminating in awarding one chef the title of champion, chosen by the crowd. Located on the WGBH Television and Recording Studio lot in Boston.

**Please share if you’ve had prior customer service, culinary and/or food service experience...a definite PLUS.

The sixth annual Taste of WGBH Food & Wine Festival helps to support the great educational and cultural programming on WGBH. WGBH members, community friends, and a host of celebrity chefs will mix and mingle around their favorite topic: good food. Be sure to join us this year! Think your friends and family may also want to volunteer for this event? If so, feel free to pass this information on to them, too!