Volunteer Opportunities

This is a more involved, leadership role. The Room Captain is responsible for overseeing all activities in their designated room. This includes coordinating with Event Producers, interacting with the public, maintaining strong communication with the Building Captain and managing Ushers.

This is one of the volunteer roles that we need the most of! These volunteers will assist the Room Captain in assuring that incoming and outgoing audience members move around the space in an orderly fashion and that everyone finds seating.

This role helps the bookstore staff in forming orderly lines for attendees to purchase books and get them signed by their authors.

These volunteers will bop around to various locations throughout the Festival encouraging attendees to take our survey and, if needed, assist them in doing so. This role is best for an outgoing person!

This role floats around the various Festival locations to be a resource for attendees. We do our best to make sure Wayfinders are informed about the Festival or know who to ask if there are questions they’re unsure of.

This volunteer will act as a resource for BBF attendees. We do our best to make sure Attendants are informed about the Festival or know who to ask if there are questions they’re unsure of.

These volunteers will be stationed as the BBF tent at the Outdoor Fair to sell BBF merch and help BBF donors get their thank you gift.

This role will help the BBF Volunteer Team get all our volunteers checked in and deployed to the correct location and role for their volunteer shift.

These volunteers will check authors in and help the Event Producers collect their authors to bring them over to their session location.