Over the years I have attended, worked with and organized hundreds of festivals and events. With this new series, "INSIDE with the Festival Nomad", I want to give you an "inside" look at some of the festivals and events that I have been involved with or that I have visited. Along the way, I have had a lot of fun and sometimes frustration, but I have never been bored!
Working
the Show...
(Part Six)
11. Beware of the Big Rush... Watch Out for The
Waves!
One of the things that always frightened Judi and I was “the Big Rush”! This occurred at the end of a show when all of the
exhibitors were trying to get to their trucks first. As I mentioned before, the
Big Rush for Judi and I, never really
happened, because we always had to take our time to carefully systematically
repack the fragile paintings. So imagine, if you will, Judi and I calmly standing
in our booth, wrapping fragile, expensive paintings, when all of a sudden a large
boat looms in the distance! "The BOAT
is coming straight towards us at break-neck speed. The boat is on two dollies
and is being propelled by four strapping young men. All of whom, seem to be oblivious
to the carnage they are about to create! As the boat nears, we brace for the worst.
As the boat comes towards our booth, the crew makes a sharp turn towards the
exit. The boat however has other ideas and decides that it was going to tip into
our booth and onto our fragile, expensive paintings! Then, with a loud thump,
the boat comes crashing off the dollies and crashes onto the cement floor! Judi
and I gasped! A miracle has happened! Somehow the young men have been able to
control the crash and it misses our paintings by mere inches!" It was a
harrowing experience, but one that actually happened and one that we were
eventually able to laugh about. And actually, the biggest laugh was, that Judi
and I, once the catastrophe was over, packed up all our paintings,
loaded our van and were on our way before the “boat people” “got afloat”!
So much for the BIG RUSH!!!
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