Monday, July 4, 2022

INSIDE with the Festival Nomad (No. 35)

 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 Eight)

13.  How Come?

Have you ever wondered why certain things happen and then asked yourself, "how come"? Here are some of mine.

a.     How is it that when you pack to go to a show/exhibit everything fits nicely. Everything has a spot and is organized. Yet, once you try to re-pack, to come home, nothing fits! Even though you have sold product and in reality, have less boxes, it just doesn’t fit! I guess it’s the same scenario as the boxes story. You plan and label everything. But, by the end of a long show/exhibit we are just too tired and exhausted. Our minds aren’t as focused or clear.

b.     How come the last hour of every show seems to be longer than the entire show?

c.     How come during the entire event/exhibit, exhibitors are all friends and willing to help one another. But when it comes to take down everybody is at each other’s throat. We have witnessed out and out brawls.

d.     How come, when you are most exhausted and almost finished packing up during the take down, is it that, as parched as you are, there is not a vendor in site to sell you a bottle of water?

e.     How come at the end of a show all of the “dollies” are spoken for, even though they aren’t supposed to be used until you are packed up and ready to leave the premises. The same goes for loading docks. People take loading dock space long before they are allowed to. It seems that exhibiter’s rules and etiquette disappear at the end of a show. As do the security personnel who are supposed to enforce it?

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