Festival Goal

  • Provide a fun event to promote and support St Patrick – St Anthony Food Pantry, Haiti and Migrant outreach ministries.

Co-Chairs

  • Role will provide vision and overall guidance for functional leaders (below); Keeping festival leaders moving forward and working together. Shared leadership. The second chair will lead next year.

Functional Leadership and Roles

  • Facilities Lead and Logistics 
    • Communicate with other festival functional leaders regarding space needs and flow.
    • Lead logistics of festival physical footprint, layout and work with Parish Facilities Maintenance Mgr. for set-up and teardown.
  • Volunteer Coordinator 
    • Provide volunteer coordination with other parish festival leaders.
    • Coordinate volunteers check in, responsibilities, locations and times.

Entertainment 

  • Coordinate Games location, times and supervision. (Small Children, Teens and Adults)
  • Coordinate Music. Find and schedule musicians. Set up stage.

Food and Concessions 

  • Coordinate food and beverages during the day.
  • Coordinate Dinner

Hospitality and Outreach 

  • Coordinate greeting and welcoming activities. Goal: to help all festival visitors feel welcome and convey a sense who we are as a Catholic parish. Sharing the Good News while sharing information about St. Patrick – St. Anthony Outreach and Evangelization initiatives.

Fundraising 

  • Coordinate Parish Raffle
  • Coordinate Mini Raffle

Marketing Lead 

  • Coordinate marketing communication and promotion for festival, including planning and implementation, design and meeting deadlines.

Planning and Executing Timeline

  • February – Form Festival Vision
  • March – Get Functional Team Leads in place
  • April – Teams start planning for their areas to support stated Festival Vision 
  • May – Final functional plans approved and coordinated with Festival Leadership 
  • June – Start executing on plans
  • July – Update and coordinate functional leadership responsibilities
  • Final plans for August Festival