Board Members/Staff Required

The Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival is continuously seeking community involvement to ensure our Board of Directors stays connected and inspired.  We are a volunteer-based organization, dedicated to working with performing arts educators to develop artistic skills and a love of the performing arts for all ages and skill levels in music, dance and speech arts. Our annual community Festival provides reputable professionals who foster inclusion, education, and performance opportunity during adjudicated sessions. Please consider contributing your talents to our wonderful organization-- you will be warmly welcomed!!

For all positions please address to Nominations Committee at festival@gvpaf.org

Volunteer Board Member Positions

We are looking for people who understand the importance of the performing arts to a vibrant city, and who know that the foundation is built on the generous gift of time from volunteers to ensure that subsequent generations of young performers have opportunity, encouragement and support.

What we look for in a board member

Each of us who support the performing arts have our own reasons and motivation. If your motivation is strong, then that’s the first and most vital ingredient. The board values different viewpoints and experience and looks for a mix of people not only from within the performing arts community who understand Festival intimately, but also from outside who can share their financial, analytical, business, legal, marketing, fund raising, leadership or relationship building skills.

Expectations

Board members are expected to attend around 10 monthly board meetings per year. We represent the membership of our non profit, and so must be accountable to them and our community by understanding their needs and guiding festival to change and adapt over time. In the past we used to be a working board with operational duties, but that has gone away with the introduction of two festival staff. We now act as a governing board, with operational oversight provided through the executive (President, Vice President and Treasurer).

Volunteer Section Head Positions

Co-Section Heads for Musical Theatre & School Dance Sections

We are looking for individuals to join the GVPAF Team as the Co-section Heads for the Musical Theatre and School Dance sections.

Role

Help facilitate the performing arts in Greater Victoria and beyond, and to become an integral part of the excitement and support of our performers, parents and teachers. 

Duties

Section Heads are responsible for overseeing their performing arts section over the course of a year, with focus and emphasis on our annual Festival each April/May.  Support provided by the Board of Directors and our Office Administrator.  Knowledge of and/or experience in the applicable section would be helpful.