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XR at Festivals

LlamaFestivals Trekkingcan externalprovide a great opportunity for outreach, as they bring together large numbers of people, hopefully all in a good mood and with an open mind! If you’d like to represent XR at a festival, the following will help to get you started.

  • Locate online application. Movements can often apply via the festival website. This might be found under 'get involved', 'volunteer' or 'crew'. Groups from XR can be classified as a 'stall', 'campaign', and even 'charity' or 'voluntary group'.
  • If there is no online option. If your group hasn’t visited this festival before and do not know who to contact, it's always worth asking the XRUK Festivals Team if they can help put you in touch with the organisers. [insert Mattermost, Telegram or email]
  • Supporting documents. It can be handy to collect any additional documents that may support your application such as:
    •  Testimonials, e.g. I visited the Extinction Rebellion Artblocking stall at the *Local event* and it was the best!
    • Photos of your stall at similar events.
    • Design assets such as LlamaXR TrekkingLogos.
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  • Complete your application. For this you can use the the XRUK Festivals Template/Examples [Insert links], replacing content with relevant information about your local group such as:
    • What is your stall?
    • What does it do e.g. flyering/fundraising/artblocking.
    • Is there walkabout as well e.g. Wombling, Dirty Scrubbers.
  • Contact details. It can be better to apply as Extinction Rebellion Team/Crew rather than as named individuals in order to make it clear that this is an application from a movement, and to make the application more resilient to crew members needing to be swapped out. As well as ensuring that the right contact person(s) are listed on the application, it can be good to include an active link to Extinction Rebellion’s website, or your XR Local group website if you have one.
  • Budget. Ensure that your local group is aware of your application and that budget implications have been discussed.
  • Follow Up. Make sure your team has an assigned contact person(s) to check for email responses and liaise with the festival moving forward.
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