Viva La Gong

Assessment activity 1: Short Report (250-500 words)
Describe the people involved and the processes you used to research, obtain and confirm placement.


How did you organise work experience?
Peter our teacher told the class we could do Viva La Gong as our work experience and Paula Rodriguez came to our class. Paula told us all about Viva La Gong work experience and explained the different jobs we could do. I decided straight away that I wanted do my work experience at Viva La Gong. Paula got the people interted in working for Viva La Gong to fill a form with our details. When she needed volunteers to work she would ring us up and ask if we could work. Doing work experience for Viva La Gong was a great opportunity to get a glimpse of how a festival is organised.

What work did you do?
For my work experience I worked during the actual festival during three days.On Friday 10 October 2008.I worked from 8am to 2pm. On Saturday 11th of OctoberI worked from 8am to 7:30 in the afternoon. On Sunday 12th i worked from 8am to 4:30 in the afternoon( some of my responsibilities included setting up tents, serving the information tent, traffic control, stage managing at Prayer Bells, collecting tickets at Prayer Bells) helped with setting up the launch of Viva la Gong for 8 hours ( setting up flags, running errands, stage management assistant) 8 hours of office work at Cultural Services ( answering phones, running errands, mail out) and 6 hours in promoting the festival ( put up posters in businesses in Berkeley, Unanderra and Warragong) i also had to attend to two information days at Cultural Services.