Salisbury Pride 2025 Festival Volunteer Form

Welcome to the Salisbury Pride Celebration!

Our festival will be held at the Bell Tower Green in downtown Salisbury, NC, USA.
The Bell Tower Green Park is located at the intersection of W Innes St & S Church St. 

Festival Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025, 11:00 am-5:00 pm
Festival Location: Salisbury, North Carolina, USA

Please complete the form below if you are interested in becoming a volunteer. Duties will be assigned as needed on the day of the festival. We will have 2 in-person meetings and 1 virtual before the festival for training. You are not required to attend the meetings; however, we highly encourage new volunteers to participate in training. Topics covered at these trainings will be the same, so only attending one will be necessary.

There are several roles in which you can support the festival. Below are descriptions of the key roles for our volunteers:

• Set-up/Unloading - This is a fast-paced assignment where you will assist the vendors by unloading their vehicles and at times will assist in setting up their tents if time permits. It is imperative to assist them in unloading fast so that we can get their vehicles out of the event area.
• Bell Tower Sponsor Set-up - This will be setting up tables and chairs for the patrons at the main stage and for the sponsors at the event. You need to be able to move 6-foot table and multiple chairs on the green space at the event.
• Ice/Water Stations - The morning crew will make sure that the entertainment, volunteer, both stages and merchandise booths have water and ice for the start of the event. The afternoon volunteers will transport water and ice on carts to all water coolers throughout the event. You need to be able to pick up and put 25 lbs bags of ice onto a rolling cart and walk it around to each station.
• Merchandise Booths - The early morning volunteers will set up the tent and put out the merchandise and the afternoon volunteers will resupply merchandise and will be a point of sell for all Pride merchandise. There will also be water at each merchandise booth that may be given out during the event.
• Peace Keepers - Pride peace keepers will be responsible for maintaining peace and safety at the event and the primary duties will be to actively monitor the event, de-escalate potential conflicts, respond to incidents and ensure the safety and well-being of all attendees while upholding an inclusive and respectful environment for the pride community. There will be police officers present at the event and any suspicious activity should be immediately reported to law enforcement. We do not recommend first time volunteers signing up to be a peace keeper. Also no volunteer under the age of 18 is allowed to be a peace keeper.
• Intersection assistance - We will ask that you work at an intersection where a barricade is located to ensure that nobody enters the event that is not a vendor or sponsor.
• Bell Tower Clean up - You will need to break down the tables and chairs of the sponsors and the patron chairs in front of the stage area and stack them so that Venue Services can come and pick them up.
• Festival Clean up - This will be a general clean up of the grounds. Picking up trash and putting it into receptacles.
  
  

**Please note that your indications above have not been finalized. You will receive an email from Salisbury Pride once all volunteer roles have been assigned.** 

This year, we will hold 2 in-person and 1 virtual volunteer training meeting, and we hope you can attend one of them. Both meetings will cover the same information and will be held at Art & Soul in Salisbury. The online meeting will be held on Google Meet. We will send additional details about the meetings in a follow up email. Attendance is not required to volunteer but we hope you will be able to come.

In-person meetings will be held at Art & Soul Rowan - 207 W Harrison St, Salisbury, NC 28144

The virtual meeting will be held in Google Meet. Those who sign up for this option will be sent a meeting invite to the email address used when signing up. 

In consideration for receiving permission to participate in the 2025 Salisbury Pride Festival I hereby RELEASE, WAIVE, DISCHARGE AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE, Salisbury Pride Inc, their officers, agents, servants, sponsors, volunteers or employees (hereinafter referred to as RELEASEES) from any and all liability, claims, demands, actions and causes of action whatsoever arising out of or related to any loss,  damage, or injury, including death, that may be sustained by me, or any of the property belonging to me, WHETHER CAUSED BY THE NEGLIGENCE OF THE RELEASEES, or otherwise, while participating in such activity, or while in, on or upon the premises where the activity is being conducted. 

I am fully aware of the unusual risks involved and hazards connected with this activity, including but not limited to inclement weather or crowd.  I hereby elect to voluntarily participate in said activity with full knowledge that said activity may be hazardous to me and my property.  I VOLUNTARILY ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY RISKS OF LOSS OF PROPERTY, DAMAGE OR PERSONAL INJURY, INCLUDING DEATH, which may be sustained by me, or any loss or damage to property, owned by me, as a result of being engaged in such activity, WHETHER CAUSED BY THE NEGLIGENCE OF RELEASEES OR OTHERWISE.

I further hereby AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS the RELEASEEES from any loss, liability, damage or costs, including court costs and attorney fees that they may incur due to my participating in said activity, WHETHER CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE OF RELEASEES OR OTHERWISE.

It is my express intent that this WAIVER OF LIABILITY AND HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENT shall bind the members of my family, my heirs, assigns and personal representative. I further agree this agreement shall be constructed in accordance with the laws of the state of North Carolina.

IN SIGNING THIS RELEASE, I ACKNOWLEDGE AND REPRESENT THAT I have read the foregoing Waiver of Liability and Hold Harmless Agreement, understand it and sign it voluntarily as my own free act and deed; no oral representation, statements, or inducement, apart from the foregoing written agreement, have been made; I am at least eighteen (18) years of age and fully competent; and I execute this release for full, adequate and complete consideration fully intending to be bound by same.

By signing below, I, {name31}, hereby acknowledge, accept, and agree to the terms set forth in the "Waiver of Liability and Hold Harmless Agreement" above.