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Staff urges Salina attendees to finish cultural-plan survey as River Festival nears
Summary
Staff at a Salina meeting urged attendees to help meet a roughly 1,500-response goal for a cultural-plan survey ahead of the River Festival, outlined volunteer needs for art-demo hospitality and artist parking, and reminded the public about wristband sales and festival activities including a 275-piece bird scavenger hunt.
Staff member (Speaker 2) told the meeting that the cultural-plan survey remains open and that organizers are aiming for about 1,500 responses, noting a recent update that the effort is roughly 300 responses short. She asked commissioners and community partners to push the survey out through networks and said QR codes and printed materials will be available at the River Festival for last-minute responses.
The staff member described several volunteer needs tied to festival operations: art-demo hospitality (a covered pavilion with roughly eight demonstration artists), artist parking direction, and load-in/load-out coordination for exhibit setup. She said single-shift sign-ups are available on the festival website and that stipend money exists for larger groups that can act as volunteer coordinators.
The meeting included specifics on festival logistics: wristbands will be on sale through June 9 and T-shirts and hats bearing the festival rainbow logo will be sold on site. The staff member also highlighted family programming: a children’s Artiopolis print station at Button Boulevard and a Sunday scavenger-hunt element that will place 275 large bird sculptures created by artist Kurt Krobbs throughout the park; coins will be hidden Sunday as part of the scavenger activity.
Committee members and other attendees encouraged broad sharing of volunteer sign-ups and noted perennial difficulty recruiting volunteers late in the season; the staff member said even a couple of hours from volunteers helps. The group confirmed there will be no meeting in June and that it will reconvene on July 21 in the same room.
The staff member invited commissioners to ask follow-up questions after the meeting and to take any printed promotional materials back to their networks.
