Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival 2024 is Looking for Student Volunteers

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 08:30:45 -0400

This is a call for potential student volunteers for the 2024 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, coming up October 18-20. Keep scrolling for more information:

2024 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival
October 18-20, 2024
Venues: MICA Falvey Hall Theatre, Towson University Van Bokkelen Hall Theatre, and Area 405 Gallery
Festival Director: Phil Davis - phil@sweatyeyeballs.com

The 2024 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival returns with the most cutting-edge animated short films from around the world. The fest will be taking place at multiple venues in Baltimore City and Towson from October 18-20, 2024. Including 4 international shorts competition screenings, a Baltimore showcase screening, a Young Audiences screening, Animator Retrospective and talk by Miguel Jiron (Los Angeles), and a live performance by Duo Kinetica. Along with the screenings of the festival there is also a corresponding exhibition of animation process art and expanded animation titled Sweaty Eyeballs: Animation Adjacent at Area 405 Gallery. Adding to the film screenings and talks there will be free animation workshops run by students and after parties at the Area 405 gallery.

Sweaty Eyeballs is looking for enthusiastic lovers of animation to join our squad of volunteers. Here is what we are looking for:

VOLUNTEERS:

1. Must apply for volunteer position by filling out the following google form: https://forms.gle/RazwXHPgZcHSz7Qk9

2. We will accept students or non-student volunteers who are interested in helping out with the festival.

3. All volunteers must dedicate a minimum of 6 hours during the week of the festival October 18-20, 2024.

4. Volunteer tasks may include the following: ticket check-in, ushering, staffing information tables, setup and breakdown of merchandise tables, setup and breakdown for events, photographing events, recording video of events.

Volunteers will have access to view screening programs of the festival for free, dependent on how many hours they volunteer/work.

For further information or questions please feel free to contact Phil Davis - phil@sweatyeyeballs.com.