Kiki, Chris, Jenny, Deannah and Liv
Thank you to the 49 Radio Festival volunteers and 17 Receptionists, the 4 Craft Crew, and 6 work experience students who helped out for Radio Festival 2024. We worked together alongside over 90 PBS announcers to help deliver on our promise of membership kits, and T-shirts, sent out to loyal PBS members. By the end of Radio Festival 2024 we sent almost 10,000 items. A huge all-round community effort deserving a round of applause to all involved, such as music-maker, members, donors, prize sponsors, and especially those who volunteered their time and labour to PBS. We had a number of people ask what’s next? We’ve scanned the horizon to see what volunteer vacancies are coming up at PBS?
HANG OUT WITH RADIO FOLK AND MUSOS AT THE PBS LIVE BROADCAST
Love radio, alt-country, and looking to get amongst it? Well the outside broadcast offers the opportunity to see live radio in action. To celebrate and launch Leaps and Bounds 2024, PBS continues the tradition of a live broadcast from one of Yarra’s finest establishments. This year PBS will be at Corner Hotel on Thursday July 25 from 1pm, presenting two PBS radio shows live-to-air from the rooftop bar and courtyard. Join hosts Crispi Winsor and Myles O’Neil-Shaw for Swinging City - 4 hours of live music, special guests, rare records and a few laughs as Radio City and Swinging Doors combine for this special broadcast. Between 1pm and 5pm, catch intimate live sets from Freya Josephine Hollick, Queenie, The Ronson Hangup, Amarillo, Hana & Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits and Ben Mastwyk. If you'd like to attend, be sure to make it down to The Corner Hotel from 1pm.
VOLUNTEER ARTIST - PBS OPEN DAY POSTER EOI
The next event we’ll need volunteer support for is the PBS Open Day in October, and we’ll open our role recruitment up shortly, but first we’ll need to make an awe-inspiring poster. The artist designs a poster that PBS can communicate the magic of PBS Open Day. The poster is to be printed in A3, used on the PBS website, Facebook and Instagram. The poster should inspire and engage and capture the spirit of PBS, music and community. Due date for first draft August 31. If you’d like to volunteer to design the PBS Open Day poster for 2024, please email and share a link of your work. Publish date the last week of September.
VOLUNTEER ARTIST – PBS ANNOUNCER COURSE EOI
We are seeking a volunteer artist to create a poster to let people know about the announcer course in 2025. The artwork should reference the strategic vision for the station. The successful artist will create an inclusive poster that communicates that PBS has an announcer course and plant a seed in people's minds to think about seeing themselves as a PBS announcer and take steps to make it happen in 2025. Please email and share a link of your work. Publish date is likely to be November 2024.
EVENT VOLUNTEER - CATERING
We are holding a solemn and private event to farewell a PBS volunteer. Seeking assistance with sourcing fresh seasonal fruits and putting together 1-2 beautiful fruit platters and cheese plates to share with valued volunteers and the bereaved on Wednesday, October 9. Email mara@pbsfm.org.au for more information.
VOLUNTEER PROOFREADER
Have you read this newsletter and felt uncomfortable or irritated about the awkwardly worded text, unnecessary gaps, and poor grammar? How would you like to use your eagle-eye to help proofread the volunteer newsletter before it's sent out to the entire mailing list? Ideally we'd be looking for someone who has computer skills, has a flair for writing, and can provide a turnaround with 24-48 hours. Email mara@pbsfm.org.au for more information.
VOLUNTEER RECEPTION ROLES
We have a terrific front desk team taking care of business over two shifts each day (10am-2pm and 2pm-6pm) from Monday to Friday. There's some changes a comin' and have upcoming vacancies:
Tuesday 6/8/2024 and 13/8/2024 10am-2pm
Thursday 10am-2pm weekly from 1/8/2024-13/11/2024
If you're interested in volunteering on the front desk please check the Reception Position Description. If you're still interested in volunteering on Reception after reading the position description, please email to advise your availability.
PBS ANNOUNCER COURSE 2024 * RECRUITING FROM SEPT TO NOV
PBS is a specialist music radio station dedicated to amplifying under-represented music and support the local music community. It is volunteer-powered, listener-supported radio. Have you long harboured a dream to become a PBS announcer? Do you have a great new idea for a program that is missing from the current PBS grid? We are accepting EOI's/applications for the PBS announcer course this year. To see more information check out the announcer training page or email to receive your application form.