"My mother has instilled the value of community service from an early age, yet Arabesque was my first volunteer experience in the arts. This remarkable festival has been a great experience not only aesthetically, but culturally as well. My mother and I just joined the Friends because we had such a wonderful experience. Shukran, Arabesque!"
- Nawal Ziyadeh, first generation Jordanian-American [daughter of Kwala Nimri, Jordan]
Other Volunteer Opportunities
Festival Volunteering
As a Festival volunteer, you will assist the Friends of the Kennedy Center volunteers with staffing one or more of our major festivals throughout the year including the annual Open House Arts Festival featuring our Multicultural Children's Book Fair.
On occasion, the Friends help staff special festivals held at the Kennedy Center. For example, we will be assisting with festival representing the arts and culture of India in late winter 2011. Applications are posted approximately two to four months in advance of each festival. If you want to put your name into our festival volunteer database before the applications are posted, send your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and festival of interest to vols@kennedy-center.org.
