{"id":34980,"date":"2024-08-22T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T21:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=34980"},"modified":"2024-08-29T16:43:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:43:10","slug":"join-the-excitement-of-aurora-town-square-opening-as-centre-looks-for-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/join-the-excitement-of-aurora-town-square-opening-as-centre-looks-for-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the excitement of Aurora Town Square opening as Centre looks for volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Excitement for the next month\u2019s Grand Opening of Aurora Town Square is mounting and the Aurora Cultural Centre is looking for fresh volunteers to share in the buzz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cultural Centre is expanding its popular volunteer program as they begin to settle into their new digs in the expansion to 22 Church Street, and there is a wide variety of opportunities for people 14 to 101, says Claire Acott, Audience Services Manager for the Aurora Cultural Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is such a sense of extreme excitement,\u201d she says. \u201cVolunteers are eager to be part of such an uplifting experience. The Town has put the arts front and centre in Aurora with the addition of Aurora Town Square. The Aurora Cultural Centre has been out in the community this summer at markets and community events spreading the word not only about our programming, but how community members become involved as arts volunteers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are volunteer roles to suit each individual interest and range from serving as ushers at performing arts shows, to supporting children\u2019s art programs, to taking on the role of gallery ambassadors at events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acott joined the Aurora Cultural Centre team last year. Coming to the table with a background in front-of-house management for non-profits, she says she was looking for more opportunities closer to home and to work with an organization with like values. She found that and more with the Aurora Cultural Centre where she has been working hard to prepare for the start of the Centre\u2019s big new chapter in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI hadn\u2019t been excited about re-entering the workforce post-COVID, but when I got to meet the team and Suzanne (Haines, Executive Director of the Aurora Cultural Centre) I realized very quickly that I wanted to work here with people as passionate about the arts and community as the Aurora Cultural Centre,\u201d says Acott. \u201cI see the value of volunteerism in different ways. There is the joy of watching a person who is eager to volunteer but is a little bit shy and maybe has never put themselves in a position where they are engaging with the public. Our volunteers find this confidence and this joy that is priceless to me. It is just watching people find their calling or their joy again in a field that maybe they have never tried before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the other side of it is the passion that our volunteer team brings to the table that elevates the experience for everyone involved, in whatever kind of cultural program they are engaging with. They are eager to learn, they are eager to share that knowledge with the public and they feel tremendously grateful to be part of something so exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Centre, she adds, \u201cloves the opportunity to foster and give students especially\u201d the chance to try out new fields they might be interested in pursuing in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWithin our education, they can kind of see how they feel working with students and with our campers at March Break or at summer camps. In our gallery, there is a really lovely opportunity to become educated on the different exhibitions we will be bringing in. The opportunity we\u2019re currently developing is a Gallery Ambassador Tour Volunteer. They would have the opportunity to work closely with our Gallery Manager, Samantha Jones, and Assistant Adora to learn about current exhibitions or the upcoming exhibition and be able to, when members of the public want to learn more, they can be empowered to share information. To me, that is a really interesting and awesome way to engage with actual artists we continue to expose the public to within our spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on the new volunteer program, and to register and log your areas of interest, visit auroraculturalcentre.ca\/volunteer\/volunteer-at-town-square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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