Volunteering or recreating?
Thu, 9 Dec 1999, 07:53 amGrant Malcolm8 posts in thread
Volunteering or recreating?
Thu, 9 Dec 1999, 07:53 amWhen you commit to working on a community theatre production, are you volunteering or recreating?
We don't generally expect that volunteers should have to pay for the privilege of donating their efforts to the community.
On the other hand, as the user-pays principle permeates every facet of our society, recreation has been commoditised and we're paying more and more for it.
How would you counter an argument that community theatre companies are providing recreation opportunities not volunteer services and as such members should be paying fees commensurate with membership of a health club?
Cheers
Grant
We don't generally expect that volunteers should have to pay for the privilege of donating their efforts to the community.
On the other hand, as the user-pays principle permeates every facet of our society, recreation has been commoditised and we're paying more and more for it.
How would you counter an argument that community theatre companies are providing recreation opportunities not volunteer services and as such members should be paying fees commensurate with membership of a health club?
Cheers
Grant
RE: Volunteering or recreating?
Mon, 13 Dec 1999, 09:15 pm I hope we are not pigeon holed by the term of volunteering - meaning amateur.
Because I think I don't have that attitude, what I do have is a sense of when I do it from the heart and if I have volunteered to perform a task or assist others with a need.
We have a situation that is evolving here, where we have Friends of the Theatre used to perform functions, which otherwise would have been done by some one who is paid, this is disguised in the form of -
if they did not do this .... the place would close or we could not put this type of performance on (crap)
I have had a go about this before.
However, I was asked by the local Community Senior Citizen Club to help backstage at our performing arts centre - So I volunteered, after checking and getting the go ahead from the Centre management, in this case I was a true volunteer as I was assisting the Senior Citizens as they would have gone without a extra tech, because of the costs. I do get upset when volunteers or FOTs are used and abused to line the pockets or prop up empires at Pro-venues.
Now on the other hand I don't regard it as being a volunteer at our local Community Theatre - I am a pro (however I am paid)
As for recreating - what or who are we recreating that pro's do not?
As for Mr ..... what's his name -----
isn't it nice to look down from lofty heights and crap on ........regardless
Joe McCabe
Because I think I don't have that attitude, what I do have is a sense of when I do it from the heart and if I have volunteered to perform a task or assist others with a need.
We have a situation that is evolving here, where we have Friends of the Theatre used to perform functions, which otherwise would have been done by some one who is paid, this is disguised in the form of -
if they did not do this .... the place would close or we could not put this type of performance on (crap)
I have had a go about this before.
However, I was asked by the local Community Senior Citizen Club to help backstage at our performing arts centre - So I volunteered, after checking and getting the go ahead from the Centre management, in this case I was a true volunteer as I was assisting the Senior Citizens as they would have gone without a extra tech, because of the costs. I do get upset when volunteers or FOTs are used and abused to line the pockets or prop up empires at Pro-venues.
Now on the other hand I don't regard it as being a volunteer at our local Community Theatre - I am a pro (however I am paid)
As for recreating - what or who are we recreating that pro's do not?
As for Mr ..... what's his name -----
isn't it nice to look down from lofty heights and crap on ........regardless
Joe McCabe
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