[Sosfbay-discuss] Berryessa Arts and Wine Festival Tabling Report

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Saturday was a warm, but not overly hot day in the  Berryessa area...
It looked to me that the vendors area was full and bustling  compared to 
the last few years when there was empty space in that field.   On the other 
hand, there seemed to be a lot fewer people in the  bandstand/nonprofits area 
in the field just uphill from the community  center...  And the bandstand 
seemed to have holes in its afternoon program  (e.g., the folk duo and rock 
band usually performing in the afternoon were  absent this year).
 
Caroline and Warner did set up; Cameron came by after  noon;  Jim Stauffer 
came by in midafternoon and did take-down with Warner  and deposited the 
tabling equipment and supplies at Warner's house.   Caroline came by and 
retrieved those items (except plants) today (Sunday  afternoon).  
 
We received donations for one box of seeds, a painted  rock and buttons  
(probably less than $20 total -- which is low  for this event; usually we 
"sell" lots of buttons).  Caroline or  Tian mentioned that someone has bumper 
stickers, but those were not evident  in the tabling supplies received.  Both 
the plants and painted rocks drew  attention to our tabling.  We distributed 
literature over the day; again,  probably a much smaller amount than usual 
for this event.
 
Jim and I ran into a complaint from one of the event  organizers when we 
had almost completed our take-down at about 4:30 pm.  We  were told that the 
GPSCC had signed a "contract" that we were supposed to stay  up until 5 pm.  
His point also was the event organizers did not want  traffic adjacent to 
the area to be seeing take-downs or an empty field before 5  pm so observers 
would not think the event had finished before  5  pm.   (We ran into this 
complaint last year also when I closed down  with Caroline's help around 4 pm 
-- at that time, I didn't care because of  suffering from heat exhaustion 
from much hotter temperatures).  Jim and I  hung around an extra twenty minutes 
(after 10 minutes of vociferous  conversation) until 5 pm with everything 
set next to the canopy and the canopy  half down.  I would like to see the 
document.  If that is the  agreement for participating in the event, whoever 
signs off on it needs to  provide those instructions to tablers.
 
This was the second year in a row that I did the whole  day.  I think this 
event is worth doing... particularly next year when  (hopefully) we will 
have statewide candidates for Governor, etc.   (BTW:  Anyone going to run for 
the AD23 seat including Berryessa?)   But... I am not sure I am going to be 
willing to do the whole day again; we need  more volunteers for tabling at 
all events!!!
 
So...  I have the starter plants; a reasonable  variety.  I think our next 
tabling event is Juneteenth in downtown San  Jose.  If folks are going to do 
other tabling before then and want plants,  contact me to arrange a pick-up 
day and time.
 
Warner
 
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