Get involved
Volunteer on Bainbridge Island, sponsor festival programming, submit a community event, or help amplify the season through outreach and cultural storytelling.
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Bring your act into the closing-weekend program while lineup space remains.
Festival Finale performer applications remain open while space remains in the program.
Open while space remains
Apply to perform
Fund cultural impact while increasing brand visibility and local foot traffic.
Initial print calendar deadline is April 24, but sponsor placements can still be worked in after that.
Still open
Become sponsorVolunteer
Open year-round
Resource center
Explore focused resources for sponsors, volunteers, and festival evangelists. Each toolkit includes branded badge art and practical links for outreach, onsite use, and next steps.
Sponsor resources
Everything sponsors need to decide, commit, and activate quickly with assets ready to share.
Review support levels, benefits, and alignment options.
Manage commitments, offers, and live support pathways.
Access sponsor-facing materials and fulfillment references.
Open a ready-to-use outreach template for partner asks.
Questions for this pathway? sponsor@aahfestival.org
Volunteer resources
Practical links for volunteer discovery, live event signup, and peer recruitment.
Start on the volunteer overview page for the new SignupGenius-first volunteer flow.
Open a ready-to-post recruitment message template.
Download official badges, wordmarks, and flyer framing assets for outreach and community posting.
Questions for this pathway? volunteer@aahfestival.org
Festival evangelist resources
Help promote the festival with approved links, social copy, and campaign-ready creative.
Use current stories and highlights when sharing the festival.
Direct your audience to the full event calendar and details.
Share a live calendar file for all published festival events.
Open suggested social captions and posting cadence.
Open the public asset library for volunteer, partner, and event-organizer-ready festival branding.
Questions for this pathway? pr@aahfestival.org
What happens next
Beyond volunteer, sponsor, and event pathways, here are additional ways to take part.
Step 1
Share your set details for Festival Finale 2026 and submit your performer application.
Start performer applicationStep 2
Apply to lead a hands-on cultural or learning booth during Festival Finale.
Start booth applicationStep 3
Get launch updates, deadlines, and new opportunities by following us on Instagram.
Follow on InstagramVolunteer coordination update
The website still handles volunteer discovery and context, but the core signature-event slots now route out to SignupGenius. That reduces drift between what the site shows and what coordinators actually need to staff.
How the new flow works
Japanese Heritage Night, Asian Monologues, and Festival Finale now route to live SignupGenius forms so the scheduling source of truth stays outside the website.
The broader website-managed volunteer intake is paused this season so the public signup story stays limited to the active signature events.
Broader volunteer intake is paused this season so the public site can stay focused on the live signature-event SignupGenius paths.
Live signups
Signature events
The public website now acts as the volunteer discovery layer while live slot selection moves into SignupGenius.
Reward and admin workflows are being simplified to match this shift, so the public site now emphasizes current signup paths instead of the old internal assignment loop.
