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Applications to Trade at Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival are now open.

Beyond the Border is looking for food traders, charities and unique stalls to take a pitch at beyond the Border 2020. Each application is assessed on its own merit and its fit into the ethos of Beyond the Border to provide festival attendees with a range of high-quality food, drinks and goods so please give as much information as possible including photographs of your pitch and products. Each stall is priced individually, based on the number of staff, the size of the stall, the requirements of the stall and the product on sale.

If you would like to Trade at Beyond the Border 2020 contact info@beyondtheborder.com all applicants must complete a Traders Application Form. Successful applicants will be contacted with further information and details of the pitch location and price.

Traders Application Form 2020

Apply to be a Festival volunteer on 1 February.

Beyond the Border International Storytelling festival 2020 will be taking place at a new location of National Trusts’s Dinefwr Park in Llandeillo. This is a very exciting time for Beyond the Border and we need a team of volunteers who are equally excited about this move to a new home and want to help to make this transition to a new site as successful as possible. There is a wide range of opportunities for Volunteers including venue stewarding, site patrols, car park, artist liaison, and traffic management. Our team of Volunteers will be selected and managed by Wicked Events.

Applications for Volunteers will be through their website

Can you help us shape our future Story?

Beyond the Border is considered one of the world’s finest international storytelling festivals. Last year, after celebrating its 25^th year we appointed an exciting new Artistic Director, Naomi Wilds and arrangements are well underway for the 2020 festival at a new venue Dinefwr Park and Castle in Carmarthenshire. The nature of festivals is changing and so are we, therefore we’re seeking to appoint new trustees with particular skills to help guide the festival into the future.

What we’re looking for:

Planning and delivering the festival requires a broad range of skills and qualities. The organisation is also more than just a festival. We are involved with projects that develop the artform, use different media and ones that use storytelling as a means of education, improving health and wellbeing and to create positive social change. As a result we’re looking for trustees from a range of backgrounds that will invest the Festival board with important skills and knowledge. We’re particularly interested in hearing from people who can offer knowledge or experience in in the following areas:

Finance and Accounting
Business development / Fundraising and Sponsorship
Commercial Enterprise
Education
Charity/voluntary organisation governance
Health & Wellbeing
Legal

What’s involved in being a trustee with Beyond the Border:

Our trustee meetings are usually held in the Cardiff area, but remote attendance through Skype is a possibility so distance isn’t necessarily a barrier to being a trustee.

The trustee meetings sow seeds that eventually create that special magic that is the Beyond the Border Festival and its associated projects. Trustees’ input really does make a difference. The meetings cover the initial conceptualisation of the festival along with supplementary projects and then develop the artistic and entrepreneurial aspects that ensure we remain financially sustainable whilst achieving our mission, which is:

To bring stories and people together, from Wales and the world, through an inspirational biennial festival and projects which deepen connection through the power of stories.

How to apply:

If interested, please send us a letter detailing why you are interested in becoming a trustee and what you feel you could offer and outlining relevant experience. Please also detail anything that you are looking to gain from being a trustee.

You can email your letter to andrewprice@beyondtheborder.com or post to Baltic House, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff, CF10 5FH

Informal enquiries and questions can be directed to andrewprice@beyondtheborder.com

Closing date for applications is Friday 6 March 2020.

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