2009 FALL INTERNATIONAL QUILT MARKET & FESTIVAL  WORKER'S GUIDE

George R. Brown Convention Center
1001 Avenida de las Americas
Houston, Texas  77010
Quilt Market is Oct. 10-12 & Festival is Oct. 15-18, with Preview Night Oct. 14th

We are celebrating International Quilt Festival’s 35th anniversary this year. It is also International Quilt Market 30th anniversary. Come join us by working behind the scenes of the show. We can’t do it without you!

            The International Quilt Market is a trade show, not open to the public or to children. This is a place for quilt shop owners to purchase supplies for their stores. It is open on the first Saturday, Sunday and Monday on your schedule. If you are working during Market, you will not be eligible to shop the vendors after your shift, but you will be able to see the special exhibits. After a couple of "changeover" days, Festival begins and the crowds come. If you have never seen it, you are in for a big surprise and a wonderful treat. This event is half art show and half shopping spree, and that is only the ground floor. There are also bus tours, classes, special exhibits, award ceremonies, and other activities going on throughout the week and into the weekend.

To run a show of this size, we rely on people like you. We need people to help hang the quilts before Market, guards for the quilts during Market and Festival, doorpersons to take tickets, and help with takedown after the show is closed. We pay $7.25 an hour; parking reimbursement (up to $7-this is the cost to park per day for the lots on each side of the George R. Brown); and you receive free entry to the show for each day you work (a $10 value for Festival). This could also be a great fundraiser for your organization. You would still receive parking and free entry into the show. Your organization would receive the money that you earn.

Please go to the Job Description page and see the different positions available. After you have read it, please go to the shifts available page and choose the shift/shifts you are interested in working.

I look forward to hearing from you soon!