General Responsibilities

For All Events

As a Metropolitan volunteer you will have specific knowledge which is of benefit to both guests and performers. 

Location of washrooms

• How to get to the balcony

• Location of various rooms which may be in use for warm-ups or as dressing rooms (i.e., the Vineyard, the Great Room, the Parlour, the Guest Conference Room, etc.)

• Locations of stored seat cushions

• Location of all lit EXIT signs within the church

• Awareness of contact person or attendant at the event

• Other helpful things not listed

Before a Performance

Volunteers would arrive early to meet with Rob Cairns for details of the particular event. Information would include:

Details about the performing group

• Which rooms are accessible to the group, and the purpose of those rooms (e.g., dressing room, warm-up room, green room)

• Whether or not the kitchen may be used

• Which entrances to the building are open for the audience to enter and exit

• Where volunteers should be located to assist our guests

• Expected audience size

• Which "Other Responsibilities" listed below are in place for the event

At the End of a Performance

Metropolitan is regularly hosting events and we are also an active place of worship which always needs to be ready for Sunday services and various other church functions during the week. We ask that all volunteers assist with making sure the sanctuary and other spaces are ready for church activities at the end of the performance. End-of-Performance activities include:

• Returning seat cushions to their storage locations

• Straightening up the cushions in those locations (people do return them, but they don't always put them away properly)

• Tidying up pew rows by removing leftover programs, water bottles (if water was sold at the performance), candy wrappers and other items on pew seats, under pews, and/or in wooden holders on backs of pews

• Taking Lost-and-Found items to the office area and giving them to our door attendant; if and when people return for a lost item, it can be found in one location

• Checking to see that hymn books and Bibles are placed properly in book holders on backs of pews. People do pick them up and look at them at non-church functions, but they don't always return them properly to our book holders

• Checking to see that all backstage spaces (e.g., the Great Room, the Parlour, the Guest Conference Room, the Kitchen) are tidied up​