If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my two years as a Works to Work intern at the Works Art & Design Festival, it is that the mentality of the team is crucial to the quality of the outcome. This year we had a fantastic outcome, directly reflective of who was involved behind the scenes. Our team always has a group of people with diverse backgrounds and strengths, but with one overarching common goal and a talent for breaking all the major things we need do into manageable sizes and celebrating the little things we accomplish along the way.

As part of The Works volunteer recruitment effort, the team set up a table at Night Market Edmonton this past Friday and the event was a huge success. We managed to rope in quite a few volunteers.

However, the highlight of the evening was when a young man stumbled up to one of our posters and read it aloud (a little cockeyed):

“Artsneak… to disguise art in everyday experiences. Two. When a performance artist is hidden in a crowd.”