Celebration of Seagrove Potters 2022 Application Step 1 of 2 50% Celebration of Seagrove Potters 2022 ApplicationName First Last Name of Pottery Business (As it would appear on any promotional materials) NC Tax ID (Mandatory) Address(Required) Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Email Daytime Phone(Required)Evening Phone (ONLY IF DIFFERENT)Cell PhoneText Yes No SELECT THE OPTION(S) YOU PLAN TO PARTICIPATE IN Celebration Show at the Luck’s Cannery $350, November 19, 2022 9am-5pm; Sunday November 20, 2022 10am-4p I will be attending Driving Studio Tour $100, November 19, 2022; Sunday November 20, 2022 I will be attending IMPORTANT DATES: AUGUST 15, 2022 Application and Payment in Full Due-first come, first serve on show SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 Advertising commitment to program (details to follow) SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 Image for program gallery due (2” x 1.5”) for all tour/show participants SEPTEMBER 15, 2002 Booth add-ons due (form to come) OCTOBER 5, 2022 Collaboration auction pieces due. More info to follow.(Required) I have read the attached Rules and Regulations and agree to abide by them. Signature First Last Date MM slash DD slash YYYY If unable to complete this in the DiscoverSeagrove Potters Portal please return to SAPA, Box 309, Seagrove, NC. 27341, no personal drop off allowed.Celebration Rules and Regulations for 2022 The Celebration is managed by the Celebration Committee of the Seagrove Area Potters Association (SAPA). The Celebration of Seagrove Potters is run by and for the Seagrove potters. Your help and support is vital to our mutual success. All exhibitors must be current SAPA members in good standing by Jan 31, 2022. Membership is $150 per year and due by Jan 31, 2022. Applications are not accepted without full payment. Total fee is due upon application (August 15, 2022). The show space is on a first come, first served basis with 30 available booths. We will use the postmark date or online submittal time to determine eligibility date and order received. Please DO NOT deliver your payment and booth application in person to anyone. Every member booth will be required to sign up for a volunteer job during setup or breakdown of the show, with no exceptions. This is a volunteer event and everyone needs to help. The volunteer sign up sheet will be sent at a later date. Failure to sign up/complete your task will result in forfeiture of your booth space. Booth locations will be allocated by lottery. Lottery will be completed at the end of August. The space available in the building is limited therefore we cannot guarantee that all qualified applicants will be accepted. Booths are allocated on a first come, first served basis until the space is fully allocated. Each booth is 8’ x 12’ with no storage space behind the drapes. All your packing materials, product and display materials must be contained within your booth allowing a clearance of 12” at the front to prevent bottleneck in the aisles. All exhibitors must be registered with the NC Department of Revenue and have a sales tax identification number. Exhibitors are responsible for collecting and paying the required sales tax. You can call the NC Department of Revenue at (877) 252-3052 for sales tax information or go to www.dor.state.nc.us . Set up will be on Friday, November 18, 2022. The exact time will be announced. All exhibitors are required to be present in their booth with sufficient quantity of high quality work during all the "open to the public" hours of the Celebration. Breakdown is not permitted before 4pm on Sunday. After official opening time of the Celebration, no case or packing materials (not including wrapping) are to be left in the aisles and/or visible to the public within the booth. All exhibitors must comply with the local fire protection code. The code will be strictly enforced. A final walkthrough will occur on Friday, before opening to the general public, to ensure all booths conform to fire codes, permits, and rules and regulations. Electrical equipment, such as heaters, hot plates, coffee pots etc. are not allowed at your booth, gas powered equipment is also not allowed due to fire regulations. IMPORTANT: All electrical EXTENSION CORDS used at your booth must have a BUILT-IN Circuit Breaker ON/OFF Switch, be grounded – three wires, not two and be UL approved. All other extension cords will be removed by the Fire Marshall. Each exhibitor is responsible for keeping their booth area clean. Please leave it in its original condition at the end of the festival. Food and drink sales are not allowed as part of any booth or any items other than Pottery. Sale and reduced signs are not permitted. Only work made by the paid exhibitor may be shown in the booth. Parking in the front area of the building for anything other than loading or unloading is prohibited. All vehicles must be moved to the far rear car park before the Celebration begins. Teardown after the festival: Please do not begin teardown until 4.00 pm on Sunday. In order to keep the flow of traffic moving and to help get you home as fast as possible, we ask that you have all your items packaged up and ready to load and your booth broken down before getting your vehicle in line to come in and load up. Booth Refund for cancellation incurs a $100 cancellation fee Liabilities: The Seagrove Area Potters Association carries public event liability insurance for this Celebration of Seagrove Potters event. Exhibitors will be held responsible for any and all property damage incurred by their employees. Violators will be held responsible and charged for repairs. It is understood that the vendor will indemnify and hold harmless the Seagrove Area Potters Association and the Celebration of Seagrove Potters, the exhibit facility and site, as well as any officer or staff member of the Seagrove Area Potters Association and the Celebration of Seagrove Potters. They will NOT be responsible for any damage or loss that might occur from acts of God, fire, damage, theft, loss of merchandise, flooding, water damage, personal injury to exhibitors, vendors, their personnel, their buyers or visitors, or for any other injury or damage alleged to have been caused or attributed to, by reason of any exhibitors or vendors participation in the show. It is agreed that the Seagrove Area Potters Association and the Celebration of Seagrove Potters, the exhibit facility, site and sponsoring parties shall be blameless for all liability which might ensue from any cause mentioned above. It is understood that the Seagrove Area Potters Association and the Celebration of Seagrove Potters does NOT provide any liability or property insurance for exhibitors and vendors participating in the Celebration. Security: Armed off duty policemen and/or security personnel will provide 24-hour security during the Celebration beginning Friday on completion of set-up, per the schedule, until close of the Celebration, per the schedule. Site: No smoking is allowed on the site of the Celebration. No alcoholic beverages are allowed on the site of the Celebration Animals and pets are not allowed on the site of the Celebration with the exception of hearing and seeing-eye dogs. Management: Management reserves the right to refuse any or all applications for space and to prohibit or remove any exhibit, display or part thereof, or proposed exhibit display or device, which in the opinion of Celebration management is not suitable to or in keeping with the policy of Celebration management. A significant violation of the rules of the Celebration and/or disruptive behavior at the Celebration will result in the removal of the exhibitor and his/her employees and exhibition from the Celebration. This may also lead to exclusion of the exhibitor and/or his/her employees from future events of the Celebration of Seagrove Potters. Other: Events or circumstances not covered in these operating policies or procedures may be subject to special consideration and stipulations as deemed appropriate by The Seagrove Area Potters Association and the Celebration of Seagrove Potters management and/or the management of the site of the Celebration.QUICK REFERENCE FOR THE 15TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF SEAGROVE POTTERSThis year the Celebration of Seagrove Potters will be a community wide event. Things have changed with the renovations at Luck’s Cannery and the show will be in a different spot in the Plant, and we will be promoting a self guided driving tour and map as part of the event as well. One program that will be promoting both aspects of the celebration weekend, including a gallery of all participants with hours, etc Information booth as you come into town to pickup a program, buy ticket(s) for the inside event rather than at the show (special entrance at the show for prepaid tickets) to make it easier to do both the tour and the show Indoor Show in a climate controlled room, beautiful new restroom Food Trucks on site and hopefully around town 9-10am Saturday, early shopping hour: $25 admission, 10-5pm general admission: $8 and Sunday 10-4pm: $8. No Gala. Regional Advertising and exposure for the entire show Show Fee: $350 (rule sheet attached) application will be available August 1 at noon in the Potters Portal and will be emailed to all members 30 - 8’X12’ booths available on first come basis (one size size only/one per member shop) Booths back up to the wall so all packing/moving materials, etc must be contained within your 8x12 space 9-10am Saturday, early shopping hour for $25 admission $8 general admission 10-5 and Sunday 10-4 Booth participants will be required to volunteer for a job during set-up or tear down Photo listed in show gallery Demos Tour Fee: $100 Location on driving map. There will be different signage for the tour to direct people. Photo/hours listed in driving tour gallery Inclusion in regional marketing The program will include a gallery for the tour and a gallery for the show participants. Each participant will submit a color image, high resolution, 2” x 1.5” by September 15. The driving map will be in the program. Advertising is available to all members in full page, half page and quarter page sizes. You will receive information in August about purchasing advertising. The auction will be a silent auction, featuring collaboration pieces. You will receive more information about this, and we look forward to the work you create together, that looks like both of you but not just one of you! We will be actively promoting the finished pieces on Social Media and to the press in October. We will have an Information Booth set up in the lot by the ATM machine. At the stop light in Seagrove There we will provide the program for people on the tour, sell tickets to people that might want to do the tour and then go to the show and provide directional information to the 15th Annual Celebration of Seagrove Potters.Important Dates AUGUST 1, 2022 12 noon application available on www.DiscoverSeagrove.com in your Potters Portal AUGUST 15, 2022 Application and Payment in Full Due-first come, first served basis for the show as only 30 spots available to be chosen by lottery drawing SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 Advertising commitment to program (details to follow in August) SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 Booth locations announced and Add-ons form available (crossbars, etc) SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 Booth Add-On purchases due. SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 Image for program gallery due (2” x 1.5”) for all tour/show participants. Everyone participating will have an image of their work in the Gallery pages for the Driving Tour and for the Show. A clear, high resolution image should be submitted to [email protected] OCTOBER 5, 2022 Collaboration auction pieces due. We will be soliciting Collaborative Pieces for the Silent Auction that will be on display in the Carey and Billie Durham Artwork hallway outside the Show. The auction will end at 3pm so that the highest bidder will be able to pick it up. We will not be offering shipping. These pieces need to be completed by October 5 so that we may photograph them and market them to the public. We also request that the individual collaborators promote their pieces to their collectors. These are truly one of a kind pieces that are representative in a visual manner of all that created it and not identifiable as by one person. You will receive more information about this, but if you know someone you would like to work with we encourage you to get started!!Electricity Requirements (Please check ) Yes-Electricity No-Electricity Total Payment Method(Required) Pay Online with a credit card/paypal Pay by Check - Click submit button then print the next page and mail to: SAPA PO BOX 309 Seagrove NC 27341