HAPI-NESS

our community outreach programs

The HAPI Festival is thrilled and excited to include members of the local community beginning several months prior to our arrival and continuing through the festival week.

JOB FAIRS

In coordination with local LGBTQ+ Centers the Festival will offer the community jobs and volunteer opportunities.

There are positions for skilled and unskilled people that we would HAPI-LY train.

Participation will including servers, entertainers, box office personnel, hair stylists, make-up artists, food workers, and more.

LOCAL CONTESTS

Contests will be held in local establishments two months prior to the festival’s arrival. Winners will be “Ambassadors” for the Festival to do awareness and participate in the festival. One or all winners would be at each evening’s events.

Sample titles:

Local Drag Bar: KING & QUEEN of the HAPI-PLACE
Local Lesbian Bar: Ms. HAPI-PLACE
Local Leather Bar: Mr. HAPI-PLACE
Local Trans Personality: Mx. HAPI-PLACE

Judges will be sourced from local business owners and/or celebrities as well as a representative from HAPI.

LOCAL BARS

We will be contacting local bars to participate in the “Battle of the Bars”.

Each participant will decorate a booth that is provided by the festival, get a team organized to compete in games, setup a bar with a bartender in the concessions tent and again for the Tea Dance.

We will also ask three or four local bars to hold contests. We would provide the bars with the publicity materials and oversee the entire operation.

The bar only needs to supply the venue.

AUDITIONS

A few months prior to the festival arriving we will hold local auditions for talent.

Our director and choreographer will audition dancers along with local variety acts to perform throughout the festival week.

LOCAL CENTER ACTIVITIES

The HAPI Festival will work closely with the local Centers. A few ways we can work together:

On our History Cabaret Night, we will interview a panel of SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) members and Youth.
The Youth will write questions for the Sage members about their history (growing up in the town, coming out, AIDS era, arrests, and more).
SAGE and Youth will create the questions for “Jeopardy.”
SAGE and Youth will suggest survey questions for “Family Feud.”
At every event, there will be a booth set up for the local Center to interact with the community and a shout out for the Center during the performance.

A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the hosting LGBTQ+ Center.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PARTICIPATION

Working closely with the local Chamber of Commerce, the Festival will always give local gay businesses the first phone call when a need arises. Whether it is accommodations for the artists, travel, liquor or food products, the LGBTQ+ community’s businesses come first.

Experience HAPI!

HAPI-NESS

The HAPI Festival is thrilled and excited to include members of the local community beginning several months prior to our arrival and continuing through the festival week.

JOB FAIRS

In coordination with local LGBTQ+ Centers the Festival will offer the community jobs and volunteer opportunities.

There are positions for skilled and unskilled people that we would HAPI-LY train.

Participation will including servers, entertainers, box office personnel, hair stylists, make-up artists, food workers, and more.

LOCAL CONTESTS

Contests will be held in local establishments two months prior to the festival’s arrival. Winners will be “Ambassadors” for the Festival to do awareness and participate in the festival. One or all winners would be at each evening’s events.

Sample titles:

Local Drag Bar: KING & QUEEN of the HAPI-PLACE

Local Lesbian Bar: Ms. HAPI-PLACE

Local Leather Bar: Mr. HAPI-PLACE

Local Trans Personality: Mx. HAPI-PLACE

Judges will be sourced from local business owners and/or celebrities as well as a representative from HAPI.

LOCAL BARS

We will be contacting local bars to participate in the “Battle of the Bars”.

Each participant will decorate a booth that is provided by the festival, get a team organized to compete in games, setup a bar with a bartender in the concessions tent and again for the Tea Dance.

We will also ask three or four local bars to hold contests. We would provide the bars with the publicity materials and oversee the entire operation.

The bar only needs to supply the venue.

AUDITIONS

A few months prior to the festival arriving we will hold local auditions for talent.

Our director and choreographer will audition dancers along with local variety acts to perform throughout the festival week.

LOCAL CENTER ACTIVITIES

The HAPI Festival will work closely with the local Centers. A few ways we can work together:

On our History Cabaret Night, we will interview a panel of SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) members and Youth.

The Youth will write questions for the Sage members about their history (growing up in the town, coming out, AIDS era, arrests, and more).

SAGE and Youth will create the questions for “Jeopardy.”

SAGE and Youth will suggest survey questions for “Family Feud.”

At every event, there will be a booth set up for the local Center to interact with the community and a shout out for the Center during the performance.

A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to the hosting LGBTQ+ Center.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PARTICIPATION

Working closely with the local Chamber of Commerce, the Festival will always give local gay businesses the first phone call when a need arises. Whether it is accommodations for the artists, travel, liquor or food products, the LGBTQ+ community’s businesses come first.