Who are these people?

   This group is evolving quickly. It began as an idea and has grown quickly to attract people from all sorts of backgrounds and ages. Our supporters include business people, musicians, charity  and community leaders, students, politicians, people from every corner of Newfoundland and Labrador society. Blue-collar, white-collar, no-collar.  At our core, we all share two common traits: (1) We love a great party, and (2) we believe that this festival could be a great legacy for our city and province.

   We have a dream of what could be. We see our main role as promoting the idea and getting enough support to make it an attractive idea to those who might want to produce this event. We seek to build visible public support.
   We did not start this with the intention of raising money or spending other people's money - we will be happy with any promoter who wants to run with this idea - so long as they also want a festival for the whole community. A festival that will give great opportunities to local tourism, charities, and any business that wants to participate is welcomed. The model we propose would allow any group to stage their own event as a part of the festival or help sponsor another event on a different night or at a different venue. We would hope that a sponsor or event promoter would see the potential for a festival that tries to bring the whole community on-board. A festival that is larger by being inclusive, by encouraging the smaller stages and parties to offer up not just a little of the festival flavour - but also a showcase for variety.

   We hope to encourage organizers to keep spaces and co-operative opportunities for charity at the forefront. Allowing a flexible and direct way for charities to participate in the festival for their own fund-raising or publicity goals.

   We ask nothing more from our supporters than they indicate that they would love to attend this sort of festival, and to pass on the word to their friends. 

   We offer an affiliated group for volunteers - people who may have the time to get involved in making contacts, brain-storming, promoting the concept, perhaps with an eye to eventually sitting on a board of directors if we ever do make the jump to organizing and promoting our own festhall. If you have connections, passing the word along to people who might contribute would be great.

 - If you have skills, offering them up for networking, promoting, marketing, or research.

 - If you are a musician, then perhaps you would be interested in keeping your finger on the pulse of the event?
   Perhaps you'd like to help put together your own Oktoberfest band for fun?
 
- Maybe as an entertainer or artist, you see your role as doing promos, posters, or  just quietly giving back to the community in a fun way? Perhaps helping out with a documentary or short promotional video for You Tube
 to help us sell the idea? Maybe you see a role in creating a mascot? Staging publicity events?

 - If you are a student or learning skills that you want to practice for a resume - we can give you that chance.

 - If you are a club manager - perhaps you see potential to involve your business on the ground floor?
 

Why support a Rock-toberfest: Oktoberfest on the Rock?

   The most important reason is that a large group offering public support will offer us some input on how the event takes shape. If we can show sponsors that we have 2,000 or more supporters for this sort of event, then we can pretty much offer a ready crowd to attend a center-piece event. That would be attractive to a promoter. It might also be a draw for bigger names to headline a concert stage. A large support group might be incentive to a brewery to launch new products in this market. It makes the idea of selling Newfoundland as a Fall tourist destination a little more attractive to people elsewhere. It opens the door to establishing an official group with the clout to suggest standards for a quality event that will become an annual event - rather than a hodgepodge of competing interests.
 Just saying that you'd like to attend this sort of event could be enough to make it happen and happen sooner!