A unique festival job: Become a secret guest and win 20,000 kroner
At Folkely Festival, a selected secret guest will party with the others without revealing their identity. The purpose is to create community among the participants.
Folkely Festival has existed for five years. (Photo: © Daniel Godsk Stagsted, Graphic: Morten Fogde Christensen)
Normally, it’s possible to work in all sorts of different roles at the country’s many festivals. Volunteers are needed to clean the toilets, others to work in the bar serving draft beer to thirsty guests, and there’s also a need for security guards to ensure order and peace.
But Folkely Festival in Hundested, North Zealand, is looking for one person for a rather unusual job this year – namely, as a secret guest.
> If you hide, we’ll come after you with a little fork in your backside and say, now it’s time to get out and enjoy the festival, my friend.
> Mark Rydahl, festival director at Folkely Festival
The job description is quite simple. The secret guest must visit Folkely Festival for three days, be a completely ordinary guest, and ensure that no one discovers they are employed for the role.
And if the person succeeds, the prize is 20,000 kroner.
- We need a guest to come down here, who will go a bit undercover for the entire festival weekend and take part in the festivities, but still hide their identity from the other guests, says Mark Rydahl, festival director at Folkely Festival.
The festival has various criteria they look for when selecting the secret guest among the applications. And Mark Rydahl says it’s very important, among other things, that the person does not hide away or avoid the festival’s other guests.
- First and foremost, we’re looking for a social person. It absolutely cannot be someone who hides. If you hide, we’ll come after you with a little fork in your backside and say, now it’s time to get out and enjoy the festival, my friend. And of course, we’re also looking for someone who’s good at keeping a secret, he says.
The festival has various requirements for the secret guest. Among other things, they must be at least 18 years old and able to participate in the festival all three days. (Photo: © Connie Westergaard)
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Secret guest to create community
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Around 8,000 guests attend the festival daily this year, and the organizers have already received about 1,000 applications for the somewhat unconventional job as a secret guest.
> We hope a bit that this will become the talk of the town at the festival this year, that they’ll have to figure out who the guest is.
> Mark Rydahl, festival director at Folkely Festival
The initiative is both an attempt to stand out from other festivals and also to get festivalgoers to talk to each other.
- The idea behind it is to try to create a sense of community among all our guests, to have something in common that everyone talks about a bit. We hope a bit that this will become the talk of the town at the festival this year, that they’ll have to figure out who the guest is, says Mark Rydahl.
Is it really necessary to have a concept like this and give people 20,000
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