SOS Summer Exhibition – Stewarding Sign-up (Holton Lodge Barn Gallery)

Date: August 18, 2025

The SOS members’ Summer Exhibition at the Holton Lodge Barn Gallery, Halesworth, will run from Thursday 21st August to Sunday 31st August 2025, 10am-4pm.

As always, we need your help to make this event a success. Therefore, in addition to the usual stewarding slots, we have once again added further opportunities for you to offer assistance.

Monday 18th August, 9.00am-3pm – we need seven volunteers to greet artists and check in their work on arrival at the venue (drop-off actually starts at 9.30am, so we have allowed time for a short briefing prior to opening the doors).

Friday 22nd August – in addition to the morning and afternoon stewarding slots, we would appreciate some help between 4pm and 8pm setting up, and assisting, during and after the Private View.

Finally, on Sunday 31st August, in addition to the morning and afternoon stewarding slots, we will need four volunteers to help between 4pm and 6pm with checking out artists’ work and tidying up .

It is a condition of entry that each exhibiting artist volunteers at least once during the exhibition. Please choose your preferred date(s) and time(s) from the following list. Feel free to select as many as you would like, but do make sure to leave plenty of opportunities for others.

NB For your safety, Suffolk Open Studios does not permit lone “working” (volunteering) so if we are unable to fill certain stewarding slots, the exhibition will not open at those times and the potential for any sales will be lost, not to mention the inconvenience it will cause to visitors who may have traveled to the venue especially.

Parking: There is free on-site parking for volunteers.

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