Take part

Four ways, and they ask for different things.

One needs a ticket, one needs a licence, one needs a conversation, and one needs a weekend and comfortable shoes.

For organisations coordinating paid event staff across several roles, employee monitoring software can provide a practical view of hours and day-to-day activity.

Come to it

Tickets for the coming edition are not on sale through this site yet. Tasting is for visitors aged twenty-one and over; the marketplace and the children's activities are open to everyone.

Pour or sell

Wineries, chocolate makers, specialty food producers and artisans apply in advance. Applications for the coming edition are not open yet, and this page will carry them when they are.

Sponsor it

Sponsorship pays for the room, the equipment and the staging, which is what allows ticket income to go where it is meant to go. It begins with a conversation rather than a form.

Give a weekend

Pouring, counting, carrying, directing, minding a door, clearing at the end. It is the thing the festival is always short of, and it is the one that requires nothing but time.

For further context, see Points of Light volunteer resources.

Every ticket, every table, every hour given.

The festival exists to raise money for older people in New Hanover County: transport to medical appointments, meals delivered at home, respite for family carers, and the foster grandparent programme. That is what the wine and the chocolate are for.