"Ask not what the Kennedy Center can do for you, ask what you can do for the Kennedy Center."
- Bill Turner, Saturday Tour Guide since 1988
Other Volunteer Opportunities
We have additional volunteer opportunities for those of you unable to commit to a year. We also staff numerous special events that occur during the year including our annual Open House Arts Festival, Prelude, and the Multicultural Children's Book Festival. Please see our festival volunteering page for further details.
Or try our short-term volunteer program, usually projects with a commitment of six months or less. And finally, check out our volunteer opportunities reaching out to the international community!
- Short Term Volunteering
- Festival Volunteering
- Prelude Festival (August 30 - October 5) application– available summer 2008
- Open House (Saturday, September 13, 2008) application &ndash available July, 2008
- Multicultural Children’s Book Festival (Saturday, November 1, 2008) application — available September, 2008
- Arab Festival (February 23 to March 15, 2009) application – available November, 2008
- International/Multicultural opportunities

