Get Involved

We are a friendly bunch and love to welcome new crew members into the fold, just fill out your details below and let us know a little about yourself. We are always looking for keen people with building/rigging/festival production skills to come and join us onsite for 2-6 weeks over the whole setup, party, packdown process or for essential folks to take on core roles during the event itself. We are also keen to hear from anyone that has skills that might be useful during the event - This could be stage management, parking, driving, cooking, coffee making or general hospo steeze. Make sure you let us know if you have previous experience crewing with festivals and if so which ones. Payment: This is always handled on a case-by-case basis, You can work for your entry or we can arrange a wage depending on what you are bringing to the table. We look after each other during the setup and packdown with lots of yummy food and good times, come get amongst it!

At Twisted Frequency we embrace all shapes and flavours of music, While we have a consistent roster of huge international/NZ acts, It has been a long standing rule for us to do our best to provide a platform for up coming artists and give them a chance to connect with a new audience. Whether you are fresh as or an established musician we would love to hear what you have to offer! Please fill out the info below to let us know a little bit about yourself and your act. You’ll need to have a good quality photo and your artist bio at hand, so get everything together and set some time aside to fill out all the information fields to give your application the best chance of success. DJ's: Please ensure you are submitting at least one link to a recorded mix. Bands/live projects: please ensure you submit some examples of your recorded music/performance. Unfortunately due to the overwhelming number of applications we receive every year, we aren’t able to get back to everyone but we will be in touch if we think there could be a spot for you at the festival.

Visual installations are a huge part of what we do at Twisted, Every year our VJ team grows and we want to provide opportunities for visual artists to bring their unique styles, let us know below if you would like to bring your pixels to the festival!

Circo arts has always held a firm place in the experience of Twisted Frequency. Every year we have a tonne of talented flowmies lighting up the night and dazzling folks with their sick skills through the daytime aswell. If you are keen to bring a roaming act/performance to the event, please get in touch.

We welcome any and all arts/crafts/fashion or products as long as they can adhere to our one rule: NO CHEAP PLASTIC CRAP! We prefer to host stalls that are selling sustainable products where possible. There is no charge for bringing a stall, we want to make it as easy and profitable as possible for small business/artisans and creatives to share their wares. All we ask is that each stall holder and their staff/team members purchases a ticket to the festival. Let us know a little about your stall and what you'd like to do.

Medics, Ngā Kaitiaki Festival Guardians and Psy-Care Aotearoa sound like your thing? These volunteer crews are out there 24/7 making sure our community is safe and well. If you have first aid experience, can keep your cool when things are feeling a bit tense, excel at calling out your mates’ dickish behaviour, or love being camp mum to your crew, they want to hear from you. Medics: We’d love anyone who has experience in any kind of medic, first aid, nursing, or other medical experience to fill out our medics team. You’ll be patching up all varieties of paddock-related injuries and ailments. Ngā Kaitiaki: These are the teams patrolling the dancefloors, upholding our consent standards and encouraging respectful interactions so we can all party in the safest way. If you’re okay with heavy conversations, and comfortable calling out folks not upholding the dancefloor kaupapa, this team is for you. Psy-Care Aotearoa: This team runs Twisted’s care space, providing non-judgmental care no matter how sideways your night is going. They need folks who are unfazed by whatever comes at them, always ready with a listening ear and a cuppa tea. Extra useful is any experience in care or support work, mental health, or peer support.

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Volunteers are literally the wheels that keep this machine moving! We are so deeply grateful for every one of the folks that takes the time and care to help make this thing run smoothly. We need help with all sorts but spots are limited so get in quick to secure your place in the team. Volunteering is a great way to meet some peeps and make some new friends at the festival. Get amongst it! As a volunteer, you are required to pay for your ticket to the event. You will be reimbursed for your ticket cost after the festival, provided you attend ALL of your rostered shifts. That's the deal, simple as. If you're keen to join the team and help us out, there are lots of jobs that we will need help with during and after the event, here are some examples of some of the things we need help with: During the event:

We host a wide range of workshops at Twisted and are always looking for speakers on all sorts of topics as well as hands on lessons in unique crafts/circus art teachers. If you have some knowledge or skills you would like to share then let us know what you would like to contribute!

Art is a huge part of what this festival is about and has always been a core aspect of what sets us apart from other events, every year we invite creatives from a wide range of disciplines to bring new colours and shapes to the Cobb Valley. We are currently looking for painters, sculptures, and other creative peeps who would be keen to exhibit their art this Twisted in our gallery space and throughout the site. There will be plenty of spots available within the gallery tent, and we ask that each artist takes on a couple of shifts as curator, managing the space and this way you can be present to talk to someone if they are interested in purchasing some art! Been looking for the motivation to complete that piece you've had to the side for a while now? Pumped to collaborate and network with other artists in the community? Send through some links to examples of your work along with a bit about yourself. We are also always on the hunt for live painters/Graffiti/Mural artists to paint live and in person during the event, if you're interested in submitting for a spot in the gallery space or a spot on our live art team. Send us some examples of your work and some info about you as an artist. Installation artists apply below! If you have an existing installation OR have an exciting idea for something you would like to do and just need someone to back it and a place for it to be appreciated, Let us know, we want to hear from you!

We are looking for people to join our photography / videography team to capture this year’s event!

Let us know a little about your stall and what you'd like to do. Please note, we do have some conditions for food vendors: ALL single use cutlery, plates and cups need to be COMPOSTABLE (not just biodegradable). If you want help transitioning to using compostable items then we can help you find the way. We try to avoid over stocking on the same types of food, so we need to know exactly what you're wanting to sell - this is to make sure that all vendors that come have a fair chance at making it worth their while. We will be strictly enforcing this, so make sure you talk to us and understand before organising your stall. Kai is the fuel that keeps people safely partying through the night and we encourage stalls to be open late where possible. What does it cost? Prior to accepting your application we will negotiate an exchange of credit at your stall which will be redeemed via vouchers for the crew and artists during the event. If this credit isn't redeemed we will ask that you pay the remaining difference. This depends on what you are selling, so it is a case-by-case basis. If you prefer to negotiate a site fee to keep things simple for you, we may consider this, however we need to have help with meal vouchers for crew and artists and have found that vendors find this approach suitable.

Festival Entry Costs + Helpers

Stall owners and any helpers need to purchase tickets (we've found it the simplest way to handle this). What is provided? We provide water and electricity, Please note, Some stalls that require larger amounts of power will need to chip in for generator fuel depending on their usage.

This role's a little bit special. Training up aspiring young festival organisers and team leads is a crucial part of the festival ecosystem and while we have been doing this in a less structured way in the past we are aiming to formally build a system to help make sure the future of the Aotearoa underground scene is well equipped with fresh minds. We'd love folks under 25 who are keen to learn, enthusiastic about the Twisted community and kaupapa, and can see themselves getting more involved in this mahi in future to get in touch. You'd shadow one of our existing team leads, assisting with their mahi, listening in and inputting on team decisions and planning, getting stuck in alongside them, and generally getting familiar with an integral part of the festival. These roles involve a mix of some comms and time off-site, and getting stuck in on-site in the build and festival period. We'll provide nourishing kai while you are on-site with us, and all the support you need to get something super valuable out of the role. We'd especially love to hear from women/femme-identifying folk, trans folk, Māori, Pasifika, and other BIPOC folk, and anyone else often overlooked by the mainstream world. Please note some of these roles involve spending a minimum of (two weeks?) in the Cobb Valley and moving round a multi-level and occasionally muddy site, so we can't promise we can accommodate all physical disabilities.