Volunteer for Bike Parking: Nikkei Matsuri Festival 2025

Event Description

We are excited to provide Valet Bike Parking at the Nikkei Matsuri Festival in San José's historic Japantown! Join us for an afternoon of volunteering at a wonderful community event!

There are 4 shifts you can sign up for, and you are welcome to sign up for as many of them as you'd like! Please provide contact information for each volunteer, so that we can communicate to all volunteers as needed.

Shift Hours:

Sunday, April 27th, 2025

Shift 1: 8:00-10:00 AM

Shift 2: 10:00-12:00 PM

Shift 3: 12:00-2:00 PM

Shift 4: 2:00-5:00 PM

Bike parking will take place near the entry of the street closure at 5th and Jackson. Your responsibilities will be to:

• Interact briefly with many people delivering their bicycles to your care
• Explain to customers the process of checking a bike in and picking a bike up
• Staple tickets around handlebars
• Walk bikes to and from the racks and the entrance of the bike parking corral
• Watch the bikes during the event
• Assist with data entry using a QR code

Volunteers should be able to perform one of the following:

• Verbally or non-verbally greet bicyclist customers
• Explain the intake process to bicyclist customers
• Lift a bicycle on or off of a rack
• Staple tickets
• Count bicycles
• Light data entry using a QR code

Volunteers aged 13 to 18, who are not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian are required to complete and return a Minor Consent Form to [email protected]. Alternatively, please bring a signed waiver form to the Event Lead the day of the event. Volunteers under the age of 13 must also be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian to volunteer.

Parents/Guardians, if your child is coming with you to volunteer, the expectation is that they can be independent and contribute to the bike parking operations without your need to supervise them the entire time. You will be working together but must be able to leave them unattended at times. If you are unsure if this is an age appropriate volunteer activity for your child, please do not hesitate to contact [email protected].

Once registered, volunteers will be contacted using the information provided during your registration. If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

Host or Publisher Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (volunteering)