• Upon arrival, participants must check in to receive their booth assignments. Spaces are pre-assigned and ARE FINAL. All booths must be set up by 8AM Friday. Someone from the prize booth will stop by your booth to pick up the donated item.
• Coffee & Treats will be available at no charge in the Sweets Booth in the Food Court until 9 AM each morning.
• Participants must be present during the entire festival. (No one is permitted to breakdown their booth before 4pm on Sunday unless prior arrangements are made.) Failure to follow this rule result in ineligibility for future Swamp Fest events.
• Participants must prominently display the ID card showing name and space number on your tent and the parking pass must be prominently displayed in your vehicle (provided in Sponsor Packet to be picked up at Vendor check-in).
• Participants are required to provide their own tents, tie down weights, tables, chairs, etc. and have complete responsibility for their own exhibits. Please keep all areas clean and dispose of trash in designated places.
• Electricity is available for an added fee of $35. Space is limited. Generators allowed with noise level no exceeding 70 decibels.
• Animals/Pets are not permitted in Linda Pederson Park. Please make other arrangements.
• No vehicles are permitted on event site. Vehicles must be parked in APPROVED parking spaces or they will be towed at the owner’s expense. For the convenience of all, please unload your vehicle and move to the vendor parking area as quickly as possible.
• The committee reserves the right to ask participants not complying with these rules to remove their exhibit from the festival with forfeiture of all fees.
SWAMP FESTIVAL RELEASE:
All applicants agree for themselves and all affiliated persons to comply with event rules and regulations and to forever discharge the Weeki Wachee Swamp Festival, its officers, volunteers, sponsoring organizations, Linda Pederson Park and other participants from all matters of actions, suits, damages, claims and demands whatsover in law or equity, from any loss of damage to the undersigned property while in possession, supervision or auspices of the Weeki Wachee Swamp Festival, Linda Pederson Park, its agents, representatives or volunteers/employees.
I declare that all of the statements in the application are truthful and correct statements and representative of my art/craft and the art/craft I will bring to the festival. I understand that if in the sole opinion of the festival committee, my application or art/craft contains fraudulent or incorrect statements I may be ruled ineligible for the festival or removed from it at any time. Penalties after the determination of ineligibility or removal will include forfeiture of participation in future Swamp Fest events. I agree to abide by the Festival Rules and understand the Weeki Wachee Swamp Fest Committee reserves the right to make the final interpretation of all rules.
Understand that uncivil behavior or breach of professional decorum will be cause for immediate expulsion from Festival grounds.