Great to hear you’re interested in working at the Parade. Leave your details below and you’ll be the first to receive an email when applications to work at the Parade open in 2026.
Applications open on Friday, March 6 at 12:00 PM.
A whole summer of outdoor life and theatre. When you work at the Parade, you are an essential part of the theatre festival. You gain valuable and diverse festival experience and meet many new people.
Together with your colleagues, you travel along with the festival and—where possible—stay overnight at the backstage area. This means you don’t only work at the Parade, you also live there for a while. You camp in your own tent, with access to showers, toilets, and Het Patronaat: the place where you can enjoy a nice breakfast/lunch and dinner every day.
Parade Dates 2026
You can sign up for one or more cities, or for weekend shifts only (please note: this applies to hospitality positions from Thursday to Sunday only). You will work for the entire period that the Parade is in a city, with one day off per week. Per city, you work a daily shift of 5 to 8 hours. Everyone alternates between daytime and evening shifts. During weekends and/or busy periods, we all work a bit longer and help each other out.
Each team is led by an experienced team leader, who will be your first point of contact at the Parade. In addition to your team leader, there are staff coordinators (Winona and Roos) whom you can always approach. There is also a confidential counsellor available if needed. All contact details can be found in the festival handbook.
Team Terrain is everywhere! Backstage and frontstage, sometimes you are constantly on the move and sometimes stationed in one place for long periods. Without you, the Parade simply couldn’t run. Within Team Terrain, there are four roles: suppoost, toilet, springer, and yoyo. When you sign up for Team Terrain, you can indicate a preference for a specific role, but you also switch places and rolls. Ultimately, we are all ‘’one team with many tasks’’. Let’s go!
The suppoost ensures that the access gates to the site and the backstage area are staffed and that no unauthorized persons pass through. You communicate with the office, security, or the head of camping/stewards about who is and isn’t allowed to enter. As a suppoost you’ll often stay in one place for extended periods. It helps if you are comfortable sitting still for a while (ideal for readers), while remaining alert. Do you not mind being stationed and are you comfortable asking people to show their pass to enter? Then this role is for you.
The toilet attendants ensure fresh and clean sanitary facilities, both on the public grounds and backstage. You’ll often work together at a toilet location and also clean the backstage showers and toilets. Not being squeamish is helpful—and if you don’t yet have a love for toilets or toilet brushes, you definitely will by the end! The toilet units are located in the midst of the terrain. On busy days, you will have a lot of interaction with our public.
As a yoyo, you’re often on the move, though there are moments when there’s not much to do—until suddenly you’re needed again!
The morning yoyo mainly works before opening hours, collecting waste (glass, paper, residual), picking up litter, and making the site look spotless.
During opening hours, you’re on call via walkie-talkie (porto) from the yoyo heads. You help out with carrying things and solving small (practical) issues wherever needed.
The yoyo team rotates a bit less than the other Team Grounds roles, as it’s helpful to have a semi-fixed group that gets to know how everything works. Are you hands-on, not afraid of getting dirty, and reasonably strong and handy? Then this is for you!
As a springer, you hop from one Team Terrain position to another not only during the city, but also during a shift. For example, you might work as a yoyo in the morning and finish your shift as a suppoost or with the toilet team after lunch. It’s a very varied role, and every day is different. Do you enjoy variety and would you like working with toilets, suppoost shifts, and morning yoyo tasks alike? Then this role is perfect for you!
During the build-up and breakdown days (in between the festival days) of the Parade, you help construct and dismantle the festival site. Together with the technical producers, you arrive first (at an empty square or park!) and help build a safe and accessible festival site. Tasks range from placing fences, laying trackway and flooring panels, setting up bicycle parking, to hanging fence banners.
During breakdown, you make sure everything is dismantled again and the park is cleaned and returned to the city.
The build and break days are often long days—sometimes hot ones, sometimes rainy —and at the start of the build-up period, you may still be waiting for the shower unit to arrive from the previous city. A good amount of physical strength, perseverance, and flexibility is required for this role!
Safety shoes are required. We kindly ask you to only apply for whole break or build periods. It’s not possible to work loose days.
(Note: At the beginning and end of each city, we are also looking for someone who can help during build and breakdown days to get the sanitary facilities in order together with the head of toilets. Does this sound appealing, and do you preferably already have experience with the toilet team? Please let us know in the form.)
For this function, you need to be able to read and speak Dutch fluently, therefore there is no English text for Team Publiek.
As a barkeeper you work at one of the bars on the Parade festival grounds. On your first working day, you’ll be informed which bar you’ll be assigned to. There are several bars, each with its own character and selection of beverages. Every bar has two experienced barheads who will be your main point of contact throughout the festival days.
It’s great if you already have experience working behind a bar or in hospitality. If not, it’s important that you’re highly motivated to build this experience. From day one, you’ll be working behind the bar on a busy festival terrain. We offer various training sessions for barkeepers during the festival.
After the festival closes to visitors, a backstage bar opens for staff only (in Het Patronaat): the night café. We’re looking for barkeepers who doesn’t mind working late. You’ll work together with your barhead (in Amsterdam, with an additional barhead), and together you remain the nice atmosphere.
Opening hours are Sunday through Thursday from 11:00 PM to 3:00 AM, and on weekends (Friday and Saturday) from 1:00 AM to 4:00 AM (plus preparation and cleanup time).
As a barhead, you ensure that everything in and around the bar runs as smoothly as possible. You are responsible for the barkeepers at your bar, including building team spirit, scheduling, and management. Together with your team, you provide a good service to visitors at the bar and on the terrace. You also put yourself in the visitors’ perspective: does the bar and terrace look good from a distance, is the music too loud?
You are also responsible for inventory management and placing (internal) orders on time. If something goes wrong—such as a malfunction or emergency—you raise the alarm with your coordinator. The staff coordinator is one of your main contacts throughout the entire Parade period and will assist if you need any guidance or support.
As a barhead, you always maintain an overview, but when possible, you actively help out behind the bar or on the terrace. Each bar has two barheads, rotating between day and evening shifts. This requires frequent coordination. On days when your co–head barhead is free, you’ll work a full day. Ideally, you work in at least two cities during the summer. Per working week, you have one day off, and we operate according to the CAO NPF collective labour agreement. You are partly responsible for incorporating CAO NPF rules into the shift schedule.
For this position, hospitality experience or leadership experience is required.
As a breakfast member, you’ll work in the heart of the Parade’s backstage area: Het Patronaat, the living room for all staff members and artists. You’ll be part of a friendly kitchen team led by the head of breakfast. You need to be an early bird—some days you’ll start as early as 7:30 AM to bake bread and prepare the buffet. On other days, you’ll start a bit later.
With a small team, you’ll provide a varied breakfast buffet for staff, offering something healthy and something tasty for everyone. Experience is not required, but enthusiasm for working in the kitchen is a must! And although you start early every day, you can enjoy the performances and festival grounds in the evening.
As a breakfast member, you start the day before the festival in a city (build day) and work the day after the festival has ended (break day).
At the Parade, we work with reusable hard-plastic cups. Backstage on the festival grounds is a washing container where you’ll be based. As part of the glass team, your tasks include washing glasses using professional dishwashers, sorting them, and delivering clean glasses to the bars.
There are also several waste collection points on the festival terrain where dirty glasses and restaurant dishes are gathered. Using a special cart, your empties these collection points and brings everything to the dishwashing container.
The glasses around the bars are collected and washed by the bar staff themselves.
You’ll be guided by an experienced team head who understands the logistics of the cups and the glass team at the Parade.
Hospitality experience is a plus but feeling comfortable to do hard and physical work is a must.
With a small, close-knit team, you handle all hospitality-related logistics on the Parade grounds: setting up and dismantling bars, loading and unloading trailers, and driving around the site with golf carts to restock bar supplies. During event days, you mainly focus on supplying the bars, resolving any technical issues, and supporting the bars so they can operate smoothly.
You’re handy, can drive a car and forklift well (a forklift certificate and T/B/BE driver’s license are a plus), and enjoy physical work. Affinity with hospitality and logistics is desirable; technical skills and spatial awareness are essential. Availability in multiple cities is an advantage for this role. Payment for this position is on a freelance (ZZP) basis.
If you’re interested, you can send an email with your CV and motivation to duncan@mobilearts.nl.