Production and Video Chairperson – Jay Rumple  jayrumple@gmail.com will perform all the duties associated with our Opening and Closing Sessions, video production and all other aspects of production  Jay also produces our promotional video’s and dvd’s.

Workshop Chairpersons - Santa Carlucci Immediato santa@yoursantatoo.com and Santa Tom Pellitieri   santa@toledosanta.com will share the duties for all facets of the seminars including deciding final topics and instructors, scheduling and placement of classes.

Parade Chairperson - DeAnna Sorge parade@celebratesanta.com  DeAnna (or Dee) will be in charge of all aspects of the parade.  She is the former Special Events Director of Pigeon Forge and has invaluable skill and contacts throughout East Tennessee.  Many of you met her last year as she assisted Santa Bob and Dana Mack in a variety of ways.

Media & Public Relations Chairperson – Santa Joe Moore leads the charge in securing the media and dealing with public relations.

Registration Chairpersons - Bill & Jan Larson did a phenomenal job for us last year and we are pleased to announce that they have again volunteered to fulfill this role again.  We thank them for making this one of the smoothest operations of Celebrate Santa.

Travel Chairperson –  This individual will be handling the logistics and setting up maps and routes to get to Celebrate Santa!  She will be looking into planes, buses and automobiles as well as shuttles and other forms of mass transit to get you here and around Gatlinburg as easily and economically as possible.

State Liaison Chairpersons - Eastern US is Jim & Cindy Hudson, Western US is Fred & Chery Selinsky, Canada - TBA - These people are responsible for the local recruitment and marketing efforts of Celebrate Santa in North America.

Committees  - We will need several people in each committee.

STATE LIAISONS - We need liaisons in each of the states that are coming to Celebrate Santa.  These liaisons will help coordinate people from their state and assist in organizing parade groups and working with Celebrate Santa to make certain that the group can participate in interviews and group activities.  We are up to 27 liaisons in the U.S. and Canada.  Please contact Santa Joe if you are interested in this position.

Parade committee – TONS of people will be needed to assist in decorating floats and wagons, assisting with logistics, helping with placement of participants, etc.  Please contact Dee to volunteer.

Registration committee – Need to assist with the registration and passing out of materials to all attendees.  Registration helpers will need to set-up registration areas in six hotels and the convention center on Sunday (hotels) and Monday morning (convention center). Please contact Bill and Jan to assist.

Jingle Bell Ball Committee – Will assist the Events Chair with the set up and liaison with the convention center staff for decorating and putting on the Ball on Monday night. Please contact Cindylu & Charlie to volunteer for this fun event.

Collateral Materials Committee – Will help gather sort and organize collateral materials for registration, workshops and media kits.  Most of this work will be done pre-convention.  Take direction from Miss Mary working with their committees. Please contact us to help out.

Workshop Committee – Assist Santas Carlucci and Tom with the organizing and putting on seminars and workshops including instructors and outside consultants doing workshops. Please contact Santa Carl to help with Workshops.

Trade Show Committee – The planning, organizing and execution of a successful trade show with 75 vendor booths will take a highly qualified and organized team of volunteers. These volunteers will be critical to the success of this first convention.  We seek hard working but amiable assistants that can help direct traffic, assist with vendor needs and work extremely well with convention staff, media and vendors. Please contact us make this a success.

Media Committee – We will need a few people to work with Joe Moore and the media in and around the media room.  They will be handing out media kits and lining up interviews with attendees and others.  Volunteers must be comfortable with media and working with people. Please contact Joe if you have an interest in this area.

We are ALWAYS looking for more help!  There are many ways you can help make this event a huge success.  Please don't hesitate to ask any of the chairs how you can be involved!  Fill out the volunteer form under this tab.