21VolunteerAPRIL 26 – MAY 2, 2027
Volunteer
A week across a whole city runs on people.
Seven days of cafés, the Coffee Lab, sessions and invited producers in the city. Volunteers help visitors find their way through all of it, and help each part start on time.
7 days · CDMX · Volunteering
- Coffee experience
- Welcome, not required
- Languages
- Spanish, English and any you bring
- Training
- Included · date to be confirmed
- Dates and shifts
- To be confirmed
- Applying
- Doesn't guarantee a place
Volunteering · 01
Why it takes people.
The Week doesn't happen in one venue. It happens in cafés across the city, in the Coffee Lab, in session rooms and on the way between them for the invited producers. Someone arriving for the first time needs a person to ask; a session needs someone at the door and someone watching the clock.
When a volunteer does it well, hardly anyone notices. That's the point.
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Five roles, five ways to help.
These are examples of what's needed. The final list of roles is confirmed with the shifts.
- 01
Coffee Lab hosts
Coffee Lab
- Welcome visitors
- Explain what each station is for
- Guide people to the activities
- 02
Session support
Sessions
- Check guests in
- Prepare the room
- Help presenters stay on schedule
- 03
Field Guide support
On the street
- Explain how the guide works
- Read the café map with whoever needs it
- Explain how the stamps work
- 04
Producer hospitality
With the producers
- Help invited producers between venues
- Help them keep to each day's schedule
- Be someone they can turn to
- 05
Event operations
All week
- Setup and clear-down
- Signs and wayfinding
- Day-to-day coordination
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Coffee knowledge helps. It isn't required.
If you work in coffee, that experience is useful, especially in the Coffee Lab. But most roles ask for something else: being good with people, pointing someone the right way, being on time, speaking more than one language. We train you in what your role needs.
What volunteers aren't asked to do
This is the work of paid staff and specialists:
- Selling sponsorships
- Teaching technical coffee
- Operating equipment you don't know
If something needs a specialist, your job is to call one, not to fix it.
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What to expect if you're confirmed.
- 01
Training
Before the week, on your role, the venues and who to go to.
- 02
Assigned shifts
Shifts are assigned from the availability you give us.
- 03
A point of contact
Someone on the team to go to on every shift.
- 04
Confirmation before the event
Your role and shifts are confirmed in writing before the week. Until then, nothing is assigned.
To be confirmed
- Training and shift dates
- To be confirmed
- Shift length
- To be confirmed
- Eligibility
- To be confirmed
- Meals
- To be confirmed
- Transport
- To be confirmed
- Other benefits
- To be confirmed
Published here once they're decided.
Volunteering · 05