Volunteer, BUMI Festival
- Volunteer support for a Toronto-area festival sustained through shared participation, cultural programming, and community work.
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Saul Karim Nassau
Performance & Live Events
Performance & Live Events
Performance and live-event practitioner with experience contributing to public programs, stage and festival environments, collaborative production and audience-facing cultural work.
Key Skills
- Live performance
- Rehearsal and preparation
- Stage and event awareness
- Audience engagement
- Collaborative production
- Festival operations
- Creative development
- Public presentation
- Event setup and teardown
- Documentation
Selected Experience
Volunteer, Event and Hospitality Operations — BUMI Festival
- 2025–present Supports setup and teardown, check-in, guest and vendor service, food and beverage service, backstage and grounds, cleaning, transportation, information, security and crowd management.
- Participated in 2025 festival work and 2026 planning and preparation.
Sears Ontario Drama Festival
- Ontario's oldest and largest high school drama festival, founded 1946.
- Competed in Grades 9, 10, and 11 through Claude Watson.
Relevant Experience
- Assistant Manager — Pizza Pizza, Toronto c.
- 2020–early 2023 Supervised front-counter and kitchen shifts
- supported scheduling, staff training and service flow.
Volunteer, Flydende By (Floating City), Copenhagen
- Non-profit art collective building boats from recycled materials since 2008.
- Cooking, construction, and film production support.
Event Security and Front-of-House; Special Events and Nightclub, Toronto
- Two pre-pandemic years working private security at a downtown Toronto gay club and a rotating set of special events.
- Always the de-escalation role at the door, diplomatic conversation as the primary tool, physical intervention as the rare last resort.
- Ontario Security Guard License.
Training & Languages
AODA Accessibility Standards training — June 2026 · Farsi — advanced · French — basic · Mandarin — basic