When it comes to TIFF, there's a lot of "traditions" and "rituals" evolved from things that just seem to happen every festival. But it's not just at the festival every year in September, these extend to other areas of TIFF as well.
Every spring, TIFF has a film festival for children, appropriately called "TIFF Kids". It's a smaller crew of volunteers required for TIFF Kids, still plenty busy but a different kind of experience. Though we're in our t-shirts and on the job, we still like to get in touch with our childish side when the opportunity arises. (I have MANY photos with Cookie Monster to prove this)
One major difference between TIFF and TIFF Kids is the cupcakes and pizza. It's just not TIFF Kids until you get cupcakes and pizza. These are leftovers from events in the building which they always bring to the volunteers. The amounts will vary depending on how much food is left from the events, but one of the things we often find remnants of a cupcake decorating station placed in our lounge area.
One year there were a couple dozen cupcakes dropped off, un-decorated, and like a dozen bags of sprinkles, candies, gummies etc. to pile on top of the frosting. Man, that shift was a series of sugar rushes and crashes...
At the end of the shift the cupcakes were gone, as were all of the candies that you could easily eat without a cupcake (ie. smarties, gummy bears). When my friend and fellow captain Darlene and I were cleaning up, all that was left was a massive bag of yellow sprinkles.
Not wanting to let them go to waste, we decided to divide the bag and make something with the sprinkles each.
I returned the next weekend with some lemon cupcakes of my own, topped with yellow sprinkles. Darlene... nothing.
She didn't forget, she just couldn't do it that weekend. Four months later in August when I walked into the captain training, she had a yellow sprinkle cupcake for me :)
[Elgin sometimes-captain Rosa took a picture of me with that cupcake... which matched with the yellow purse and phone I had that day, I'm just not sure where the photo is]
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