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Afrolatino festival was a free event missing from your events, why?

http://www.afrolatinofestival.org/ just had their first afrolatino festival, it was fun! I know they didn't advertise in English, but I am sure someone in your staff can read Spanish, unless you don't cover free events, but only advertise them, meaning they need to give you a fee to be under your weekend events?

Hopefully next year it will change.

P40 asked in Artists/Shows 9 months ago | Report

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    Did you write a press release? Usually that is how you get things listed for both free and paid papers (as well as magazines) depending on how often they go to print sets the schedule but usually a month before hand is a good standard ( I think the stranger and weekly need two weeks before hand but sending stuff a tad earlier just to makesure) there is a format for press releases (you can find tons of examples online) but it's basically the who, what, where, when of the event. You also want to have the post date ( when you want them to start publicizing since too early people might forget) and the kill date ( when to stop promoting because it's over)

    Press releases also help the people at the paper not just to list the event but if they want to write something more involved or review the event they have all the info about the participants.

    sublevelthree answered in Artists/Shows 9 months ago | Report
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    We cover lots of free events!

    Promoters, event producers, fans of events, whoever can submit events to our calendar here: http://post.thestranger.com/seattle/AddListing/Page?what=event

    Alithea O'Dell answered in Artists/Shows 9 months ago | Report
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    This is a good question -- although Questionland is not the same thing as The Stranger, so technically QL doesn't have an events calendar.

    But this event sounds pretty cool and should have been on The Stranger's calendar for sure.

    I wouldn't be too sure about having Spanish speakers on The Stranger's staff; they're pretty lily-white (aside from Charles Mudede). African-American and Latino voices have always been scarce at the paper. For some reason.

    Fnarf answered in Artists/Shows 9 months ago | Report
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