Getting the Word Out - II
In addition to the previous post on getting the word out, I should mention that there are stacks of places to promote events for free, yet reaches millions.
UK Magazine/Website Listings:
- Time Out London - "Submission date for events is two weeks prior to the day of publication, publication day is always a Wednesday."
The Lecture List - "Any talk which is open to the public can appear on The Lecture List, from large events in major institutions through to small scale events in local community venues."- The List in Prospect Magazine - "Your event must be open to the general public, must be a lecture, seminar or talk (not a conference, recital, exhibition etc), should run for no longer than four hours, and ideally cost under £20. Inclusion in the web version of the List is free and your event may also be included in the magazine version."
- Outlets handled by PA Entertainment - Includes Metro, Guardian (The Guide), The Independent Events Guide, The Evening Standard etc. - "To ensure your events are shown in our listings guides, please send them to us by email, fax or post. As well as details of the event, all listings need to have a date, time, price, telephone number and exact address, including a full postcode. Please send your listings to us no later than three weeks before the event and let us know about any cancellations or changes as soon as possible."
International Events:
Time Out Abu Dhabi, NY, Chicago etc. - Links to all of them @ Timeout.com/- Upcoming - "Know something going on in <your city> that we don't? Add it to Upcoming to share it with the world."
Now that doesn't mean you should underestimate the power of word of mouth - this can be driven by a simple e-mail such as the one I recently got from Roger & Satu @ Shakeurarts, which led me to update my standard advice sheet on where and how to list events.
Putting a reference to your event in the signature file of your e-mails also works well. How to do that can be learnt on page three of the 'Getting Stuff Done Handbook' from the beginners page on the São Paulo e-Intelligence Programme site.
Also, if you belong to a social network like Facebook - you can create events and invite people that way too. A spectacularly successful example of this is the Ideas that can change the world group that has grown from zero to 430+ people in just a few weeks. Click on the image to get to the group, and here to go straight to the event listing.
Anyway, back to Roger and Satu and Shake Ur Arts --- here's their forthcoming event:
Tue 18 Sept 2007 at 8pm
SATU TUOMISTO and ROGER D'OLIVERE MAPP
present
HEAP
+ Jonathan Lunn, Saya Tamagawa & Paula Conduit
In their own words:
" Heap is a working title for this work-in-progress performance. Heap offers you heaps of professional dancers (around 30 that is) with heaps of intense movements (at least 48), heaps of close relationships (yep, around 56) with heaps of funky sounds (yes, I’d say around 87) and heaps of ways of not bumping into each other (at least 102 if you count carefully).
For more information about the artists please check www.shakeurarts.org.uk
What can you expect?
Touch Wood is a new season of works in progress and just completed pieces running from Tue 11 Sep – Sat 6 Oct, with each unique night coming together at the last moment: perfect miniatures, embryonic epics, slapstick solutions, false starts and unforeseen consequences - a safe Place to risk and dare on a bare stage because the artists will always be able to touch wood."
To register for updates and book tickets click here or call The Place Box Office on 020 7121 1100.
The Place: Robin Howard Dance Theatre 17 Duke’s Road London WC1H 9PY
Nearest tube: Euston, King’s Cross
Which incidentally brings along a great opportunity to show how you can embed a Google Map in a blog post or a web page:
How to do this? When you've looked something up on http://maps.google.co.uk/ you can get embed code by clicking on the 'Link to this page' link in the upper right hand corner immediately above the map. If you want to take it even further, check out http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ for ideas.
