Get Your
Event Seen

None of this is a rulebook. Our boards are shared and mostly run on good neighborliness — think of it as what helps your event actually fill the room.

Here's the good part: you don't submit anything to 395local.com. We find events automatically — we scan local sources across the Eastern Sierra, and volunteer Event Scouts photograph flyers off community boards. So the moment your event is out in the world, it's on our radar. Once we list it, it gets its own page on 395local, a shot at the Thursday email, and — if there's a photo — a post to our Instagram.

Your job is simply to make it easy to find and easy to read: post a clear flyer, and put the event on your own channels (website, Facebook event, Instagram) — those are exactly the sources we watch. If you have a ticket or info page of your own, a QR code or short link to that keeps the poster clean.

The checklist

What every poster needs

• Event name — one clear name you'll use every time.
• Date, with the year — "Sat, June 14, 2026," not "this Saturday." Posters outlive the week.
• Start and end time — plus door time if it's different. Music posters miss this constantly. People need to know when it starts and roughly when it wraps to plan their day — and without a time we can't list it cleanly.
• Place and town — name the venue and the community, not just "downtown" or "the park."
• Price — the full story, including kids — "$20 adults / $5 kids / under 5 free." A family of five needs to do the math before they can say yes.
• Who it's for — all ages, 21+, kids welcome.
• A way to learn moreThe big one — a QR code or short link to your event page: your website, ticket link, or a Facebook/Instagram event.
• A contact — phone or email for what a poster can't answer: parking, dogs, weather, "is this still happening?"

Timing

Start early — earlier than feels necessary

So much around here is last-minute, and last-minute is why good events play to half-empty rooms. A poster that goes up three days out only reaches the few people who walk past in those three days. Give it room:

And promote more than once. One post gets buried by tomorrow. The same poster, shared at three moments — announce, remind, day-of — reaches far more people than a single big push.

Reach everyone

Make Spanish welcome

A big part of our community gets left out when posters are English-only. The cleanest fix: note it on the front, and put the full Spanish on the back or a second sheet posted underneath — rather than cramming both languages side by side, which makes everything harder to read.

Share the space

Be a good board neighbor

Boards are small and shared. A few habits keep them working for everyone:

• Half-page flyers where your content allows — roughly doubles the space on the board.
• Add a take-down date ("please remove after June 14") so finished events don't linger and multi-month flyers don't permanently claim the best spots.
• Keep it legible — readable from a few feet, dark text on a light background, not a sixth-generation photocopy. Bonus: clean flyers scan and post online far more reliably too.

Keep it recognizable

One name, one look

If your event recurs, use one consistent name and keep enough of the same look each time. When a series re-titles and redesigns itself every month, returning fans can't tell it's the same event — and neither can the calendar. Consistency quietly keeps your regulars.