From the people behind 395local.com

Get Your
Event Seen

We've listed over 1,400 events, and a few small, fixable things on the poster and in the timing often separate a full room from a half-empty one.

The one idea behind all of it

A good flyer lets a stranger who's never heard of your event decide whether to go — using nothing but the poster. If someone can glance at it and know what, when, where, how much, and how to learn more, you've done the job.

None of this is a rulebook. It's just what helps an event fill the room.

Step 1

Get it where we'll find it

You don't submit anything to 395local.com. We scan local sources across the Eastern Sierra, and volunteer Event Scouts photograph flyers off community boards. So post a clear flyer and put the event on your own channels (website, Facebook event, Instagram), which are the sources we watch. Every event we list gets its own page, a shot at the Thursday email, and an Instagram post if there's a photo.

If it's small or last-minute — the kind of thing that never makes it to a board — add it yourself in about two minutes and we'll get it on the calendar.

The checklist

What every poster needs

Example poster

Harvest Potluck

Event name — one clear name you'll use every time.

Sat, Oct 10, 2026

Date, with the year — "Sat, June 14, 2026," not "this Saturday." Posters outlive the week.

6–9 PM · doors 5:30

Start and end time — without a time we can't list it cleanly.

Bishop City Park, Bishop

Place and town — name the venue and the community, not just "downtown."

$20 adults / $5 kids / under 5 free

Price — the full story, kids included, so a family of five can do the math.

All ages

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, tickets, or Facebook/Instagram event.

760-555-0100

A contact — for what a poster can't answer: parking, dogs, weather, "is this still happening?"

Timing

Start early — earlier than feels necessary

Last-minute is why good events play to half-empty rooms. Give it room:

As soon as you know
Post your flyer and put the event on your own channels, even just name + date. That's what we pick up.
4–6 weeks out
A save-the-date for anything ticketed or that people travel for.
2–3 weeks out
Posters up, first social post. The sweet spot most people miss: your event can ride two or three Thursday emails.
The week of
A reminder, and a day-before nudge.

And promote more than once. The same poster shared at three moments (announce, remind, day-of) reaches far more people than a single big push.

Share the space

Three good habits

Make Spanish welcome. Note it on the front and put the full Spanish on the back or a second sheet, rather than cramming both languages side by side.
Be a good board neighbor. Use a half-page flyer where you can, add a take-down date ("please remove after June 14"), and keep it legible: dark text on a light background, readable from a few feet.
One name, one look. If your event recurs, keep the same name and a similar look, so regulars (and the calendar) can tell it's the same event.

The short version

A stranger should be able to look at your poster and decide to come. Put the facts on it, post it where people (and we) will see it, and start early — we'll take it from there.