The Seattle Flamenco Events page is a community information source for upcoming flamenco events in the Seattle area. This includes just about any sort of flamenco happening that you want to advertise, but which isn’t a show. Workshops, juergas, meet-ups, film viewings–all this would fit here. Anyone is free to post, but if you’re posting an event that is not your own, you should check with the event organizers first to make sure you’re not upsetting some carefully laid plan of their own.
Also, please keep in mind the following guidelines.
- Multiple announcements are fine, but duplicate show listings should be neither a.) in the same calendar month, nor b.) in the same two week period.
- Content should be related to flamenco events in Seattle and in the surrounding communities. (Think Olympia and Bellingham–but not Vancouver, BC or Portland, OR)
- For the moment, the plan is not to use this space to announce the beginning of regularly scheduled classes. Instructors that hold quarterly or semester classes on an ongoing basis should provide a link to their class information page on the “Seattle Flamenco | Instructors” page. This policy may change, but the current thinking is that by not listing regular offerings here, one-time and special events will stand out more.
- You can title your post however you like, but please begin your title with the date of your event. This will make it easier for visitors to see which posts are current, upcoming, or just passed. See the “Recent Posts” sidebar, for example.
- Guideline update: for consistency, please use the date format “month day” with a three letter month abbreviation (for example “Jan 5:” or “Mar 12:”).
- Guideline update: please limit your post titles to no more than two lines of text. Post titles are meant to be headlines, not detailed accounts.
NB: both of these guideline updates are meant to make post titles more amenable to the Twitter feed. SeattleFlamenco.org is gaining an ever growing following on Twitter and it’s in everyone’s best interest to make the most of it!
- Keep in mind that ALL CAPS is the internet equivalent of shouting (and is considered obnoxious–if not offensive–by some). If you want to draw extra attention to your post (and who wouldn’t!), try adding an image–there are some great examples of this in these listings already.
- Please do not publish your post multiple times. Use the “Preview Changes” button to see what your post will look like on the website and then publish it when you are satisfied. Publishing repeatedly sends out multiple posts to the RSS, Facebook, and Twitter feeds, which starts to look like spamming (and is definitely not how we want to present ourselves!).
These guidelines, obviously, are only a starting point. They will certainly change. If we all keep the spirit of “community building” (which is the whole point of this site, after all), hopefully we can dispense with a long list of rules. We shall see.
As always, if you have feedback concerning this page, event posting formats or event posting guidelines, please post your comments on the Forum or contact the site administrator.
