Submit an event

What we publish

Two different things, with two different bars:

Dated events. A specific date, at a specific place, this year. We publish these only once the organiser has confirmed the date. Our events calendar currently holds no unconfirmed dates, which is deliberate: a wrong date is worse than a missing one.

Annual festivals. Recurring events with an evergreen page — the Shrimp Festival, Dickens on Centre, the Concours. Those pages exist year-round and say the typical month. They do not state this year's dates until the organiser has confirmed them.

What to send

Email hello@thingstodoinameliaisland.com with:

1. Event name.
2. Date and start time, and the end time if there is one.
3. Venue name and street address. "Downtown" is not an address.
4. Who is organising it, and a link to their own page for the event. This is the thing that lets us verify the date, so it matters more than the description.
5. Admission — free, ticketed, or a price. If it is ticketed, the ticket link.
6. One or two sentences on what it actually is. We write our own summary, so send facts rather than copy.
7. Accessibility, if you know it: parking, seating, step-free access, whether it is on grass or sand.

Send it as far ahead as you can. A week is not much use to someone planning a trip.

What we do with it

We check the date against the organiser's own page, write our own 40-to-70-word summary, and publish with a link to you. We never republish an organiser's description as our own copy.

If we cannot confirm the date from a source of yours, the event stays unpublished. That is not a judgement about the event — it is the same rule that applies to everything else on this site.

Recurring weekly and monthly things

Markets, art walks, live music nights and similar: send us the pattern ("first Friday, 5pm to 8pm, Centre Street") plus a link, and we will treat it as a recurring listing rather than a stream of individual dates.

Cancellations and changes

Tell us immediately. A cancelled event still showing on a guide is the single most annoying thing a visitor can hit, and it is the one correction we will drop everything for. Same for a venue change or a weather postponement.

What we will not do

• Publish a date we cannot confirm.
• Republish your press release as editorial copy.
• Sell a calendar placement. Event listings are free and not for sale. If you want paid promotion, that is advertise, and it is labelled as sponsored.
• Add ratings or "top event" badges. We publish no ratings on this site.