Doing our part to stem the tide of paper, we have eliminated our own monthly dance's paper flyer. (We stopped making one, although not really to stem paper tide... did it purely to save our promo team time, as it seemed like hardly anyone was taking the flyers at dances.) We do have business cards for our dance with email/website contact info on back. Those are regularly taken. We do still receive flyers from other series and special events. We display them until they've expired. We also have a bunch of flyers/brochures from CDSS, DEFFA (our Maine folk arts org), and other non-dance local community orgs.) Some time ago we traded a flyer table for a hanging display inspired by something done at a festival (NEFFA maybe?) where flyers were inserted into clear pockets on wall. Our imperfect system uses a shoe organizer with clear pockets. (Imperfect b/c the pockets are narrow and don't fully display full page flyers. Otherwise it's perfect, b/c it takes no table space and very little time since most of the flyers just stay in the pockets and it gets folded up and put in a cabinet from dance to dance.) Cheers, Chrissy Fowler for Belfast Flying Shoes in Belfast, ME ________________________________ From: Organizers <organizers-bounces+ktaadn_me=hotmail.com(a)lists.sharedweight.net> on behalf of B Fabinski via Organizers <organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2017 11:28:53 AM To: organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net Subject: [Organizers] Flyers Hi all, At the Rochester NY monthly Contra Planning meeting, I took the action item to post here the following requests: 1) Please make sure to include the TOWN where your event is happening, prominently listed on any flyers 2) Our flyer table is getting very, very busy...can people consider 1/2 page flyers? We purge flyers weekly (I use the scrap, if I can, otherwise recycle it.) How do others manage the growing tide of paper? Bob Fabinski

Hi folks, First, HAPPY NEW YEAR! Second, I’d like to add to Bob’s comments, to request that flyers always include complete information that doesn’t assume local knowledge. In a addition to the TOWN, a complete street address (with STATE and ZIPCODE) is helpful for us out-of-towners. Including a PHONE NUMBER (with AREA CODE) and a complete URL for more information is beneficial as well. In the San Francisco Bay Area, hardcopy flyers are still distributed and used as needed, but most of our membership and associates take advantage of our electronic publications (“epubs”) web page, which doubles as an online flyers table (see a sample at http://bacds.org/current-mailings). In addition to the visual component, being able to link back to event or organization web or facebook pages seems to be helpful. This is rather easy to set up if anyone’s looking for something similar for their community. On a separate note - I’ve had a back-burner project in mind to create an online repository of flyers to which folks could upload .pdf submissions, and if enough folks are interested and/or have suggestions of what would be helpful, I might move it to a forward burner. 😊 I had been think in term of making it searchable by region, organization, dance genre, date/time, lead organziers or staff, event type, text on the flyer itself, or other things that come to mind. If this is of interest for your group, please contact me off-list. Thanx, Ric Goldman letsdance(a)rgoldman.org From: Organizers [mailto:organizers-bounces+letsdance=rgoldman.org@lists.sharedweight.net] On Behalf Of B Fabinski via Organizers Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2017 8:29 AM To: organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net Subject: [Organizers] Flyers Hi all, At the Rochester NY monthly Contra Planning meeting, I took the action item to post here the following requests: 1) Please make sure to include the TOWN where your event is happening, prominently listed on any flyers 2) Our flyer table is getting very, very busy...can people consider 1/2 page flyers? We purge flyers weekly (I use the scrap, if I can, otherwise recycle it.) How do others manage the growing tide of paper? Bob Fabinski