How to Choose a Location for a Community Festival

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Jim Goettler with Expert Village and this is a video about how to produce a small community festival. In this segment, I am going to discuss with you how to choose a location for your event. There are a couple of basic criteria that you should think about following whenever you are preparing your festival. The event should be in a location that is customer use. In other words, a place where people are used to going and don't have to think about it too much. It can be a park, a street that is closed, it can be an indoor facility, somewhere that folks can get to and some place folks can get to easily. So think in terms of where buses run, where the parking is or isn't, way people can get there without people having to make a big effort. Remember whenever you do your festival, other things are going to be going on at the same time so what you want to do is make it as easy as possible for folks to attend. You also want to think in terms of electricity. Is there power? You want to think in terms of water. Is there drinking water or not? If you don't have electricity, there are ways around that. We can get generators and we can figure ways to supply electricity. If you don't have drinking water, it gets a little more complicated but it can be done. But if this is a first time through the process and you are looking at a site without drinking water, I would suggest find another location, but not to say it can't happen. So when picking your location depends I would say on the familiarity of the location that people are used to going to and having basic services power and water and a place for people to park or near public transportation. The next section we are going to go to is going to be permits. I will be discussing permits and insurance issues that are somewhat daunting for folks. Stay with me. "