The community calendar is curated to inform our readers about events happening in their city and in the surrounding area. 

Event submissions for consideration for posting to the Mid Valley Times’ community calendar is free of charge and will be reviewed, judged and edited for brevity (rewritten in third-person voice) by a moderator for compliance to our standards. We are looking for events with:

• Local relevance
• Low frequency (not something that happens all the time)
• Specificity / uniqueness
• Public inclusion
• Real people we can contact for any questions and for verification

Submissions should be for a fun activity, fundraiser, civic, social, entertainment or educational events located within Fresno County or Tulare County. While events can be age-, interest-, sports- or needs-specific, reservations and tickets must be reasonably easy to attain by the general public and honored when redeemed within any legal requirements (i.e., the ticketholder is legally old enough for a 21+ only event).

• Event submissions for exclusive club meetings or exclusive private parties will not be posted.
• Events without a Fresno County or Tulare County location or point of origin will not be posted.
• Priced events without a single reasonable public access to tickets/reservations—either via online, telephone, a physical presale location within Fresno County or Tulare County or at the event’s entrance—will not be posted.
• Suspicious money transfer schemes, suspected scams or events for other questionable, nefarious or illegal purposes will not be posted.
• Corporate retail sales events are considered advertising content, and will not be posted here —please read about our advertising opportunities. 
• Small events like yard sales, real estate open houses, etc., are more appropriate for the classifieds section of the newspaper.

We are ideally looking for events that are community-wide that our news readers would want to know about: parades, fairs, festivals, fundraisers, seminars, live theater, concerts, lectures, book signings, etc. 

Please submit your event for the free community calendar at least two weeks in advance of the event or your final ticket sales date. Allow two business days (Monday through Friday) for review and posting.

GRAPHIC: Submitted event image will need to be formatted for 16:9 orientation. If your image does not meet those dimensions, the site moderator will crop it appropriately. By submitting your image, you are affirming that you have copyright permission or a license to publish that artwork.