Submission Guidelines

• Location: All venues, organizations, artists, and public art must be located in Watertown, MA.
• Accessibility: For venues, we encourage you to include detailed, up-to-date accessibility information.
• Duplications: Before submitting your org or venue profile, please search the Directory to make sure your profile is not already listed. Duplicate listings will be deleted.
• Lead Time: Each submitted event, organization and venue goes through a review process. Once accepted and approved for posting, the profile should post within 1-2 business days.
• Review Process: WatertownMACulture.com reserves the right to edit graphic images and submissions for grammar, style, and accuracy. Listings and artist profiles will be modified to be in the third-person narrative.

Acceptable Media File Types

IMAGE MEDIA

• File format: PNG, JPEG or JPG only.
• File dimensions: 400 pixels or greater on the shortest side. Anything larger than 5000 px will be resized to fit the limitations.
• File size: under 5 MB

Multiple images may be uploaded along with your listing including one Primary Image and up to five Gallery images. All primary images should accurately represent the listing. For example, venue listings should use an image of the venue exterior or interior; org listings should use their logo; and artist should use an image of their artwork.

PLEASE NOTE: By uploading an image to WatertownMACulture.com, the user represents that the material does not infringe any proprietary or intellectual property rights of any third-party and that user has the authority to grant, and does hereby grant, to WatertownMACulture.com a license to use, display, copy, and transfer the image for and in connection with the WatertownMACulture.com site. Please see the full policy. 

AUDIO MEDIA

We accept audio “embed” code (iframe or javascript) from various services, including SoundCloud, Zing, CD Baby, and audio URLs with the “.mp3” file extension.

VIDEO MEDIA

Only shared media links from YouTube, Vimeo, and Brightcove are accepted. We do not accept any other video service links or embed code at this time.

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