The Liberty Festival in London has been running for years. If you’re a Londoner you’ve probably heard of it, but like me you’ve probably never been. And guess what, I and you won’t be going this year either.
Is it because we don’t think it’s a good cause. No. It’s because whoever is charged with letting people know about it, doesn’t know what they’re doing.
Try finding out information about the Liberty Festival and all you basically find is it’s on Saturday, starts at 1pm. There will be music, entertainment and a kids zone and it’s free.
Well that makes me really want to go.
Has no one there heard of a timetable of events or an organised list of who’s performing with links to their websites or Fan pages telling what they do? Or is it so hard to put something saying this event is going to be lots of fun and why you should go.
As you know we’ve covered lots of the events in Trafalgar Square. In terms of getting the word out and encouraging people to come to a festival this one is terrible.
But you want to know what the really sad thing is. If you spend the time to find out who is performing, what they do and what’s going on. This event sounds incredible and more importantly, fun.
To me what’s annoying is that because the event will get a decent crowd the organisers will say it’s a success. The problem is that crowd will be tourists or people who always go or have some link to/with disability. As for reaching a new audience of Londoners it will again be an opportunity missed.
And the thing is it’s so easy to remedy the problem. Get at least a timetable out to London bloggers and the word will soon be out. Repeating on your Facebook page the press release and saying to email for further details isn’t good enough in this day and age.
Here’s to hoping they do it better next year.
The Liberty Festival 2010 is in Trafalgar Square on Saturday 4th. It starts at 1pm to 5pm and is free.
What do you think, should the Liberty Festival be better organised?
Thanks for your time
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no, no, the organisers will never officially say so, it will be more than their lives’ worth. in these politically correct world we live in now they will be crucified if they dare say so. a deaf and disabled festival only for deaf and disabled? how very dare you? haha.
Thanks for the comments Anthony you’ve got some good points there. Would be interesting to know if the organisers agree with you.
hi, i like u publicise these events. i had a read of the liberty festival website and the impression i got is that they want to make this for disabled people. Even though they said all are welcome, the underlying message, or so it seemed to me, is they want to make disabled people especially welcomed.
They know that abled people will always come and attend, and so there is no need to publicise it further. by keeping it low key and not publicise the acts too much, (partly because the acts are subjected to change at short notice), they want to make sure it is not overwhelmed by abled people so that it crowds out the disabled.
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