Create an event

Good to know. Events are being opened to creators step by step. This page describes what the Studio does today. Paid tickets, and a few things listed at the end of the other pages, are not available yet.

An event is a page of your publication for something that happens at a date: a meetup, a workshop, a launch, an evening in a bookshop or a talk on video. Readers find it in your feed and on your website, see when and where it happens in their own time zone, and attend from the page.

Make it

In the Studio, open the Events tab and create an event. A window asks you to Choose a type of event (see event types), then the event opens in its editor.

Where and when

An event holds venues. A venue is one way of attending, with its own times, number of places and audience. A meetup in a room and a talk for people at home are two venues of the same event.

For each venue you choose:

• Where: In person or Video call.
• Starts and Ends, with the time zone of the event.
• For an in-person venue, a Place (see below). For a video call, the Link to join, which must be a full address starting with https://. The link is never shown to readers who have no ticket.
• Capacity: leave it empty for no limit.

Use Add a venue for a second one. When an event has several venues, its dates are worked out from them and the editor says so. Tickets are made on a venue, so set a start first.

Readers see the date and time in their own time zone, with the event's own time zone named, and "today" or "tomorrow" when it applies.

Places

Your places are an address book you reuse. Choose New place, Give the place a name, then add an Address, a Map link and, if useful, Accessibility information. Pick the place when you set up an in-person venue. A note meant only for you can be kept on the place: readers never see it.

The page

The editor holds the Cover, the name and a short line. Edit page content opens a window where you write the body of the page: it has its own Save button and nothing is saved while you type. Write, press Save, then publish the event for readers to see it.

The public page puts the cover first, then the name, the publication that holds the event, when and where, and a Good to know block. Good to know only says what your dates and venues say: how long the event lasts, and whether it is in person, online or both. On a large screen the registration card stays in view at the right while the page scrolls; on a phone it follows the header.

On a website page you can also add an Event cell. It shows a compact card in a narrow column and a wider card, cover beside the details, when it has room.

Hosts and speakers

Under Hosts and speakers, add a person from Peakub (search by name), or a person who is not on Peakub with their name and email. Give each a role, Host or Speaker. A person asked from Peakub is shown on the event only once they accept; if they decline, remove them to ask again. You can also write to a host from the Studio's Conversations.

Changing, repeating and cancelling

• Change a time, a place or a link after people have tickets: the editor offers Tell the people with a ticket. Nothing is sent until you accept.
• Repeat monthly makes the same event again, from 2 to 12 times.
• Cancel this venue on a venue, or Cancel the event from the Attendees window. The event's page stays, marked cancelled, registration closes, and every ticket holder is told once by email.

Next: how people attend.