Sign-up to be a registered user of the community calendar displayed on www.blountchamber.com , www.smokymountain.org, and www.smcvb.info. Submit email address, organization name, password (remember your password) and phone number to tford@blountchamber.com.

Staff Contact:
Tammi Ford 273.1211, tford@blountchamber.com
Brenda Farner 273.1205, bfarner@blountchamber.com

Before you request to be a user of the Community Calendar be sure your event/events meet the following criteria.

Event Criteria

• Must be a Blount County event
• Events must be posted by or on behalf of an organized group or group effort and must be submitted by one designated person per organization.
• Events need to be open to the public, whether free or with admission charge.
• Both non-profit and for-profit organizations may submit events, but the Blount Chamber/Smoky Mountain Convention & Visitors Bureau reserves the right to limit or reject for-profit events that are primarily sales oriented.
• Community sales held for charity are welcome. Private and/or commercial yard sales and other commercial sales are not permitted.
• Blount Chamber/Smoky Mountain Convention & Visitors Bureau reserves the right to edit or reject any event, including but not limited to changing the category in which the event is listed.
• Because of volume and logistical limitations, the Blount Chamber/Smoky Mountain Convention & Visitors Bureau reserves the right to exclude certain types of events from this calendar – for example, regularly scheduled church services. However, we welcome the listing of special church events such as concerts, workshops, children festivals.
• Both non-profit and for-profit organizations offering entertainment may submit events, but we reserve the right to limit or reject for-profit events that, in its sole judgment, are primarily sales-oriented in nature.
• We reserve the right to reject any community calendar entry for any reason.
• Blount Chamber/Smoky Mountain Convention & Visitors Bureau reserves the right to suspend community calendar privileges to any group or business who violates these guidelines.
• We will not knowingly publish or permit to be published any information we consider to be grossly offensive, improper, obscene, dangerous, libelous, false or illegal, or which violates a third party’s right of privacy.
• Any opinions expressed are solely those of the submitters. Submitters are solely responsible for their own submissions, including but not limited to issues of fact, libel and securing appropriate permission for use of any copyrighted material.

Business Category

Chamber member businesses only may submit business events if the event is open to the public. One designated person per business will be allowed to submit events. A business event might be a workshop, seminar, job fair, grand opening, etc.

Usage & Hold Harmless Provisions

While Blount Chamber/Smoky Mountain Convention & Visitors Bureau (SMCVB) endeavors to insure the accuracy and reliability of its calendar data, users of the calendar hereby acknowledge that we cannot be held responsible for incorrect or incomplete calendar information, regardless of origin, or for any negative consequences arising from any reliance on such incorrect or incomplete information. Any person/organization using or relying upon data from the Blount Chamber/SMCVB calendar hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from any damage resulting from an outage of our server and related computer operations or from the failure of a submitted event to display in the calendar system. All content providers hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Blount Chamber/SMCVB, all with its directors, employees, volunteers, sponsors and partners from any and all third party claims that any calendar content violates a third party’s right of privacy or contains any defamatory content or violates any local, state or federal laws or regulations.

Non-Discrimination

As per our non discrimination policy, Blount Chamber/Smoky Mountain Convention & Visitors Bureau will not discriminate against any person or group on the basis of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, age, or physical ability.