There was no single place that held almost everything happening in this city — and the good stuff just outside it. There was Instagram, which is a slot machine, not a calendar. So we do the scrolling and you get a list you can actually search.
The specific feeling this site was built out of: finding out on Sunday about the thing you would have loved on Friday. It was posted. It was posted to a story, at 9pm, by an account you don’t follow, and it evaporated in twenty-four hours.
That’s not a you problem. Instagram is built to hold your attention, not to answer “what’s on Thursday near me under twenty bucks.” You cannot search it. You cannot sort it. You certainly can’t filter it by neighbourhood. And nobody should have to be a full-time follower of forty venues to have plans.
So the deal is simple: we’re slaves to the feed so you don’t have to be. Everything gets pulled out of the scroll, dated, priced, tagged by neighbourhood, and put somewhere a search box works.
Then it got bigger than listings. Run clubs, happy hours, patios, volunteer calls, trivia nights — the other sections exist because showing up is the whole point. This city rocks and you should think so too. Hard to think so from your couch.
Straight from the source — venue what’s-on pages, box office and ticketing calendars, library and rec centre schedules, university listings. Slowest to change, most reliable when it does.
Venue stories, promoter grids, the flyer somebody posted once at 11pm and never again. We check roughly 100 accounts on a loop and transcribe what's actually an event.
Photographed flyers off Agricola, Gottingen, Quinpool, the Dartmouth ferry terminal, and every coffee shop corkboard we walk past.
Venue mailing lists, promoter blasts, arts-org bulletins, and festival programs the week they drop.
The unsearchable heart of the local scene. Community boards, neighbourhood groups, hobby clubs, the buy-nothing crowd that also runs a monthly potluck.
Submissions and tips from organizers and regular people. Fastest way onto the site, and free, forever.
Nothing auto-scrapes straight onto the site. If a date, price, or venue looks wrong, we check it against the source before it goes up.
Listings carry their source so you can go verify us. The organizer's page is always the last word — if we disagree with them, believe them.
A free library talk can outrank a stadium show. Ranking is about whether it's worth your night, not what it costs.
Nobody buys their way into a section, a "featured" slot, or the top of a list. Ads are labelled ads and live in ad boxes.
When we get something wrong we fix it and say so. Corrections are noted on the listing, not memory-holed.
Boringly: entirely out of pocket, for now. No ads running yet, no venture capital, no chamber of commerce, no city grant, and no arrangement where a venue pays to look busy. Someone pays the hosting bill and does the scrolling on evenings and weekends.
Ads will show up eventually — clearly labelled, in ad boxes, and that’s the whole plan. Which matters mostly for one reason: if an advertiser doesn’t like a listing, the listing stays. The day that stops being true, this page will say so.
Organizers, promoters, bands, book clubs, church basements: send it. Costs nothing and never will. Date, time, venue, price, one link — that’s enough.
Submit an event →Local rates for local businesses — sidebar boxes and section sponsorships, marked as ads, no editorial strings. Ad slots aren’t live yet; tell us what you’re promoting and we’ll come to you first.
Get on the list →Every event on this site takes place in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People.
This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship, which the Mi’kmaq first signed with the British Crown in 1725 — treaties that did not surrender land or title. We are all Treaty people. Where we list Mi’kmaw-led events, we say who is hosting and link to them directly.
One form for everything: broken listings, missed events, site bugs, and ideas. Pick a topic so it lands in the right pile.