Events that travel
Family events are only useful to the people who hear about them in time. This page is about moving them further in both directions — your calendar onto ours, and ours into wherever your community already looks.
You run a calendar
If your organization publishes a public events calendar, we can carry the family-friendly part of it — credited to you, linked back to you, and kept in step as things change.
See the calendars we already list from — each has a page showing everything we carry from it. Browse the calendars we list from
Your page stays the source of truth
Every listing credits your organization and links back to your own page for the full details, so people check times and changes with you, not with us.
An audience that came looking
People arrive here already trying to find something to do with their kids this weekend. Your storytime lands in front of them at the moment they are deciding.
Filtered, not mirrored
We publish the events that suit a family audience and leave the rest where they are. Your 21+ tasting and your board meeting stay on your calendar.
Reviewed before it appears
Every imported event goes through an automated family-relevance check and our own review before it is published. Nothing appears unreviewed.
Nothing to build
We subscribe to the public feed your calendar software already publishes. There is nothing to install, no account to keep, and no work on your side.
Yours to withdraw
One email removes an event, or the whole calendar, and we honour it straight away. No forms and no argument — and past events age off by themselves after about three years, so nothing of yours sits here indefinitely.
What we publish
By default we publish the facts — what the event is called, when it happens and where — together with a link to your listing. Facts like these are nobody's property, so we do not need to ask before we carry them, though we would always rather you knew.
Your descriptions are a different matter: those are your writing, and we only republish them if you say we may. Tell us and we will carry the full text or a short excerpt, whichever you prefer.
Our subscribable calendar feeds — the ones families add to Google or Apple Calendar, and other sites pull — carry your events as the facts and a link back to you, not your descriptions, even where those appear on our pages. If you would like your descriptions to travel in those feeds too, tell us in writing and we will include them; we will not do it otherwise.
One thing worth saying plainly, because you would be within your rights to ask: we do keep a copy of your description even when we are not showing it, so that someone searching our calendar for “puppets” or “sensory-friendly” can still find your event. It is used to match a search and never to fill a page — what we display is what you have allowed.
We also do not keep your listings for ever. An imported event stays for about three years after it happens and is then deleted. You can ask for a different period, or for us to keep them indefinitely, whichever suits you.
Community calendars
For libraries, parks and recreation departments, school districts, tourism offices and visitors bureaus, chambers of commerce, and town and county calendars, there is no cost. You publish events for the public good; carrying them further is the same errand.
Some other kind of calendar?
Venues, leagues, museums, studios and membership organizations all keep calendars worth reading, and we are steadily opening this up beyond public bodies. Tell us about yours and we will talk about what fits.
Not sure your calendar can be subscribed to?
Most calendar software can publish a subscribe feed, and on plenty of sites the feature is simply switched off — often one checkbox nobody has had a reason to tick. Send us the address of your events page and we will look; if it turns out there is no feed to be had, we will tell you that too, and say what else would work.
Use our calendar yourself
Subscribe once and family events appear alongside everything else you already keep track of, updating on their own as we add and change them.
Subscribe in your calendar app
This is a live feed: events added or changed here show up in your calendar automatically.
- Apple Calendar / Outlook: open as a subscription
- Google Calendar: Settings → Add calendar → From URL, then paste the link above.
- Just want a one-time snapshot? Download the .ics file
Which feed
- Everything upcoming, everywhere we cover.
- One state at a time — open a state's calendar and the subscribe link there is that state's feed.
- One organizer's events — on a public profile page, for following a particular library or farm.
Subscribing keeps up to date on its own. Downloading a single event from its page gives you that one event, fixed at the moment you downloaded it — handy for one thing you are definitely doing, less so for a calendar you want to keep watching.
Publishing our events somewhere else
Local news sites, neighbourhood newsletters, parent groups and community apps are welcome to republish our own listings. Four things we ask, and two we do not allow:
- Keep the credit and the link back to the event's page on our site.
- Keep the organizer's credit where the listing carries one.
- Listings credited to another calendar carry only the facts — what, when and where, and a link — unless that organization has asked us to include its descriptions. We keep it that way so that content that isn't ours can't be farmed through us. Either way, their writing is still theirs: if you want to republish their descriptions or their photographs, ask them; every listing names them.
- Pull the feed again rather than keeping a copy, so cancellations and changes reach your readers.
- Do not present it as a partnership or an endorsement.
- Do not resell the feed as a data product.
And a favour rather than a rule: tell us you are using it, so we can warn you before anything changes.
Tell us you are using itSomething not covered here?
Ask us. Syndication arrangements tend to have one odd detail each, and we would rather hear yours than have you guess.
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