events calendar FOR ARTS COUNCILS
Make every cultural event in your community discoverable
Seeker continuously discovers events from every gallery, theater, studio, and performance venue in your community — from your largest member organizations to the smallest independent artists. One curated calendar, ready to review, approve, and publish on your own site.
Powering cultural calendars for leading arts councils
THE PROBLEM
Cultural events live everywhere.
Discovery is fragmented. Cultural programming is scattered across hundreds of sources — gallery sites, theater calendars, artist Instagrams, ticket portals, festival pages, and venue Facebook events. Smaller member organizations get drowned out. Big names dominate the conversation. And your team can’t reasonably keep up with all of it manually.
THE FIX
Seeker Events Network solves it.
- Purpose-built AI crawlers continuously discover events across your destination
- You review, approve, edit, whitelist or blacklist before publishing
- Publish natively via embed widget, CMS integration, or API
CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT
Powering Calendars for Leading Arts Councils
Calgary Arts Development
Calgary Arts Development connects Calgarians to the city’s arts scene through YYC What’s On, a dedicated events hub built directly on the Seeker Events Network API. Rather than managing event submissions by hand, their team pulls from hundreds of local sources automatically, keeping the calendar current without the maintenance overhead. The result is a live, searchable events destination that reflects what’s actually happening in Calgary’s arts community.
HOW IT WORKS
Seeker brings cultural events to you
STEP 01
Add your sources
Tell Seeker which member organizations, galleries, theaters, and performance venues to monitor — or import your existing list of grantees and partners. Seeker continuously crawls each source for new programming, exhibitions, and performances.
- Add any partner website, event feed, or social source in seconds
- Human curated for quality
- Follow unlimited sources
STEP 02
Review & approve in your Discover Feed
Every event Seeker discovers lands in your personalized Discover Feed before it ever publishes. Your team holds maximum editorial control — review the listing, see its source, then import, archive, blacklist, or whitelist with a single click.
- Import, Archive, View Source, Blacklist, or Report issue — per event
- Whitelist trusted sources for auto-publish; blacklist anything off-brand
- Source attribution on every listing keeps your editorial standards intact
STEP 03
Publish natively to your site
Approved events flow directly to your council’s website — in your branding, on your domain, with full SEO benefits. Use our embeddable widget, REST API, or native partner integrations to surface programming everywhere your audience is looking.
- Drop our SEO-friendly embeddable widget onto any page
- Native CMS sync with Simpleview, Tempest, Madden Media, and more
- Or pipe approved events to any third-party system via our REST API
FEATURES
Purpose-Built AI for the Cultural Sector
Designed to identify, structure, and enrich the cultural events that matter to your community — the gallery openings, theater productions, studio tours, performances, festivals, and artist talks that define your local arts scene.
Connect directly to partner websites
Add any source — gallery website, theater calendar, studio newsletter, festival page, even a member organization’s Facebook events — and Seeker reads it directly. No partner submission portals to maintain. No copy-pasting from emails.
Whitelist trusted sources
Mark your most reliable sources for auto-publish. Events from your symphony, your major theaters, your trusted galleries flow live the moment Seeker finds them — no manual review needed.
Blacklist venues and organizers
Block private board meetings, internal events, or sources that don’t fit your council’s mission. Once a venue or organizer is blacklisted, their events stay off your calendar permanently.
Streamlined community submissions
A branded public submission page lets artists, member orgs, and the cultural community add events directly. Integrated user accounts, AI-assisted form-fill, and one-click moderation in your Discover Feed.
Search Engine Optimized Widgets
Drop SEO-friendly event listings onto any page on your existing site. Schema-marked, server-rendered, and customizable to match your branding — built to rank for “arts events near me” and “things to do in [your community].”
Complete editorial control
Every event passes through your Discover Feed before publishing. Approve, edit, archive, blacklist, or report — your team owns every word that hits your calendar.
Why Arts Councils Choose Seeker Events Network
The definitive cultural calendar for your community
Surface every cultural event happening in your community — not just the largest venues. Every member organization, every gallery, every artist gets equal visibility in one trusted, comprehensive calendar.
Eliminate manual curation overhead
Stop chasing member orgs for event submissions, copy-pasting from emails, and rekeying details from gallery PDFs. Seeker continuously discovers and structures programming so your team can focus on supporting artists, not data entry.
Drive audiences to artists and venues
Comprehensive, accurate, and timely cultural listings keep audiences on your site longer, drive return visits, and send qualified traffic to your member organizations — helping fill seats, sell tickets, and grow attendance for the artists you support.
Stay on-brand and SEO-friendly
Publish through our embeddable widget, native CMS integrations, or API — events render in your council’s branding, on your domain, with full schema markup so search engines surface your community’s programming first.
Empower artists and member organizations
Public submission pages and Fetch-an-Event let artists, member orgs, and the broader cultural community contribute directly — without losing your council’s editorial standards or curation oversight.
Scale without rebuilding
Add new member organizations, new sub-calendars by discipline (theater, music, visual arts), or co-op partnerships without engineering work. Your cultural calendar grows as your community grows.
Launch your AI-powered cultural calendar in weeks, not months
PARTNER INTEGRATIONS
Works with the platforms you already use
Seeker Events Network ships turn-key integrations with the leading destination marketing platforms — so approved events flow into your existing site, CMS, and reporting infrastructure without rebuilds, custom dev work, or duplicate data entry.
- Robust API connects to any third-party system
- SEO-friendly embeddable widget for turn-key integration
Frequently Asked Questions
Unlike generic crawlers that just extract pages, Seeker is purpose-built for event discovery — the only AI model trained specifically on hyperlocal events. That means it works on nearly any source, not just Eventbrite or Meetup: theatre listings, music venues, restaurant openings, festivals, sporting events, community calendars, even Facebook event pages and venue blogs. And because it learns and improves continuously, it gets sharper at identifying your destination’s events the longer you use it. Pair that with our human curators and you get a feed that’s comprehensive and trustworthy.
Most destinations save 40+ hours a month. That’s the time your team currently spends chasing partner submissions, monitoring venue and ticket sites, copy-pasting from emails, rekeying details from PDFs and Facebook posts, and reconciling duplicates. Seeker handles all of that automatically — your team focuses on curation and editorial judgment instead of data entry.
No. Every event Seeker discovers lands in your personalized Discover Feed first — you review, approve, edit, whitelist, or blacklist before it ever publishes. You can blacklist sources, archive listings, or batch-import only what fits your editorial standards.
Multiple organizations — say a tourism board, a downtown BID, and a local media partner — share a single Seeker Discover Feed but each publish their own separately curated calendar, with their own brand, filters, and audience. Co-op pricing makes comprehensive event coverage affordable for every partner without duplicating crawl, QA, or curation work. Sign up for a demo to see how it could work for your region.
Three options. (1) Drop our SEO-friendly embeddable widget onto any page — customizable filters and brand styling, no rebuild required. (2) Use our turn-key CMS integrations with Simpleview, Tempest, Madden Media, and more — events sync automatically into your existing site. (3) Use our robust API to distribute approved events to any third-party system.
Yes. Community crowdsourcing gives you a public, branded submission page with integrated user registration to capture the source. Fetch-an-Event lets submitters paste any URL — an Eventbrite link, a venue page, a Facebook event — and Seeker auto-populates the form with title, description, date, venue, and link. More accurate submissions, less editorial back-and-forth.
Yes — Seeker exposes a full REST API for programmatic access to your approved events, plus webhooks for real-time updates. Developers, agencies, and product teams building local-discovery experiences can license event data directly.
Most destinations go live in a few weeks. We onboard your priority sources, configure your Discover Feed, set up your publishing destination (widget, CMS integration, or API), and train your team on the review-and-approve workflow. From there, your calendar runs on autopilot — you spend your time curating, not researching.