A short introduction

by Pete Lindsay

Event: St Andrews is a free listing website covering events in St Andrews, holding a rolling year’s information. Using community resources – that is keeping an eye on notice boards, posters, advertisements, etc, around town, and other web sites – as well as directly submitted information, it is probably the most comprehensive website dedicated to what is going on in St Andrews. In its earlier incarnation it was the top Google hit for searches like “St Andrews Events” and “St Andrews whats on” for several years.

Coverage

Events listed cover a wide range: from fundraising coffee mornings to university open lectures, charity runs to art exhibitions, music from sacred to profane.

To be listed, events should be open to the public and within, or very close to, St Andrews. The rule-of-thumb for ‘very close’ is whether I’m prepared to walk to the out-of-town venue from the town centre.

Cost

Listing is free – it could hardly be anything else given the sources, but people do ask sometimes.

History

The Event: St Andrews site grew out of the Royal Burgh of St Andrews Community Council’s news sheet and event listing, Event: which I ran from Autumn ’96 to Summer ’07. The original web site started in ’97 as a way of making available information on events that fell between the monthly printed news sheets.

An early form of the site can be seen on the “Wayback Machine” internet archive. Take a trip back to February 1998...