Event: St Andrews
What’s on in St Andrews, Scotland
Caveat:
These events are gathered from adverts, posters, web sites, tweets and other hearsay, so errors can happen. Please check event details with the organisers or venue before committing time or money.
About
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 the most comprehensive website for what is going on in St Andrews.
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...