Local Dances
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Put your classes where local dancers look

  • Free
  • 10 minutes, once
  • No log-in, ever
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Listing here is free, and the order of events never follows payment. Events are ordered by time and by distance from you.

Set up onceabout 10 minutes, easiest on a computer

  1. Step 1: Make a new Google Calendar just for dance

    It keeps your personal appointments private.

    Show me where

    Open Google Calendar

    Other calendars +Create new calendar

    Give it your school's name and click Create calendar.

  2. Step 2: Set its time zone to Vancouver

    Otherwise your events show at the wrong time.

    Show me where

    Settings for that calendarTime zonePacific Time - Vancouver

    If it says UTC or anything else, change it.

  3. Step 3: Send us its address

    SettingsIntegrate calendarSecret address in iCal format

    Copy it. Your calendar stays private and only this site reads it. Treat it like a password.

    If it ever gets outPress Reset next to the secret address, and send us the new one. Don't post it anywhere else.
Send us your calendar

Include your website and social media links.

That's it. We check each new calendar, then your events appear here automatically. You never log in, and we never get access to your Google account.

Each event: what we need

Plain words are all it takes. No emojis or formatting needed: we lay out every event the same tidy way.

TitleSalsa 1 class→ The dance style and what it is: class, social or workshop
WhenThursdays, 7:00 to 8:00 pm · repeats weekly→ Start and end time. Weekly classes: use Repeat weekly
LocationElks Lodge, 231 6th St, Courtenay→ Full address with the town. Without a town it shows “location to be confirmed”
DescriptionFor complete beginners. No partner needed. $15 drop-in, or $75 for all 6 weeks. Bring clean indoor shoes.→ Plain words: the price, who it’s for, what to bring

What dancers see here

Salsa 1 class

  • Salsa
  • Class
  • Beginner friendly
  • No partner needed
  • $15 · $75

💃 Salsa class 🕐 Thursday, November 13, 7 pm to 8 pm 🌱 Beginner friendly 👯 No partner needed 💲 $15 · $75

For complete beginners. No partner needed. $15 drop-in, or $75 for all 6 weeks. Bring clean indoor shoes.

Already use emojis? That's fine. If your description already has a few, we show it just as you wrote it.

The description to copy

Paste it into an event's description, then replace the parts in [brackets].

For [who it's for, e.g. complete beginners / all levels]
No partner needed
$[price] drop-in
Bring [what to bring]
Words we look for
  • Price: "$15 drop-in", "By donation", "Free entry"
  • Who it's for: "beginner friendly", "all levels", "no partner needed"
  • A lesson before a social: "lesson included", or "7:00 lesson, then dancing"
  • Music: "live band", "live music", "DJ" (added 2026-11-09)
  • A Facebook event link: we show a "See on Facebook" button
  • No end time? We say so on the listing and save it as 2 hours in people's calendars.
Weekly classes and cancelled nights

Use Google's Repeat weekly option. To cancel one night, delete just that night, or put "Cancelled" in its title. Either way this site shows that night as cancelled, so dancers who saved it see the change.

How often this site updates

This site reads your calendar about once an hour. A change shows here within about an hour, now and then a little longer if Google is slow to share it. Every event page shows when it was last checked.

Calendar on your own website?

Already publish a calendar on your website (WordPress and similar)? It may work too. Tell us its address.

Questions? Contact us. Know another school or instructor who should be here? Suggest a school.

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