About Island Happenings
A curated Vancouver Island guide to things worth doing nearby.
Local events are easier to use when they are selected, source-linked, and practical enough to plan around.
This is a maintained guide, not a complete database. It is built from the Comox Valley and edited for people trying to make a real plan.
The job
What's worth doing this week?
The guide focuses on public events with clear dates, places, costs, source links, and planning notes.
The goal is to make good plans easier to find.
How picks make it in
Listings are chosen on purpose.
Smaller, checked, and useful beats exhaustive.
Usually a good fit
- Open to the public
- Useful to someone who does not already belong to the group
- Clear about date, time, place, and cost
- Linked to an official, venue, organizer, or reliable source
- Specific enough to help someone make a plan
Often skipped
- Private, members-only, or mostly internal
- Too vague to verify
- Missing a reliable source
- Too small or repetitive for the main guide
- Better suited to a venue calendar than a regional guide
Before you go
Check the source.
Source links stay close to each pick because times, tickets, venues, and weather-sensitive plans can change.
Use the original source to confirm before heading out.
Submissions and corrections
Know a good local event?
Send the source, date, place, cost, and one useful note. Corrections are welcome too.
Send an eventBuilt on Vancouver Island
Maintained from the Comox Valley.
Island Happenings is built and maintained by Jeromy Mobley from the Comox Valley.
It sits alongside Island Watch, a sister site for source-linked island status.