How it works

We check the schedules for This Week

We check the schedule, you choose what sounds fun. Community centres, pools, rinks and libraries are available here plus a few other things. You can filter by age, interest, distance and price, see what fits your schedule and register. Pretty simple.

You can save your schedule here but you will have to register on the venue's own site (easy because each event has a link to do just that). We keep your schedule of confirmed events and that can be added to your phone/email calendar so you won't miss anything.

Let us know how we can improve — we are local residents and wanted a way to track local activities. We hope you find this helpful and send us a line to help us continually improve.

Refreshing

Nightly, and again on registration mornings

• A full read of every source runs overnight, Pacific time.
• A second run happens early on registration mornings, when new sessions are released (Vancouver camps, North Van, and West Van's Thursday seasonal and Wednesday weekly registrations).
• Sessions that disappear from a venue's page are retired here too, so the week does not quietly keep things that no longer exist.
• If a venue changes its website and our reader breaks, that source pauses and keeps its last good copy. The overnight run reports which source failed.

Registration

What we know, and what we do not

Registration happens on the venue's site. We never ask for your recreation-centre login, and we never handle a payment.

• A saved item starts as Interested. That is just your shortlist.
• Marking it Registered is something you tell us, because the venue does not share the confirmation with us.
• When you come back from a Register link, we ask whether the venue confirmed you. A cookie on the venue's website is not visible here, so we never guess.
• Google and iPhone receive Going and Registered only. Interested stays on your shortlist.
• Invite a friend from the activity. They sign in, join, and it lands on their own week.
• You can store the venue's confirmation number with the item so you have it at the door.

If a venue ever offers a public registration hook, this could become automatic. Until then we would rather be accurate than clever.

Your calendar

One private feed, on any device

• Subscribe from My week, in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook.
• The feed is a private link. Anyone with it can read your week, so do not post it.
• Rotate the link if it gets shared, or turn the feed off entirely.
• Calendar apps check the feed on their own schedule, usually every few hours, so a change can take a little while to appear.

Your own events

Things you organise yourself

A birthday party, a playdate, a class a friend is running. With an account you can add your own events to the week, keep them private to your household, or submit them to be listed publicly. Anything public is reviewed before it appears, so the calendar stays free of noise.

Privacy

What we store

• Your email, for signing in. No password is stored.
• The names and birth years you give us for your household, used only to filter programs.
• Your home neighbourhood, used for distance. An exact address is never needed.
• Browsing needs no account at all. You only sign in to save and to keep a week.

Photographs

Where the pictures come from

When a venue publishes a photo with an event, we show that photo. Where a source has none, we show the venue name and address instead. We do not generate images or use stock photography for venues.