How we check events
Most event listings you find online are copied from another listing, which was copied from a third. Ours are checked against an original source by locals from Chania, and each event page shows you which source that was. Here is the whole method, including the parts we cannot promise.
We start from the organiser, not an aggregator
An event reaches us from a village council notice, a venue programme, a ticketing page, an organiser social account, a poster on a wall, or someone sending it in. Wherever it starts, we look for the most original source we can find: the people actually putting it on.
Aggregator sites are not a source. They are where errors go to multiply, because each one copies the last without re-checking.
A person checks it, and records what they checked
Locals from Chania check the date, the start time, the venue and the price against that source. Each fact that was confirmed is recorded against the event, along with the source it was confirmed from and the date it was checked.
That is what the line at the bottom of every event page is: not a badge, but a receipt you can follow. Click the source and you land where we landed.
Nothing publishes on its own
Anything submitted through the site arrives as an unpublished draft. It is invisible on the site until a person has reviewed it and published it. There is no automatic pipeline from a form, a feed or a social post to a live listing.
That is slower than an aggregator, and it is the point. We would rather list fewer events and have them be right.
We re-check as dates get closer
Village feast days are a good example: the date is fixed years ahead, but the programme and the start time are often not confirmed until the current year’s poster appears. Those events sit with the date confirmed and the timing still open, and we go back to them as the poster lands.
An audit re-reads each event against its source and flags anything that has drifted since it was checked.
What we cannot promise
We do not contact every organiser about every event. We follow up when a detail does not add up or is missing, not as a matter of course, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise.
Things also change after we check them. A concert moves indoors, a village shifts its festival by a day, a venue closes for a funeral. When that happens the fastest way to fix it is to tell us: there is a "Something not right?" link on every event page, and it goes straight to the person who can correct it.
Where we could not confirm something, we would rather show you the gap than fill it with a guess.
Independent, always
No one can pay to appear in the events calendar, and no one can pay to have an event checked differently. Spotlight Stars, our quality marks, can never be bought, negotiated or exchanged for a fee.