Seasons and series
Group events into programming cycles, festivals, or sub-programmes
Seasons and series are two ways to group events together. They serve different purposes and an event can belong to both at the same time.
- A season is a programming-cycle grouping. Most performing-arts organisations organise their year as a season — "2026/27 Season", "Summer 2026" — and every event belongs to exactly one.
- A series is a curated grouping that may span seasons or sub-divide one. Festivals, themed weekends, recital series, and sub-programmes are all series. An event can be in many series at once, or none.
Both seasons and series have their own public pages on the site, so you can link to "everything in the 2026/27 Season" or "the chamber music series" as a single discoverable URL.
Seasons
A season record contains:
- A title, e.g. "2026/27 Season".
- A description — rich-text body content for the season's page.
- A date range the season covers.
- An optional image for the season.
- The events belonging to the season (set from each event, not from the season record).
Set an event's season when you create the event. Changing an event's season afterwards moves it between season pages and updates listings accordingly.
Series
A series record contains:
- A title, e.g. "International Festival 2026" or "Late Night Concerts".
- A description.
- An optional image.
- An optional date range if the series is time-bounded.
Add an event to a series when you create the event. An event can be in multiple series; tagging an event with several series makes it appear on each series page.
When to use which
- A new programming cycle → a season.
- A festival, themed weekend, or curated programme → a series.
- A recurring annual programme that repeats each season → a series, since it spans multiple seasons.
- An event that doesn't quite fit your default season → a series for the special programme it's part of.