About

Why Slate exists

Slate started with a frustration you probably share: it’s Saturday morning, you know something’s on somewhere, and you can’t find it.

The announcement was on social media three weeks ago and you didn’t see it. The big “what’s on” sites list every ticketed show and paid promotion, but not the market down the road. And finding out means digging through pages overloaded with ads, images, pop-ups and other people’s agendas. They’ve become worse than recipe sites: a thousand words of scroll before the thing you came for.

So I built the thing I wanted: one page, everything that’s on this weekend, nothing else.

What’s on the slate

Markets, festivals, food events, kids stuff, community days, gigs, shows and the odd big one. If it is happening this weekend and you could go, it belongs here.

Every listing says how you get in, so you know before you leave the house: turn up when there is nothing to pay or book, pay at the door when there is a gate, and book ahead when a seat is held in your name. We do not hide the booked ones. We just say so.

What you won’t find:

• Paid placements. Nothing here is listed because someone paid. Nothing ever will be.
• Classes and courses. Term programs, weekly clubs and eight-week blocks are things you join, not things that happen this Saturday.
• Places pretending to be events. A park is always open; the slate lists what’s happening, at a stated time, this weekend.
• Ads. None.

How it stays true

Every listing shows when it was last checked, and everything is re-checked before every weekend. Times change and weather cancels things. If you spot something wrong, the “Something wrong?” link on any listing takes one tap and goes straight to us. Two reports and the listing is flagged publicly while we check.

Slate is made in Adelaide, South Australia, where the first slate started.

Want your event listed? Add an event. Anything else: Contact.