How this agenda is put together

What gets listed, and what Granada has no feed for

Start with the absence, because it shapes everything else, and be precise about which absence it is. The regional open-data events dataset for Andalucía — the one a developer would find first, and the one whose own metadata promises a daily update — is a dead archive: 874 records, most of them from 2020, five of them dated in Granada's future. The national ticketing feed that fills other cities' listings carries three future dates for the whole of Granada. Neither is a usable spine for a live agenda, and both were checked rather than assumed.

So this one is built venue-first: nightlife and live programming from a curated roster of Granada venues — the concert rooms, the bars that programme, the clubs, the theatres, the auditoria, the university's cultural centre, the Sacromonte zambras and the peñas, plus the rooms in La Zubia and Armilla that the city treats as its own and which the listings label by their actual municipality.

The second layer is the Agenda Cultural de Andalucía, published by the Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales of the Junta de Andalucía, and credited by that name on anything that comes from it. This is a different thing from the dead dataset above and it is current: it carries the Palacio de Congresos, the Teatro Isabel la Católica, the Filmoteca, the Plaza de Toros' concert season and the Alhambra's summer stages at the Palacio de Carlos V and the Teatro del Generalife. What it carries none of is clubs — not one room on the university strip appears in it with a future date — which is exactly why it is a layer here and never the spine.

The third is the Ayuntamiento de Granada's own cultural agenda, credited to the council. It is read narrowly and deliberately: three municipal rooms — the Plaza de Toros, the Auditorio Manuel de Falla and the Teatro Isabel la Católica — and not the rest of it, because the rest of it is a library, museum and neighbourhood programme rather than a nightlife listing. Those three rooms are the reason there is anything on some weeks at all.

Neither public agenda attaches a reuse licence the way Barcelona's council and the Basque government do, and that question is open with both of them rather than answered — it is being asked, not assumed. All of it is taken as its operators publish it. Nothing is retyped by hand, nothing is written by us, and no venue pays to appear or to rank higher. If a detail is not in the venue's own announcement, it does not appear on the card.

How often it refreshes

Several times a day, not once overnight. That is the entire point: a session announced in the early evening for that same night has a shelf life of hours, and a page rebuilt once a day cannot carry it. Checking again through the day is also how corrections and reposts get picked up.

It matters more in Granada than in most places, because a city that runs on a university calendar and a summer that empties it does not have a stable weekly pattern to fall back on. A listing built from last month's rhythm would be wrong twice a year.

What unconfirmed means

Announcements are often ambiguous. Dates get abbreviated, posters omit the year, and a recap of last weekend can look a lot like an announcement for this one. When a detail cannot be established with confidence — most often the date — the event is labelled unconfirmed rather than presented as fact.

Treat an unconfirmed listing as a lead worth checking, not a promise. Where the source publishes a page for it, the card links straight back so you can check it yourself before crossing the city.

How this is paid for

Some ticket links earn a commission. Almost none of the ones in Granada do, and that is a fact about this city rather than a policy: the national ticketing feed carries three future dates for the whole city, so nearly everything here sells at the room's own door or through the room's own channel, and where the source publishes that link, that is the link you get, unchanged and unwrapped.

Either way it changes nothing about what is listed or the order it appears in — the agenda is ordered by time, and the headline pick by its own score, with no commercial weighting in either. A note in the footer of every page says so, and each commercial link carries rel="sponsored".

Corrections and removals

If you run a venue and you are not here, something is wrong, or you would rather not be listed, write to brandonbevans@gmail.com — that request is honoured promptly. Listings link back to your own announcement and follow what you publish, so edits on your side flow through here.