Recurring series

A series is a group of related events — a weekly meetup, a monthly screening, a yearly festival. On Swirl, a series collapses into a single tile on the home grid and gets a dedicated detail page that lists every upcoming occurrence.

Creating a series (today)

There’s no “Create series” button yet. Series form implicitly: when two or more events share the same series, they get grouped automatically.

The workflow today is:

1. Post the first occurrence as a regular event.
2. Post the next occurrence — from the event editor, the Series picker lets you attach this event to the same series as the first one.
3. Repeat.

The series gets a slug (usually based on the title of the first event) and lives at swirl.events/series/<slug>/.

Caution

Series-level metadata (the title of the series page, a description, a cover that’s distinct from any single event’s cover) lives on the series record in the database, but the UI for editing it hasn’t shipped. For now, the series page derives most of its display from the events inside it. If you need a custom series title or cover, email events@swirl.events and we’ll set it manually.

The series page

/series/<slug>/ shows:

• The series name and cadence (e.g., “Weekly · Tuesdays at 7:00 PM”)
• The next upcoming occurrence as a hero
• A compact occurrence list — every upcoming date, plus recent past ones

Where individual occurrences appear elsewhere on the site (the home grid, host profile, venue page, search), they collapse to one tile with a small “+N more upcoming” badge. The series page is where you go for the full list.

Series memberships

If your series is invite-only or has a defined audience, you can add members at /manage/series/<id>/:

• Add by name + email or phone — generates an invitation for that person.
• Status states — invited / active / left / removed / blocked.
• Visibility — toggle between public, semi-private, and private at the series level.

The /series/<slug>/members/ route is members-only — anonymous visitors see a sign-in prompt; signed-in members see the series details and their own membership status.

Per-occurrence editing

Edits to a single event in a series only apply to that occurrence. To change something across every future occurrence (a new regular venue, a permanent time shift), you’ll need to edit each upcoming event individually for now. Bulk series editing is on the list.