ShowHub is a free community service dedicated to promoting live music events. We provide a central hub where you can easily find out who’s playing at your favourite venue, where your favourite band is performing, and share events or add them to your calendar. Our directories can also help actively gigging artists and live music venues connect.
If you appreciate what we do, there are a number of ways you can help support us:
Share
Visibility is essential to keeping live music thriving. By sharing events from ShowHub, you help spread the word – increasing awareness of the shows, the artists, and ShowHub itself. The more people come to ShowHub, the more people find out about these shows and artists, which is the entire purpose of our platform.
Our social share images stand out in crowded social media feeds, drawing attention to your event. Plus, sharing ShowHub events provides a clear and accessible way for people to discover what’s happening—cutting through the noise of competing posts and information.
Contribute
While we are not a registered charity and cannot issue tax receipts, ShowHub operates similarly to a non-profit by providing this service at no cost to the community. Every dollar contributed goes directly to our mission to promote artists and their shows in the community.
If you’d like to support our work by helping offset the expenses of the current startup phase of the platform, we gratefully accept contributions via Stripe – just click the button above.
Our current expenses include:
- website hosting
- software
- advertising campaigns to increase visibility of both shows and artists – many of whom don’t have any online presence outside a social media account
- printed promotional materials
- communications & transportation
- business startup costs
In addition to our out-of-pocket expenses, we’ve contributed well over 800 combined hours of unpaid work on the project between mid-January and mid-April. These hours continue to grow as we actively develop new features, source content, and manage updates.
We’re doing this because we believe deeply in the value of this platform — not only as a vital service for the music community, but as something with potential for meaningful growth and industry-wide benefit. While we expect things to become more manageable over time, this initial phase has been a significant undertaking.
If you’d like to contribute by cheque, cash, or another method, please contact us for mailing details or to make arrangements. Prefer e-transfer? [E-Address: info | showhub]
Partner with Us
We’re looking for businesses and organizations that share our passion for live music and community engagement. Becoming a ShowHub partner through sponsorship is a great way to support the local music scene while increasing your brand’s visibility to a highly engaged audience.
If you’re interested in sponsorship or reciprocal opportunities, please reach out to us at [E-Address: info | showhub].
Join
Stay up to date with Vancouver’s live music scene by joining our mailing list! Every Monday, we send out a newsletter featuring:
- A status update on our listings and directories
- A brief review of a recent show
- The week’s upcoming events, including the first three days’ listings and a link to the full schedule
We highlight the first few days because show details often change as the week progresses, and new events are frequently added. For the most up-to-date listings, be sure to check the live schedule closer to the event dates.
Submit a Comment
We’d love to hear from you! Your supportive comments help demonstrate the impact of ShowHub and why it’s needed in the community. That show of support will allow us to seek further funding so we can continue to expand the platform. Let us know how ShowHub has helped you, who it benefits, and why it matters. Fill out the form below to share your thoughts.