Finished work on grabbing all events from UVic events calendar, then filter those that belong to department calendars I care about and then sort them by date and by department then date. Wrote to Dave W to confirm approach is sound before suggesting to Jennifer.
Plan is to create a calendar on the uvic system for each of the "sponsors" (i.e. depts, centres etc.), and put Jennifer and the relevant dept secretary (and possibly me) as users on each group. Then any authenticated user can post an event to the appropriate calendar. My code on the index and events pages in the hums site would then scrape that information and present it appropriately.
Advantages are that data is entered only once; is available on uvic site, hums site and if desired dept site; can be edited in one place by dept or faculty secretary (or me possibly).