it would be nice if I could see upcoming events pulled out and highlighted in search results

[jbothma]

I get this fancy result cos it's in my calendar but maybe the general public can have something like this using structured data in the page.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/events#guidelines
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/mark-up-listings
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/structured_data#overview

You can see what structured data google found in your site using https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en