You don’t need to use outside resources to achieve that.
If each event has an image consider Topic List Previews which has a Featured Image component that works off tag and sits at the top. You can tag three Topics and it will show an excerpt on hover. Click on one and it navigates to the target Topic. There is also a TC version of Topic List Previews.
There’s also a simpler TC that does that specifically which might work better for three topics only: Homepage Feature Component