My reply probably won’t help you much.
I’ve had specific needs for displaying events on my forum, and I’ve found the existing solutions not fitting enough, sometimes hard to understand or configure, and a lack of customization for the calendar view.
I ended up not using any event or calendar plugin/theme component.
I just now have an Event category where I use the Location plugin, and that does the work because I preferred having no hassle and almost no features instead of complex stuff and features that didn’t exactly fit my needs.