diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 91b9df1..1ffdc50 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Tous les utilisateurs sont authentifiés — il n'y a pas d'accès anonyme à l'
 
 ### Concepts métier
 
-- **Point de rencontre** — *l'unité de valeur de l'app*. Un moment de rencontre proposé par un hôte à un endroit et à un horaire donnés, greffé sur un événement public. C'est ce à quoi on s'inscrit (on ne s'inscrit pas à un événement). Sans points de rencontre, un événement Festipod n'a pas d'intérêt.
+- **Point de rencontre** — *l'unité de valeur de l'app*. Un moment de rencontre proposé par un hôte à un endroit et à un horaire donnés, greffé sur un événement public. On s'inscrit à un point de rencontre ou directement à un événement ; être inscrit à un de ses points de rencontre inscrit à l'événement. Sans points de rencontre, un événement Festipod n'a pas d'intérêt.
 - **Événement** — l'ancrage. Un événement public réel (festival, conférence, salon, exposition…) référencé dans Festipod pour servir de support à des points de rencontre. C'est simplement un *prétexte* (titre, dates, lieu, thèmes) ; le déclarant n'est pas l'organisateur officiel de l'événement, juste celui qui l'a inscrit dans Festipod.
 - **Communauté d'intérêt** — un groupement thématique d'utilisateurs. Sert principalement à découvrir des événements (via abonnement) et à délimiter les périmètres de référencement.
 - **Liste curated** — une liste d'événements éditorialisée (par un utilisateur ou une communauté), distincte de « les événements que j'ai déclarés » ou « les événements de la communauté ». Permet d'organiser/recommander.
diff --git a/backend/services/registration.service.js b/backend/services/registration.service.js
index 2298305..445e8f0 100644
--- a/backend/services/registration.service.js
+++ b/backend/services/registration.service.js
@@ -35,17 +35,16 @@ const firstStringOf = value =>
     .find(v => typeof v === 'string' && v.trim().length > 0);
 
 /**
- * What a Join/Leave targets: the stored object must be a meeting point — an `as:Event` (checked by
- * `verifiedDelivery`, and by `meetingPointOf` on the creator's copy) anchored to an event by
- * `as:context` — whose creator is its `dc:creator`, required to own the pod the meeting point lies
- * in. Only on the copy the creator's pod serves (`meetingPointOf`) is that creator believed (the pod
+ * What a Join/Leave targets: the stored object must be an `as:Event` (checked by `verifiedDelivery`,
+ * and by `meetingPointOf` on the creator's copy) — a meeting point when anchored to an event by
+ * `as:context`, otherwise an event signed up to directly, which is its own anchor — whose creator is
+ * its `dc:creator`, required to own the pod it lies in. Only on the copy the creator's pod serves (`meetingPointOf`) is that creator believed (the pod
  * stamps the creator, and nobody can store a resource in someone else's pod); on the copy read
  * through the participant's pod, it only names where to read that one. Resolves
  * `{ ok, eventUri, creatorUri }` or a refusal.
  */
 function meetingPointTarget(meetingPoint, meetingPointUri) {
-  const eventUri = linkOf(meetingPoint, 'context', 'as:context', `${AS}context`);
-  if (!eventUri) return { ok: false, reason: `the meeting point ${meetingPointUri} names no single as:context (its event)` };
+  const eventUri = linkOf(meetingPoint, 'context', 'as:context', `${AS}context`) ?? meetingPointUri;
   const creatorUri = linkOf(meetingPoint, 'dc:creator', DC_CREATOR);
   if (!creatorUri) return { ok: false, reason: `the meeting point ${meetingPointUri} names no single dc:creator` };
   if (!isInActorPod(meetingPointUri, creatorUri)) {
@@ -55,9 +54,9 @@ function meetingPointTarget(meetingPoint, meetingPointUri) {
 }
 
 /**
- * The notification template for the creator of a meeting point (`pod-notifications.send`, rendered in
- * the creator's language): always ANONYMOUS, the meeting point named through `meetingPointName`, the
- * link to its event's meeting points (`eventUri`). Every value travels as a template PARAMETER, never
+ * The notification template for the creator of a target (`pod-notifications.send`, rendered in the
+ * creator's language): always ANONYMOUS, the target named through `meetingPointName` or `eventName`, the link to the
+ * event (`eventUri`), or to its meeting points when the target is one. Every value travels as a template PARAMETER, never
  * inside the template, so no user text is compiled.
  *
  * Never names the participant: naming would need a trustworthy signal that the creator is one of the
@@ -66,21 +65,18 @@ function meetingPointTarget(meetingPoint, meetingPointUri) {
  * request checked; platform defect reported upstream). Until that list can be trusted, every
  * notification is anonymous.
  */
-function notificationTemplate(change) {
-  const title =
-    change === 'join'
-      ? {
-          en: 'A participant joined your meeting point "{{{meetingPointName}}}"',
-          fr: 'Un participant a rejoint votre point de rencontre « {{{meetingPointName}}} »'
-        }
-      : {
-          en: 'A participant left your meeting point "{{{meetingPointName}}}"',
-          fr: 'Un participant a quitté votre point de rencontre « {{{meetingPointName}}} »'
-        };
-  return {
-    title,
-    actions: [{ caption: { en: 'View', fr: 'Voir' }, link: '/events/{{encodeUri eventUri}}/meeting-points' }]
+function notificationTemplate(change, isMeetingPoint) {
+  const joined = change === 'join';
+  const nameParam = isMeetingPoint ? 'meetingPointName' : 'eventName';
+  const subject = isMeetingPoint
+    ? { en: 'your meeting point', fr: 'votre point de rencontre' }
+    : { en: 'your event', fr: 'votre événement' };
+  const title = {
+    en: `A participant ${joined ? 'joined' : 'left'} ${subject.en} "{{{${nameParam}}}}"`,
+    fr: `Un participant a ${joined ? 'rejoint' : 'quitté'} ${subject.fr} « {{{${nameParam}}}} »`
   };
+  const link = isMeetingPoint ? '/events/{{encodeUri eventUri}}/meeting-points' : '/events/{{encodeUri eventUri}}';
+  return { title, actions: [{ caption: { en: 'View', fr: 'Voir' }, link }] };
 }
 
 // Participation (decision_2026-10-29_participation-privacy-mechanism; its delivery:
@@ -366,25 +362,27 @@ module.exports = {
       await expectItem(ctx, { collectionUri, itemUri: meetingPointUri, actorUri: participantUri, present: joining });
     },
     /**
-     * Tells the creator of the meeting point that a participant joined or left it — ALWAYS anonymously.
+     * Tells the creator of the target (a meeting point, or an event signed up to directly) that a
+     * participant joined or left it — ALWAYS anonymously.
      * The participant is never named: the only membership signal the app can read (the participant's
      * `apods:contacts` list) is forgeable, so naming cannot be trusted (platform defect reported
      * upstream, see `notificationTemplate`). The notification carries no `activity`: given one,
      * `pod-notifications.send` fetches the emitter's profile. A creator acting on their own meeting
-     * point is not notified. A failure is logged, never thrown: the act stands.
+     * point or event is not notified. A failure is logged, never thrown: the act stands.
      */
     async notifyCreator(ctx, { change, meetingPointUri, meetingPoint, eventUri, creatorUri, participantUri }) {
+      const isMeetingPoint = eventUri !== meetingPointUri;
       try {
         if (creatorUri === participantUri) {
-          this.logger.info(`${participantUri} acted on their own meeting point ${meetingPointUri}: no notification`);
+          this.logger.info(`${participantUri} acted on their own ${meetingPointUri}: no notification`);
           return;
         }
         this.logger.info(`Notifying ${creatorUri} of a ${change} on ${meetingPointUri}, anonymously`);
         await ctx.call('pod-notifications.send', {
-          template: notificationTemplate(change),
+          template: notificationTemplate(change, isMeetingPoint),
           recipientUri: creatorUri,
           context: meetingPointUri,
-          meetingPointName: firstStringOf(meetingPoint.name ?? meetingPoint['as:name'] ?? meetingPoint[`${AS}name`]) ?? '',
+          [isMeetingPoint ? 'meetingPointName' : 'eventName']: firstStringOf(meetingPoint.name ?? meetingPoint['as:name'] ?? meetingPoint[`${AS}name`]) ?? '',
           eventUri
         });
       } catch (e) {
diff --git a/backend/services/registration.service.test.js b/backend/services/registration.service.test.js
index d8e5c7a..d118549 100644
--- a/backend/services/registration.service.test.js
+++ b/backend/services/registration.service.test.js
@@ -955,6 +955,17 @@ describe('registration — a direct sign-up: a Join naming an event itself', ()
     }
   });
 
+  test('a declarer signing up to, then leaving, their own event is not notified', async () => {
+    const j = join(PLAIN, T0, ALICE);
+    const l = leave(PLAIN, T1, ALICE);
+    const w = plainWorld([j, l]);
+    await emitJoin(w, j);
+    await emitLeave(w, l);
+    expect(attendees(w, PLAIN)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(ledgerOf(w, PLAIN, ALICE).change).toBe('leave');
+    expect(w.state.notifications).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
   test('the same person carries a different URN on another event (R7e)', async () => {
     const OTHER = `${ALICE}/data/events/other`;
     const a = join(PLAIN, T0, BOB, 1);
diff --git a/src/modules/event/screens/EventDetailScreen.tsx b/src/modules/event/screens/EventDetailScreen.tsx
index dd16e67..c1db625 100644
--- a/src/modules/event/screens/EventDetailScreen.tsx
+++ b/src/modules/event/screens/EventDetailScreen.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-import { useLayoutEffect } from 'react';
+import { useLayoutEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import { ArrowLeft } from 'lucide-react';
-import { Button, Avatar, EventCover, EventMeetingPoints, showToast, Text, type MeetingPointData } from '../../../shared/components/sketchy';
+import { Button, Avatar, ConfirmDialog, EventCover, EventMeetingPoints, showToast, Text, type MeetingPointData } from '../../../shared/components/sketchy';
 import { useFestipodData } from '../../../shared/context/FestipodDataContext';
 import { safeUserName, safeUserInitials, safeUserUsername } from '../../../shared/context/festipodDataBase';
 import { eventPath, useNavigate, useParams, userPath } from '../../../app/router';
@@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ export function EventDetailScreen() {
   const {
     getEvent,
     isParticipating,
+    getEventRegistration,
     joinMeetingPoint,
     leaveMeetingPoint,
+    joinEvent,
+    leaveEvent,
     getEventParticipants,
     getEventMeetingPoints,
     getEventOwnership,
@@ -42,15 +45,16 @@ export function EventDetailScreen() {
     participantCount: mp.participantCount,
   }));
 
-  // SIGNING UP IS PER MEETING POINT — the product model (on s'inscrit à un
-  // point de rencontre, pas à un événement). There is no event-level join on
-  // this screen anymore: "joined" means a member of at least one of this
-  // event's meeting points, and it gates the Invite affordance the way the
-  // old event-level membership did.
+  // Signing up is per meeting point, or directly to the event: the registration
+  // to the event is derived by the data layer from both, and it gates the
+  // Invite affordance.
   const joinedMeetingPointIds = new Set(
     meetingPointsRaw.filter(mp => isParticipating(mp.id)).map(mp => String(mp.id)),
   );
-  const joined = joinedMeetingPointIds.size > 0;
+  const registration = eventId ? getEventRegistration(eventId) : undefined;
+  const registered = registration?.registered ?? false;
+  const [confirmingLeave, setConfirmingLeave] = useState(false);
+  const [leaving, setLeaving] = useState(false);
 
   const handleToggleMeetingPoint = (id: string, _title: string, willJoin: boolean) => {
     const failed = (message: string) => (err: unknown) => {
@@ -66,6 +70,39 @@ export function EventDetailScreen() {
     }
   };
 
+  const handleJoinEvent = () => {
+    if (!eventId) return;
+    void Promise.resolve(joinEvent(eventId)).catch((err: unknown) => {
+      console.error('[EventDetail] event sign-up failed:', err);
+      showToast("L'inscription à l'événement n'a pas pu être enregistrée", 'error');
+    });
+  };
+
+  const withdrawFromEvent = () => {
+    if (!eventId) return;
+    setLeaving(true);
+    Promise.resolve(leaveEvent(eventId))
+      .catch((err: unknown) => {
+        console.error('[EventDetail] event withdrawal failed:', err);
+        showToast("La désinscription de l'événement n'a pas pu être enregistrée", 'error');
+      })
+      .finally(() => {
+        setLeaving(false);
+        setConfirmingLeave(false);
+      });
+  };
+
+  // Withdrawing from an event also leaves its meeting points: ask first when
+  // there are any, otherwise withdraw at once.
+  const handleLeaveEvent = () => {
+    if (registration && registration.meetingPointIds.length > 0) setConfirmingLeave(true);
+    else withdrawFromEvent();
+  };
+
+  const leftMeetingPointTitles = meetingPointsRaw
+    .filter(mp => registration?.meetingPointIds.includes(mp.id))
+    .map(mp => mp.title || mp.location);
+
   // EDITING IS OWNING. Only a document's owner writes to it, and nothing delegates
   // a write, so "may I edit this event" is answered entirely by whether this
   // session owns the event's document — no permission call, no extra read.
@@ -165,19 +202,26 @@ export function EventDetailScreen() {
           )}
         </div>
 
-        {/* SIGNING UP IS PER MEETING POINT: no event-level join button here. The
-            join affordances live on the meeting points below; Invite follows
-            membership, the way the old event-level "Je participe" did. */}
-        {joined && (
-          <div style={{ margin: '4px 16px 16px', display: 'flex', gap: 8 }}>
-            <Button
-              onClick={() => navigate(eventPath(event.id, 'invite'))}
-              style={{ flex: 1, padding: '12px 0' }}
-            >
-              Inviter
+        <div style={{ margin: '4px 16px 16px', display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 8 }}>
+          {registered ? (
+            <>
+              <div style={{ fontSize: 13, fontWeight: 600, color: 'var(--app-accent-dark)' }}>✓ Inscrit à l'événement</div>
+              <Button onClick={handleLeaveEvent} disabled={leaving} style={{ padding: '12px 0' }}>
+                Se désinscrire de l'événement
+              </Button>
+              <Button
+                onClick={() => navigate(eventPath(event.id, 'invite'))}
+                style={{ padding: '12px 0' }}
+              >
+                Inviter
+              </Button>
+            </>
+          ) : (
+            <Button variant="primary" onClick={handleJoinEvent} style={{ padding: '12px 0' }}>
+              S'inscrire à l'événement
             </Button>
-          </div>
-        )}
+          )}
+        </div>
 
         {meetingPoints.length > 0 && (
           <div style={{ padding: '0 16px 8px' }}>
@@ -244,6 +288,18 @@ export function EventDetailScreen() {
           )}
         </div>
       </div>
+      {confirmingLeave && (
+        <ConfirmDialog
+          title="Se désinscrire de l'événement ?"
+          confirmLabel="Confirmer la désinscription"
+          cancelLabel="Annuler"
+          onConfirm={withdrawFromEvent}
+          onCancel={() => setConfirmingLeave(false)}
+          busy={leaving}
+        >
+          Vous êtes inscrit aux points de rencontre suivants : {leftMeetingPointTitles.join(', ')}. En confirmant, vous en serez aussi désinscrit.
+        </ConfirmDialog>
+      )}
     </div>
   );
 }
diff --git a/src/modules/event/steps/ui/event.steps.ts b/src/modules/event/steps/ui/event.steps.ts
index 4095749..df99830 100644
--- a/src/modules/event/steps/ui/event.steps.ts
+++ b/src/modules/event/steps/ui/event.steps.ts
@@ -77,9 +77,8 @@ Then('les événements affichent leur lieu', async function (this: FestipodWorld
     'Event cards should display a location (text or 📍 icon)').to.be.true;
 });
 
-// The product model signs up to a MEETING POINT, not to the event (arbitration
-// of the event-join removal, T04.e): the signup affordance on this screen is the
-// per-meeting-point "S'inscrire" toggle, not an event-level join button.
+// Signing up is per meeting point or directly to the event: the detail screen
+// exposes the event-level button and the per-meeting-point toggles.
 Then('je peux m\'inscrire à l\'événement', async function (this: FestipodWorld) {
   expect(this.currentScreenId).to.equal('event-detail');
   const doc = this.renderedDoc;
diff --git a/src/shared/components/sketchy/ConfirmDialog.tsx b/src/shared/components/sketchy/ConfirmDialog.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d2b6871
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/shared/components/sketchy/ConfirmDialog.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import type { ReactNode } from 'react';
+import { Button } from './Button';
+
+interface ConfirmDialogProps {
+  title: string;
+  children: ReactNode;
+  confirmLabel: string;
+  cancelLabel: string;
+  onConfirm: () => void;
+  onCancel: () => void;
+  busy?: boolean;
+}
+
+export function ConfirmDialog({ title, children, confirmLabel, cancelLabel, onConfirm, onCancel, busy = false }: ConfirmDialogProps) {
+  return (
+    <div
+      role="dialog"
+      aria-modal="true"
+      aria-label={title}
+      style={{
+        position: 'fixed',
+        inset: 0,
+        background: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.4)',
+        display: 'flex',
+        alignItems: 'center',
+        justifyContent: 'center',
+        padding: 16,
+        zIndex: 900,
+      }}
+    >
+      <div style={{ background: '#fff', borderRadius: 14, padding: 20, maxWidth: 360, width: '100%', display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 12 }}>
+        <div style={{ fontSize: 17, fontWeight: 700 }}>{title}</div>
+        <div style={{ fontSize: 14, color: '#555', lineHeight: 1.5 }}>{children}</div>
+        <div style={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 8 }}>
+          <Button variant="primary" onClick={onConfirm} disabled={busy}>{confirmLabel}</Button>
+          <Button onClick={onCancel} disabled={busy}>{cancelLabel}</Button>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/src/shared/components/sketchy/index.ts b/src/shared/components/sketchy/index.ts
index 4236f3f..e6e73fc 100644
--- a/src/shared/components/sketchy/index.ts
+++ b/src/shared/components/sketchy/index.ts
@@ -15,5 +15,6 @@ export { EventCover } from './EventCover';
 export { ImagePicker } from './ImagePicker';
 export { EventMeetingPoints } from './EventMeetingPoints';
 export type { MeetingPointData } from './EventMeetingPoints';
+export { ConfirmDialog } from './ConfirmDialog';
 export { Divider } from './Divider';
 export { Spinner } from './Spinner';
diff --git a/src/shared/context/FestipodDataContext.tsx b/src/shared/context/FestipodDataContext.tsx
index cd0ddbe..b6b3cec 100644
--- a/src/shared/context/FestipodDataContext.tsx
+++ b/src/shared/context/FestipodDataContext.tsx
@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@ function useLocalData(empty?: boolean): FestipodDataContextValue {
   const leaveMeetingPoint = useCallback((_meetingPointId: string) => {
     console.log(`${logPrefix} leaveMeetingPoint (local, no-op)`);
   }, [logPrefix]);
+  const joinEvent = useCallback(async (_eventId: string) => {
+    console.log(`${logPrefix} joinEvent (local, no-op)`);
+  }, [logPrefix]);
+  const leaveEvent = useCallback(async (_eventId: string) => {
+    console.log(`${logPrefix} leaveEvent (local, no-op)`);
+  }, [logPrefix]);
   const addMeetingPoint = useCallback((_mp: Omit<FpMeetingPointData, 'id'>) => {
     console.log(`${logPrefix} addMeetingPoint (local, no-op)`);
     // Nothing is stored in the disconnected demo: say so instead of letting the
@@ -145,7 +151,7 @@ function useLocalData(empty?: boolean): FestipodDataContextValue {
     selectedUserId, setSelectedUserId, selectedUser,
     ...queries,
     getEventOwnership,
-    createEvent, updateEvent, joinMeetingPoint, leaveMeetingPoint,
+    createEvent, updateEvent, joinMeetingPoint, leaveMeetingPoint, joinEvent, leaveEvent,
     addMeetingPoint, addFriend, inviteToEvent, updateProfile, loadTestData,
   };
 }
diff --git a/src/shared/context/festipodDataBase.ts b/src/shared/context/festipodDataBase.ts
index dcc2e93..4dbbc05 100644
--- a/src/shared/context/festipodDataBase.ts
+++ b/src/shared/context/festipodDataBase.ts
@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@
  * FestipodDataContext — the screen-facing data contract, and the shared pieces
  * every provider implementation builds on.
  *
- * The app signs up to a MEETING POINT, not to an event (product model): an
- * event is only the public anchor meeting points graft onto. So the
- * participation surface is `joinMeetingPoint` / `leaveMeetingPoint`; there is
- * no event-level join. Provider implementations:
+ * The app signs up to a MEETING POINT, or directly to an event (product
+ * model): an event is the public anchor meeting points graft onto, and being in
+ * one of its meeting points registers you to it. So the participation surface
+ * is `joinMeetingPoint` / `leaveMeetingPoint` for a meeting point and
+ * `joinEvent` / `leaveEvent` for the event itself; the registration to an
+ * event (`getEventRegistration`) is derived from both, never stored.
+ * Provider implementations:
  *
  *  - `LocalDataProvider` (`FestipodDataContext.tsx`) — the disconnected demo,
  *    seed fixtures, mutations as no-ops. What the `@ui` layer renders against.
@@ -32,6 +35,17 @@ import { normalizeIdentifier } from '../utils/identifier';
 // Context interface
 // ============================================================================
 
+/**
+ * How the current user is registered to an event: `direct` (signed up to the
+ * event itself) and `meetingPointIds` (the event's meeting points they belong
+ * to). `registered` is derived — one of the two — never stored.
+ */
+export interface EventRegistration {
+  direct: boolean;
+  meetingPointIds: string[];
+  registered: boolean;
+}
+
 /**
  * Whether this session may WRITE an event's document — asked the same way on
  * every backend: only a record's owner writes it. `'unknown'` is a REAL third
@@ -82,6 +96,8 @@ export interface FestipodDataContextValue {
   getUserEvents(userId: string): FpEventData[];
   /** Membership test against a MEETING POINT id (defaults to the current user). */
   isParticipating(meetingPointId: string, userId?: string): boolean;
+  /** How the current user is registered to an event — see {@link EventRegistration}. */
+  getEventRegistration(eventId: string): EventRegistration;
   getFriends(userId?: string): FpUserData[];
   getEventMeetingPoints(eventId: string): FpMeetingPointData[];
   /**
@@ -131,6 +147,18 @@ export interface FestipodDataContextValue {
   joinMeetingPoint(meetingPointId: string, userId?: string): Promise<void> | void;
   /** Withdraw from a meeting point — the symmetric fact to `joinMeetingPoint`. */
   leaveMeetingPoint(meetingPointId: string, userId?: string): Promise<void> | void;
+  /**
+   * Sign up directly to an event, whether or not it has meeting points.
+   * Idempotent; rejects when the act was refused or could not be sent.
+   */
+  joinEvent(eventId: string): Promise<void>;
+  /**
+   * Withdraw from an event: the direct sign-up AND every membership of the
+   * event's meeting points. The confirmation the user owes before losing those
+   * memberships belongs to the screen. Resolves once every act was accepted;
+   * rejects naming the targets that failed (the status then follows the data).
+   */
+  leaveEvent(eventId: string): Promise<void>;
   /**
    * Create a meeting point on an event. Same contract as `addFriend`: resolves
    * once the meeting point was created and persisted — rejects when nothing
@@ -262,12 +290,11 @@ export function safeUserInitials(user: FpUserData | undefined): string {
  * that provider's arrays. Cross-entity derivations only: nothing here touches
  * a backend.
  *
- * THE `participations` ARRAY'S `eventId` IS THE JOINED TARGET'S ID. On the
- * local/NextGraph providers that is an event; on the ActivityPods provider it
- * is a meeting point. `isParticipating` and `getUserEvents` filter on it
- * as-is, so a provider whose participations are keyed differently (the
- * ActivityPods reader derives event-level participants from the meeting
- * points) overrides those two queries and reuses the rest.
+ * THE `participations` ARRAY'S `eventId` IS THE JOINED TARGET'S ID: an event
+ * (a direct sign-up) or a meeting point. `getUserEvents`, `isParticipating`
+ * and `getEventRegistration` read it as such; a provider whose participations
+ * are not the whole truth about the current user (the ActivityPods reader
+ * overlays pending acts) overrides those queries and reuses the rest.
  */
 export function buildQueries(
   events: FpEventData[],
@@ -296,8 +323,9 @@ export function buildQueries(
   };
 
   const getUserEvents = (userId: string) => {
-    const partEventIds = participations.filter(p => p.userId === userId).map(p => p.eventId);
-    return events.filter(e => partEventIds.includes(e.id));
+    const joined = new Set(participations.filter(p => p.userId === userId).map(p => p.eventId));
+    const viaMeetingPoints = new Set(meetingPoints.filter(mp => joined.has(mp.id)).map(mp => mp.eventId));
+    return events.filter(e => joined.has(e.id) || viaMeetingPoints.has(e.id));
   };
 
   const isParticipating = (meetingPointId: string, userId?: string) => {
@@ -305,6 +333,10 @@ export function buildQueries(
     return participations.some(p => p.eventId === meetingPointId && p.userId === uid);
   };
 
+  const getEventRegistration = (eventId: string): EventRegistration =>
+    registrationOf(eventId, meetingPoints, target =>
+      participations.some(p => p.eventId === target && p.userId === currentUserId));
+
   const getFriends = (userId?: string) => {
     const uid = userId || currentUserId;
     const friendIds = friendships
@@ -323,13 +355,27 @@ export function buildQueries(
     events.some(e => e.id === id) ? 'ready' : 'unavailable';
 
   return {
-    getEvent, getUser, getEventParticipants, getUserEvents, isParticipating, getFriends, getEventMeetingPoints,
+    getEvent, getUser, getEventParticipants, getUserEvents, isParticipating, getEventRegistration, getFriends, getEventMeetingPoints,
     openEvent: openEventInCompleteReadSet,
     openUserEvents: openUserEventsInCompleteReadSet,
     getEventReadState,
   };
 }
 
+/**
+ * The registration to an event, given who holds which target: registered iff
+ * signed up to the event itself or a member of one of its meeting points.
+ */
+export function registrationOf(
+  eventId: string,
+  meetingPoints: readonly FpMeetingPointData[],
+  holds: (targetId: string) => boolean,
+): EventRegistration {
+  const direct = holds(eventId);
+  const meetingPointIds = meetingPoints.filter(mp => mp.eventId === eventId && holds(mp.id)).map(mp => mp.id);
+  return { direct, meetingPointIds, registered: direct || meetingPointIds.length > 0 };
+}
+
 /**
  * `openEvent` for a provider whose read set is already everything it can read
  * (the local fixtures, the suspended NextGraph path): nothing to bring in. One
diff --git a/src/shared/context/ngData.tsx b/src/shared/context/ngData.tsx
index 2e28fa6..8b567cb 100644
--- a/src/shared/context/ngData.tsx
+++ b/src/shared/context/ngData.tsx
@@ -997,6 +997,15 @@ function useNgData(): FestipodDataContextValue {
     await Promise.all(persists).catch(err => console.error(`${logPrefix} persist event update failed:`, err));
   }, []);
 
+  const joinEvent = useCallback(
+    () => Promise.reject(new Error('joinEvent: not supported on the suspended NextGraph path')),
+    [],
+  );
+  const leaveEvent = useCallback(
+    () => Promise.reject(new Error('leaveEvent: not supported on the suspended NextGraph path')),
+    [],
+  );
+
   const joinMeetingPoint = useCallback(async (eventId: string, userId?: string) => {
     const uid = userId || currentUserId;
     console.log(`${logPrefix} joinMeetingPoint (NG):`, eventId, 'user:', uid);
@@ -1267,7 +1276,7 @@ function useNgData(): FestipodDataContextValue {
     selectedUserId, setSelectedUserId, selectedUser,
     ...queries,
     getEventOwnership,
-    createEvent, updateEvent, joinMeetingPoint, leaveMeetingPoint,
+    createEvent, updateEvent, joinMeetingPoint, leaveMeetingPoint, joinEvent, leaveEvent,
     addMeetingPoint, addFriend, inviteToEvent, updateProfile, loadTestData,
   };
 }
diff --git a/src/shared/context/refineData.tsx b/src/shared/context/refineData.tsx
index 360988b..f16b72c 100644
--- a/src/shared/context/refineData.tsx
+++ b/src/shared/context/refineData.tsx
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ import {
   FestipodDataContext,
   buildQueries,
   nextId,
+  registrationOf,
   type FestipodDataContextValue,
   type EventOwnership,
   type EventReadState,
@@ -162,11 +163,14 @@ function inertDataValue(): FestipodDataContextValue {
     selectedEventId: '', selectedEvent: undefined, selectedUserId: '', selectedUser: undefined,
     getEvent: () => undefined, getUser: () => undefined,
     getEventParticipants: () => [], getUserEvents: () => [], isParticipating: () => false,
+    getEventRegistration: () => ({ direct: false, meetingPointIds: [], registered: false }),
     getFriends: () => [], getEventMeetingPoints: () => [], getEventOwnership: (): EventOwnership => 'unknown',
     openEvent: () => {}, openUserEvents: () => {}, getEventReadState: (): EventReadState => 'unavailable',
     setSelectedEventId: () => {}, setSelectedUserId: () => {},
     createEvent: async (event: Omit<FpEventData, 'id'>) => ({ ...event, id: nextId('event') }),
     updateEvent: () => {}, joinMeetingPoint: () => {}, leaveMeetingPoint: () => {},
+    joinEvent: () => Promise.reject(new Error('joinEvent: no data provider')),
+    leaveEvent: () => Promise.reject(new Error('leaveEvent: no data provider')),
     addMeetingPoint: () => Promise.reject(new Error('addMeetingPoint: no data provider')), addFriend: () => Promise.reject(new Error('addFriend: no data provider')), inviteToEvent: () => Promise.reject(new Error('inviteToEvent: no data provider')), updateProfile: () => {}, loadTestData: async () => emptyBootstrap(),
   };
   return none;
@@ -251,6 +255,8 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
   );
   const ownMeetingPointIdsRef = useRef(ownMeetingPointIds);
   ownMeetingPointIdsRef.current = ownMeetingPointIds;
+  const ownEventIdsRef = useRef(ownEventIds);
+  ownEventIdsRef.current = ownEventIds;
 
   // --- MY PROFILE (the app's own entity id space) ------------------------------
   // The actor (WebID) document links the `as:Profile` record via `url`; the
@@ -359,7 +365,7 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
   useEffect(() => {
     if (myProfileRead) readMyParticipations();
   }, [myProfileRead, myParticipationsUri, readMyParticipations]);
-  const joinedMeetingPointIds = myParticipations.ids;
+  const joinedTargetIds = myParticipations.ids;
   // The events each CONTACT DECLARES, keyed by their actor URI — read from the
   // catalog with `?owner=<their WebID>` (the header's first contact channel):
   // the declaration is public by design, and the catalog item IS the event
@@ -429,8 +435,8 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
   // to every derivation. An own point (on an own event, or one I proposed on
   // another's) is already in the own list and never re-read by URI.
   const joinedForeignMeetingPointIds = useMemo(
-    () => joinedMeetingPointIds.filter(id => !ownMeetingPointIds.has(id)),
-    [joinedMeetingPointIds, ownMeetingPointIds],
+    () => joinedTargetIds.filter(id => !ownMeetingPointIds.has(id) && !ownEventIds.has(id)),
+    [joinedTargetIds, ownMeetingPointIds, ownEventIds],
   );
   const foreignMeetingPointIds = useMemo(() => {
     const ids = new Set<string>();
@@ -457,7 +463,12 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
     const ids = new Set<string>();
     for (const mpId of joinedForeignMeetingPointIds) {
       const record = foreignMeetingPointsRead.records.get(mpId);
-      if (record === undefined || !(bindings.meetingPoint.isInstance?.(record) ?? false)) continue;
+      if (record === undefined) continue;
+      // A joined target that reads as an event is a direct sign-up: its own anchor.
+      if (!(bindings.meetingPoint.isInstance?.(record) ?? false)) {
+        if (bindings.event.isInstance?.(record) ?? true) ids.add(mpId);
+        continue;
+      }
       try {
         const eventId = bindings.meetingPoint.toDomain(record).eventId;
         if (eventId) ids.add(eventId);
@@ -499,7 +510,7 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
     foreignMeetingPointsRead.records, bindings]);
 
   // --- ATTENDEE LISTS, read by URI and embedded --------------------------------
-  // Every meeting point's linked collection, own and foreign alike — public by
+  // Every meeting point's and event's linked collection, own and foreign alike — public by
   // design, read by URI with the same token policy, keyed by the URI the record
   // links (never by what the fetched document claims). The members are member
   // URNs: the read embeds them for the COUNT derivation and for recognising
@@ -509,11 +520,11 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
   const collectionOf = useMemo(() => {
     const links = new Map<string, string>(); // meeting point id → collection URI
     for (const record of readRecords) {
-      if (!(bindings.meetingPoint.isInstance?.(record) ?? false)) continue;
       const link = attendeesCollectionLink(record);
       if (!link) continue;
+      const kind = (bindings.meetingPoint.isInstance?.(record) ?? false) ? bindings.meetingPoint : bindings.event;
       try {
-        links.set(bindings.meetingPoint.domainId(record), link);
+        links.set(kind.domainId(record), link);
       } catch {
         // No identifier: the derive skips this record too.
       }
@@ -580,28 +591,28 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
   useEffect(() => {
     if (pendingActs.size === 0 || !webId) return;
     setPendingActs(prev => settleMembershipActs(prev, mpId => {
-      if (!derived.meetingPoints.some(mp => mp.id === mpId)) return undefined;
+      if (!derived.meetingPoints.some(mp => mp.id === mpId) && !derived.events.some(e => e.id === mpId)) return undefined;
       return {
-        member: joinedMeetingPointIds.includes(mpId),
+        member: joinedTargetIds.includes(mpId),
         generation: myParticipations.generation,
         attempted: myParticipations.attempted,
         count: derived.totals.get(mpId),
       };
     }));
-  }, [pendingActs, derived, joinedMeetingPointIds, myParticipations, webId]);
+  }, [pendingActs, derived, joinedTargetIds, myParticipations, webId]);
 
   // MY meeting points as this session sees them: the collection's, with the
   // pending acts on top (an act asserts the state between the POST and the read
   // that confirms it; while it is pending it wins over the last read, in either
   // direction).
-  const myMeetingPointIds = useMemo(() => {
-    const ids = new Set(joinedMeetingPointIds);
+  const myTargetIds = useMemo(() => {
+    const ids = new Set(joinedTargetIds);
     for (const [mpId, op] of overlay) {
       if (op === 'join') ids.add(mpId);
       else ids.delete(mpId);
     }
     return ids;
-  }, [joinedMeetingPointIds, overlay]);
+  }, [joinedTargetIds, overlay]);
 
   // --- PARTICIPANT RESOLUTION (the Alice/Bob rule) ------------------------------
   // WHO gets resolved: CONTACTS plus self only — never anyone else. A contact
@@ -736,7 +747,10 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
   // with the meeting points whose list holds it (one person carries the same
   // URN in every list of one event).
   const listedMembersByEvent = useMemo(() => {
-    const eventOf = new Map(derived.meetingPoints.map(mp => [mp.id, mp.eventId]));
+    const eventOf = new Map([
+      ...derived.events.map(e => [e.id, e.id] as const),
+      ...derived.meetingPoints.map(mp => [mp.id, mp.eventId] as const),
+    ]);
     const byEvent = new Map<string, Map<string, string[]>>(); // event → URN → meeting points
     for (const p of derived.participations) {
       const eventId = eventOf.get(p.eventId);
@@ -781,7 +795,7 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
   // Per contact, the meeting points whose list holds their URN — a set lookup
   // per (contact, event): O(contacts + participations) per event. A contact
   // whose profile carries no usable secret is never recognised.
-  const recognisedMeetingPoints = useMemo(() => {
+  const recognisedTargets = useMemo(() => {
     const byContact = new Map<string, Set<string>>();
     for (const [eventId, members] of listedMembersByEvent) {
       for (const [contactId, keys] of contactKeys) {
@@ -834,10 +848,15 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
   const contactMpUris = useMemo(() => [...new Set([...contactListedMps.values()].flat())], [contactListedMps]);
   const contactMpsRead = usePublicRecords(contactMpUris, { retry: userEventsAsks, tokenOf });
   const contactMpEventIds = useMemo(() => {
-    const ids = new Map<string, string>(); // meeting point URI → anchor event URI
+    const ids = new Map<string, string>(); // listed target URI → anchor event URI
     for (const uri of contactMpUris) {
       const record = contactMpsRead.records.get(uri);
-      if (record === undefined || !(bindings.meetingPoint.isInstance?.(record) ?? false)) continue;
+      if (record === undefined) continue;
+      // A listed target that reads as an event is a direct sign-up: its own anchor.
+      if (!(bindings.meetingPoint.isInstance?.(record) ?? false)) {
+        if (bindings.event.isInstance?.(record) ?? true) ids.set(uri, uri);
+        continue;
+      }
       try {
         const eventId = bindings.meetingPoint.toDomain(record).eventId;
         if (eventId) ids.set(uri, eventId);
@@ -917,23 +936,23 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
     // WHO is at an event: myself per my own meeting points, a contact per the
     // recognition above (their URN found in one of the event's lists). Nobody
     // else is ever identified — the count on the event stays the total.
-    const mpIds = new Set(mpIdsOf(eventId));
+    const targetIds = [eventId, ...mpIdsOf(eventId)];
     const ids = new Set<string>();
     for (const u of users) {
-      const theirs = u.id === webId ? myMeetingPointIds : recognisedMeetingPoints.get(u.id);
-      if (theirs && [...mpIds].some(id => theirs.has(id))) ids.add(u.id);
+      const theirs = u.id === webId ? myTargetIds : recognisedTargets.get(u.id);
+      if (theirs && targetIds.some(id => theirs.has(id))) ids.add(u.id);
     }
     return users.filter(u => ids.has(u.id));
-  }, [allMeetingPoints, users, webId, myMeetingPointIds, recognisedMeetingPoints]);
+  }, [allMeetingPoints, users, webId, myTargetIds, recognisedTargets]);
 
   const getUserEvents = useCallback((userId: string) => {
     if (!webId) return [];
     if (userId === currentUserId) {
-      // Mine: my meeting points (my participations collection, with the pending
-      // acts on top), mapped to the events through the meeting points the read
-      // set carries.
-      const joinedEventIds = new Set<string>();
-      for (const mpId of myMeetingPointIds) {
+      // Mine: my direct sign-ups and my meeting points (my participations
+      // collection, with the pending acts on top), the latter mapped to their
+      // events through the meeting points the read set carries.
+      const joinedEventIds = new Set<string>(myTargetIds);
+      for (const mpId of myTargetIds) {
         const mp = allMeetingPoints.find(m => m.id === mpId);
         if (mp) joinedEventIds.add(mp.eventId);
       }
@@ -950,7 +969,12 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
     for (const event of declaredEventsByContact.get(userId) ?? []) byId.set(event.id, event);
     for (const event of participatedEventsByContact.get(userId) ?? []) byId.set(event.id, event);
     return [...byId.values()];
-  }, [currentUserId, webId, contactIdSet, declaredEventsByContact, participatedEventsByContact, myMeetingPointIds, allMeetingPoints, allEvents]);
+  }, [currentUserId, webId, contactIdSet, declaredEventsByContact, participatedEventsByContact, myTargetIds, allMeetingPoints, allEvents]);
+
+  const getEventRegistration = useCallback(
+    (eventId: string) => registrationOf(eventId, allMeetingPoints, id => myTargetIds.has(id)),
+    [allMeetingPoints, myTargetIds],
+  );
 
   // Own participation — my meeting points, pending acts included. Another user:
   // a contact participates iff recognised in this meeting point's list; anyone
@@ -958,10 +982,10 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
   const isParticipating = useCallback((meetingPointId: string, userId?: string) => {
     if (userId !== undefined && userId !== currentUserId && userId !== webId) {
       if (!contactIdSet.has(userId)) return false;
-      return recognisedMeetingPoints.get(userId)?.has(meetingPointId) ?? false;
+      return recognisedTargets.get(userId)?.has(meetingPointId) ?? false;
     }
-    return myMeetingPointIds.has(meetingPointId);
-  }, [currentUserId, webId, contactIdSet, recognisedMeetingPoints, myMeetingPointIds]);
+    return myTargetIds.has(meetingPointId);
+  }, [currentUserId, webId, contactIdSet, recognisedTargets, myTargetIds]);
 
   // --- Ownership: editing is owning ------------------------------------------------
   // The list is own-pod scoped, so membership in it IS ownership. A failed
@@ -1025,6 +1049,7 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
     actTimers.current.clear();
     actBaseTotals.current.clear();
   }, []);
+  const isOwnTarget = (id: string) => ownMeetingPointIdsRef.current.has(id) || ownEventIdsRef.current.has(id);
   const afterMembershipAct = useCallback((mpId: string, op: MembershipOp) => {
     const invalidateOwnList = () => void invalidate({ resource: bindings.event.resource, invalidates: ['list'] });
     // The count: re-read the list the backend updates. With no list linked
@@ -1032,7 +1057,7 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
     const readCountAgain = (): void => {
       const collection = collectionOfRef.current.get(mpId);
       if (collection !== undefined) { readCollectionAgain(collection); return; }
-      if (ownMeetingPointIdsRef.current.has(mpId)) invalidateOwnList();
+      if (isOwnTarget(mpId)) invalidateOwnList();
       else readMeetingPointAgain(mpId);
     };
     readCountAgain();
@@ -1043,7 +1068,7 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
     const confirmFrom = readMyParticipations(true);
     actBaseTotals.current.set(mpId, totalsRef.current.get(mpId));
     setPendingActs(prev => recordMembershipAct(prev, mpId, op, confirmFrom, totalsRef.current.get(mpId)));
-    if (ownMeetingPointIdsRef.current.has(mpId)) invalidateOwnList();
+    if (isOwnTarget(mpId)) invalidateOwnList();
     for (const timer of actTimers.current.get(mpId) ?? []) clearTimeout(timer);
     const last = MEMBERSHIP_REREAD_DELAYS_MS.length - 1;
     actTimers.current.set(mpId, MEMBERSHIP_REREAD_DELAYS_MS.map((delay, step) => setTimeout(() => {
@@ -1200,7 +1225,7 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
     // The membership check is MY meeting points' word — my participations
     // collection with the pending acts on top, so a join still unconfirmed can
     // be withdrawn.
-    if (!myMeetingPointIds.has(mp.id)) {
+    if (!myTargetIds.has(mp.id)) {
       const msg = `leaveMeetingPoint refused: no membership of mine on ${mp.id} — nothing was withdrawn.`;
       console.error(`${logPrefix} ${msg}`);
       throw new Error(msg);
@@ -1208,7 +1233,42 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
     console.log(`${logPrefix} leaveMeetingPoint (refine):`, meetingPointId);
     await postLeaveActivity({ meetingPointUri: mp.id, session, appActorUri: appActorUri() });
     afterMembershipAct(mp.id, 'leave');
-  }, [logPrefix, allMeetingPoints, myMeetingPointIds, session, webId, afterMembershipAct]);
+  }, [logPrefix, allMeetingPoints, myTargetIds, session, webId, afterMembershipAct]);
+
+  const joinEvent = useCallback(async (eventId: string) => {
+    const event = allEvents.find(e => e.id === eventId);
+    if (!event || !session) {
+      throw new Error(`joinEvent refused: ${eventId} is not in the read set ` +
+        '(or there is no session) — the write would target a reference this session cannot see.');
+    }
+    if (myTargetIds.has(event.id)) return;
+    console.log(`${logPrefix} joinEvent (refine):`, eventId);
+    await ensureParticipationSecret();
+    await postJoinActivity({ meetingPointUri: event.id, session, appActorUri: appActorUri() });
+    afterMembershipAct(event.id, 'join');
+  }, [logPrefix, allEvents, session, myTargetIds, ensureParticipationSecret, afterMembershipAct]);
+
+  // One Leave per held target, in parallel; each accepted one is followed, the
+  // refused ones are named — the status keeps following the data.
+  const leaveEvent = useCallback(async (eventId: string) => {
+    if (!allEvents.some(e => e.id === eventId) || !session) {
+      throw new Error(`leaveEvent refused: ${eventId} is not in the read set (or there is no session).`);
+    }
+    const { direct, meetingPointIds } = getEventRegistration(eventId);
+    const targets = direct ? [eventId, ...meetingPointIds] : meetingPointIds;
+    if (targets.length === 0) {
+      throw new Error(`leaveEvent refused: no registration of mine on ${eventId} — nothing was withdrawn.`);
+    }
+    console.log(`${logPrefix} leaveEvent (refine):`, eventId, targets.length);
+    const outcomes = await Promise.allSettled(targets.map(async target => {
+      await postLeaveActivity({ meetingPointUri: target, session, appActorUri: appActorUri() });
+      afterMembershipAct(target, 'leave');
+    }));
+    const failed = targets.filter((_, i) => outcomes[i]?.status === 'rejected');
+    if (failed.length > 0) {
+      throw new Error(`leaveEvent: the withdrawal was refused for ${failed.join(', ')}`);
+    }
+  }, [logPrefix, allEvents, session, getEventRegistration, afterMembershipAct]);
 
   // --- The rest of the contract -------------------------------------------------------
   // A contact request, not a friendship: the Pod's social graph is mutual and
@@ -1257,13 +1317,14 @@ function useRefineData(backend: RefineBackend): FestipodDataContextValue {
     getEventParticipants,
     getUserEvents,
     isParticipating,
+    getEventRegistration,
     getFriends: shared.getFriends,
     getEventMeetingPoints: shared.getEventMeetingPoints,
     getEventOwnership,
     openEvent,
     openUserEvents,
     getEventReadState,
-    createEvent, updateEvent, joinMeetingPoint, leaveMeetingPoint,
+    createEvent, updateEvent, joinMeetingPoint, leaveMeetingPoint, joinEvent, leaveEvent,
     addMeetingPoint, addFriend, inviteToEvent, updateProfile, loadTestData,
   };
 }
diff --git a/src/shared/context/refineDerive.ts b/src/shared/context/refineDerive.ts
index 4baa723..96f8847 100644
--- a/src/shared/context/refineDerive.ts
+++ b/src/shared/context/refineDerive.ts
@@ -7,17 +7,20 @@
  * here, and they are the two places the ActivityPods model meets the app's:
  *
  * 1. `deriveContainer` SPLITS one `as/Event` container into events and meeting
- *    points and reads each meeting point's `apods:attendees` collection. Events
- *    and meeting points share the container (the bindings' `isInstance` is the
- *    only distinction), so the split has to happen exactly once, at read time.
- *    The event's `participantCount` is the number of DISTINCT member values
- *    across its meeting points' memberships — never a stored, incremented
- *    counter, and never the number of RECOGNISED people: the members are the
- *    member URNs of decision_2026-10-29_participation-privacy-mechanism, one
- *    per (person, EVENT), so the same person in two meeting points of one event
- *    carries the SAME URN in both collections and counts ONCE — the product
+ *    points and reads the `apods:attendees` collection of each — a meeting
+ *    point's members are its memberships, an event's own members are its direct
+ *    sign-ups. Events and meeting points share the container (the bindings'
+ *    `isInstance` is the only distinction), so the split has to happen exactly
+ *    once, at read time. The event's `participantCount` is the number of
+ *    DISTINCT member values across its own list and its meeting points' lists —
+ *    never a stored, incremented counter, and never the number of RECOGNISED
+ *    people: the members are the member URNs of
+ *    decision_2026-10-29_participation-privacy-mechanism, one per (person,
+ *    EVENT), so the same person directly signed up and in meeting points of one
+ *    event carries the SAME URN in every list and counts ONCE — the product
  *    rule is publicly computable from opaque data, with no recognition and no
- *    backend.
+ *    backend. Being registered to an event is never stored: it is a direct
+ *    sign-up or a membership of one of its meeting points.
  *
  * 2. `applyMembershipOverlay` reflects a join/leave made beside Refine (through
  *    the outbox) before the backend's update of the collections is read. `countsWithOverlay`
@@ -40,14 +43,15 @@ export interface DerivedContainer {
   events: FpEventData[];
   meetingPoints: FpMeetingPointData[];
   /**
-   * Participations keyed BY MEETING POINT: `eventId` carries the meeting point
-   * id and `userId` the attendee-list member — the member URN of
+   * Participations keyed BY TARGET: `eventId` carries the id of the meeting
+   * point — or of the event itself for a direct sign-up — whose list holds the
+   * member, and `userId` the attendee-list member — the member URN of
    * decision_2026-10-29_participation-privacy-mechanism (one per (person,
    * EVENT)), which only a holder of the person's secret recognises (see
    * `refineData.tsx`).
    */
   participations: FpParticipationData[];
-  /** Per-meeting-point collection totals, keyed by meeting point id. */
+  /** Per-list collection totals, keyed by meeting point or event id. */
   totals: Map<string, number>;
 }
 
@@ -55,10 +59,10 @@ export interface DerivedContainer {
  * Split a container's raw records with the backend's own bindings and derive
  * the participations and the participant counts.
  *
- * A meeting point's attendees collection travels inside its record; each member
- * is mapped to a participation stamped with the HOST meeting point's id (a
- * member carries no link back to what it attends), and the collection's total is
- * kept as-is — a member the reader cannot resolve still counts.
+ * An attendees collection travels inside its record; each member is mapped to a
+ * participation stamped with the HOST record's id (a member carries no link back
+ * to what it attends), and the collection's total is kept as-is — a member the
+ * reader cannot resolve still counts.
  */
 export function deriveContainer(
   records: readonly unknown[],
@@ -72,26 +76,32 @@ export function deriveContainer(
   // pods too (events opened by URI, their meeting points, the collections those
   // link to): one that the bindings reject is skipped with a warning — it never
   // takes the whole read down with it.
+  const readMembers = (record: unknown, targetId: string): number | undefined => {
+    const attendees = bindings.participation.membersOf?.(record);
+    if (!attendees) return undefined;
+    for (const member of attendees.members) {
+      try {
+        const mapped = bindings.participation.toDomain(member);
+        participations.push({ ...mapped, id: `${targetId}|${mapped.userId}`, eventId: targetId });
+      } catch (error) {
+        console.warn(`[refine] skipped an unreadable attendee of ${targetId}`, error);
+      }
+    }
+    return attendees.total ?? attendees.members.length;
+  };
   for (const record of records) {
     try {
       if (bindings.meetingPoint.isInstance?.(record) ?? false) {
         const mp = bindings.meetingPoint.toDomain(record);
         meetingPoints.push(mp);
-        const attendees = bindings.participation.membersOf?.(record);
-        const members = attendees?.members ?? [];
-        for (const member of members) {
-          try {
-            const mapped = bindings.participation.toDomain(member);
-            participations.push({ ...mapped, id: `${mp.id}|${mapped.userId}`, eventId: mp.id });
-          } catch (error) {
-            console.warn(`[refine] skipped an unreadable attendee of ${mp.id}`, error);
-          }
-        }
-        const total = attendees?.total ?? members.length;
+        const total = readMembers(record, mp.id) ?? 0;
         totals.set(mp.id, total);
         mp.participantCount = total;
       } else if (bindings.event.isInstance?.(record) ?? true) {
-        events.push(bindings.event.toDomain(record));
+        const event = bindings.event.toDomain(record);
+        events.push(event);
+        const total = readMembers(record, event.id);
+        if (total !== undefined) totals.set(event.id, total);
       }
     } catch (error) {
       console.warn('[refine] skipped a record the bindings cannot read', error);
@@ -105,11 +115,11 @@ export function deriveContainer(
 
 /**
  * The event's count: the number of DISTINCT member values among the
- * participations of its meeting points — derived at read time, never a stored
+ * participations of its own list and of its meeting points — derived at read time, never a stored
  * counter. The members are the member URNs of
  * decision_2026-10-29_participation-privacy-mechanism: one URN per (person, EVENT),
- * so a person in two of the event's meeting points carries the same URN in both
- * collections and counts ONCE — distinct PERSONS, publicly computable from
+ * so a person in several of the event's lists carries the same URN in each and
+ * counts ONCE — distinct PERSONS, publicly computable from
  * opaque data, while each meeting point's own count stays the collection total
  * (its card shows per-point inscriptions).
  */
@@ -118,10 +128,10 @@ function eventParticipantCount(
   meetingPoints: readonly FpMeetingPointData[],
   participations: readonly FpParticipationData[],
 ): number {
-  const mpIds = new Set(meetingPoints.filter(mp => mp.eventId === eventId).map(mp => mp.id));
+  const targetIds = new Set([eventId, ...meetingPoints.filter(mp => mp.eventId === eventId).map(mp => mp.id)]);
   const userIds = new Set<string>();
   for (const p of participations) {
-    if (mpIds.has(p.eventId)) userIds.add(p.userId);
+    if (targetIds.has(p.eventId)) userIds.add(p.userId);
   }
   return userIds.size;
 }
diff --git a/src/shared/data/outbox.ts b/src/shared/data/outbox.ts
index dfc1f0b..3f0e53f 100644
--- a/src/shared/data/outbox.ts
+++ b/src/shared/data/outbox.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Outbox posting — how a user joins or leaves a meeting point.
+ * Outbox posting — how a user joins or leaves a meeting point or an event.
  *
  * WHY THIS LIVES BESIDE REFINE. The refine-providers package implements no
  * `custom` method: there is no escape hatch through the data provider, and a
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@
  * posted to the USER'S OWN outbox with the user's token, a withdrawal an
  * `as:Leave` on the same path (decision_2026-10-29_participation-privacy-mechanism).
  *
- * THE ACTIVITY. Its `object` is the meeting point itself, and its only
- * addressee is the Festipod app actor (`to`): not public, not addressed to the
- * meeting point's creator. A non-public activity is readable only by its author
- * and its addressees, so the target stays hidden from everyone else. The user's
- * pod delivers it to the app's inbox, where the Festipod backend handles it —
- * it records the author's member URN in the meeting point's attendee list and
- * the meeting point in the author's participations collection
+ * THE ACTIVITY. Its `object` is the meeting point — or the event, for a direct
+ * sign-up — itself, and its only addressee is the Festipod app actor (`to`):
+ * not public, not addressed to the target's creator. A non-public activity is
+ * readable only by its author and its addressees, so the target stays hidden
+ * from everyone else. The user's pod delivers it to the app's inbox, where the
+ * Festipod backend handles it — it records the author's member URN in the
+ * target's attendee list and the target in the author's participations collection
  * (decision_2026-11-03_participation-delivered-to-the-app).
  *
  * THE FLOW. The outbox URI is read off the user's own actor (WebID) document
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import { fetchActorDocument } from './actor';
 const ACTIVITY_CONTEXT = 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams';
 
 export interface OutboxActivityInput {
-  /** URI of the meeting point the activity names. */
+  /** URI of the target the activity names: a meeting point, or an event for a direct sign-up. */
   meetingPointUri: string;
   /** The authenticated session — whose outbox receives the activity. */
   session: CurrentSession;
@@ -71,12 +71,12 @@ async function postActivity(type: 'Join' | 'Leave', input: OutboxActivityInput):
   }
 }
 
-/** Post an `as:Join` activity to the user's outbox — signing up to a meeting point. */
+/** Post an `as:Join` activity to the user's outbox — signing up to a meeting point or an event. */
 export function postJoinActivity(input: OutboxActivityInput): Promise<void> {
   return postActivity('Join', input);
 }
 
-/** Post an `as:Leave` activity to the user's outbox — leaving a meeting point. */
+/** Post an `as:Leave` activity to the user's outbox — leaving a meeting point or an event. */
 export function postLeaveActivity(input: OutboxActivityInput): Promise<void> {
   return postActivity('Leave', input);
 }