Moving events in iPhoto

in iphoto, can you tell me how to move entire events into a new album and retain the event name, etc   the drag and drop method just dumps all the photos individually from the event into the new album. then i seem to have to recreate and rename the event.

What do you want to do? You seem to be using events and albums interchangeably.  They are two different things
Events are very basic, automatic organization and are best used as buckets of photos
Albums (and folders which hold folders or albums) are best for more detailed organization  --  to create an album select the photo(s) and under the file menu create an album
LN

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