Did you configure the settings in WordPress Admin?
Go to Events > Settings
for the calendar the slug is events
for the list the slug is event
Don’t forget to check the Display tab. If you go about 1/4 the way down the page you will see ‘Events Template’ and you can set it to ‘Default Events Template’ or to ‘Default Page Template’ or any of a number of other selections. The ‘Default Events Template’ is the Post or Page that you create and resides at the slug //events/.
Hope everything works out for you.
If you upgrade to Pro I believe you get a series of short codes you can use to put events all over the place. The basic WordPress event through The Events Calendar can produce some really fantastic looking event notices, registrations, even tickets. You can organize seminar information in “talks” sections and that is cool if you think about it and use it for normal events with multiple actions going on e.g.