[Plugin: The Events Calendar] Get Event loop with post information

Hello everyone.
I’m talking about the site http://www.comunesampe.altervista.org
As u can see in the centre there is a scrollable slider. I need to put all the upcomings events of this plugin in that slider. Informations to retrive are the following:
Event Title
Event Description (better a excerpt of the first words..)
Event image

The slider input code is the following and work with classic categories
If someone would like to correct this (and remove parts don’t needed) it would be a pleasure…

<?php
if(get_theme_option('featured_posts') != '') {
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
	function startGallery() {
		var myGallery = new gallery($('myGallery'), {
			timed: true,
			delay: 4000,
			slideInfoZoneOpacity: 0.8,
			showCarousel: true
		});
	}
	window.addEvent('domready', startGallery);
</script>
<div class="fullbox_excerpt">
	<div class="fullbox_content">
		<div class="smooth_gallery">
			<div id="myGallery">

				<?php
				$featured_posts_category = get_theme_option('featured_posts_category');

				if($featured_posts_category != '' && $featured_posts_category != '0') {
					global $post;

					 $featured_posts = get_posts("numberposts=5&&category=$featured_posts_category");
					 $i = 0;
					 foreach($featured_posts as $post) {
					 	setup_postdata($post);
                        if ( version_compare( $wp_version, '2.9', '>=' ) ) {
                            $slide_image_full = get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID,'large', array('class' => 'full'));
                            $slide_image_thumbnail = get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID,'large', array('class' => 'thumbnail'));
                        } else {
                            $get_slide_image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'featured', true);
                            $slide_image_full = "<img src=\"$get_slide_image\" class=\"full\" alt=\"\" />";
                            $slide_image_thumbnail = "<img src=\"$get_slide_image\" class=\"thumbnail\" alt=\"\" />";
                        }

					  ?>
					  <div class="imageElement">
							<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
							<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
							<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="open"></a>
							<?php echo  $slide_image_full; ?>
							<?php echo  $slide_image_thumbnail; ?>
						</div>
					 <?php }
				} else {
					for($i = 1; $i <=5; $i++) {
						?>
							<div class="imageElement">
								<h3>Evento <?php echo $i; ?> title</h3>
								<p>Esempio della Visualizzazione di un evento. <br /> (C)2012 Comune di San Pellegrino Terme</p>
								<a href="#" title="This is featured post <?php echo $i; ?>" class="open"></a>
								<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/jdgallery/slides/<?php echo $i; ?>.jpg" class="full" alt="" />
								<img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/jdgallery/slides/<?php echo $i; ?>.jpg" class="thumbnail" alt="" />
							</div>
						<?php
					}
				}

				?>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
<?php } ?>

Thanks in advance 🙂

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/