diff --git a/app/views/events/show.html.haml b/app/views/events/show.html.haml
index 9239e4af..11c51962 100644
--- a/app/views/events/show.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/events/show.html.haml
@@ -61,8 +61,7 @@
 
 %h3=t '.description'
 .description
-  - markdown = Redcarpet::Markdown.new(Redcarpet::Render::HTML, autolink: true, tables: true)
-  = description sanitize markdown.render(@event.description),
+  = description sanitize @event.description,
     tags: %w(p br table tr th td ul ol li a strong b em i img),
     attributes: %w(href src width height style)