future posts / latest posts conflict

Hoping someone can give me a bit of advice here.
I’m developing this site:

https://rumlab.dk/NCFG/index.html (HTML mockup).

The front page shows a feature post, and below to the left, a few latest posts.

On the first pagenav page called “Arrangementer” (events), there is left sidebar first with coming events, and then a list of categories linking to old events.

The loop with posts is showing all events though (future and old – using “The Future Is Now” plugin).

So two issues arise:

1. How to list only future events (posts) in the sidebar? Using wp_get_archives or other?

2. The latest posts will always show the future events because their date is “newest”. Instead they should be sorted from when actually posted. This problem seem tricky – a hack or an entirely different approach would be great!

Hope I was clear, otherwise please ask.

Thank you’s

Morten