Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately using
$events = EM_Events::get(array('scope'=>'today'));
$events['limit'] = 5;
$events['pagination'] = 1;
echo EM_Events::output($events);
I get
Fatal error: Call to a member function output() on a non-object in /home/*****/public_html/*****.com/wp-content/plugins/events-manager/classes/em-events.php on line 201