spring season

[Michael_cycle]

The highlight of the school spring season is our Arts Festival. It's a great evening of families spending time with one another, of students showing off their skills and ideas, and of parents and teachers proudly looking on.
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Dear Sir/Ma'am
With reference to the above sentences, could you let me know
which the underlined words are between gerunds and present participles ?

I think spending is adjective/present participle because it modifies noun time.
showing and looking is gerund.

Am I right?

 

[panjandrum]

I think they are all present participles - present continuous.

 

[Suehil]

So do I, except evening, which is a noun (not a gerund)

 

[Michael_cycle]

So do I, except evening, which is a noun (not a gerund)

I thought (gerund is also a noun).
Now you made me confuse.

 

[panjandrum]

A gerund is a verb form, used in the same way as a noun.
Sometimes a gerund is called a verbal noun.

Evening is, as Suehil points out, a noun, not formed from the verb, even.
Correction, for etymology enthusiasts: evening is a verbal noun formed from the noun even, meaning the latter part of the day.
It means the drawing on of even.