2026 Events
January
- 23-26 Early Music Festival
- 25-30 Winter Restaurant Week
February
- 5-7 Wisconsin Union Winter Carnival
- 7 Clean Lakes Alliance Frozen Assets Festival & Fundraiser
- 26-28 WIAA Boy's Wrestling Tournament
March
- 7 International Festival at Overture
- 14 Shamrock Shuffle
- 15 St. Patricks Day Parade
- 19-21 WIAA Boy's Basketball Tournament
- 28 - April 5 UW Spring Break
April
May
June
- TBA Cars on State
- TBA Madison Night Market
- 24 Concerts on the Square
July
- 1 Concerts on the Square
- 8 Concerts on the Square
- 11-12 Art Fair on the Square
- 11-12 Art Fair off the Square
- 15 Concerts on the Square
- 16-19 Maxwell Street Days
- 22 Concerts on the Square
- 29 Concerts on the Square
August
September
October
- TBA Wisconsin Science Festival
- TBA Wisconsin Book Festival
- TBA Madison Night Market
- 28 Downtown Madison Family Halloween
November
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Upcoming Conferences and Conventions
Monona Terrace Conferences & Conventions
- Annual All-Staff Conference, Wisconsin Historical Society, January 14, 260 ppl
- Ag Day at the Capitol 2026, Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, January 21, 400 ppl
- OGRAIN Conference, UW-Madison Department of Plant Pathology, January 22-24, 200 ppl
- 2026 State Government Affairs Conference, Wisconsin Credit Union League, January 27, 350 ppl
- JT’s Annual Meeting, JT Engineering, Inc., February 11-12, 100 ppl
- WICK 2026 Field and Sales Meetings, Wick Buildings, Inc., February 15-19, 200 ppl
- 2026 Dairy-Aire Gymnastics Invitational, Gymfinity Children’s Activity Center, February 21-22, 4,000 ppl
Partner Calendars
- Monona Terrace Community
- Wisconsin State Capitol
- Bartell Theater events
- Carnelian Art Gallery
- Children's Theater of Madison
- Downtown Madison, Inc.
- Downtowners Social Club
- Festival Choir of Madison
- Forward Theater
- Kanopy Dance
- Liquid Madison
- Madison Symphony Orchestra
- Majestic Theater events
- Madison Ballet
- Madison Opera
- Orpheum Theater events
- Overture Center for the Arts
- The Rigby
- UW School of Music - Hamel Music Center
- Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Wisconsin Union
- Wisconsin Union Theater
Nonprofit Community Calendars
- American Red Cross Blood Drives
- Campus Area Neighborhood Association
- Capitol Neighborhoods, Inc.
- Combat Blindness International
- Progress Center for Black Women
- Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood Association
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