2025 Events
Ongoing
- Until Nov 8 Dane County Farmer's Market on the Square (Saturdays)
- Until Nov 5 Dane County Farmer's Market on MLK (Wednesdays)
June
- 24 Lunch Time LIVE!
- 25 Concerts on the Square
- 26 Police in the Park
- 26 Concerts on the Rooftop
- 27 Mad Lit
- 28 Movie in the Park: Mufasa (2024)
- 29 Downtown Sounds of Summer
July
- 2 Concerts on the Square
- 6 Downtown Sounds of Summer
- 8 Lunch Time LIVE!
- 9 Concerts on the Square
- 10 Concerts on the Rooftop
- 12-13 Art Fair on the Square
- 12-13 Art Fair off the Square
- 13 Downtown Sounds of Summer
- 15 Lunch Time LIVE!
- 16 Concerts on the Square
- 17 Concerts on the Rooftop
- 17-20 Maxwell Street Days
- 20 Downtown Sounds of Summer
- 18 Mad Lit
- 22 Lunch Time LIVE!
- 24 Concerts on the Rooftop
- 24 Lakeside Kids
- 26 Movie in the Park: Inside Out 2 (2024)
- 27 Downtown Sounds of Summer
- 29 Lunch Time LIVE!
- 23 Concerts on the Square
- 30 Concerts on the Square
August
- 1 Dane Dances
- 2 Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War
- 3 Wisconsin Adventure
- 3 Downtown Sounds of Summer
- 5 Lunch Time LIVE!
- 6 Jazz @ Five
- 8 Dane Dances
- 8 Lakeside Kids
- 8 Mad Lit
- 9 Madison Mini Marathon
- 10 Downtown Sounds of Summer
- 12 Lunch Time LIVE!
- 13 Jazz @ Five
- 15 Dane Dances
- 15 Lakeside Kids
- 15 Mad Lit
- 16 Movie in the Park: Twisters (2024)
- 17 Downtown Sounds of Summer
- 19 Lunch Time LIVE!
- 20 Jazz @ Five
- 21 Madison Night Market
- 22 Dane Dances
- 22 Lakeside Kids
- 23 Black on State
- 24 Downtown Sounds of Summer
- 26 Lunch Time LIVE!
- 29 Dane Dances
- 29 Lakeside Kids
- 30-31 Taste of Madison
- 31 Downtown Sounds of Summer
September
- 3 Jazz @ Five
- 4 #MadisonIsMusic Concert Series
- 5 #MadisonIsMusic Concert Series
- 6 #MadisonIsMusic Concert Series
- 7 Ironman Wisconsin
- 11 #MadisonIsMusic Concert Series
- 12 #MadisonIsMusic Concert Series
- 13 #MadisonIsMusic Concert Series
- 18 Madison Night Market
- 19 Mad Lit
- 20-23 Badger Fall Invitational (Men's Golf)
- 27 Cheese Fair Off the Square
October
- 16 Madison Night Market
- 16-26 Wisconsin Science Festival
- 23-26 Wisconsin Book Festival
- 29 Downtown Madison Family Halloween
November
- 9 Madison Marathon
- TBA Downtown Holiday Lighting Ceremony
- 28-29 Downtown Madison Holiday Open House
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Upcoming Conferences and Conventions
Monona Terrace Conferences & Conventions
- 2025 Assessment Center Institute, Solution Tree, June 25-27, 500 ppl
- Closers Camp, Grosso University LLC, July 7-9, 300 ppl
- Health Physics Society 2025 Annual Meeting, Health Physics Society, July 13-17, 400 ppl
- AUTM 2025 Central Region Meeting, Association of University Technology Managers, July 20-23, 200 ppl
- WiSys SPARK Symposium 2025, WiSys Technology Foundation, Inc., July 24-25, 250 ppl
- Potato Association of America Annual Meeting, July 27-31, 350 ppl
- 2025 PLC Institute, Solution Tree, August 4-6, 900 ppl
- National Association of Sentencing Commissions Conference, August 11-12, 100 ppl
- 2025 International Child Passenger Safety Conference, Kidz in Motion, Inc., August 13-15, 350 ppl
Partner Calendars
- Monona Terrace Community
- Wisconsin State Capitol
- Bartell Theater events
-
Carnelian Art Gallery
- April 8: Coffee Painting for Beginners
- 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
For Kids & Families
