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Dane County Farmers' Market
Date(s): April 17, 2010 - November 06, 2010 Time(s): 6:00am-2:00pm Saturdays
Location: On the Capitol Square
Address: 200 block of MLK, Jr. Blvd . Madison, WI
Phone: (608) 455-1999

The Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square is a tradition in Madison, Wisconsin. You’ll find the season’s best bounty of vegetables, flowers, and specialty products from approximately 300 vendors throughout the year. About 150 vendors attend every Saturday.

Yoga in the Gardens
Date(s): April 12, 2010 - December 30, 2010 Time(s): Mondays 5:30 – 6:45 p.m. OR Thursdays 7:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Location: Olbrich Botanical Gardens (inside the tropical Conservatory or outdoor gardens)
Address: 3330 Atwood Avenue . Madison, WI 53704,
Phone: (608) 246-4550
Admission: $12

Experience yoga in the most serene and calming natural settings.

Dane County Farmers' Market
Date(s): April 21, 2010 - November 03, 2010 Time(s): 8:30am-2:00pm, Wednesdays
Address: 200 block of MLK, Jr. Blvd . Madison, WI
Phone: (608) 455-1999

The Dane County Farmers’ Market on the Square is a tradition in Madison, Wisconsin. You’ll find the season’s best bounty of vegetables, flowers, and specialty products.

Middleton Farmer's Market
Date(s): May 13, 2010 - October 14, 2010 Time(s): 8am-1pm
Location: Greenway Station . Middleton, WI 53562
Phone: (608) 872-2152

Discover nature's bounty every Thursday, rain or shine. Enjoy locally grown fruits, vegetables and flowers, plus cheeses, honey and more as you explore the shopping, dining and entertainment at Greenway Station Shopping Center. The market is located off Deming Way, near T.G.I. Fridays.

Madison Trust for Historic Preservation Walking Tour: State Street
Date(s): May 29, 2010 - September 25, 2010 Time(s): 10 am
Location: Michelangelo’s Coffee House
Address: 114 State Street . Madison, WI
Phone: (608) 441-8864
Admission: $5

Every week this tour highlights the historic buildings of Madison’s most famous street, as well as the stories of the people who lived and worked between the State Capitol and the University of Wisconsin campus.

Story Time
Date(s): June 03, 2010 - (No End Date) Time(s): 9:30am
Location: The University Book Store - Hilldale
Address: 702 N. Midvale Boulevard . Madison, Wi 53705
Phone: (608) 310-5968

Led by UW students Claudia Rohr and Kirsten Rogers. Recommended ages 2-5. Every Thursday, 9:30am.

Italian Cruise
Date(s): June 08, 2010 - October 12, 2010
Location: Mariner's Inn
Address: 5339 Lighthouse Bay Drive . Madison,
Phone: (608) 246-3138
Admission: $35

Every Tuesday enjoy an Italian dinner buffet and a 2 for 1 drink ticket toward featured wines.

Caribbean Cruise
Date(s): June 09, 2010 - October 13, 2010
Location: Machinery Row
Address: 601 Williamson Street . Madison,
Phone: (608) 246-3138
Admission: $28

Every Wednesday enjoy a caribbean buffet and a 2 for 1 drink ticket toward features tropical drinks.

ZOOM! WHIZ! WOW! A High-Speed History of Madison’s Soap Box Derby
Date(s): June 26, 2010 - September 11, 2010 Time(s): 9am-4pm daily
Location: Wisconsin Historical Museum
Address: 30 N Carroll St . Madison, Wisconsin 53703
Phone: (608) 264-6555
Admission: Suggested Donation $2.00/person

Experience the thrill of soap box derby’s heyday in Madison from the mid-1930s through the 1950s and the excitement of today’s derby-racing action. See unique cars, mementoes, souvenirs, photos, and film from the days when zooming down a hill in a home-built car was the most fun a kid could have.

Nature Passport
Date(s): June 28, 2010 - September 04, 2010 Time(s): Dependant on Nature Net Site Hours
Location: Greater Madison Area
Phone: 608-221-0404 x5
Admission: FREE

Get your family outdoors with Nature Net's Nature Passport, a free activity guide to local environmental education sites. Each site features an activity for you to complete and get a stamp. Go to www.naturenet.com for a list of sites where you can get your paws on this year's Nature Passport.

Art Exhibit – North Side Artists Group
Date(s): July 04, 2010 - September 26, 2010 Time(s): 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Address: 3330 Atwood Avenue . Madison, WI 53704,
Admission: Free

Talented artists from the north side of Madison display works of art in various mediums inspired by Troy Community Gardens.

Hilldale Farmers' Market
Date(s): August 04, 2010 - November 06, 2010 Time(s): 7am-2pm
Location: Hilldale Shopping Mall - Behind Macy’s at the corner of Segoe and Heather Crest
Address: 702 N. Midvale Blvd. . Madison, WI 53705

Enjoy the freshest of the fresh throughout the growing season. Shop the Hilldale Farmers’ Market every Wednesday and Saturday, rain or shine, for locally grown fruits and veggies, plus farm fresh eggs, cheese, baked goods, honey, jams, mushrooms and more.

Dennis Nechvatal Landscapes
Date(s): August 07, 2010 - October 03, 2010 Time(s): Tues-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm
Location: Chazen Museum of Art
Address: 800 University Ave . Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Phone: (608) 263-2246
Admission: Free admission

Dennis Nechvatal believes his landscape paintings are a way to connect people to the land. The rural Wisconsin native paints as a contemplative spiritual act and aspires to create works that will invoke an ideal communal vision of the natural world.

Piano Bar Entertainment
Date(s): August 13, 2010 - (No End Date)
Location: Ivory Room Piano Bar
Address: 116 W Milfflin St. . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 467-2404

Listen to the Ivory Room Piano Bar's Friday night performers. Check the website for more information.

Piano Bar Entertainment
Date(s): August 14, 2010 - (No End Date)
Location: Ivory Room Piano Bar
Address: 116 W Milfflin St. . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 467-2404

Listen to the Ivory Room Piano Bar's Saturday night performers. Check the website for more information.

Piano Bar Entertainment
Date(s): August 17, 2010 - (No End Date) Time(s): 8pm-Close
Location: Ivory Room Piano Bar
Address: 116 W. Mifflin St. . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 467-2404

Piano Bar classics, wide variety of music , and requests all night.

Piano Bar Entertainment
Date(s): August 18, 2010 - (No End Date) Time(s): 7:30pm-Close
Location: Ivory Room Piano Bar
Address: 116 W. Mifflin St. . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 467-2404

Jim Ripp will take song requests all night long!

True Self: The Search for Identity in Modern and Contemporary Art
Date(s): August 18, 2010 - July 17, 2011 Time(s): Tue-Thu • noon-5 pm; Fri • noon-8 pm; Sat • 10 am-8 pm; Sun • noon-5 pm; Closed Mondays
Location: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Address: 227 State Street . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 257-0158
Admission: free

The exhibition explores the ways artists have understood and conveyed the essence of self—through facial expression, body language, dress, and setting—in a selection of paintings, sculpture, and photographs by Thomas Hart Benton, Sonja Clark, Chuck Close, John Coplans, Cindy Sherman, and others.

Piano Bar Entertainment
Date(s): August 19, 2010 - (No End Date) Time(s): 6pm-Close
Location: Ivory Room Piano Bar
Address: 116 W. Mifflin St. . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 467-2404

Listen to John Chimes play New Orleans Blues and Jazz piano music from 6-8:15pm. Milke Massey and Francie Phelps play from 9pm-Close, make your request and sing along! Check out www.mikemasseymusic.com

Focus/Madison: Works from the Permanent Collection
Date(s): August 28, 2010 - November 14, 2010 Time(s): 12-5pm
Location: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Address: 227 State Street . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 257-0158
Admission: Free

Context, setting, and place define much of our thinking. This is especially true for artists who garner inspiration from the world around them. Focus/Madison examines works in the collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art that feature the city itself.

Mad-City Ski Team Show
Date(s): August 29, 2010 - September 05, 2010 Time(s): 5:30pm
Location: Law Park
Address: off of John Nolen Dr. . Madison, WI

The Mad-City Ski Team puts on a spectacular show. The performance begins with the junior skiers until around 6pm when the ski team comes on, expect to be wowed!

Wisconsin Welcome
Date(s): August 29, 2010 - September 03, 2010
Location: UW-Madison Campus . Madison, WI
Hairspray
Date(s): September 02, 2010 - October 31, 2010 Time(s): Matinees Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, Evenings Thursday and Saturday, Sunday Midday
Location: The Fireside Dinner Theatre
Address: 1131 Janesville Avenue . Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
Phone: (800) 477-9505
Admission: $65.95 for Adults, $42.95 for Youth 14 and under, including dinner and show

It’s Baltimore in 1962 and young Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and a big heart, has only one passion – to dance. When she wins a spot on a popular TV dance show she is transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Hairspray is a classic fairy tale told with humor, heart & fabulous dancing.

Live Bluegrass at Brocach
Date(s): September 02, 2010 Time(s): 9pm
Location: Brocach Irish Pub
Address: 7 West Main Street . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 255-2015

Live Bluegrass w/ The Old Tin Can String Band every first and third Thursday of the month.

Live Music at Samba Brazilian Grill
Date(s): September 02, 2010 Time(s): 7-9pm
Location: Samba Brazilian Grill
Address: 240 W Gilman St . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 257-1111

Enjoy great food and Dave Irwin a premier Jazz Guitarist!

As You Like It
Date(s): September 03, 2010 Time(s): 8pm
Location: American Players Theatre . Spring Green, WI 53588
Phone: (608) 588-2361

Shakespeare frequently sent his characters into the woods in search of identity, truth and love. As You Like It tells the tale of characters living in disguise and in exile in the Forest of Arden where hilarity ensues, as identities and labels are mistaken and twisted.

Exits and Entrances
Date(s): September 03, 2010 Time(s): 1pm
Location: American Players Theatre . Spring Green, WI 53588
Phone: (608) 588-2361

In Exits and Entrances , a young playwright and aging actor whom he admires strike up a friendship that becomes a springboard for questions about life, art and why we all do what we do, day in and day out, right up to old age.

Grace Chosy Gallery: Dave Tilton Collection
Date(s): September 03, 2010 - September 25, 2010 Time(s): Tues-Sat 10am-5pm
Location: Grace Chosy Gallery
Address: 1825 Monroe Street . Madison, WI 53711
Phone: (608) 255-1211

Come view Dave Tilton's collection "Remembered Landscapes." The artist reception is Friday, September 10th from 6-8pm.

Live Traditional Irish Music
Date(s): September 03, 2010 Time(s): 5:30pm
Location: Brocach Irish Pub
Address: 7 W. Main . Madison , WI
Phone: (608) 255-2015

Enjoy Live Traditional Irish Music w/ The Currach at Brocach Irish Pub in downtown Madison WI every Friday.

September Artists Opening Reception
Date(s): September 03, 2010 Time(s): 5-9pm
Location: Absolutely Art
Address: 2322 Atwood Ave. . Madison, WI 53704
Phone: (608) 249-9100
Admission: Free

Absolutely Art & Café Zoma are proud to present Claudia Striley, Jo Simons and Russ Gardner as our featured artists for September. Hayward Williams will provide the music: http://www.haywardwilliams.com/ .

Another Part of the Forest
Date(s): September 04, 2010 Time(s): 3pm
Location: American Players Theatre . Spring Green, WI 53588
Phone: (608) 588-2361

This time it's the American South in the wake of the Civil War, where charm belies ill will and where the predatory Hubbards have made a fortune converting national catastrophe into personal wealth. In its own playful, thrilling and darkly comic way, the play gives generously to its audience.

Arboretum Ecological Restoration Work Party " Wingra Oak Savanna"
Date(s): September 04, 2010 Time(s): 9am-12pm
Location: Gravel parking lot along Arbor Drive just off Monroe Street . Madison, WI
Phone: (608) 265-5214
Admission: Free

Arboretum Ecological Restoration Work Party: "Wingra Oak Savanna." Volunteer for restoration activities and learn about prairies and savannas. Tools and training are provided, and groups are welcome with advance notice. Meet at the gravel parking lot along Arbor Drive just off Monroe Street.

Johnson Creek Premium Outlets Sponsors Summer Music Series
Date(s): September 04, 2010 Time(s): 12:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Johnson Creek Premium Outlets
Address: 575 W Linmar Ln . Johnson Creek, WI 53038
Phone: (920) 699-4111

Enjoy live entertainment by "3's A Crowd", near the Information Center.

Madison Historic Walking Tours: King Street
Date(s): September 04, 2010 Time(s): 11am
Location: Granite arch at the corner of Webster, Doty and King Streets, across from the Great Dane
Address: 102 King St . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 441-8864
Admission: $5

Here is where Madison began and where it reinvented itself throughout the years. In humble log cabins and cast-iron storefronts and art deco skyscrapers - see where early businesses and newspapers thrived.

Madison Historic Walking Tours: State Street
Date(s): September 04, 2010 Time(s): 10-11am
Location: Michangelo's Coffee House
Address: 114 State Street . Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 441-8864
Admission: $5

Every week this tour highlights the historic buildings of Madison's most famous street, as well as the stories of the people who lived and worked between the STate Capitol and the University of Wisconsin campus. Enjoy a free junior ice cream at the Chocolate Shoppe!

Portage City Flea Market
Date(s): September 04, 2010 Time(s): 7am-3pm
Location: Columbia County Fairgrounds
Address: 300 Superior St . Portage, WI 53901
Phone: (608) 566-0060
Admission: Free

Come visit us at the Portage City Flea Market on Saturday, September 4th The flea market takes place the first Saturday of each month: June, July, August, and September 7 AM - 3PM * Indoors/Outdoors, so we'll be there Rain or Shine! We are located on the Fairgrounds in Veteran's Memorial

Taste of Madison
Date(s): September 04, 2010 - September 05, 2010
Location: Capitol Square . Madison, WI
Phone: (608) 276-9797
Admission: Free

Held each year over Labor Day weekend, the event showcases more than 65 local restaurants, 20 beverage stands and four entertainment stages. The participating restaurants sell a vast variety of both unique and traditional dishes to attendees over the two-day period.

The Circle
Date(s): September 04, 2010 Time(s): 8pm
Location: American Players Theatre . Spring Green, WI 53588
Phone: (608) 588-2361

Lady Kitty left her family 30 years ago for a new husband and a new life. But now she's back, second husband in tow, to revisit what she left behind and to find her now-grown son dealing in a triangle of his own. The hall of mirrors that ensues is both funny and alarming and devastatingly wise.

Waiting For Godot
Date(s): September 04, 2010 Time(s): 3pm
Location: American Players Theatre . Spring Green, WI 53588
Phone: (608) 588-2361

Waiting For Godot asks the big questions in ways few other works of art could: how do we get up every morning, fight through every day and go to sleep every evening never knowing whether our hopes and dreams might be granted? Godot asks that we rethink the world and our place within it.