Calendar of Events

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.

Experience yoga in the most serene and calming natural settings.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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/ .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.