Living - Activities - Events - Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Madison is famous for its college life, but is home to diverse events year-round
- Visitors: Events section of Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau; offers calendar of events as well as visitor information
- UW Madison: Today @ The University of Wisconsin--Madison; a calendar provided by the university listing events, exhibits, and other activities on campus
- MadStage: Theater and dance information for Madison and south central Wisconsin; provides schedules, listings of groups, news, and links
- Entertainment: Madison.com's Rhythm section on entertainment and nightlife
- Movie Listings: The BigScreen Cinema Guide; guide to movies; customizable so that you can see just local selections
- Footlights: Guide to theatre in Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago
- Ballet: Madison Ballet; a non-profit, professional performing arts organization; founded in 1981 as The Wisconsin Dance Ensemble
- Bartell Th: Bartell Theater
- Broom St: Theater; experimental theater group
- CCBA: Capitol City Band Association; Capitol City Band (CCB), The Madison Marimba Quartet (MMQ), The VFW Volunteer Community Band (VFW or winter band), Jim Latimer and Friends
- CCT: Capital City Theatre
- CTM: Children's Theater of Madison
- Festival Choir: Festival Choir of Madison
- Fresco: Fresco Opera Theatre
- Forward Th: Forward Theater
- Opera: Madison Opera; regional opera company offering professionally-staged concert opera and music theater
- Savoyards: Gilbert and Sullivan performances
- Symphony: Madison Symphony Orchestra; professional orchestra established 1926; performs September to May in Overture Hall
- WCO: Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra; a professional chamber orchestra
- Art Fair on the Square: organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; features music, entertainment, outdoor dining, artists exhibiting mixed media, ceramics, drawings, graphics, prints, fiber, leather, furniture, glass, jewelry, metal works, paintings, photographs, sculpture, 3D mixed media, and wood
- Bock Fest: Capital Brewery's celebration of beer
- Book Fest: Wisconsin Book Festival; annual October celebration of reading, writing, and the written word; events in Madison, Milwaukee, and throughout the state; a year-round, statewide series of public programs about reading, writing, and literacy
- Brat: World's Largest Brat Fest; eat one of Wisconsin's signature foods; particpants consumed over 28 km of brats, over 85 metric tons, in a past fest
- Community: Monona Community Festival
- Cows/Concourse: Cows on the Concourse; celebrates Dairy, one of Wisconsin's industries
- Dane County Fair: celebration of agriculture and industry
- Dances: Dane Dances; music, dancing, and fun to help break down barriers of race
- Dairy Expo: World Dairy Expo; a dairy industry tradeshow held in Madison
- Fair: Dane County Fair; youth exhibits, barns, animals, carnival rides, live music, and entertainment
- Farmer's Mkt: Dane County Farmer's Market on the Square; an open-air food, produce, and flower market held at The Square, the area round the Capitol dome in downtown Madison on Saturdays and Wednesdays; this counter-clockwise walking ritual is one of Madison's most noted features
- Festivals: events
- GreatTaste: Great Taste of the Midwest
- Film Fest: Wisconsin Film Festival; an annual film series program by the University of Wisconsin--Madison Arts Institute
- Garden Expo: presented by Wisconsin Public Television
- Great Taste: Great Taste of the Midwest; fermented malt beverages
- Homecoming: University of Wisconsin Alumni Association
- Horse Fair: Midwest Horse Fair
- International Fest: Overture Center for the Arts International Festival; Dane County artists. Featurng arts, crafts, food, and performances
- Isthmus OktoBEERfest: modern take on an old German tradition
- Jazz @ 5: Summer weekly Jazz concert series at State Street and the Capitol Square
- Jazzfest: Capital City Jazz Fest
- Jazz Isthmus: Isthmus Jazz Festival; celebration of America's homegrown art form; at the Memorial Union Terrace
- Marathon: Madison Marathon; foot race that snakes through the isthmus; also half marathon, 10 km, and 5 km races
- Make Music: Make Music Madison
- Taste: Taste of Madison; an annual food festival with live music on Capitol Square
- Whad'Ya Know: Michael Feldman's public radio show; taped live in Madison as well as occasionally at some remote locations
- Willy St: Willy Street Fair
- Winter Fest: on Madison's Capitol Square
- WisCon: Annual feminist science fiction convention held in Madison
- YumYumFest: food artistry
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