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Weekly Highlights in Wisconsin

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Mead Wildlife Art Gallery
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Mead Wildlife Art Gallery

The 4th Annual Mead Wildlife Art Gallery fills the Stanton W. Mead Education and Visitor Center near Milladore with jury-selected art from Oct. 24 to Nov. 6, 2026, free and open daily 9 to 4.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Instructions for a Séance in

Katie Bender's one-woman DIY séance, summoning Harry Houdini at Milwaukee Rep's Herro-Franke Studio Theater on October 20, 2026, is a funny, haunted meditation on escape, ambition and motherhood.

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Black Ash Basketmaking at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Black Ash Basketmaking at

Ho-Chunk master weaver Kimberly Crowley leads a free, all-ages Black Ash basketmaking workshop at Goodman South Madison Library on Oct. 14, 2026, part of the Teejop & Beyond series.

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Dyslexia Awareness Night at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Dyslexia Awareness Night at

Madison Public Library and the Children's Dyslexia Center of the Madison Area host a free dyslexia simulation and student talkback on Oct. 14, 2026, with pizza at 5:30pm.

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Brewers NLCS Watch Party at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Brewers NLCS Watch Party at

The Milwaukee Brewers host a free watch party for Game 3 of the NLCS against the Dodgers on Oct. 14, 2026, at the UW Credit Union Plaza at American Family Field.

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Madison's $1 Book Sale Returns
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Madison's $1 Book Sale Returns

The Friends of the Madison Public Library's $1 Book Sale runs October 15-17, 2026 at the Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin St., with books, CDs, and DVDs for a dollar each.

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Science on the Square at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Science on the Square at

Madison's Night Market and the Wisconsin Science Festival fuse for a free night of hands-on science and local vendors on State Street, October 15, 2026.

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Book Deal kiosk opens at Garver
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Book Deal kiosk opens at Garver

Madison's first self-service bookstore kiosk opens at Garver Feed Mill on Oct. 16, 2026, with a 4 p.m. ribbon cutting for a 2,000-book, honor-system shop.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

An AI That Never Heard of 1930

Two researchers bring a language model trained only on pre-1931 print to a free talk at UW-Madison's Memorial Library.

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The Doubledown's House
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Doubledown's House

For four days in McFarland, Olympians and amateurs share the same six sheets of ice at one of mixed doubles curling's richest and friendliest stops.

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Trash, Told Beautifully
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Trash, Told Beautifully

Dane County throws open the gates of its landfill for an afternoon of tours, screenprinting, and heavy machinery — and a museum-in-a-trailer that wants you to rethink everything you toss.

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Poker on the Trails
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Poker on the Trails

For 24 years, Mercer's Pumpkin Run has turned Iron County's 200 miles of ATV trails into a four-day poker table — and a small Northwoods town into a fall destination.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Gales of November

A UW-Madison meteorologist brings the storm, the ship, and the song to a Butler library, unpacking why the Edmund Fitzgerald vanished into Lake Superior fifty years ago.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Circle and the Library

A free UW talk in Viroqua asks a small Driftless town to think about Wisconsin's eleven sovereign nations — and to leave with a plan drawn on a medicine wheel.

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One World, One Week, One
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

One World, One Week, One

When the MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival lands in Manitowoc this fall, library patrons will join filmgoers around the world in a worldwide vote — a tradition that began with a screen strapped to the side of a truck in Little Italy.

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The Super Bowl for Cows: How a
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Super Bowl for Cows: How a

The 59th World Dairy Expo returns to Madison's Alliant Energy Center Sept. 29 through Oct. 2, bringing 650-plus exhibitors, seven cattle breeds and a global industry to America's Dairyland — as producers wrestle with sky-high diesel costs and stubbornly low milk prices.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Three Mortgaged Farms and a

Fifty-nine years after a handful of Wisconsin dairymen staked their farms on an untested idea, the World Dairy Expo returns to the Alliant Energy Center with 2,600 cattle, 450 companies from 15 countries, and a dairy industry wrestling with its hardest questions.

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On the Trail of the Wild
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

On the Trail of the Wild

Green Bay's Walk for Wildlife sends trailblazers past turkey vultures, owls, and rehabbed raccoons — all to fund a major wildlife rehabilitation program in Wisconsin.

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Bubble Machines and Protest
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Bubble Machines and Protest

Madison's beloved two-day block party returns to Williamson Street for its 49th year, still celebrating the defiant neighborhood spirit that birthed it in the late 1970s.

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A Finnish Homestead's Last
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Finnish Homestead's Last

On September 12, the Oulu Cultural & Heritage Center throws its annual end-of-season festival, a day of raffles, ethnic food, and pioneer demonstrations among the log buildings of a restored Finnish farmstead.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Weekend in Laura's Big Woods

In the Driftless Region of Wisconsin, a tiny village brings the pioneer childhood of Laura Ingalls Wilder back to life with fiddles, tomahawk throws, and a whole lot of community spirit.

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Where Laura's Story Began
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Where Laura's Story Began

Each September, the tiny Mississippi River village where Laura Ingalls Wilder was born transforms into a living page from the Little House books.

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A Howl in the Afternoon
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Howl in the Afternoon

Every Tuesday and Friday afternoon, visitors gather at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary in Green Bay to watch a pack of gray wolves — Ember, Luna, and Yoon — receive their meal, a free program that has become a beloved ritual at a sanctuary with roots stretching back to Aldo Leopold.

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Steam, Sweat, and Seventy
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Steam, Sweat, and Seventy

In Edgerton, Wisconsin, the Rock River Thresheree marks its 70th year by firing up antique steam engines, threshing machines, and a German-built train to keep the old ways alive.

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A Cinema of Persistence: Twelve Screenings in One Room, and a Fall of Second Chances at UW-Madison's Cinematheque
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Cinema of Persistence: Twelve Screenings in One Room, and a Fall of Second Chances at UW-Madison's Cinematheque

After a burst water line shut Vilas Hall for the summer, the UW Cinematheque returns with a season that squeezes in twelve cancelled screenings, a Rajamouli tribute, and a 25th-anniversary 35mm screening of Josie and the Pussycats.

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A Summer Afternoon at the Wolf
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Summer Afternoon at the Wolf

Free twice-weekly feedings give visitors a rare, up-close look at the pack of gray wolves that has called Green Bay's urban refuge home for years.

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A Few Seconds of Fury: The
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Few Seconds of Fury: The

In the Northwoods of Wisconsin, the Head of the Lakes Kennel Club hosts a high-speed spectacle where any dog—purebred or mutt—can chase a lure down a 100-yard dash and earn bragging rights as the fastest in the land.

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A Cinema of Persistence: Twelve
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Cinema of Persistence: Twelve

After a burst water line shut Vilas Hall for the summer, the UW Cinematheque returns with a season that squeezes in twelve cancelled screenings, a Rajamouli tribute, and a 25th-anniversary 35mm screening of Josie and the Pussycats.

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