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Parks Alive at Sandburg Park coming up + Your opportunity to engage on the 2026 budget + Meeting and Event Highlights for the Week of June 2, 2025

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Today's update includes: 

  • Parks Alive at Sandburg Park
  • Subscribe to updates for the Imagination Center at Reindahl Park
  • Your opportunity to engage on the 2026 budget
  • Meeting and Event highlights for the week of June 2, 2025
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Save the dates for Parks Alive at Sandburg Park! 

  • Tuesday, June 24, 2025, July 22, 2025, and August 19, 2025
  • 5:00pm – 7:00pm
  • Sandburg Park, 2818 Independence Lane, Madison, WI 53704
  • FREE!

Event Description

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Parks Alive is back this year with more of what you love! Visit your local park and share fun, family-friendly activities while building connections with neighbors and creating memories with friends. As always, there will be free food, music and the occasional movie. Come out, get active and enjoy your local green space this summer.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025: 

Movie: Inside Out 2(link is external) (2024) PG 1h 36m
Showtime: 6:30pm

Movies at Parks Alive are part of the Sina Davis Movies in the Park program. Parks Alive event is from 5 - 7pm. Movie in the Park is from 6:30pm until the end of the movie.

Sandburg Park Dates & Themes

June 24 - Self-Care & Wellness

July 22 - Sports & Games

August 19 - Arts & Culture

Find more Parks Alive events across the City. 

Reminder: Subscribe to updates to follow the progress on the construction and eventual opening of the Imagination Center at Reindahl Park. 

Imagination Center breaks ground

Budget Engagement Meetings start on Wednesday, June 4, 2025

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The City of Madison is hosting five budget engagement sessions in June. Each meeting will focus on a different aspect of local government and the City services provided to residents. The goal of these public meetings is to provide an opportunity for you to speak directly with policymakers about your ideas, concerns, and priorities for Madison’s future.

The meetings will feature an update of the 2026 budget process with City Finance Director Dave Schmiedicke and presentations from agency leaders.

Additional information is provided at the links to the event pages on the City's website:

All the sessions are from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Registration is encouraged (but not required) at the link to specific event pages.

Learn more about the budget: 

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Meeting and Event Highlights for the Week of June 2, 2025

Boards, Commissions, and Committee Meetings

Note: This is not a complete list of meetings for this upcoming week. All meetings and their details can be found at the Meeting Schedule page.

If you would like more information about becoming a member of a City board, commission, or committee, please visit the page linked here.

Announcements and News Releases

Please visit the City news webpage to find additional news and announcements and to subscribe to receive notification of news releases as they are posted.

Events

  • Madison Bike Week, Monday, June (This Event Occurs On Multiple Days): Bike Week celebrates riding to work, to the grocery store, to a park, to the library—or biking just to feel the warm wind blowing through your hair. Events happen all week long at various locations throughout the city.
  • RoundTrip Commuter Station — Bikes, Buses, and Treats!, Tuesday, June 3: Join RoundTrip, the Greater Madison MPO, Metro Transit, City of Madison Traffic Engineering, and Madison BCycle for an afternoon commuter station on the Cap City Trail! This event celebrates car-free mobility with plenty of resources, treats, and giveaways to support your ride.
  • Black on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1725 – 1868, Wednesday, June 4: Presented by UW Madison Professor Christy Clark-Pujara. Black people have lived, labored, and raised families in the region that became the Midwest since the 16th century. They called the settlements and towns of Prairie du Chien, Racine, Green Bay, Lancaster, Milwaukee, and Menominee home. Yet their stories remain largely untold. Much of the historiography concerning the experiences of Black Americans has focused on the South, and large Northern and Midwestern cities, yet the full dimensions of the African American and American experience cannot be appreciated without reference to how black people managed their lives in places where they were few. This presentation will explore the histories of Black people in what became the state of Wisconsin, from the French colonial period in the 1720s through the American Civil War.
  • 2026 Budget Engagement Meeting - Public Works, Wednesday, June 4: The meeting will feature an update of the 2026 budget process with Finance Director Dave Schmiedicke and presentations from the Engineering, Parks, and Streets divisions. The goal of this public meeting is to provide an opportunity for residents to speak directly with City staff about your ideas, concerns, and priorities for Madison’s future.
  • Concerts on the Rooftop: Wheelhouse (Americana/Bluegrass), Thursday, June 5: Enjoy the unparalleled experience of sensational bands and breathtaking views at Concerts on the Rooftop! Dance the night away or just relax with family and friends, A truly unique Madison event. WheelHouse is a nationally touring Americana and bluegrass band hailing from Madison. As a full-time working band, they perform over 220 shows each year and have garnered attention from national labels. Featuring three- and four-part harmonies, fiddle and guitar leads, and driving rhythm of the upright bass, WheelHouse brings an energy and attitude unique to themselves.
  • Wear Orange Weekend, Friday, June 6 (This Event Occurs On Multiple Days): Public Health Madison & Dane County is hosting a series of Wear Orange Weekend events raising awareness about the urgent need to end gun violence. Wear Orange Weekend is part of a nationwide campaign supporting Everytown for Gun Safety. It's an organization dedicated to ending gun violence, led by parents, students, survivors, educators, and more.
  • Live at The Glen | Pecatonica String Quartet, Friday, June 6: Madison Parks Foundation is proud to present Live at The Glen! Enjoy live music on the patio at The Glen Golf Park. The Pecatonica String Quartet prides themselves on being able to delight audiences with their wide range of style and repertoire. From elegant classical compositions of Bach, Handel and Mozart to rockin’ Led Zepplin, Queen and Journey; you name it, they’ve got it. They play light jazz standards, classic oldies and many fun party hits of today.
  • Bird & Nature Adventures | Tenney Park, Saturday, June 7: Join Naturalist Robin Kling for a free welcoming family-friendly guided walk to look for and learn about native trees and plants at Tenney Park. The Tenney Lagoon borders and other areas are being restored with more native plants for pollinators, birds and wildlife. Native plants also have many human benefits. Long before synthetic drugs were created to combat illness and disease native plants provided chemical compounds used by healers and physicians to deal with heart disease, vitamin deficiencies and to fight bacterial infections. Learn to use the Seek app to identify plants and learn more about them.
  • Bird & Nature Adventures | Turville Point, Sunday, June 8: Join Master Naturalist and avid birder Melissa Kesling for a free fun family friendly outing to discover beautiful winding nature trails leading to the central prairie past and old pine groves to views of Lake Monona and Turville Bay.

Additional upcoming events can also be found on the City events calendar.

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