Juneteenth Celebration this Sunday at Penn Park
Come celebrate Juneteenth on June 17 at Penn Park, 2101 Fisher Street from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. This is a time to honor and celebrate African/Black American emancipation, history, and accomplishments. Now a City holiday, Juneteenth Day is actually June 19, and City offices will be closed that day.
Parks Alive June 20 – Spider Man- No Way Home at Aldo Leopold Park
Beginning June 20 at Aldo Leopold Park, 2901 Traceway Drive, area neighborhoods, City Parks and City Neighborhood Resource Teams will kickoff Parks Alive! Come out to see Spider Man-No Way Home and enjoy free food, music, games and more from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. Checkout all of the Parks Alive events and other summer activities listed on the Parks calendar.
Make Music Madison
Join us this Wednesday, June 21st for an extraordinary musical celebration as part of Make Music Madison. There will be over 600 live performances all throughout the city from talented local artists to emerging musicians. The diverse lineup promises to offer something for everyone’s musical taste!
Madison Public Library’s summer We Read campaign returns
Kids can visit the library, the Dream Bus or a Parks Alive event to get their own free copy of the We Read Card Deck, a new activity that families can do at the library or from home. Pick up a card deck full of action cards that offer lots of different ways kids can connect with reading, form relationships and share what they’ve read with others. Each deck contains prize cards that families can enjoy once they’ve completed the action cards. Click HERE for more information.
Streets Division Updates
- In observance of the Juneteenth holiday, the Streets Division will be closed on Monday, June 19. This means no trash & recycling collection and the drop-off sites will be closed as well.
- The drop-off site at 1501 W. Badger Rd is permanently closed. The resident services office remains open at Badger, but the drop-off site is gone. For more details about which sites are open and their hours, go to www.cityofmadison.com/DropOffSites.
- Badger Road has been closed for over a year now, and we’re still seeing a lot of people show up looking to drop off items. If you could please help spread the work to your friends and neighbors, it would be appreciated – especially by your friends and neighbors who you could save a unnecessary trip to the Badger Rd site.
- Food scraps drop-off continues at the Eastside and South Madison farmers’ markets on Tuesday evenings. We are over 2,000 pounds of food scraps collected for the year already! Check out what you can bring to our sites and more details at www.cityofmadison.com/FoodScraps.
- On June 24 there will be a free electronics recycling event at Warner Park from 8:00am to 1:00pm. This is not a City event. Since it is not an official City event, you do not need to be a City resident to participate. This free electronics recycling event is being put on by Universal Recycling Technologies, Samsung, and the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. More details about the event can be found on URT’s website here or by calling 1-877-278-0799.
- Curious about the City’s electronics recycling? Go to www.cityofmadison.com/eCycle. All electronics, including televisions & computers, are accepted without a charge in 2023 at the drop-off sites. You just need to be a city resident, and the electronics have to come from your home. We cannot accept material from businesses.
